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"Think. Check. Submit." poster by an international initiative to help researchers avoid predatory publishing. Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing [1] [2] or deceptive publishing, [3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship.
These are nonsense papers that were accepted by an academic journal or academic conference; the list does not include cases of scientific misconduct. The intent of such publications is typically to expose shortcomings in a journal's peer review process or to criticize the standards of pay-to-publish journals. The ethics of academic stings are ...
Since Beall's List closed, similar lists have been started by others, [40] including CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, and an anonymous group at Stop Predatory Journals. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Cabell's International, a company that offers scholarly publishing analytics and other scholarly services, has also offered both a black list and a ...
In research, a paper mill is a business that publishes poor or fake journal papers that seem to resemble genuine research, as well as sells authorship. [1] [2]In some cases, paper mills are sophisticated operations that sell authorship positions on legitimate research, but in many cases the papers contain fraudulent data and can be heavily plagiarized or otherwise unprofessional.
Typically, the imposter journal sets up a fraudulent website for the purpose of offering scholars the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee. [1] [2] [3] The term hijacked journal may refer to either the fraud [4] or the legitimate journal. [5] The fraudulent journals are also known as "clone journals". [6]
The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals.The publisher has been listed as a "potential, possible, or probable" predatory publisher by American library scientist Jeffrey Beall [1] and is listed as such by the Max Planck Society [2] and Stop Predatory Journals. [3]
Cabells' Predatory Reports is a paid subscription service provided by Cabell Publishing featuring a database of deceptive and predatory journals, and Journalytics is a database of "verified, reputable journals", with details about those journals' acceptance rates and invited article percentages. [1]
Jeffrey Beall coined the term "predatory meetings" as analogous to "predatory publications" and explains that the business model involves "conferences organized by revenue-seeking companies that want to exploit researchers' need to build their vitas with conference presentations and papers in the published proceedings or affiliated journals," these affiliated journals being predatory journals. [4]