The term predatory publishing (and its variants) should stop being used, along with trying to classify journals as being predatory, or not.
Category: Predatory Publishing
We mention three books, which all address 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 UniversityFor aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall’s blog charted the murky world of...
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...
"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...