Hitting rock bottom: The descent from predatory journals and conferences to the predatory PhD

Philip Darbyshire, Mark Hayter, Kate Frazer, Robin Ion, Debra Jackson

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DOI: 10.1111/jocn.15516
Published: 2020-10-11
Container: Journal of Clinical Nursing
Publisher: Wiley
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@article{allodium:10.1111/jocn.15516,
  title = {Hitting rock bottom: The descent from predatory journals and conferences to the predatory PhD},
  author = {Philip Darbyshire and Mark Hayter and Kate Frazer and Robin Ion and Debra Jackson},
  year = {2020},
  journal = {Journal of Clinical Nursing},
  doi = {10.1111/jocn.15516},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15516}
}

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Darbyshire, P., Hayter, M., Frazer, K., Ion, R., & Jackson, D. (2020). Hitting rock bottom: The descent from predatory journals and conferences to the predatory PhD. Journal of Clinical Nursing. https://doi.org/10.1111/jocn.15516

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