Allows the user to check and find (allegedly) predatory journals based on Beall's list available at <https://scholarlyoa.com/>. As part of a research project, the data from the website has been scraped with a web scraping script. The package includes a search function and direct access to this database of predatory journals. The use of this tool should facilitate the detection of predatory publications by researchers and librarians.
| Version: | 1.2 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 3.3.2) |
| Imports: | stringr, readr |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown, testthat, ggplot2 |
| Published: | 2017-11-03 |
| Author: | Marcelo Perlin [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Marcelo Perlin <marceloperlin at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-2 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README NEWS |
| CRAN checks: | predatory results |
| Reference manual: | predatory.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
How to use predatory |
| Package source: | predatory_1.2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: predatory_1.2.zip, r-release: predatory_1.2.zip, r-oldrel: predatory_1.2.zip |
| OS X binaries: | r-release: predatory_1.2.tgz, r-oldrel: predatory_1.2.tgz |
| Old sources: | predatory archive |
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