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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 ...
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 .
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 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]
There are deep problems with science publishing. But the way to fix this is not to curtail open-access publishing. It is to fix peer review." [24] Eisen pointed out the irony of a subscription-based journal like Science publishing this report when its own peer review has failed so badly before, as in the 2010 publication of the arsenic DNA paper.
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]
This is a category which contains journals published by Science and Technology Publishing (STP). STP was listed on Beall's list before it was taken down in 2017 and is considered to engage in predatory publishing practices .