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 hope to provide some pointers as to what you can do if you have one of the more common questions, without having to rely on us.
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 “Predatory Publishing” (the quotes are part of the search), 66 were published in 2021. Some of these articles have received more citations that the others and it is these that we focus on.
Why do predatory and vanity academic publishers and conferences exist? Why are they flourishing now? And what can they tell us about the failings of academia?
This article presents an email discussion in its entirety. The journal involved is probably a predatory journal, though we have not carried out a full investigation.
We focus on one aspect of the editorial board, the editor-in-chief (EiC) and ask whether an EiC should make their email address available so that potential authors can contact them?
Vít Macháček & Martin Srholec (2021) Predatory publishing in Scopus: evidence on cross-country differences, Scientometrics, 126, 1897-1921 has been retracted due to: Errors in Analyses, Errors in Methods, Unreliable Results.
We provide a few more details,
We recently ran a survey asking if an acknowledgement is required if somebody proof reads your paper. 55.6% said that no acknowledgement was required, with 44.4% saying that an acknowledge should be provided. These results come with some caveats, which we explore in this article.
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For any impact factor, you should be able to verify (i.e. reproduce) it. With Google Scholar, this is possible but can be time consuming and it also requires a certain level of knowledge that many may not posses.
SCIREA is a scientific publisher that has a portfolio of 39 journals. These 39 journals have 13,288 editors, meaning that each journal has an average of 341 editors. Each of these editors has handled less than one paper each, over the last five years.