Predatory Medical Journals in Patent Literature: A Hidden Threat.

IF 4.7 Q2 PHARMACOLOGY & PHARMACY

Advanced pharmaceutical bulletin Pub Date : 2025-10-11 eCollection Date: 2025-11-01 DOI:10.34172/apb.025.46153

Mihály Hegedűs, Mehdi Dadkhah, Lóránt Dénes Dávid

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Purpose: The negative impact of potential predatory journals has been widely discussed, primarily within academic contexts. However, their influence beyond academia remains underexplored. This study aims to address that gap.

Methods: The current editorial utilised a sample list of 8 potential predatory medical journals. We compiled a list of potential predatory medical journals using the discontinued titles list in Scopus and the current blocklists. Then their patent-to-paper citations have been examined to understand the dissemination of questionable medical publications outside of academia.

Results: This indicates that potential predatory medical journals received 483,848 citations from scholarly works and 4,251 citations from patents.

Conclusion: When patents cite papers from predatory journals, flawed information may propagate, or potentially leading to wrongful patent rejections and wasted resources. This serves as a warning for the patent community to take action against potential predatory journals.

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专利文献中的掠夺性医学期刊：一个隐藏的威胁。

目的：潜在的掠夺性期刊的负面影响已经被广泛讨论，主要是在学术背景下。然而，他们在学术界以外的影响力仍未得到充分发掘。这项研究旨在解决这一差距。方法：本文选取了8种潜在的掠夺性医学期刊作为样本。我们编制了一个潜在掠夺性医学期刊的列表，使用Scopus中已终止的标题列表和当前的封锁列表。然后检查他们的专利到论文的引用，以了解学术界以外有问题的医学出版物的传播情况。结果：潜在掠夺性医学期刊的学术论文引用次数为483848次，专利引用次数为4251次。结论：当专利引用来自掠夺性期刊的论文时，错误的信息可能会传播，或潜在地导致错误的专利拒绝和资源浪费。这是对专利界采取行动反对潜在掠夺性期刊的一个警告。

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