Tag Archives for Predatory Publishing
Is predatory scientific publishing “becoming an organized industry”?
Renewed media attention focuses especially on the problems for biomedicine. Read More
All About Predatory Publishing
Brigitte Burris said that the knowledge we bring as collection development librarians is relevant to the predatory question. We need awareness. OA removes some of the curatorial function that we do as librarians, but there is still a need to … Continue reading
Open Access and Predatory Publishing
Online connection is the fabric of contemporary life. We are all aware that the Internet and World Wide Web provide extraordinarily dynamic and virtually instantaneous options for communication and access to information. Scientific publication has kept abreast of this trend, … Continue reading
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Predatory Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask
Librarians have a key role to play in educating users about predatory publishing. Predatory publishing can be described as low quality, amateurish, and often unethical academic publishing that is usually Open Access (OA). Understanding predatory publishing helps authors to make … Continue reading
False gold: Safely navigating open access publishing to avoid predatory publishers and journals
The aim of this study was to review and discuss predatory open access publishing in the context of nursing and midwifery and develop a set of guidelines that serve as a framework to help clinicians, educators and researchers avoid predatory … Continue reading
Predatory Publishing and Academic Integrity: A Perspective Statement on Retraction of Neurosurgical Publications: A Systematic Review
Despite the increasing awareness of scientific fraud, no attempt has been made to assess its prevalence in neurosurgery. The aim of our review was to assess the chronologic trend, reasons, research type/design, and country of origin of retracted neurosurgical publications. … Continue reading
Predatory publishing: an emerging threat to the medical literature
The quality of medical literature is increasingly threatened by irresponsible publishing, leading to rising retraction rates, irreproducible results, and a flood of inconsequential publications that distract readers from more meaningful scholarship. “Predatory publishers” offer rapid publication with loose peer review, … Continue reading
What I learned from predatory publishers
Predatory publishers use the gold (author pays) open access model and aim to generate as much revenue as possible, often foregoing a proper peer review. The paper details how predatory publishers came to exist and shows how they were largely … Continue reading