We recently tweeted an “Only Connect” wall, where we challenged you to put sixteen clues into four groups.
This article looks at one of the groups, discussing that group in a little more detail.
Before we begin
If you don’t know about Only Connect, take a look at the article we wrote which describes the BBC quiz show and also explains why we are attracted to to and which parts of the show we draw from.
The Only Connect wall that we presented and from which this article draws from can be seen here. It presents the wall and the answer.
The connection
The connection between these four papers (see Figure 1) is that they were all written by Jeffrey Beall, who is credited with coining the term “Predatory Publishing“
In this article we provide more details about the papers, as well as few more resources, should you want to read more abour Jeffrey Beall andthe legacy has has left.
The papers
If you are interested in the papers listed in Figure 1, here are the details.
- Beall, J. 2009. Bentham Open. The Charleston Advisor 11(1) 29-32 (Access article here)
- Beall J. 2013. Medical Publishing Triage – Chronicling Predatory Open Access Publishers. Ann Med Surg (Lond) 2(2):47-9. DOI: 10.1016/S2049-0801(13)70035-9
- Beall J. 2015. What the Open-Access Movement Doesn’t Want You to Know. American Association of University Professors, May-June 2015 (Access article here)
- Beall J. 2017. What I Learned from Predatory Publishers. Biochem Med (Zagreb) 27(2):273-278. DOI: 10.11613/BM.2017.029
Paper #01
We want to specifically mention the first paper. This was Beall’s first paper that addressed predatory publishing, although he a never used the term in that paper. We had to wait until 2010 for that.
As this was his first paper, we have written an article that discusses this paper in a little more detail. This article also provides a little more detail about the publisher that Beall analyzed – Bentham Open.
More information
If you want more details about Jeffrey Beall, and the legacy he left, you might want to take a look at the following resources.
- Kendall 2021, presents legacy left by Beall, including his first papers on predatory publishing, Beall’s List and a bibliography of 40 of Beall’s papers on predatory publishing.
- Kendal and Linacre, 2022 revisited four of Beall’s papers, in which he analyzed 18 publishers, categorizing all but one of them as predatory. Bentham Open (the first paper listed above) was the first of four papers that were all published in The Charleston Advisor. Kendall and Linacre’s paper was written ten years after Beall’s analysis and it is interesting to see how the publishers have changed, or no longer exist.
- Jeffrey Beall is probably most well known for Beall’s List (a list of predatory publishers and journals). We have published an article titled “What is Beall’s List? | Why was it shut down?“
- As we mentioned above, we have also published an article that discusses Beall’s first paper which addressed predatory publishing.
