bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/482174; this version posted December 4, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 Title: 2 A Critical Appraisal of Predatory Journals in Pathology 3 4 Yaman M. AlAhmad1#, Ibrahim Abdelhafez1#, Farhan S. Cyprian1, Faruk Skenderi2, 5 Saghir Akhtar1, Semir Vranic1* 6 7 1 College of Medicine, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar 8 2 Department of Pathology, Clinical Center, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and 9 Herzegovina 10 # These authors contributed equally 11 12 13 *Correspondence: 14 Semir Vranic, MD, PhD 15 College of Medicine, Qatar University 16 2713 Doha, Qatar 17 E-mail:
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[email protected] 18 Phone: +974 4403 7873 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/482174; this version posted December 4, 2018. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 19 Abstract 20 Predatory or pseudo journals have recently come into focus due to their massive 21 internet expansion and extensive spam email soliciting. Recent studies explored this 22 urging problem in several biomedical disciplines. In the present study, we identified 69 23 potential predatory (pseudo) pathology journals that were contrasted to 89 legitimate 24 pathology journals obtained from the major bibliographic databases.