{"id":941,"date":"2024-03-09T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-09T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/?p=941"},"modified":"2025-10-20T07:10:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T07:10:04","slug":"how-to-avoid-being-duped-by-predatory-journals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/how-to-avoid-being-duped-by-predatory-journals\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid being duped by predatory journals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritise self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterised by false or misleading information, deviation form best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate solicitation practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carl Elliott, professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, considered these conflicts of interests: &#8220;Doctors need an internal moral compass that can remain steady and true despite the demands placed on them by the system&#8230;.but a compass is useless if you put a magnet next to it.&#8221; In caring for patients, and in clinical research, we need to rid ourselves of that pernicious magnet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACCRECENT follows a stringent DOI procedure to keep the magnetic force of commercial influence at bay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/384\/bmj.q452\">How to avoid being duped by predatory journals | The BMJ<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritise self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterised by false or misleading information, deviation form best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate solicitation practices. Carl Elliott, professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, considered these conflicts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,26,20,180,181],"tags":[41,192,35,193,165],"class_list":["post-941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-health-care","category-health-care-professional","category-medical-publications","category-medical-research","tag-education","tag-ethical","tag-medical","tag-predatory","tag-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=941"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":968,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/941\/revisions\/968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cmepedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}