Stop classifying journals as predatory
The term predatory publishing (and its variants) should stop being used, along with trying to classify journals as being predatory, or not.
Jeffrey Beall
Is Big Pharma using OMICS to publish ‘sketchy’ articles?
“With help from drug companies, Omics International is making millions as it roils the scientific community with sketchy publications.” You need to read this article.
Beall’s papers indexed on Scopus
We looked at Scopus and accessed all the papers that have been written by Jeffrey Beall.
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.
Get me off Your F*@^ing Mailing List
In 2014 a journal accepted a paper that just repeated the phrase “Get me off your f*@^ing email list”. This article looks at the history of the paper, as well as the journal in question.
What is predatory publishing? | Read these three articles
If you are new to Predatory Publishing, we suggest three Open Access articles that you might find useful as a gentle introduction.
Our anonymity and a change in direction
We outline a new direction for this web site (and our Twitter feed). We will still focus on predatory publishing but will also have a much wider coverage.
Published, Retracted and Published
In 2021, Scientometrics published a paper and later retracted it. The retraction was made due to pressure exerted by the publisher Frontiers. The paper was eventually published in another journal.
Beall’s papers on our Only Connect wall
One of the solutions to our first Only Connect wall was four papers by Jeffrey Beall. In this article, we provide more details.