An open automation system for predatory journal detection
Authors : Li‑Xian Chen, Shih‑Wen Su, Chia‑Hung Liao, Kai‑Sin Wong, Shyan‑Ming Yuan The growing number of online open-access journals promotes academic exchanges...
Étiquette : predatory publishing
Are papers published in predatory journals worthless? A geopolitical dimension revealed by content-based analysis of citations
Authors : Zehra Taşkın, Franciszek Krawczyk, Emanuel Kulczycki This study uses content-based citation analysis to move beyond the simplified classification of p...
Open access and predatory publishing: a survey of the publishing practices of academic pharmacists and nurses in the United States
Authors : Bridget C. Conlogue, Neyda V. Gilman, Louisa M. Holmes Objective: Academics are under great pressure to publish their research, the rewards for which ...
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...
Predatory journals and publishers: Characteristics and impact of academic spam to researchers in educational sciences
Authors : Jaume Sureda-Negre, Aina Calvo-Sastre, Rubén Comas-Forgas This study focuses on the phenomenon of presumed predatory scientific publications in the fi...
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...
Journals in Beall’s list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers
Authors : Henk F. Moed, Carmen Lopez-Illescas, Vicente P. Guerrero-Bote, Felix de Moya-Anegon The list of potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly op...