Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?

Laine, Christine; Babski, Dianne; Bachelet, Vivienne C.; Bärnighausen, Till W.; Baethge, Christopher; Bibbins-Domingo, Kirsten; Frizelle, Frank; Gollogy, Laragh; Kleinert, Sabine; Loder, Elizabeth; Monteiro, João; Rubin, Eric J.; Sahni, Peush; Wee, Christina C.; Yoo, Jin-Hong; Zakhama, Lilia

J Korean Med Sci. 2025 Jan;40(2):e77. 10.3346/jkms.2025.40.e77.

Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?

Affiliations

¹Editor in Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine
²Director, User Services and Collection Division, National Library of Medicine
³Editor in Chief, Medwave
⁴Editor-in-Chief, PLOS Medicine
⁵Chief Scientific Editor, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (German Medical Journal) and Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
⁶Editor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network
⁷Editor in Chief, New Zealand Medical Journal
⁸Editor, Bulletin of the World Health Organization
⁹Deputy Editor, The Lancet
¹⁰Head of Research, The BMJ
¹¹Chief Editor, Nature Medicine
¹²Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
¹³Representative and past president of the World Association of Medical Editors, and Editor, The National Medical Journal of India
¹⁴Secretary, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and Senior Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine
¹⁵Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Korean Medical Science
¹⁶Editor-in-Chief, La Tunisie Médicale

KMID: 2564215
DOI: http://doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2025.40.e77

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