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Published August 6, 2018 | Version v1
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No big news for scientists: Journalists recently uncovered a scandal surrounding predatory journals. What happened?

  • 1. Freie Universität Berlin

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  • 1. Freie Universität Berlin

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This opinion piece provides a researcher's view on the role of predatory journals for scientists. It is a reaction to an inverstigation, published by German public television stations WDR and NDR as well as the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitunge about "fake science" that is described in these publications as a scandal. 

 

 

 

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10.5281/zenodo.1326406 (DOI)