Predatory journals recruit fake editor

Piotr Sorokowski, Emanuel Kulczycki, Agnieszka Sorokowska and Katarzyna Pisanski ()
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Piotr Sorokowski: Piotr Sorokowski is head of the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland.
Emanuel Kulczycki: Emanuel Kulczycki is head of the Scholarly Communication Research Group at the Institute of Philosophy at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland.
Agnieszka Sorokowska: Agnieszka Sorokowska is a researcher at the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland, and the Smell &
Katarzyna Pisanski: Katarzyna Pisanski is a researcher in the School of Psychology at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and the Institute of Psychology at the University of Wrocław, Poland.

Nature, 2017, vol. 543, issue 7646, 481-483

Abstract: An investigation finds that dozens of academic titles offered 'Dr Fraud' — a sham, unqualified scientist — a place on their editorial board. Katarzyna Pisanski and colleagues report.

Date: 2017
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