Predator
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Duden, the unchallenged authority of the German language, defines the perpetrator as a person who commits or has committed an…
Duden, the unchallenged authority of the German language, defines the perpetrator as a person who commits or has committed an…
Once, over at the Predatory Publishing blog, they tried to figure out what the first predatory journal was and they came up…
We have seen “predatory” publishing take off in a big way and noticed how colleagues start to turn up in the pages of some of…
Predatory publishing has been the subject of much heated debate and conjecture. Panagiotis Tsigaris and Jaime A. Teixeira da…
Allegedly, there are over 12.000 so-called predatory journals out there. Instead of supporting readers and science, these…
Full reference: Predatory journals: no definition, no defence. Nature. Vol 576, pp 210-212…
Predatory journals are here, but our attention to them is unevenly distributed. Most studies on predatory publishing have…
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive…
This article by Sioux McKenna originally appeared at The Conversation, a Social Science Space partner site, under the title …
In 1980 when I published my first paper (Leather, 1980), the publishing world was very much simpler place than it is now. …
An Elsevier leader answers questions about the practices of predatory journals and the role of trustworthy publishers
by Jeremy Horne (International Institute of Informatics and Systemics) Column Editors: Caroline J. Campbell (Promotions…
Illegitimate - or predatory - journals are on the increase. What's more, authors from high-, middle-, and low-income countries…
Source: http://blogs.unimelb.edu.au/23researchthings/2017/11/06/thing-20-avoiding-deceptive-unethical-predatory-and-vanity-publi…
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Cabell's International has stepped into the gap left by the demise of Beall's List, providing a new predatory journal blacklist…
[This is Chapter 4 of Gray OA 2012-016, a comprehensive study of journals on “the lists.”] Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Björk…
Enlarge (credit: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier) Anna O. Szust is not a real person. She is, literally, a fraud: oszust means …
By Erin Zimmerman, Ph.D. “Scientific literacy must include the ability to recognize publishing fraud.” – Jeffrey Beall, Nature …
Are we thinking about predatory publishing the wrong way? Are researchers deliberately choosing these journals, and if so, what…
IL PARCO DELLE BUFALE – La “Lista di Beall” – quattro in realtà – non è sparita insieme al blog Scholarly OA, però va aggiornata …
Beall’s list of ‘predatory’ open access journals has disappeared but the information isn’t lost: It still exists across many…
The post Is Canadian research falling prey to predatory journals? appeared first on Healthy Debate.
(por Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini y Natalia Zinoveyva) Estamos tan tristemente acostumbrados a recibir noticias sobre los…
Pictured: Peer review; something that doesn’t happen in predatory…
Guest Post by Stefan Eriksson
Low quality non peer reviewed open access journals called ‘predatory’ compromise the credibility of open access publishing and…
Low quality non peer reviewed open access journals called ‘predatory’ compromise the credibility of open access publishing and…
If you read all the way through the December 2015 essay Ethics and Access 2015 (and if you didn’t, you really should!), you may…
ECONOMIA – Su BMC Medicine, la rivista di uno dei più grandi editori open access, Cenyu Shen e Bo-Christer Björk, ricercatori…
A Dutch initiative called LingOA has launched, in which the editorial boards of five linguistics journals have begun the…
A Dutch initiative called LingOA has launched, in which the editorial boards of five linguistics journals have begun the…
Predatory Open Access publishers on the…
I think it’s fair to say that the topic of so-called predatory journals was the hot one at the recent World Association of…
Think. Check. Submit è una nuova iniziativa portata avanti da ALPSP, DOAJ, INASP,ISSN, LIBER, OASPA, STM, UKSG e da singoli…
Scientists and researchers who must “publish or perish” have a wealth of options to pay for their work to get into suspect…
The following full text article was recently published by BMC Medicine.
stuartelden:A new initiative for academics submitting to journals, directed at saving people and papers from “predatory…
A new cross-industry campaign launches today to provide information for researchers about the criteria they should look for…
Charlie Rapple reports on "Think. Check. Submit.", a campaign to help researchers learn who they can trust when they are…
Press Release: Think. Check. Submit. 1st October 2015 Helping researchers to make informed publication choices A new cross-indu…