Category: Predatory Journal

In May 2020, Kyle Siler said that there is no agreed definition of predatory publishing. Although this article was written almost two and a half years ago, is this still true today?

We have previously written about why scholars are willing to publish in predatory journals. These are our personal views.

Are publishers using freelancers from fiverr to promote their, possibly, predatory journals. We look at the evidence and let you decide whether we should be worried about this?

We have noticed that the nursing discipline does seem to over-represented in predatory publishing. We investigate whether this is the case or not.

On this platform, we often say (things like) “we run the risk of the scientific archive becoming infected”, but what does this actually mean?

What is so bad about predatory journals? In this article we provide a few thoughts. It is certainly not a complete list, but we feel that the comments we make are important.