Five things we can do to help stop unethical publishing
Here are five suggestions that we think will help stop unethical publishing. Do you agree?
Ethics
Here’s the real problem that the scholarly community faces – and we cannot do anything about it.
We present a list of issues that the scholarly publishing faces and ask what we can do about it?
Who reviewed this paper? We take a guess
Following a tweet, we look at a paper that had many citations to one particular scholar and also to the journal he edits.
How big is science’s fake-paper problem?
A recent Nature paper presented the issue of paper mills. We gives out take home messages from this paper.
There appears to be a black market for MDPI vouchers
There appears to be a market for MDPI vouchers. You provide any vouchers you have and “they” give you an authorship.
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.
Frontiers retracted two papers: What should happen next?
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.
Referring to an old Scopus ranking: Malpractice?
A journal that is indexed by Scope Database appears to give the impression that it is indexed by Scopus, whereas the coverage has been discontinued. Is this an example of malpractice?
P is for Peer Review
TEQSA recently tweeted an A-Z of Predatory Publishing. We give our views on the “P is for Peer Review” entry.
The A-Z of Predatory Publishing
TEQSA recently tweeted an A-Z of Predatory Publishing. We take a closer look at this infographic.