Authors
Giovanni Abramo, Isidro F Aguillo, Dag W Aksnes, Kevin Boyack, Quentin L Burrell, Juan Miguel Campanario, Zaida Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Rodrigo Costas, Ciriaco Andrea D’Angelo, Anne-Wil Harzing, Hamid R Jamali, Vincent Larivière, Loet Leydesdorff, Marc Luwel, Ben Martin, Philipp Mayr, Katherine W McCain, Isabella Peters, Ismael Rafols, Nicolas Robinson-Garcia, Torben Schubert, Henry Small, Cassidy R Sugimoto, Mike Thelwall, Peter van den Besselaar, Thed van Leeuwen, Ludo Waltman
Publication date
2023/2
Journal
Scientometrics
Volume
128
Issue
2
Pages
1459-1461
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Description
As members of the Distinguished Reviewers Board of Scientometrics and/or as recipients of the Derek de Solla Price Medal, we wish to express our disagreement with the retraction of the paper “Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences” coauthored by Vít Macháček and Martin Srholec (Macháček & Srholec, 2021a). The retraction was discussed in the blog Retraction Watch (Oransky, 2021), where important information about the context of the retraction was disclosed, including the pressure exerted by the publisher Frontiers on Scientometrics.
The paper was retracted on 6 September 2021 (Macháček & Srholec, 2021b), about seven months after its publication. During that time some critical discussion on the paper had already been published in Scientometrics (Mills & Bell, 2021; Srholec & Macháček, 2021). We welcome this as an example of a healthy academic debate. The retraction …
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