[Correspondence] PubMed should raise the bar for journal inclusion

A survey by Manca and colleagues1,2 found that predatory journals active in neuroscience and neurology outnumber those regularly indexed in the main biomedical databases. Furthermore, this analysis of predatory publishing (as of October, 2016) showed that over 10% of predatory journals in three important subdisciplines are indexed in PubMed (12% for rehabilitation, 11 ·4% for neurosciences, and 20·2% for neurology).1,2

Source: LANCET - August 18, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Andrea Manca, Lucia Cugusi, Zeevi Dvir, Franca Deriu Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research