Predatory Publications in Scopus: Evidence on Cross-Country Differences

Vit Machacek () and Martin Srholec
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Vit Machacek: Institute of Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Opletalova 26, 110 00, Prague, Czech Republic

No 2019/20, Working Papers IES from Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies

Abstract: The paper maps the infiltration of so-called "predatory" scholarly journals into the citation database Scopus. Using the names of "potential, possible, or probable" predatory journals and publishers on Beall's lists, we derived ISSNs of the respective journals from Ulrichsweb and searched Scopus with it. A total of 324 matched journals with 164 thousand documents indexed in Scopus over 2015-2017, making up a share of 2.8 % of the total articles have been identified. An analysis of cross-country differences in the tendency to publish in these journals reveals that overall the most affected are middle-income countries in Asia and North Africa. Kazakhstan is the country with the largest tendency to publish in predatory journals (18 %). More than 5 % is reported in 20 countries, including large countries such as Indonesia (18 %), Malaysia (11 %), India (10 %), or Nigeria (7 %). Neither developed countries are resistant to predatory publishing. More than 16 000 “potentially predatory†articles were published by authors from United States (0.67 %).

Keywords: Predatory journals; Beall’s list; open access; academic misconduct (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 I29 O38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2019-07, Revised 2019-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ore, nep-sea and nep-sog
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