Open access and predatory publishing: a survey of the publishing practices of academic pharmacists and nurses in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Academics are under great pressure to publish their research, the rewards for which are well known (tenure, promotion, grant funding, professional prestige). As open access publishing gains acceptance as a publishing option, researchers may choose a "predatory publisher." The purpose of this study is to investigate the motivations and rationale of pharmacy and nursing academics in the United States to publish in open access journals that may be considered "predatory."

Methods

A 26-item questionnaire was programmed in Qualtrics and distributed electronically to approximately 4,500 academic pharmacists and nurses, 347 of whom completed questionnaires (~8%). Pairwise correlations were performed followed by a logistic regression to evaluate statistical associations bet

SUBMITTER: Conlogue BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9782588 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature