Predatory Open Access Journals Publishing: What, Why and How?
Author : Shamprasad M. Pujar The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and ...
Étiquette : predatory publishing
Predatory Publishers using Spamming Strategies for Call for Papers and Review Requests : A Case Study
Author : Alexandru-Ionut Petrisor Spam e-mail and calls from the predatory publishers are very similar in purpose: they are deceptive and produce material losse...
Is Predatory Publishing a Real Threat? Evidence from a Large Database Study
Authors : Marcelo Perlin, Takeyoshi Imasato, Denis Borenstein Using a database of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals, the...
Examining publishing practices: moving beyond the idea of predatory open access
Author : Kevin L. Smith The word ‘predatory’ has become an obstacle to a serious discussion of publishing practices. Its use has been both overinclusive, encomp...
‘Predatory’ Open Access Journals as Parody: Exposing the Limitations of ‘Legitimate’ Academic Publishing
Author : Kirsten Bell The concept of the ‘predatory’ publisher has today become a standard way of characterising a new breed of open access journals...
Incidence of predatory journals in computer science literature
Authors : Simona Ibba, Filippo Eros Pani, John Gregory Stockton, Giulio Barabino, Michele Marchesi, Danilo Tigano Purpose One of the main tasks of a researcher ...
Who is Actually Harmed by Predatory Publishers?
Authors : Martin Paul Eve, Ernesto Priego “Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer rev...