We expect scientific publishers to follow certain standards. This is especially important in order to maintain the integrity of the scientific archive. In this article, we touch upon three elements...
Category: Predatory Publishing
We suggest that you stop tying to identify predatory journals. Instead, spend time finding legitimate journals and, if you are not sure, just move on. The world is not short of journals that you can...
We ran a Twitter poll where we asked is there was a legitimate reason to publish in a predatory journal? This article presents, and discusses, the results.
Saying predatory publishers and journals are evil may seem a little strong, but they are already infecting their host, like any virus does. In that sense, it could be the death of the scientific...
We describe what the Directory of Open Access Journals is and the role it plays in both Open Access publishing and in predatory publishing.
If you get an email from a predatory journal, you should delete it. Or should you? Here are a few other things you could do.