In April 2020, Bradley Allf published a paper in "US-China Education Review A." The paper, entitled "Experiential Learning in Secondary Education Chemistry Courses: A Significant Life Experiences...
Category: Predatory Publishing
What is Open Access Publishing? It seeks to make scientific research papers freely available to anybody who wants to read them, at no cost to the reader. There are two primary types of open access...
In a 2018 paper, Serhat Kurt asked “Why do authors publish in predatory journals?” He gave four reasons given by scholars when asked why they submit to predatory journals. These were Social...
The first predatory journal was the Journal of Biological Sciences, which was first published by ANSInet in January 2001. To arrive at this conclusion the 18 publishers that were analyzed by Jeffrey...
Predatory publishing is the practice of publishers/journals charging fees to publish scientific articles, yet not providing the services that would normally be expected of a scientific journal. This...
In 2010, Jeffrey Beall established a blog which listed what he believed were predatory journals and publishers. Beall’s List became the “go to” place for anybody who wished to know whether the...