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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.
The remaining 13 publishers had significantly increased the number of journals they were publishing, to a total of 1,650 individual journals (about 10% of the number of journals listed in Cabells' Predatory Reports in 2022), primarily due to the dramatic increase in the number of journals published by OMICS Publishing Group from 63 to 742. [13]
The journals charge high publication fees but do not perform the functions of legitimate academic journals—editorial oversight and peer review—they simply publish the work for cash. In this case, the mark's need for publications is the incentive for them to pay the fees.
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]
The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal Archives des Sciences. In 2012 and 2013, more than 20 academic journals were hijacked. [ 1 ] In some cases, scammers find their victims in conference proceedings , extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.
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]
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This is a category which contains journals published by Scientific & Academic Publishing (SAP). SAP was listed on Beall's list before the list was taken down in 2017 and is considered to engage in predatory publishing practices .