Do clinical practice guidelines for low back pain include predatory journal or retracted publications? A meta-research study

2025/03/19 by Jodi L. Young, Mark Shepherd, Tanya Dickson +1 · 1 voice
Decision Sciences · Medicine · Social Sciences · #Academic integrity and plagiarism #Clinical practice guidelines implementation #Meta-analysis and systematic reviews

paper · doi:10.1016/j.msksp.2025.103316

openalex publication_date 2025/03/19 · crossref created 2025/03/19 · crossref issued 2025/06/01 · crossref published 2025/06/01 · crossref published-print 2025/06/01 · crossref deposited 2025/08/07 · crossref indexed 2025/08/15 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22

Citations

• Predatory publishing is just one of the consequences of gold open access
• ‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics
• Noninvasive Treatments for Acute, Subacute, and Chronic Low Back Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American College of Physicians
• Interventions for the Management of Acute and Chronic Low Back Pain: Revision 2021

Discussions

• Interesting article suggesting the influence of predatory journal publications on back pain clinical practice guidelines isn’t huge: doi.org/10.1016/j.ms... [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]