[…] Workforce: Including Tips & Tricks for Social Distancing Taking a Big Bite Out of the Big Deal India’s Fight Against Predatory Journals: An Interview with Professor Bhushan Patwardhan Revisiting in a New Light: A Conference Call in Real Life What […]
Conflicts of interest and corporate-funded research have expanded, with journals increasingly used by mega-corporations to advance their initiatives. What will this mean for scholarly publishing?
[…] and systematically studied, but such issues as threats to scientific publication and science itself, caused by fake peer review and predatory journals, are current concerns. We have seen some sting-operation studies of fake papers, for example, but without controlled comparisons. […]
[…] and the UK (16%). Our most read posts during 2018 were as follows: Sci-Hub: How Does it Work? Cabell’s New Predatory Journal Blacklist: A Review Guest Post: Think Sci-Hub is Just Downloading PDFs? Think Again Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE […]
[…] BePress Scientific Reports Overtakes PLOS ONE As Largest Megajournal A Confusion of Journals — What is PubMed Now? Cabell’s New Predatory Journal Blacklist: A Review Scientific Reports On Track to Become Largest Journal In The World When the Wolf Finally […]
[…] a symptom of a larger, more insidious problem of vanity journals, which predate the recent explosive growth of open access predatory journals. Even 40 years ago, Garfield envisioned how such gaming could be attempted, detected, and defeated. Substitute “obscure journals” […]
[…] advertising business model adds to the anti-competitive puzzle, according to a recent article in BusinessWeek: They don’t engage in the predatory behavior of yore, such as selling goods below the cost of production to steal market share and cripple competitors. […]
[…] making “approval” the path of least resistance combined with collecting APCs for approved papers means that F1000 Research flirts with predatory OA status. This is unfortunate and unnecessary. Why not switch to a submission fee model? This makes particular sense […]
After deleting his predatory publishing list, librarian Jeffrey Beall reemerges into the spotlight with a self-published book about art forgeries.
[…] for the public. But the OA movement has been misled by commercial interests, and misused for malevolent purposes such as predatory publishing. This predicament has created an unhelpful divide. Some of those who notice the problems with OA wonder if its […]
[…] execute on its underlying economies of scale. Author-pays has also enabled a new type of publishing scam, the so-called “ predatory publishers.” Now there may be another storm of change gathering on the horizon. But before we get to that, […]
[…] Versions of Record (VoR). The researcher needs to know that the corpus excludes unwanted content, such as content sourced from predatory journals and/or “junk” science, for example. In a low stakes environment there can be a higher tolerance for ambiguity. […]
[…] place that ensures perpetual access to the materials is considered a key signal of legitimacy in discriminating between reputable and predatory publications. Ensuring that perpetual access to great works takes on a different dimension in the art world, but one […]
[…] done little to thwart the divisions and misinformation that define our days. Our credentialing systems have become confused and unreliable, predatory publishers continue to promulgate, we ape Silicon Valley talking points thoughtlessly, and the rise of click-based metrics that respond […]
[…] 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 […]