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CHHS 735-6G
PhD Student To-Do List
-Finish PRECEDE/PROCEED planning draft
-Submit abstract for journal peer review
-Update IRB approval for work
-Drink Water & Exercise
-Socialize or Sleep??
-Frequent publication can lower the quality of research
-Most institution focus on professors publication rather than teaching accolades
- There is greater reward for publishing than exceptional teaching
- Unethical practices to get research published
- Salami slicing, same research split into many fragments, and duplicate publication
- Professors sometimes takes credit for research that is not theirs, if it comes from their department
- In 2006 1.3 million peer reviewed scientific journals were published
- This caused a large rise in scientific journals. This number jumped from 16,000 in 2001 to 23,750 by 2006
- Only 42% of the papers received more than one citation and 5-25% are self cited
Predatory/Fake Journals (PFJs): Publish quickly with fast or no peer review, may have fake locations or editors, may make false claims of impact, and exist to make a profit from scholars. Linked to "publish or perish" in some studies
Research Questions
1. Using Beall's PFJs list, what are the locations of PFJs?
2. Which countries have researchers that publish most often in PFJs?
3. What are characteristics of the editors in PFJs?
4. What are the reasons that researchers from Turkey publish in PFJs?
*Demir (2018)
Sequential Explanatory Mixed-Methods Study (Quantitative Qualitative)
Research Steps
1. Identified all PFJs on Beall's 2017 list on January 4, 2018 (1,099 journals)
2. Found working website of the PFJs (832 journals)
3. Identified country of journal by IP and domain address since location may be inaccurate (735
journals)
4. Identified journal editors from declaration page (653 available)
5. Identified each editor's country from workplace's institutional website
6. After reviewing all articles (24,840) in 832 journals, 22,764 unique researchers were identified that
had the country identified (mostly first-authors since others do not always have a location)
7. Attempted to contact a sample of 2,310 authors from all countries (only 6 responded)
8. Conducted qualitative interview with 16 Turkish authors that published in PFJs
*Demir (2018)
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