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In 2020, the "World Academy of Science and Engineering and Technology" (WASET) is promoting 142,791 conferences. In this article we analyze these conferences and also estimate the revenue that they...
If you are new to Predatory Publishing, we suggest three Open Access articles that you might find useful as a gentle introduction.
We look at how many special issues MDPI publishes, noting that the number has risen significantly in 2023.
We outline a new direction for this web site (and our Twitter feed). We will still focus on predatory publishing but will also have a much wider coverage.
Frontiers recently retracted two papers and they should be applauded for that. But in light of these retractions, what should happen next. We make a suggestion.
In 2021, Scientometrics published a paper and later retracted it. The retraction was made due to pressure exerted by the publisher Frontiers. The paper was eventually published in another journal.