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A study in 2015 found that predatory journals rapidly increased their publication volumes from 53,000 in 2010 to an estimated 420,000 articles in 2014, published by around 8,000 active journals. [ 29 ] [ 68 ] Early on, publishers with more than 100 journals dominated the market, but since 2012 publishers in the 10–99 journal size category ...
The books and book chapters listed on her CV were made-up, as were the publishing houses that allegedly published the books. One-third of the journals to which Szust applied were sampled from Beall's List. Forty of these predatory journals accepted Szust as editor without any background vetting and often within days or even hours.
The Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI) is an organization that engages in predatory publishing.Run out of Bangladesh with a claimed office in New York, it publishes a number of journals that publish academic articles for payment, [1] claiming they are "peer-reviewed and refereed". [2]
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.
Beall has estimated that predatory open access journals publish about 5–10 percent of all open access articles, [16] and that at least 25 percent of open access journals are predatory. [21] He has been particularly critical of OMICS Publishing Group, which he described as "the worst of the worst" in a 2016 Inside Higher Education article. [22]
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]
(Literary journals are notoriously snobbish toward this type of writing.) Blue Mountain Arts, a greeting card and gift company, runs a biannual poetry contest. It accepts submissions online and by ...
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 ...