Predators

Reflections on the Biomedical Publication Industry

PubMed, run by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), is a first-class resource that lists some 30,000 biomedical journals with over 37 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It indexes about 1.8 million articles a year.

With such an abundance of articles, and as science is cumulative, you would have thought we would have reached the …