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

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Published Jan 6, 2025
https://doi.org/10.62438/tunismed.v103i1.5666
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Vol. 103 No. 1 (2025): Tunis Med Jan 2025

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Christine Laine
Editor in Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine
Dianne Babski
Director, User Services and Collection Division, National Library of Medicine
Vivienne C. Bachelet
Editor in Chief, Medwave
Till W. Bärnighausen
Editor-in-Chief, PLOS Medicine
Christopher Baethge
Chief Scientific Editor, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (German Medical Journal) and Deutsches Ärzteblatt International
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Editor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network
Frank Frizelle
Editor in Chief, New Zealand Medical Journal
Laragh Gollogy
Editor, Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Coordinator, WHO Press
Sabine Kleinert
Deputy Editor, The Lancet Group
Elizabeth Loder
Head of Research, The BMJ
João Monteiro
Chief Editor, Nature Medicine
Eric J. Rubin
Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine
Peush Sahni
Representative and past president of the World Association of Medical Editors and Editor, The National Medical Journal of India
Christina C. Wee
Secretary, ICMJE and Senior Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine
Jin-Hong Yoo
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Korean Medical Science
Lilia Zakhama
Editor-In-Chief, La Tunisie Medicale
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6026-8592

Keywords:

Medical writing, Predatory journals, ICMJE

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Author Biography

Lilia Zakhama, Editor-In-Chief, La Tunisie Medicale

Head of department

Cardiology Department, Security Forces Hospital, 2070, La Marsa, Tunisia

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