ABSTRACT
Predatory journals charge publication fees from authors and publish without an adequate peer review, and often do not provide editorial and/or publishing services. Our objective was to evaluate e-mail solicitations received by authors in a defined time period to identify attributes of these solicitations as a metric to identify legitimacy of the journal. All e-mails seeking article submission received between January 1 and September 30, 2019, were evaluated. Each e-mail along with its respective webpage was evaluated for the journal’s and publisher’s names, mention of peer review, any assurance of publication, a mention of article processing charges (APC), composite invites [in the e-mail] and mention of peer review, the presence and functionality of archives, presence of manuscript management tab, mention of APC [on the webpage]. Descriptive statistics were used for the analysis. Of the 135 e-mails screened, 100 were finally included in the analysis. We found that 72% of the journals and/ or publishers were included in Beall’s list. According to our criteria, a total of 85% of the solicitations were from journals that we identified as “presumed predatory”. Our study has identified assurance of publication, rapid turnaround time, ambiguous information in the email and webpage, false claims of indexing as some descriptors which may help young authors and researchers assess a journal’s legitimacy.
ABSTRACT
A exigência de publicar em revistas avaliadas nacional ou internacionalmente é importante para os professores universitários, cuja pesquisa serve à formação de mestres e doutores. Serve também para a divulgação e controle dos resultados da pesquisa aplicada à clínica, desde que efetuada nos periódicos cuja missão seja difundir esse assunto. Não é verdade que o relato e a discussão de casos clínicos ou o método de pesquisa em clínica psicanalítica não podem submeter-se às exigências das revistas indexadas, pois as normas e critérios, nelas definidos, não afetam o conteúdo dos artigos. O entrave é a crença de que a metodologia de certas áreas de pesquisa seja a única correta.
The demand for academic papers to be published in nationally or internationally rated journals is important for college professors, whose research is necessary to form doctors and masters. It is also important for the publication and control of the results of research applied to clinic, as long as it is performed in the journals that aim to propagate such a subject. It is untrue that the report and discussion of clinical cases, or the method of research in psychoanalytical clinic, cannot be submitted to the demands of the indexed journals, for the policies and criteria defined in them do not affect the contents of the articles. The blockage lies in the belief that the methods of certain research areas are the only correct ones.