{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4225713306","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674","title":"Questionable conferences and presenters from top-ranked universities","display_name":"Questionable conferences and presenters from top-ranked universities","publication_year":2022,"publication_date":"2022-04-04","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4225713306","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1177/01655515221087674","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S68913162","display_name":"Journal of Information Science","issn_l":"0165-5515","issn":["0165-5515","1741-6485"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-d","fnege-4","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320017","host_organization_name":"SAGE Publishing","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320017"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["SAGE Publishing"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Information Science","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://osf.io/guaw3/download","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5060176500","display_name":"Emanuel Kulczycki","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6530-3609","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6530-3609"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I59411706","display_name":"Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144","ror":"https://ror.org/04g6bbq64","country_code":"PL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"]}],"countries":["PL"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Emanuel Kulczycki","raw_affiliation_strings":["Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland"],"raw_orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6530-3609","affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5051556920","display_name":"Marek Ho\u0142owiecki","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8217-2815","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8217-2815"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I59411706","display_name":"Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144","ror":"https://ror.org/04g6bbq64","country_code":"PL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"]}],"countries":["PL"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Marek Ho\u0142owiecki","raw_affiliation_strings":["Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Poland","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5005193574","display_name":"Zehra Ta\u015fk\u0131n","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7102-493X","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7102-493X"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I59411706","display_name":"Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144","ror":"https://ror.org/04g6bbq64","country_code":"PL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"]},{"id":"https://openalex.org/I66514158","display_name":"Hacettepe University","ror":"https://ror.org/04kwvgz42","country_code":"TR","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I66514158"]}],"countries":["PL","TR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Zehra Ta\u015fk\u2129n","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University","Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Pozna\u0144"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I66514158"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Scholarly Communication Research Group, Adam Mickiewicz University in Pozna\u0144, Pozna\u0144","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5042158343","display_name":"G\u00fcleda Do\u011fan","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7435-3181","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7435-3181"]},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I66514158","display_name":"Hacettepe University","ror":"https://ror.org/04kwvgz42","country_code":"TR","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I66514158"]}],"countries":["TR"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"G\u00fcleda Do\u011fan","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Turkey"],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Information Management, Hacettepe University, Turkey","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I66514158"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":2,"institutions_distinct_count":2,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5060176500"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I59411706"],"apc_list":{"value":3250,"currency":"USD","value_usd":3250},"apc_paid":null,"fwci":1.3582,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":10,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.81862579,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":98},"biblio":{"volume":"50","issue":"2","first_page":"303","last_page":"316"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10102","display_name":"scientometrics and bibliometrics research","score":0.5609999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1804","display_name":"Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10102","display_name":"scientometrics and bibliometrics research","score":0.5609999895095825,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1804","display_name":"Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13516","display_name":"Publishing and Scholarly Communication","score":0.15410000085830688,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13607","display_name":"Academic Publishing and Open Access","score":0.12280000001192093,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1802","display_name":"Information Systems and Management"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/18","display_name":"Decision Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/predatory-conferences","display_name":"predatory conferences","score":0.9200000166893005},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/omics","display_name":"omics","score":0.6230000257492065},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/conference-presenters","display_name":"conference presenters","score":0.7860000133514404},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/university-rankings","display_name":"university rankings","score":0.7350000143051147},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/conference-organization","display_name":"conference organization","score":0.32199999690055847},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/academic-conferences","display_name":"academic conferences","score":0.3190000057220459}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C191935318","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148","display_name":"China","level":2,"score":0.751366376876831},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C189430467","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7293293","display_name":"Ranking (information retrieval)","level":2,"score":0.7045588493347168},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18918823","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49389","display_name":"Tourism","level":2,"score":0.5483022332191467},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C161191863","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q199655","display_name":"Library science","level":1,"score":0.5359832048416138},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776687071","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5265193","display_name":"Destinations","level":3,"score":0.5210544466972351},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C17744445","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36442","display_name":"Political