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The Predator Effect – Fraud in the Scholarly Publishing Industry: An Interview with Simon Linacre

An interview by @lisalibrarian with Simon Linacre, author of “The Predator Effect”

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Nov 28, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Tribalism, Fraud, and the Loss of Perspective in Alzheimer’s Disease Research

A recent data falsification scandal in Alzheimer’s research raises new questions about perverse incentives in the culture and practice of science.

  • By Phill Jones
  • Aug 2, 2022
  • 15 Comments

A New Twist on a Publishing Scam: Ghost-authoring Book Reviews for Fun and Profit

In a new twist on academic fraud, a company now offers to pay you to write and publish book reviews that will be credited to someone else.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Apr 5, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Fraud and Peer Review: An Interview with Melinda Baldwin

Robert Harington and Melinda Baldwin discuss whether peer review has a role to play in uncovering scientific fraud.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Mar 24, 2022
  • 15 Comments

Elsevier Has Deployed an End-user Tracking Tool for Security. Should Users Be Concerned About Their Privacy?

Should library patrons be concerned about how Elsevier uses ThreatMetrix and how it tracks users? It’s complicated.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 13, 2020
  • 7 Comments

Fighting Citation Pollution — The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited

Scholarly publishing needs a scalable, easily adopted, and industry-wide approach to the problem of author manuscripts including citations to articles in fraudulent journals.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Michael Clarke
  • Sep 25, 2019
  • 34 Comments

Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review

Two years after its initial entry into the marketplace, Cabell’s Blacklist has matured into a carefully crafted and highly useful directory of predatory and deceptive journals.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 1, 2019
  • 60 Comments

Cabell’s New Predatory Journal Blacklist: A Review

Cabell’s International has stepped into the gap left by the demise of Beall’s List, providing a new predatory journal blacklist that promises to perform the function of identifying and calling out scam publishers more consistently and transparently. How is it doing so far?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 25, 2017
  • 60 Comments

Validating Author Services Providers: Q&A with Donald Samulack

A proposed coalition aims to help authors identify reputable service providers. In this Q&A with Donald Samulack, the justification and way forward for such an effort is discussed.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • Sep 16, 2015
  • 28 Comments

Knockoffs Erode Trust in Metrics Market

If the Internet created a burgeoning market of cheap academic journal knockoffs, should we be surprised to witness new knockoff ratings companies?

  • By Phil Davis
  • Mar 10, 2015
  • 5 Comments

Identity Theft of the Scholarly Kind

Building a reputation can take decades for a society, publisher or journal. Unfortunately, the influential “seals of approval” in the industry are easy to spoof leaving some authors confused and deceived.

  • By Angela Cochran
  • May 21, 2014
  • 15 Comments

A Scary Story for Halloween: The Curious Case of the Phantom Authors

An author finds his results published in a journal by authors that don’t exist.

  • By David Crotty
  • Oct 31, 2013
  • 28 Comments

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