1,000 ChatGPT papers have been published this year, so far
As at 22 Aug 2023 985 papers have been published with ChatGPT in the title.
Most highly cited article is to a retracted paper
A journal has published 14 papers on predatory publishing. It’s most cited paper on this topic has been retracted. We ask some questions about this.
Is a journal predatory: Scribd
Journals often list Scribd as an indexing service. We explain why this could be an indication of predatory behavior
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.