Abstract
The existence of predatory practices in online open access journals has been a concern for over a decade and seems to be increasing. The authors looked at the impact of predatory publishing in pediatric urology and found that around 6.5% of pediatric urology publications are published in journals that met their criteria for a borderline/predatory journal. Predatory publishing or a lack of peer review transparency?—a contemporary analysis of indexed open and non-open access articles in paediatric urologyJournal of Pediatric UrologyVol. 15Issue 2PreviewThe advent of open access publishing has allowed for unrestricted and rapid knowledge dissemination and can generate higher citation levels. However, the establishment of predatory journals exploits this model and may lead to publication of non-peer reviewed work. Full-Text PDF Response to Editorial commentary: predatory publishing or a lack of peer-review transparency?—a contemporary analysis of indexed open and non-open access articles in pediatric urologyJournal of Pediatric UrologyVol. 15Issue 2PreviewThe overall prevalence and, indeed, perhaps incidence of predatory practices in online open access journals does appear to be increasing across all specialties, with a time-stable prevalence of 6.5% in our own findings within pediatric urology. Full-Text PDF
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