Equity, Inclusiveness, and Zero Embargo Public Access
Robert Harington considers whether open and public access models, as they have emerged so far, are delivering us to a more inequitable publishing future as we rush towards openness.
Open Access "Sting" Reveals Deception, Missed Opportunities
[…] 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 […]
A New Twist on a Publishing Scam: Ghost-authoring Book Reviews for Fun and Profit
[…] 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 […]
How Do We Address the Continuing Problem of Inadequate and Deceptive Publishing Practices?
Technological trends have enabled experiments in publishing. But now that we’ve seen plenty of experiments, is it time to bring them under control?
Guest Post – In Defense of Endogeny
[…] 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 […]
Predators and Prey — The Plot Thickens
Strange comments emerge after a post about Beall’s list of “predatory” publishers appears, many of which attribute sentiments to people falsely.
Peer Review – Authors and Reviewers – our “North Star”
[…] 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 […]
Guest Post — Trends, Challenges, and Needs of Research in the Global South: Learnings as Research4Life Turns 20
[…] 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 […]
The Downside of Scale for Journal Publishers: Quality Control and Filtration
[…] 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 […]
Ask The Chefs: Where Does Open Access Go From Here?
[…] 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 […]
Beyond the Beyond: Can we Increase the Impact and Reach of Scholarly Research?
[…] 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 […]
Ask The Chefs: What Would You Ask of Academic Publishing Santa
To close out 2025, we asked the Chefs: What would you ask for from Academic Publishing Santa?
Ask The Librarians: What Did You Learn At This Year’s SSP Annual Meeting?
[…] 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 […]
Is Scientific Communication Fit for Purpose?
[…] 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 […]
Revisiting — The Tyranny of Unintended Consequences: Richard Poynder on Open Access and the Open Access Movement
[…] 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 […]