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Does PubMed include predatory journals?

PubMed & Predatory Publishers Once referred to as the "gold standard to biomedical literature," and containing numerous high quality medical research publications, it has been discovered that predatory resources have made there way into PubMed as well.
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Are predatory journals in PubMed?

Predatory journals often register journal names very similar to established legitimate journals and may not be recognized as fraudulent. As a result, open-access journals that do not qualify for inclusion may be indexed in PubMed Central and subsequently “leak” into the PubMed database.
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Which type of journal are included in PubMed?

The PubMed journal list covers the entire span of MEDLINE, not just currently indexed journals. The non-MEDLINE journals include those whose content is deposited in PMC (PubMed Central).
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What does PubMed include?

PubMed Overview

The PubMed database contains more than 36 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature. It does not include full text journal articles; however, links to the full text are often present when available from other sources, such as the publisher's website or PubMed Central (PMC).
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Can PubMed be trusted?

PubMed is a free and publicly available resource provided by the US National Library of Medicine. It covers the biomedical literature and, as the free version of MEDLINE, is highly authoritative. Pros and Cons: Advantages of using PubMed: It is a huge, reliable, and highly authoritative resource.
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Is PubMed considered peer-reviewed?

Most journals indexed for PubMed are peer-reviewed or refereed, but peer review criteria and reviewer or referee qualifications vary. Check a journal's editorial information or ask the publisher about policy for specific journal titles.
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Which is better MEDLINE or PubMed?

Tip: PubMed is a great interface for carrying out a basic scoping search, or if you wish to identify a limited number of key references. MEDLINE via the links below are recommended if you wish to carry out a comprehensive and systematic search. The U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM) premier life sciences database.
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What is difference between PubMed and MEDLINE?

In addition to the comprehensive journal selection process, what sets MEDLINE apart from the rest of PubMed is the added value of using the NLM controlled vocabulary, Medical Subject Headings (MeSH®), to index citations. PubMed has been available since 1996.
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Is PubMed run by the government?

PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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Why are some journals not in PubMed?

If the journal is not indexed in Medline, the published article will not be found on PubMed. Based on the journal indexing of Edorium journals, none of the journals are indexed in Medline. Therefore, articles published in these journals will not be found on PubMed.
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Is Cureus a predatory journal?

A study conducted by librarians of Emory University found that Cureus was in the top 2 of institutional publications deemed predatory or untrustworthy.
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Is PubMed a good journal?

PubMed delivers a publicly available search interface for MEDLINE as well as other NLM resources, making it the premier source for biomedical literature and one of the most widely accessible resources in the world.
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How do you tell if a journal is PubMed indexed?

  1. Uncheck the “articles” below the search box.
  2. Type the title or International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of the journal in the search box and click on the search button.
  3. The indexed journal will be shown on the search result page; click on the title of the journal to view more details.
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How can I check predatory journal?

Ways to Identify Predatory Journals
  1. Rapid publication is promised.
  2. The homepage language targets authors.
  3. The journal does not have clear policies on retraction, corrections/errata, or plagiarism (see the ICMJE Recommendations for more detailed discussion about best practices)
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Does Google Scholar include predatory journals?

Google Scholar does not vet the journals that may appear in search results. Predatory publishing is a large and growing problem. Google Scholar search results may include articles from low-quality predatory journals, and citing such articles in your academic work can undermine the credibility of your paper.
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How do you know if an academic journal is predatory?

Website
  1. The website does not identify a physical address for the publisher or gives a fake address.
  2. The journal or publisher uses a virtual office or other proxy business as its physical address.
  3. The website does not identify a physical editorial address for the journal.
  4. Dead links.
  5. Poor grammar and/or spelling.
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Who funds PubMed?

Launched in February 2000, the repository has grown rapidly as the NIH Public Access Policy is designed to make all research funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) freely accessible to anyone, and, in addition, many publishers are working cooperatively with the NIH to provide free access to their works.
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Is NIH and PubMed the same?

PubMed Central (PMC) is a free archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).
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Is there a difference between PubMed and PubMed Central?

What's the difference between PubMed and PubMed Central? PubMed is a biomedical literature database which contains the abstracts of publications in the database. PubMed Central is a full text repository, which contains the full text of publications in the database.
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Is Embase better than PubMed?

PubMed has some newer information that Embase does not have (yet). PubMed is freely available to the world. Embase is a propriety database from Elsevier that UCSF Library has access to. Embase has a more intuitive interface making it easy to search.
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Is PubMed better than Google Scholar?

Additional databases beyond PubMed were not used for literature search as for other clinical topics, the search in PubMed has shown a higher specificity than Google Scholar, and a comparable sensitivity, suggesting that PubMed is an optimal tool for biomedical research [27] .
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Are PubMed and Embase the same?

Objective: Medline/PubMed is often first choice for health science researchers when doing literature searches. However, Medline/PubMed does not cover the health science research literature equally well across specialties. Embase is often considered an important supplement to Medline/PubMed in health sciences.
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Why use PubMed instead of MEDLINE?

Tip: PubMed is a great interface for carrying out a basic scoping search, or if you wish to identify a limited number of key references. MEDLINE via Ovid is recommended if you wish to carry out a comprehensive, structured or systematic search.
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Are Ovid and PubMed the same?

Pubmed is an interface used to search Medline, as well as additional biomedical content. Ovid Medline is an interface for searching only Medline content. Pubmed is more user-friendly and allows you to search through more content than Ovid Medline. However, Ovid Medline allows you to perform a more focused search.
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Is Google Scholar bigger than PubMed?

Whereas PubMed searches retrieve published literature from biomedical journals, Google Scholar searches retrieve both published and unpublished literature from a range of disciplines. This may explain the greater overall number of records found per search (median of 1000 for Google Scholar and 148 for PubMed).
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