Announcement of Consensus on Controversial Journal Articles in the College of Medical Science and Technology from the Discussion Meeting held on 2023-07-03.
Dear faculty and colleagues,
During the recent discussion Controversial journals meeting, consensus was reached among the attending faculty teachers regarding the scoring of faculty promotion. The College will revise and update the promotion evaluation regulations starting this year. We want to share the meeting consensus with all faculty and colleagues in the College.
Controversial journals, including predatory journals and mega journals. The following points are emphasized:
1. Effective immediately, the use/recognition of predatory journals is strictly prohibited.
2. For teacher appointments and College's journal article award, papers published in controversial journals starting from 2024 will not be recognized.
3. Papers published in controversial journals cannot be considered representative works for faculty promotion. However, for faculty teachers who submitted promotion applications between October 2023 and April 2024, there are no specific regulations regarding the papers published in controversial journals. Nevertheless, it is strongly recommended not to use papers published in controversial journals as representative works.
4. The proportion of papers from controversial journals in the total scoring of faculty promotions will gradually decrease from October 2024 onwards. The decreasing proportions are as follows:
(A) October 2024 and April 2025: Up to 80% of the total scoring.
(B) October 2025 and April 2026: Up to 60% of the total scoring.
(C) October 2026 and April 2027: Up to 40% of the total scoring.
(D) From October 2027 onwards: Up to 20% of the total scoring.
5. For faculty promotion, if controversial journal articles are used, please include a complete peer review record (e.g., submission timeline, review response process, academic content of the paper, and other relevant documents) in the publication portfolio as supplementary material for internal and external reviews.
Thank you for your attention and cooperation.
College of Medical Science and Technology
2023.07.04
Controversial Journal Articles including Predatory Journal and Mega Journal.
1. Predatory Journal check service: https://library.tmu.edu.tw/predatory/en/index.html
2. Mega Journal has two types,
Type 1:
There are doubts regarding the operational models of publishing houses, the review processes of journals, acceptance rates, citation manipulation practices, and other aspects. Examples of such publishers include MDPI, Frontiers Media, Baishideng Publishing Group, OMICS Publishing Group, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, and similar publishers employing similar operational strategies.
Type 2:
Journals that explicitly state on their official websites that they do not base the acceptance or rejection of papers on the perceived scientific importance of reviewers. Journal list in type 2 as follows:
(1) ACS Omega / American Chemical Society
(2) AIP Advances / American Institute of Physics
(3) Biology Open / The Company of Biologists
(4) BMC Research Notes / BioMed Central Ltd.
(5) BMJ Open / BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
(6) Cureus ( Cureus Journal of Medical Science) / Cureus, Inc.
(7) Heliyon / Cell Press
(8) FEBS Open Bio / Wiley
(9) F1000 Research / F1000 Research Ltd.
(10) GigaScience / Oxford Academic
(11) IEEE Access / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(12) Medicine / Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
(13) PeerJ / PeerJ Inc
(14) PLoS One / Public Library of Science
(15) QScience Connect / HBKU Press
(16) Royal Society Open Science / The Royal Society
(17) SAGE Open Medicine / SAGE Publications Inc
(18) Scientific Reports / Nature Research
(19) The Scientific World Journal / Hindawi
Journal lists in type 1 & type 2 refer to the NTU.