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Who will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall’s blog is gone?
Michael J. I. Brown, Monash UniversityFor aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall’s blog charted the murky world of...
To demonstrate that a journal is predatory sting operations have been carried out. A nonsense paper to see if it gets through the peer review and subsequently published. In this article we look at a...
"Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption" is a spoof paper that was accepted and published in a peer reviewed journal. The paper even contained the sentence "Epidemiologists...
One of the solutions to our first Only Connect wall was four spoof/sting papers. In this article, we provide more details.
We argue that scholarly publishers should bear some of the cost in developing tools to detect AI generated content.
How can I check if a journal is predatory? Advice from ChatGPT
We asked ChatGPT how you can identify a predatory journal. Here is what it said.