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...
Étiquette : predatory publishing
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...
The false academy: predatory publishing in science and bioethics
Authors : Stefan Eriksson, Gert Helgesson This paper describes and discusses the phenomenon ‘predatory publishing’, in relation to both academic journals and bo...