Self-fulfilling prophecies: why predatory publishing is here to stay
A guest post from Simon Linacre, whoc review five books on predatory publishing.
Predatory Publishing
What is a Digital Object Identifier (DOI)? | Is it an Indicator of Quality?
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.
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?
An evidence based approach to publishers and journals
We are starting to look more robustly at journals and publishers. The article contains more details.
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.
Three books which address predatory publishing
We mention three books, which all address predatory publishing.
Most impactful journal on Predatory Publishing?
We list the journals that have published the most papers on predatory publishing, along with the h-index of those articles
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.
Journal publishes a spoof Covid-19 paper
“Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption” is a spoof paper that was accepted and published in a peer reviewed journal. The paper even contained the sentence “Epidemiologists believe it highly likely that a journal publishing this paper does not practice peer review and must therefore be predatory”.