Who published in Chinese predatory journals? A study on the authorship of blacklist journals

Xu, Jie; Wang, Zixian; Tang, Wenhui

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Title

Who published in Chinese predatory journals? A study on the authorship of blacklist journals

Author(s)

• Xu, Jie
• Wang, Zixian
• Tang, Wenhui

Issue Date

2020-03-23

Keyword(s)

• Predatory journals
• Authors
• China
• Scholarly communication

Abstract

This poster reported a study which examined 93,653 authorship records of 67 predatory journals listed in a well-known blacklist in China. By collecting and analyzing each author's full name and affiliated institution information, their organization distribution were studied. Then the authorship dataset was compared and matched up with the records in the biggest full-text academic literature database China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) to identify each authors' publishing productivity (number of publications) and influence (number of downloads). The results showed that those who publish in predatory journals are young and inexperienced researchers from teaching-intensive universities all over the country, and most of them are from eastern coastal and developed areas of mainland China. The study also showed that some productive and influential researchers had the experience of publishing in predatory journals.

Publisher

iSchools

Series/Report Name or Number

iConference 2020 Proceedings

Type of Resource

• text
• image

Language

eng

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Copyright 2020 Jie Xu, Zixian Wang, and Wenhui Tang

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