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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.
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.
The work was accepted within three hours of submission and a conference registration fee of US$1,099 requested. [14] [15] ConferenceSeries is associated with the OMICS Publishing Group, [16] which produces open access journals widely regarded as predatory, and has been accused of moving into "predatory meetings". [17]
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]
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a publisher of open-access scientific journals.It publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access journals. [2] [3] MDPI is among the largest publishers in the world in terms of journal article output, [4] [5] and is the largest publisher of open access articles.
Among those that rejected the paper are journals published by PLOS (PLOS ONE), MDPI (Cancer) and Hindawi (Chemotherapy Research and Practice, ISRN Oncology). The peer review provided by PLOS ONE was reported to be the most rigorous of all, and it was the only journal that identified the paper's ethical problems , for example the lack of ...
Sustainability is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal published by MDPI.It covers all aspects of sustainability studies.In September 2021 the journal was among the initial 13 journals included in the official Norwegian list of possibly predatory journals, known as level X. [1] In 2022 the Norwegian national publication committee and Finnish Publication Forum determined that ...
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]