[…] patronizing a for-profit service, but should we ask that such services live up to our community standards? We rail against predatory publishers, just as we frown upon journals caught gaming the Impact Factor. And so we should. But shouldn’t we […]
[…] fostered. This week, many posts and comments have touched on this issue, from Jeffrey Beall’s list of his so-called “ predatory” publishers to new OA publishers exploiting CC-BY licenses to validate themselves. In one particularly productive exchange, the notion of […]
[…] by a few high-profile misconduct cases, a rising rate of retractions, and the emergence of parasitic enterprises like papermills and predatory journals. Several factors contribute to these challenges. Globally the economic value of investment in research and development (R&D) has […]
[…] this section is very timely. Again, the big data techniques for exploitation are amazing at times, and O’Neil employs the term “ predatory” with good justifications. Using targeted online ads, for-profit colleges have been trolling for people who might fall for their questionable […]
[…] legitimate rights of authors and publishers from abuse on the part of readers (some of whose behavior is deliberate and predatory) on the one hand, and fighting for the legitimate rights of readers on the other. In my experience, it’s […]
[…] its website, including, for example, general advice from resources such as AuthorAID, guidance on choosing an appropriate journal (and avoiding predatory publishers) and using thinkchecksubmit, and how to understand and avoid plagiarism. More than 50 Peer Reviewers and English language […]
[…] suspect that this would have been surpassed by the “Take Me Off Your F–king Mailing List” paper if Altmetric included predatory journals in their rankings. And then there’s the just-plain-weird, which always gets people talking. Odd sexual development, brain-to-brain communication […]
[…] down to its requisite slams against so-called “patent trolls,” who do exist, but whose presence doesn’t invalidate patents, just as predatory OA publishers don’t invalidate OA — fails to convince. Cherry-picked references, a superficial understanding of investments, ideas, and innovation […]