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According to Beall, this was the first mass resignation from an open-access journal. [4] In 2021 Cabells' Predatory Reports described SCIRP as a "well-known predatory publisher". [2] In the Norwegian Scientific Index the publisher and all of its journals have a rating of 0 (non-academic). [18]
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 ...
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 ...
This template holds a list of predatory open access journals and publishers for MediaWiki:Abusefilter-warning-predatory, so that it can be edited by non-administrators. It should always be kept synchronized with Special:AbuseFilter/891 .
A full-text aggregation of more than 180 scientific journals publishing current research in Biodiversity Conservation, Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, Entomology, Ornithology, Plant Science, and Zoology. Free abstract & references, Open Access titles, and Subscription Available from BioOne [27] Bioinformatic Harvester: Biology ...
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 ...
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]
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]