Last week, Jeffery Beall wrote a highly critical blog past of Brazilian publishing co-operative and citation index SciELO. The post generated significant backlash in the blogosphere and on Twitter. Important aspects of the discussion seemed to get drowned out in […]
The DOAJ is kicking out hundreds of predatory and scam publishers that found their way into the directory, and tightening standards to ensure that they don’t sneak back in. Which makes things a bit awkward for a community that, for […]
[…] research, and desperation to find answers collided, putting the research ecosystem under intense scrutiny. If peer-reviewed research sits buried, while predatory journals, preprint servers without peer review flags, or opinion masked as fact rank higher, we fail our fundamental mission […]
Scholarly publishing needs a scalable, easily adopted, and industry-wide approach to the problem of author manuscripts including citations to articles in fraudulent journals.
It’s unclear who in the academic world has any incentive to pay for Gold OA publishing, especially as embargoes satisfy nearly everyone and cost next to nothing.
[…] are confident that those papers meet the highest standards and, that on those occasions where they don’t, there is a sound system in place to revise or retract them. So what can we do to make the publishing process more sound?
[…] taken place in the scholarly publishing sector: open access and preprints are changing the still predominantly subscription-based journal publishing landscape; predatory journals and piracy against paywall-restricted journals remains a concern; infrastructural advancements are transforming publishing workflows and journal access, making […]
[…] asserting that a review process that never actually occurred took place on their preprint. But this happens regularly today with predatory journals that falsely claim to thoroughly review submissions. In a world with DocMaps, the fraud will be harder to […]
[…] YouTube channel. Members of the scholarly publishing community may enjoy watching judges and lawyers argue over the finer points of predatory journals, peer review, the impact factor, journal indexing, and article processing charges. Sessions generally last between 30 minutes and […]
[…] rather than what is right – peer review is broken, fraudulent science is on the rise, sham journals scam authors, and predatory publishing abounds. This, in turn, makes it easy for those who seek to discredit genuine academic research to claim that […]
The world of journals publishing is constantly changing, and one relatively new entrant is the library as publisher. There is a need to study and publish these programs in order to optimize their performance.
[…] APCs. Researchers who are vigilant enough get the benefit of APC waiver policies of good journals, but many fall for predatory journals’ traps in the name of quick and so-called open access publications. But, for many LMICs researchers, OA may […]
[…] perhaps even duplicate peer review, but the authors are blameless in this case. (One can imagine a ransomware version of predatory publishing, where the preprint is rapidly published in a predatory journal, and the authors must pay a ‘ransom’ to have […]
[…] are aligned toward publication rather than true discovery. This, combined with constant growth in research output, ceaseless proliferation of journals, predatory publishing practices, and an inadequate, exhausted, and still opaque peer review system, have brought us to this place. Perhaps, ironically, […]
[…] qualities regardless of the venue or manner of its publication. It may be published in the Lancet or in a fraudulent predatory journal; if it reports cogently on significant and rigorous research, its intrinsic qualities are the same. Similarly, an article […]