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Category:British Open Research Publications academic journals

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 4, 2020
Entity authorityQ65709061 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a category which contains journals published by British Open Research Publications (BORP). BORP was listed on Beall's list before it was taken down in 2017 and is considered to engage in predatory publishing practices. No article currently exist on BORP, as it has not been shown to meet our notability guidelines, but this could change in the future.

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The public source identifies “Category:British Open Research Publications academic journals” as wikimedia category. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Category, British and Research.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Category, British and Research providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 4, 2020. The linked authority identifier is Q65709061. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Category:British Open Research Publications academic journals” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.