science","level":0,"score":0.4883837103843689},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C120912362","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136822","display_name":"Higher education","level":2,"score":0.4763498604297638},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779530757","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1207505","display_name":"Quality (philosophy)","level":2,"score":0.43056491017341614},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C205649164","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1071","display_name":"Geography","level":0,"score":0.37639546394348145},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C148383697","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1781695","display_name":"Regional science","level":1,"score":0.3253876268863678},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.14347949624061584},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C23123220","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816826","display_name":"Information retrieval","level":1,"score":0.07181671261787415},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199539241","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7748","display_name":"Law","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":4,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1177/01655515221087674","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1177/01655515221087674","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S68913162","display_name":"Journal of Information Science","issn_l":"0165-5515","issn":["0165-5515","1741-6485"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"listed_in":["anvur-class-a","anvur-scientific","cwts-core","dongbi-d","fnege-4","jufo-3","norway-2","poland-100","russia-white-list-1","vabb-shw"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310320017","host_organization_name":"SAGE Publishing","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310320017"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["SAGE Publishing"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Journal of Information Science","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"doi:10.31219/osf.io/guaw3","doi":"https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/guaw3","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/guaw3","pdf_url":"https://osf.io/guaw3/download","source":null,"license":"other-oa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/other-oa","version":"acceptedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"posted-content"},{"id":"pmh:oai:share.osf.io:9438b863-73ec-40c4-aecb-52385dcd4316","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://osf.io/guaw3","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401127","display_name":"OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I2799848540","host_organization_name":"Center for Open Science","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2799848540"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"Preprint"},{"id":"pmh:oai:share.osf.io:E01D5-936-E7F","doi":null,"is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://doi.org/10.31219/OSF.IO/GUAW3","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401127","display_name":"OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I2799848540","host_organization_name":"Center for Open Science","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I2799848540"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"preprint"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.31219/osf.io/guaw3","doi":"https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/guaw3","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/guaw3","pdf_url":"https://osf.io/guaw3/download","source":null,"license":"other-oa","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/other-oa","version":"acceptedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"posted-content"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"sustainable_development_goals_aurora":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G7383894104","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"UMO-2017/26/E/HS2/00019","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320322511","funder_display_name":"Narodowe Centrum Nauki"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320322511","display_name":"Narodowe Centrum Nauki","ror":"https://ror.org/03ha2q922"}],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4225713306.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4225713306.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":17,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1833002488","https://openalex.org/W2000601862","https://openalex.org/W2007606645","https://openalex.org/W2744429542","https://openalex.org/W2794861315","https://openalex.org/W2805221312","https://openalex.org/W2903063338","https://openalex.org/W2905418571","https://openalex.org/W2986032928","https://openalex.org/W2995110542","https://openalex.org/W3003605260","https://openalex.org/W3093058765","https://openalex.org/W3159823381","https://openalex.org/W3179096088","https://openalex.org/W3209776059","https://openalex.org/W4234490976","https://openalex.org/W4255995210"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2794861315","https://openalex.org/W2948562681","https://openalex.org/W2158427561","https://openalex.org/W4310550274","https://openalex.org/W4401118302","https://openalex.org/W4206236353","https://openalex.org/W6959817456","https://openalex.org/W2905418571","https://openalex.org/W2944522929","https://openalex.org/W3162771406"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"This":[0],"article":[1],"aims":[2],"to":[3,50],"investigate":[4],"the":[5,84,88,120,126],"structures":[6],"of":[7,58,107,111,125],"935":[8],"conferences":[9,15,24,35,138],"organised":[10,16,137],"by":[11,17],"OMICS":[12,78,108],"and":[13,67,91,100,109],"296":[14],"WASET":[18,93,112],"from":[19,83,97],"2015":[20],"through":[21],"2017.":[22],"These":[23],"are":[25],"characterised":[26],"in":[27,77,119,123,139],"existing":[28],"literature":[29],"as":[30],"so-called":[31],"predatory":[32],"or":[33],"questionable":[34],"that":[36,75,105,133,141],"provide":[37],"low-quality":[38],"academic":[39],"meetings.":[40],"We":[41,103,130],"analyse":[42],"40,224":[43],"presenters,":[44],"focusing":[45],"on":[46],"top-ranked":[47],"institutions":[48,117],"according":[49],"three":[51,127],"global":[52],"university":[53],"ranking":[54],"systems":[55],"(Academic":[56],"Ranking":[57],"World":[59,64,69],"Universities,":[60],"Times":[61],"Higher":[62],"Education":[63],"University":[65,70],"Rankings,":[66],"QS":[68],"Rankings).":[71],"Our":[72],"analysis":[73],"shows":[74],"participants":[76],"events":[79],"were":[80,114,142],"primarily":[81],"researchers":[82,96],"United":[85,89],"States,":[86],"India,":[87,99],"Kingdom,":[90],"China.":[92],"attracted":[94],"more":[95],"Turkey,":[98],"South":[101],"Korea.":[102],"found":[104,132],"11.0%":[106],"5.7%":[110],"presenters":[113],"affiliated":[115],"with":[116],"ranked":[118],"top":[121,143],"100":[122],"one":[124],"aforementioned":[128],"rankings.":[129],"also":[131],"both":[134],"companies":[135],"mostly":[136],"cities":[140],"tourist":[144],"destinations.":[145]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":5},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-10-28T10:33:24.094632","created_date":"2022-05-05T00:00:00"}