@article{Shrestha_Subedi_Shokati_Chaudhary_2018, place={Lalitpur, Nepal}, title={Predatory Journals: A Threat to Scholarly Publishing}, volume={8}, url={http://www.kusoed.edu.np/journal/index.php/je/article/view/254}, abstractNote={<p><span class="fontstyle0">Nowadays the world of scholarly publishing is in serious trouble because of the<br>increasing number of predatory publishing. Besides, citation of articles from<br>predatory journals is also unethical that undermines the quality of research papers.<br>Because of ignorance of predatory publishing and/or compulsion of getting published<br>in a limited time, scholars from Universities and young researchers become victim to<br>predatory or hijacked journals. The purpose of this paper is to create awareness<br>among authors, especially novice ones, about predatory publication. Research<br>institutions should encourage their researchers to publish their articles in valuable<br>journals indexed in Web of Science’s Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Clarivate<br>Analytics, formerly part of Thomson-Reuters) or other famous scientific databases<br>such as Scopus, PubMed and MEDLINE. In this way, attention to the Thomson<br>Reuters’ Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Journal Ranking (JRK) and Scopus grade<br>(Q1, Q2 and Q3) may be useful and necessary.</span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Education and Research}, author={Shrestha, Jiban and Subedi, Subash and Shokati, Behzad and Chaudhary, Amit}, year={2018}, month={Mar.}, pages={89-101} }