Retraction Watch Mass Resignations List
Retraction Watch has just started monitoring the mass resignation of editors from journals.
Most impactful journal on Predatory Publishing?
We list the journals that have published the most papers on predatory publishing, along with the h-index of those articles
Beall’s papers indexed on Scopus
We looked at Scopus and accessed all the papers that have been written by Jeffrey Beall.
Detecting AI generated papers: Two recent articles
We highlight two recent papers that address the topic of detecting AI generated text
Selling of authorships: Elsevier please investigate
We respectfully ask Elsevier to investigate two papers that appear to have been published after authors have paid to be an author.
1,000 ChatGPT papers have been published this year, so far
As at 22 Aug 2023 985 papers have been published with ChatGPT in the title.
Most highly cited article is to a retracted paper
A journal has published 14 papers on predatory publishing. It’s most cited paper on this topic has been retracted. We ask some questions about this.
Is a journal predatory: Scribd
Journals often list Scribd as an indexing service. We explain why this could be an indication of predatory behavior
Who will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall’s blog is gone?
Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall
Sting operations in predatory publishing
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 few papers that were submitted to test whether a journal is predatory, whether these were submitted but never made it to publication, or whether the paper was actually published.