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Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory [1] [2] [3] academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality.
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. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer-review process, is highly non ...
Science Publishing Group (SPG) is an open-access publisher of academic journals and books established in 2012. [1] It has an address in New York City [2] and many of its journals are named American Journal of..., but the company is actually based in Pakistan. [3] The company has been criticized for predatory publishing practices.
The number of predatory conferences has increased rapidly, with OMICS alone stating in 2016 that they host about 3,000 conferences per year. [citation needed] Christoph Bartneck, an associate professor in information technology at New Zealand's University of Canterbury, was invited to attend a conference, organised under OMICS' ConferenceSeries banner, [13] on atomic and nuclear physics to be ...
This is a list of scholarly publishing "sting operations" such as the Sokal affair.These are nonsense papers that were accepted by an academic journal or academic conference; the list does not include cases of scientific misconduct.
Beall's List was a prominent list of predatory open-access publishers that was maintained by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall on his blog Scholarly Open Access. The list aimed to document open-access publishers who did not perform real peer review, effectively publishing any article as long as the authors pay the article ...
Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist who drew attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined, [1] and created Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers.
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 .