Flaky conferences can taken advantage of your time, money and energy. My own publications in bona fide journals have triggered an onslaught of emails from probably predatory conferences–World Congresses of this and that (global health, nursing, education, etc.). The cartoon below totally resonates! Thanks PHD Comics.
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Cool. You completed your project and now want to publish it.
Beware! Predatory journals are ready to snap up your work! It helps them, but not you.
What is a predatory journal? One that can eat you and your paper alive.
Predatory journals don’t meet quality peer-review standards.Many predators are Open Access Journals. What are Open Access Journals? Ones “that use a funding model that does not charge readers or their institutions for access” (https://doaj.org/faq#definition).
Open Access Journals may be legitimate OR predatory.
How can you identify predatory journals? While perhaps not Mighty Mouse—yep, I’m showing my age—help from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is on the way. DOAJ provides a searchable list of LEGITIMATE open access journals (click here). A quick search for “nursing” yielded 7.
How does DOAJ define quality of journals? Quality open access journals “must exercise peer-review with an editor and an editorial board or editorial review (particularly in the Humanities) carried out by at least two editors” (https://doaj.org/faq#definition).
Is there a list of predatory open access journals? YES. To see one that is updated, click here. Also, you can help! If you find an open access journal that claims to have the DOAJ quality seal, but isn’t on the DOAJ legitimate journal list, DOAJ wants to hear from you!
For more on DOAJ, see https://doaj.org/: “DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. DOAJ is independent.”
Stay safe. As Randy Newman sings, “It’s a jungle out there.”
-Dr.H
Hi All out there in the nursing Research/EBP universe.
Notice that TO SEE COMMENTS on the blog post, there is a comments link under blogpost title. In the most recent post, I added info in a comment about Scholar Scams.
Couldn’t resist sharing our beautiful flowers here in SoCal!
Caveat Emptor! (“let the buyer beware”) I got a string of emails that I suspect are phishing to get me to send $$$. Does the emailer assume that I am in some sort of “publish or perish” greed mode?
The likely phisher got in touch with me via ResearchGate. I love ResearchGate. Seriously. It’s a great place to notify interested scholars of peer-reviewed work OR to post your work as ‘grey literature’ (i.e., “usually unpublished [work, including]… research reports, …evaluations, theses, dissertations, webcasts, poster sessions, presentations, conference proceedings, PowerPoint Presentations, etc..” per CSU/LB)
I christened the emails a “scholar scam.” (Please disabuse me of this notion if you know better.) First,I got an email asking if one of my ResearchGate-posted papers had been published. When I 
answered ‘no,’ I got a string of gmails (not “.edu”) attempting to get me to add as author someone who is not an author, then with other requests. Supposedly the advantage for me is to get help publishing. Frankly, I don’t need the help. (If you do, please pick your own reputable scholar friends to assist.)
I suspect that the phisher wants to convince me to PAY with promises of publication. The paying part would be real and the publication part likely imaginary. (BTW: Anyone can pay to publish anytime without anyone else’s help.) I was not yet asked for $$$, but if the emails continue, I expect that to come.
ummm….no thank you….Caveat Emptor!
What do you think? Anyone else receive similar emails?-Dr.H
p.s. the article in question that is fulltext at ResearchGate – Highfield, MEF, Osterhues, DJ, & Chu, L. (2008) Religious & spiritual content in physical therapy curricula: A survey of U.S. program directors. Published on ResearchGate.
Let’s say you want to find out how well students’ think they learned theory in your class.
One option is to do a pre/post test: You distribute the same survey before and after the class asking them to rate on 1-4 scale how well they think they know the new material. Then you compare their ratings.
Another option is to do posttest only: You could give them a survey after the class that 
asks them to rate 1-4 their knowledge before the class and 1-4 their knowledge now. Then you compare their ratings.
One research option is stronger than the other. Which one is it? and Why? (hint: think retrospective/prospective)
I’m not a New Year’s resolution person. I used to be and then I realized that I wanted to hit the restart button more often than every 365 days. So…my aim for this blog remains pretty much unchanged: Make research processes and ideas understandable for every RN.
Although “to be simple is difficult,” that’s my goal. L
et me know what’s difficult for you in research, because it probably is for others as well. Let’s work on the difficult together so that you can use the BEST Evidence in your practice.
The 2019 journey begins today, and tomorrow, and the tomorrows after that!
FOR MORE: Go to PubMed. Search for a topic of interest. Send me the article & we’ll critique together.
Communication is critical to effective dissemination of findings. Enjoy this bit of communication know how!
(I have no conflict of interest related to this blogger or the writing service promoted at its end.)
I don’t care about your stupid mask, lady. Put the candy in the bag.
How do you spell the name of those adorable (menacing) little children (vagrants) who knock on your door asking for (demanding) candy on Halloween night? Is it “trick-or-treaters” or “trick or treaters”? Hyphens or no hyphens?
The answer is: hyphens. The correct way to spell it is “trick-or-treater.”
But what about “trick or treat,” you say? Hyphens or no hyphens there? This one is a bit more complicated.
Let’s look at the two ways you can use “trick or treat,” as a verb and as a noun.
Verb: Sally dressed up as an amoeba to trick-or-treat.
Noun: As Sally dragged her candy sack home, she thought the trick or treat was successful.
When I wrote “trick-or-treat” as a verb, I used hyphens. Hyphens are always the answer when you use it as a verb. But…
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