Authors' Response

We would like to thank Dr. Sanz and Dr. del Valle for their comment on our letter Predatory Open-Access Publishing in Palliative and Supporting Care published in the Journal.1 They give us the opportunity to apologize for not being able to consider their valuable and informative work on this topic published in Medicina Paliativa, which seems to be not indexed in PubMed.2 In their work, they classified 16 of the 32 retrieved palliative care journals as “suspected” predatory journals. Although we agree about the fact that Beall list has been heavily criticized for subjectivity, it may be argued that the classification as “predatory journals” should be always considered as potential and should be always double-checked with recognized criteri a of legitimacy.
Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Category: Palliative Care Authors: Tags: Letter Source Type: research