[…] accepted the manuscript). That means that Beall is falsely accusing nearly one in five as being a “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open access publisher” on appearances alone. It would be unfair to conclude from Bohannon’s work that open access […]
[…] years in The Scholarly Kitchen we’ve had occasion to examine multiple kinds of academic dishonesty in the publishing world: “ predatory” publishers who present unvetted research (some of which is literal nonsense) to the world as peer-reviewed science on behalf […]
Technological trends have enabled experiments in publishing. But now that we’ve seen plenty of experiments, is it time to bring them under control?
[…] therefore avoid using the rate or percentage of endogeny as a standalone criterion for exclusion or delisting. The problem of predatory publishing and the quality of open access (OA) scholarly journals have been hot topics for the last few years, especially […]
Strange comments emerge after a post about Beall’s list of “predatory” publishers appears, many of which attribute sentiments to people falsely.
[…] anonymous reviews alongside the articles themselves, it is clear whether or not the journal in question is a reputable, or predatory. The sheer number of predatory open journals, and the spamming of the research community is one of the real […]
[…] are often complex and differ from publisher to publisher. Transparency in waiver policy also means that fewer researchers resort to predatory publishing as a result of confusion over OA options. In turn, fair access open doors for publications to attract diverse […]
[…] together. Frontiers, the open access publisher, has seen its own share of controversy lately. They were recently declared a “ predatory publisher” by Jeffrey Beall, and journalist Leonid Schneider has written extensively about their various issues. Like PLOS ONE, Frontiers […]
[…] the power structures in research communication. In turn, the growing market and funding for APCs has facilitated the rise of predatory journals, thereby delegitimizing the OA enterprise more widely. While the goal of creating a more equitable system has been […]
[…] who feel that their research is unlikely to be published in western journals, turning to alternative outlets — including “ predatory” journals, as noted by Williams Nwagwu a few years ago. These forces are creating conflict around the traditional concept […]
To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?
[…] areas that are very relevant to librarians — this year, they seemed to all start with the letter P: piracy, predatory journals, privacy, preprints… I may be biased, being on the Annual Program Committee, but I know our session organizers […]
[…] appear to provide relatively little review or are actually not really providing any review, including those that are sometimes termed predatory. Once fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate materials are published into the scientific record, a retraction is in one sense a […]
[…] foundational ethos of free sharing led web companies to devise business models that are now seen as both deceptive and predatory.” To be clear, he’s not talking about predatory/deceptive journals here; he’s talking about Facebook and Google, which operate on […]
Some predictions about the future of scholarly publishing, which acknowledges the continuing central role of the major STM publishers.