We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.
Category: Scientific Literature
If you are new to Predatory Publishing, we suggest three Open Access articles that you might find useful as a gentle introduction.
We outline a new direction for this web site (and our Twitter feed). We will still focus on predatory publishing but will also have a much wider coverage.
Increasing number of articles: Is this why Clarivate delisted MDPI’s flagship journal?
MDPI have had their flagship journal delisted from Clarivate's Web of Science. Is the reason due to the rapid increase in the number of papers it publishes. We look at the journal that was delisted.
Under the guise of an advent calendar, we have been listing the most highly cited papers that have addressed predatory publishing. Here we present the full list.
We discuss some of these issues and ask if there is an alternative way of classifying a predatory publisher/journal and, at least, start a discussion as to how these ideas could be developed.