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

Affiliations

• ¹ Editor in Chief, Annals of Internal Medicine.
• ² Director, User Services and Collection Division, National Library of Medicine.
• ³ Editor in Chief, Medwave.
• ⁴ Editor-in-Chief, PLOS Medicine.
• ⁵ Chief Scientific Editor, Deutsches Ärzteblatt (German Medical Journal) and Deutsches Ärzteblatt International.
• ⁶ Editor in Chief, JAMA and the JAMA Network.
• ⁷ Editor in Chief, New Zealand Medical Journal.
• ⁸ Editor, Bulletin of the World Health Organization.
• ⁹ Deputy Editor, The Lancet.
• ¹⁰ Head of Research, The BMJ.
• ¹¹ Chief Editor, Nature Medicine.
• ¹² Editor-in-Chief, New England Journal of Medicine.
• ¹³ Representative and past president of the World Association of Medical Editors and Editor, The National Medical Journal of India, India.
• ¹⁴ Secretary, International Committee of Medical Journal Editors, and Senior Deputy Editor, Annals of Internal Medicine.
• ¹⁵ Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Korean Medical Science.
• ¹⁶ Editor-in-Chief, La Tunisie Médicale.