« The growing market for online scientific publications has led to a proliferation of journals with dubious practices. Journals that neglect scientific quality checks via peer review in the sole interest of cashing in on publication fees from the authors are known as predatory journals. It is important that all researchers,…
« Voici le résumé d’un rapport complet préparé par InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) dans le cadre de la lutte contre les revues et les conférences scientifiques prédatrices. (…)
Le principal objectif de l’étude était d’identifier des interventions pratiques et efficaces pouvant freiner et aider à lutter contre la…
« (…) Les éditeurs prédateurs sont des entités commerciales qui exploitent le principe de l’auteur/payeur sous-jacent au libre accès en exigeant un paiement en échange de prétendus services éditoriaux et de révisions par les pairs inexistants ou extrêmement minimaux. Ils se caractérisent par des informations fausses ou trompeuses et des pratiques…
« The issue of ‘predatory publishing’, and indeed unscholarly publishing practices, affects all academics and librarians around the globe. However, there are some flaws in arguments and analyses made in several papers published on this topic, in particular those that have relied heavily on the blacklists that were established by Jeffrey…
« Ces fiches proposent des définitions, des indices d’alerte et des outils pour éviter les pièges tendus aux chercheurs par les conférences, les revues et les éditeurs qui ne sont pas dignes de confiance.
Les sites internet de ces conférences, revues et éditeurs douteux sont toujours plus nombreux. Leur but…
« Much has been written about ‘predatory publishing’ over the past decade. In this discussion document, COPE will describe the basic phenomenon, identify the key issues, describe the impact on the various stakeholders involved, analyse proposed interventions and solutions, and present COPE’s perspective on addressing the problem going forward. (…) »
« There is a new class of scholarly journal. These journals are not open-access. You can’t purchase their articles individually. Individuals cannot subscribe to them. The only way to access their content is through a very small number of academic libraries.
I call these Super Closed Access Journals. Their purpose is clearly…
« We aimed to develop an in-depth understanding of quality criteria for scholarly journals by analyzing journals and publishers indexed in blacklists of predatory journals and whitelists of legitimate journals and the lists’ inclusion criteria. To quantify content overlaps between blacklists and whitelists, we employed the Jaro-Winkler string metric. To identify…
« Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of the scientific literature in the health sciences as they actually boost the propagation of errors. In this article, we identify issues with PJ…
« The Internet has transformed scholarly publishing and made the availability of online resources possible, both in subscription and open access models. Open access, has enabled wider access to the scholarly literature, thus reducing the digital divide among the haves and have-nots. In the case of journal articles, even though its…
