Who will keep predatory science journals at bay now that Jeffrey Beall’s blog is gone?
Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall […]
Sting operations in predatory publishing
To demonstrate that a journal is predatory sting operations have been carried out. A nonsense paper to see if it gets through the peer review and subsequently published.
In this article we look at a few papers that were submitted to test whether a journal is predatory, whether these were submitted but never made it to publication, or whether the paper was actually published.
Journal publishes a spoof Covid-19 paper
“Cyllage City COVID-19 Outbreak Linked to Zubat Consumption” is a spoof paper that was accepted and published in a peer reviewed journal. The paper even contained the sentence “Epidemiologists believe it highly likely that a journal publishing this paper does not practice peer review and must therefore be predatory”.
Spoof papers on our Only Connect wall
One of the solutions to our first Only Connect wall was four spoof/sting papers. In this article, we provide more details.
Should publishers pay to help detect AI generated content?
We argue that scholarly publishers should bear some of the cost in developing tools to detect AI generated content.
How can I check if a journal is predatory? Advice from ChatGPT
We asked ChatGPT how you can identify a predatory journal. Here is what it said.
How do you identify a non-predatory journal?
We often get asked “How do I identify a predatory journal?” But, we can turn this on its head and ask “How can I identify a NON-predatory journal?” If this article we explore this.
If you use ChatGPT, you must acknowledge it
In our opinion, if you ChatGPT to help with the writing of your paper, you must acknowledge its use.
Universities should ban submissions to some publishers
We call on universities to take decisive action and ban their scholars from submitting to certain journals/publishers.
How not to review for a predatory journal
We give a number of tips to enable you to avoid reviewing for a predatory journal.