« An unintended consequence of the open access movement, predatory publishers have appeared in many countries, offering authors a quick and easy route to publication in exchange for a fee and usually without any apparent peer review or quality control. Using a large database of publications, Marcelo S. Perlin, Takeyoshi Imasato…
« Think. Check. Submit. helps researchers identify trusted journals for their research. Through a range of tools and practical resources, this international, cross-sector initiative aims to educate researchers, promote integrity, and build trust in credible research and publications.
The team behind Think. Check.…
« Science journalism in Germany in the last days was awash with a report on “predatory publishers” and an integrity ‘crisis’ for German science. (…)
Since the value of mutual review of papers by peer researchers is well established, and since most authors usually will anyway avoid publishing behaviours that may…
« You may have heard a lot about the dangers of so-called ‘predatory’[1] journals from your colleagues, your supervisor, or in online forums and webpages. Such journals often charge a fee for fast publication but have poor publishing practices, fail to carry out legitimate peer review,…
« More than 5,000 German scientists have published papers in pseudo-scientific journals, according to reporting undertaken by German public broadcasters NDR and WDR together with the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin and additional national and international media outlets. Reporters found that researchers from German universities, institutes and federal agencies have frequently published articles,…
« Sur internet, les revues scientifiques prédatrices, ou douteuses, ou parasites, ou illégitimes, ou peu scrupuleuses (predatory ou deceptive journals), profitent pour la plupart du modèle auteur-payeur de la publication en libre accès (open access). Leur but est mercantile, sans chercher à promouvoir ni pérenniser les résultats de la recherche. (…) »
« Sur internet, les revues scientifiques prédatrices, ou douteuses, ou parasites (predatory ou deceptive journals), profitent du modèle auteur-payeur de la publication en libre accès (open access). Leur but est mercantile, sans chercher à promouvoir ni pérenniser les résultats de la recherche. Ces revues ne se soucient pas de qualité…
« One of the main tasks of a researcher is to properly communicate the results he obtained. The choice of the journal in which to publish the work is therefore very important. However, not all journals have suitable characteristics for a correct dissemination of scientific knowledge. Some publishers turn out…
« Au sommaire de ce numéro 7 : Editeurs prédateurs et pratiques douteuses d’auteurs d’articles – Mesurer l’impact d’un auteur, d’une publication en série, d’un jeu de données, d’une institution.«
« “Predatory publishing” refers to conditions under which gold open-access academic publishers claim to conduct peer review and charge for their publishing services but do not, in fact, actually perform such reviews. Most prominently exposed in recent years by Jeffrey Beall, the phenomenon garners much media attention. In this article, we…
