A DOI is a permalink to a scientific paper. It says nothing about the quality of a publisher, a journal or a paper. In this article we look at what a DOI is and what it means for predatory publishing.
We look at an article that appears to cite a high number of papers from a journal that is difficult to tracks down and it also cites a high number of papers authored by the EiC of that journal.
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.
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) was established over 20 years ago. COPE educates and supports editors and publishers, aiming
An ISSN is a way to uniquely identify a serial, which includes scientific journals. This article gives you all you need to know about ISSNs.
It can be time consuming looking at a journal and trying to decide if it is a predatory journal. In this article we suggest three quick checks that you can do, whilst not being definitive, it could raise enough concerns for you to decide to ignore that journal.
We analyze a journal, to show you some of the thought processes we go through when trying to decide if a journal is predatory or not, and whether we should submit to that journal.