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Letters Protecting authors against predatory journals

Predatory journals: who should we blame?

BMJ 2025; 388 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.r211 (Published 04 February 2025) Cite this as: BMJ 2025;388:r211
  1. Jean-Francois Gehanno, professor of occupational medicine
  1. Department of Occupational Medicine, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France
  1. jf.gehanno{at}chu-rouen.fr

Proposing measures to warn authors, who are often young researchers, about the phenomenon of predatory publishers is laudable.1 As is speaking out against these practices from the height of our university chairs. But aren’t we collectively responsible …

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