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On this platform, we often say (things like) “we run the risk of the scientific archive becoming infected”, but what does this actually mean?
What is so bad about predatory journals? In this article we provide a few thoughts. It is certainly not a complete list, but we feel that the comments we make are important.
We believe that there are about 15,000 predatory journals, although, it is quite a difficult question to answer; as we explore in this article.
"I am in a bit of a tough situation. I agreed to submit my paper to a publisher and now found out they are charging huge fees and are predatory. I have signed something with them and they are making...
How we can help (or not) with your predatory publishing questions
If you want our help on predatory publishing related issues there are various ways we try to do this. This article provides details of how we can assist you and, in many cases, why we cannot. We also...
There have been a number of papers published in 2021, which have focused on predatory publishing. If you search on Scopus (search carried out 20 Dec 2021), of the 294 papers returned by searching for...