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The review was surprisingly quick with 6 weeks. Surprisingly, the two reviewers remarked practically nothing and had no further questions, but emphasized the suitability of the topic and our rigorous methods for the journal. First I was rather sceptical of this review, as it had vibes of #predatoryJournals. But then again I really poured a lot of work and fine-tuning into this particular article to make it consistent. And PLOS journals appear pretty non-predatory.¹

¹https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00327

"Scientific Exposure"
- this one reminded me of some things I've seen on my timeline...
#science #comic #journal #shitpost #FromReddit #PredatoryJournals
(by: afterdeathcomics)

A 4 panel comic by AfterDeathComics https://www.patreon.com/c/afterdeathcomics
Panel 1: A man at a counter speaks to a woman holding out some money, "Congratulations! Your article has been accepted into our scientific journal. That'll be $5000."
Panel 2: The man holds up a journal and continues, "Ooohhh, your article is so good, for an extra fee we can put it on the cover of the journal". The woman drops more money on the counter, looking quite annoyed.
Panel 3: The woman asks, "Can you mail me a copy when it comes out?" and the man replies, looking perplexed, "What? No! We phased that out long ago, too expensive"
Panel 4: The man points at the woman and remarks, "By the way if you want access to your article online, you'll have to pay", at which the woman throws her hands up (her pockets noticeably empty) and cries out "What do you even do?!"

Analyzing the citation impact of predatory journals in the health sciences

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/11/08/analyzing-the-citation-impact-of-predatory-journals-in-the-health-sciences/

#AHIP #CitationImpact #ErinWatson #HealthSciences #LiZhang #PredatoryJournals #ScholarlyJournals #ScientificCommunication

Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Mise à jour du référentiel pour les livres et articles #predatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers
https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

[Veille] ça, il faut avouer que c'est foufou comme projet; les schémas permettent de se faire 1 idée : Han Zhuang et al.,Estimating the predictability of questionable open-access journals.Sci. Adv.11,eadt2792(2025) https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt2792
#predatoryjournals #openaccess #integrity #AI #DOAJ #machinelearning #deeplearning

Predatory journals publishing AI slop in the name of famous academics to confer legitimacy

I find it almost impossible to believe this short article in International Journal of Sociology Civics research was produced by Anthony Giddens and Robert Putnam. Everything about it, from venue through to methodology and style, scream bullshit:

They also have a publication of ‘new’ papers by Zygmunt Bauman, Pierre Bourdieu and Michael Burawoy (all deceased) in 2025. What’s going on here? Is a predatory journal faking authorship, through AI generated papers, in order to confer legitimacy? What’s spectacularly lazy about it is that the papers look nothing like something these authors would write, even if they were alive and interested in publishing in this journal.

#AISlop #fraud #knowledgeSystem #predatoryJournals #publishing #scholarlyPublishing

Evaluation of Faculty Knowledge of Predatory Journals in the United States: A Cross-Institutional Survey

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2025/09/09/evaluation-of-faculty-knowledge-of-predatory-journals-in-the-united-states-a-cross-institutional-survey/

#ArleneVSalazar #JasonACohen #JohnMReynolds #LisaAncelet #NicoleRWebber #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #ScientificCommunication #ScientificPractices #StephanieWiegand #UnitedStates

Interested in our paper on preprint-related spam? 📄 "Unsolicited Emails Following Preprint Publications as an Emerging Academic Issue". The full text is available on request via ResearchGate – just send me a message there: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395070792_Unsolicited_Emails_Following_Preprint_Publications_as_an_Emerging_Academic_Issue

#preprints #spam #predatoryjournals #academicintegrity #openscience #scholarlycommunication #research #academiclife

Who hasn’t received spam from predatory journals or fake conferences? 🙄 What’s worse, even preprints trigger a flood of “invitations” with fake impact factors and promises of instant review

I usually delete this junk, but my colleague Jaime kept the evidence – and we wrote about this ugly phenomenon of scholarly communication.

