[…] major challenge, but there is another emerging threat to science. There has been a significant increase in the number of predatory journals with minimal, if any, standards of review that cheapen the enterprise in which we are so invested. Many […]
[…] the sole author of this report. For a contrast, see the recent report in the Chronicle of Higher Education about predatory OA publishers. That’s a report by someone with a healthy dose of skepticism, something science really benefits from. Cheerleading […]
This Guest Post from Phaedra Cress explores the increased acceptance of unethical behavior in scholarly publishing.
[…] and Kent Anderson did this back in 2009 and were among the first to raise concerns about the rise of predatory publishing. We also clearly predicted that the large, commercial publishers would co-opt OA to drive their own businesses (here, here, […]
[…] incentivize turning users into the products, which flips the script on the relationship most of us want with information products. Predatory publishers are already a major, poorly managed problem in an industry that has embraced perhaps more disruption than it […]
[…] questions: How do we know what it true? How do readers grapple with potential misinformation? How do we deal with predatory publishers, propaganda, and political polarization, all of which foul the information waters? Who is in control? These are the […]
[…] as: “The perception that authors can buy their way into a journal thus compromising quality” and “The “bad apples” of predatory OA publishers and the buzz words “vanity publishing” or “pay to publish” spoil the general perception of the thriving, […]
[…] agreements with OCLC — last week OCLC filed a lawsuit in Ohio courts against Clarivate and its operating units claiming predatory market behavior and tortious interference in OCLC’s contracts with its member organizations. Clarivate has strenuously objected to the claims. […]
The Society for Scholarly Publishing is launching the Mental Health Awareness and Action Community of Interest (CoIN) Group.
[…] when looking for information within their field. They are vulnerable to spin and misinformation, as well as papers coming from predatory journals and paper mills. And digital algorithms augment group thinking and confirmation biases – for scientists and science editors […]
[…] to think. “This is not a fight between men and women. It’s a fight over whether a small subgroup of predatory men should be allowed to interfere with people’s ability to show up and do what they signed up for: […]
[…] elements of the settlement. The structural dominance of today comes in the guise of what Khan and others term “ predatory pricing” and integration across business lines. For Amazon, that means being willing and able to sustain losses for a […]
[…] the enabler is the business model. The Economist article outlines the myriad ways that academics are exploited by fake and predatory journals, how efforts to combat them through whitelists or blacklists have proven only passingly effective, and how the system […]
Predation. It’s discussed all the time. Predatory journals are scamming unsuspecting authors by promising quick publication, and low, low fees to a never-heard-of-before open access journal. Alternatively, it may be true that some authors are the ones taking advantage of […]
With greater awareness of the foibles and failings of scientific publishing, weaker self-regulation systems, and a trend toward governmental regulation of funding, is external regulation of the scientific journals system now inevitable?