What Value Do Journal Whitelists and Blacklists Have in Academia?
Authors : Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Panagiotis Tsigaris This paper aims to address the issue of predatory publishing, sensu lato. To achieve this, we offer ou...
Étiquette : predatory publishing
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 ...
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 ...