Predatory journal ranking debatable Pix for representational purpose only.
WHEN the research paper of two economists from the Czech Republic was published in an international journal Scientometrics on Feb 7, delineating the extent of how predatory journals across countries are making their mark in Scopus – a global citation database of scholarly works – pandemonium broke out in Malaysia.
This was because the nation was ranked fifth among 20 countries with the most number of academics cited in more than 300 predatory journals in Scopus.
Scopus is a respectable global citation database run by Dutch publisher Elsevier that uniquely combines a comprehensive, curated abstract and citation database with enriched data and linked scholarly content, covering life, social, physical and health sciences.