What I learned from predatory publishers
original abstract†Abstracts here may not perfectly match originals, for a variety of technical and practical reasons. Some abstacts are truncated for my purposes here, if they are particularly long-winded and unhelpful. I occasionally add clarifying notes. And I make some minor corrections.
This article is a first-hand account of the author's work identifying and listing predatory publishers from 2012 to 2017. 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 enabled and condoned by the open-access social movement, the scholarly publishing industry, and academic librarians. The author describes tactics predatory publishers used to attempt to be removed from his lists, details the damage predatory journals cause to science, and comments on the future of scholarly publishing.
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- “Beyond Beall’s List: Better understanding predatory publishers,” Monica Berger and Jill Cirasella, College and Research Libraries News, 2015.
- “Publishing Ethics and Predatory Practices: A Dilemma for All Stakeholders of Science Communication,” Armen Yuri Gasparyan, Marlen Yessirkepov, Svetlana N Diyanova, and George D Kitas, J Korean Med Sci, 2015.
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