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.
Category: Scientific Literature
Do nurses publish more predatory papers than other disciplines?
We have noticed that the nursing discipline does seem to over-represented in predatory publishing. We investigate whether this is the case or not.
We have become aware of a Facebook post seeking co-authors for a paper. Yet, we think, we think the paper was published almost a year earlier.
A Facebook group is offering the opportunity to be an author of a paper, if you pay a fee. In this article we present what we have found, but there are still a lot of questions that need answering.
On this platform, we often say (things like) “we run the risk of the scientific archive becoming infected”, but what does this actually mean?
What is so bad about predatory journals? In this article we provide a few thoughts. It is certainly not a complete list, but we feel that the comments we make are important.