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What has Science’s open-access sting taught us about the quality of peer review?

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  • MIĆO TATALOVIĆ: WHAT HAS SCIENCE'S OPEN ACCESS STING TAUGHT US ABOUT THE QUALITY OF PEER REVIEW?

  • Were listed in Directory of Open Access Journals, and some, tellingly, in Beall's List of predatory publishers. This left out thousands of journals that publish in local languages, including many in our region of South-East Europe

  • Croatia alone, has academic journals listed on the central portal of Croatian scientific journals - Hrčak [ ]. Most of these are open access and funded by the government, yet scientists often criticise many of them for being a waste of public money and dumps for bad science that cannot be published in better international journals [ ]

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MIĆO TATALOVIĆ: WHAT HAS SCIENCE'S OPEN ACCESS STING TAUGHT US ABOUT THE QUALITY OF PEER REVIEW?. Most of these are open access and funded by the government, yet scientists often criticise many of them for being a waste of public money and dumps for bad science that cannot be published in better international journals [ ].

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