Predatory and Scam Journals

Abstract

For some years now, and empowered by digitalisation and open access publication, a large number of falsely named scientific journals have appeared whose aim it is to take advantage of scientists' need to progress in their academic and hospital careers through ''publish or perish'. Basedon several digital platforms,these journals, which have been called predatory and which we could call scam journals,facilitate the whole process of publication in a journal with a suggestive and appealing title which usually imitates that of a serious and consolidated journal to which they usu ally add an ending such as and ¨ research, and clinicalor ¨ a beginning such as American, ¨ British, International, etc..¨. They state that the text sent will be submitted to percep tive peer-review, which is actually nonexistent, in exchangefor a payment to publish