Fast, Furious and Dubious? MDPI and the Depth of Peer Review Reports
Authors : Abdelghani Maddi, Chérifa Boukacem-Zeghmouri Peer review is a central component of scholarly communication as it brings trust and quality control for ...
Étiquette : predatory publishers
Analysis of predatory emails in early career academia and attempts at prevention
Author : Owen W. Tomlinson Predatory publishers—those who do not adhere to rigorous standards of academic practice such as peer review—are increasingly infiltra...
Membership of the editorial boards of journals published by the predatory publisher OMICS: willing and unwilling participation
Author : Michael Downes Introduction OMICS is the largest and most successful predatory publisher, with numerous subsidiaries. In 2019 it was convicted of uneth...
Defining predatory journals and responding to the threat they pose: a modified Delphi consensus process
Authors : Samantha Cukier, Manoj M. Lalu, Gregory L. Bryson, Kelly D. Cobey, Agnes Grudniewicz, David Moher Background Posing as legitimate open access outlets,...
Potential predatory journals are colonizing the ICMJE recommendations list of followers
Authors : Dal-Ré R., Marušić A. BACKGROUND The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) has expressed its concerns about predatory journals us...
Marketing via Email Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency and Relevance
Authors: Warren Burggren, Dilip K. Madasu, Kevin S. Hawkins, Martin Halbert INTRODUCTION Open access (OA) journals have proliferated in recent years. Many journ...
Negative Effects of “Predatory” Journals on Global Health Research
Authors : Diego A. Forero, Marilyn H. Oermann, Andrea Manca, Franca Deriu, Hugo Mendieta-Zerón, Mehdi Dadkhah, Roshan Bhad, Smita N. Deshpande, Wei Wang, Myriam...