Predatory journals: what can we do to protect their prey?

Affiliations

• ¹ Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ² National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD, USA.
• ³ Medwave, Santiago, Chile.
• ⁴ PLOS Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Deutsches Ärzteblatt (German Medical Journal) and Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁶ JAMA and the JAMA Network, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁷ New Zealand Medical Journal, Auckland, New Zealand.
• ⁸ Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁹ The Lancet, London, UK.
• ¹⁰ The BMJ, London, UK.
• ¹¹ Nature Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹² New England Journal of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹³ The National Medical Journal of India, New Delhi, India and representative of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).
• ¹⁴ Annals of Internal Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Secretary of ICMJE. Electronic address: https://icmje.org/about-icmje/contact-icmje.
• ¹⁵ Journal of Korean Medical Science, Seoul, Korea.
• ¹⁶ La Tunisie Médicale, Tunis, Tunisia.