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On Fiverr we saw somebody who is offering scientific writing services but they are showing a generis image of "themselves". Is this ethical?

We have recently been taking a look at the Journal of Positive School Psychology and tweeting our findings. In this article, we present the email we sent to the journal and the response we received.

Are publishers using freelancers from fiverr to promote their, possibly, predatory journals. We look at the evidence and let you decide whether we should be worried about this?

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.