But some researchers say the policy won’t succeed in improving research quality.The Chinese government hopes a journal blacklist will improve research integrity.A proposal by the Chinese government to create a national blacklist of journals is creating much debate among the country’s scientists, who are still waiting for the list to be revealed, five months after the plan to create it was announced.Preparation of the list has been shrouded in secrecy. The government says it will include journals it considers poor quality or those seeking excess profit, but it has not released its selection criteria, nor has it said when the policy will take effect.A couple of commercial blacklists exist and some Chinese institutions already have lists of journals that researchers are told to avoid, but lists run by government agencies are rare. The Chinese government hopes that a national poli
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