Exploratory audit reveals unethical behaviors in predatory journals, suggesting a need for increased vigilance among researchers.
These findings reveal predatory journals' pervasive unethical practices, fake IFs, false indexing, misleading information, thus undermining scholarly publishing. These exploratory findings, highlight the importance of greater researcher vigilance and systemic action to safeguard research communication.
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