📄 Our new paper in Internet Reference Services Quarterly: https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2550600

#preprints #spam #predatoryjournals #academicintegrity #openscience #academiclife

Teixeira da Silva, J. A., & Nazarovets, S. (2025). Unsolicited Emails Following Preprint Publications as an Emerging Academic Issue. Internet Reference Services Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/10875301.2025.2550600

@dfg_public

Problematisch an der Kampagne gegen "predatory journals" ist dass die "normale" Praxis von Wissenschaftsverlagen verharmlost wird. Peer Review wird von Wissenschaftler*innen kostenfrei geleistet, für den Namen des Journals und die PDFs wird trotzdem massiv abkassiert (bei Instituten und bei Bibliotheken). Und die Texte für KI-Training kommerziell genutzt. Gerade bei den "seriösen". Die Antwort auf diese Praxis muss eigene Infrastruktur sein.

#wisskomm #predatoryjournals #dfg

A new study examined how well US university faculty across disciplines know about #PredatoryJournals. The strongest predictor of knowledge wasn’t career length or early-career status - it was the number of articles published in the past 5 years.

:doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2020

The authors conclude that professional development on this topic should target not only early-career, but also senior researchers - especially those who rarely publish in journals.

#ResearchIntegrity #AcademicPublishing

Webber, N. R., Wiegand, S., Cohen, J. A., Reynolds, J. M., Ancelet, L., & Salazar, A. V. (2025). Evaluation of Faculty Knowledge of Predatory Journals in the United States: A Cross‐Institutional Survey. Learned Publishing, 38(4). https://doi.org/10.1002/leap.2020

Wenn in deiner Publikationsliste plötzlich ein Artikel zu viel auftaucht, hat womöglich jemand deinen Namen für die Autorenzeile eines Fake-Papers gekapert. Ein Beispiel dafür in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14366 #PredatoryJournals #ScientificIntegrity #ScientificPublishing

Screenshot aus dem im Post verlinkten Artikel: Überschrift "Ein verdammtes Paper zu viel, gefolgt von den ersten Textzeilen des Artikels; rechts die Comic-Illustration eines Jungforschers, der sich fmit fragendem Blick vier beschriebene DIN A4-Dokumente in der linken Hand anschaut und sich dabei mit der rechten Hand seitlich am Kopf kratzt.

Ein Phänomen, von dem auch Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik bei weitem nicht verschont sind.

Die Unterminierung der Forschung – KATAPULT-Magazin
https://katapult-magazin.de/de/artikel/die-unterminierung-der-forschung

#fakeresearch #publishorperishculture #predatoryjournals

Do 👏 not 👏 publish 👏 in 👏 MDPI!
#PredatoryJournals

Just turned down a review request from Frontiers Physiology

Manuscript was far from my area of expertize and the reputation of the publisher is not good

#AcademicChatter #science #PredatoryPublishing
#scholarlykitchen #predatoryjournals
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/03/30/guest-post-of-special-issues-and-journal-purges/

The Journal of Environmental and Earth Sciences tells me that "Your groundbreaking research can elevate JEES' impact and inspire innovation worldwide" and asks me to submit. I am a linguist who works on acoustics of spontaneous speech, who knows 0 about earth science past middle school level. Imposter syndrome really shouldn't be a problem in our world, should it? #AcademicChatter #ImposterSyndrome #PredatoryJournals

@tamayostuff se suma a '#FuturoImperfecto' para explicarnos lo fácil que es colar estudios inventados en los “#predatoryjournals” a cambio de dinero.

Aquí, el reportaje completo:
https://www.rtve.es/play/videos/futuro-imperfecto/tamayo-estudio-falso/16592219/
https://www.threads.com/@futuroimperfecto.rtve/post/DKFZJABv1wN?xmt=AQF0tvD63_JF6VqubLBLGxT77814D4OAEjwtkuy1-JRR_A
#stopdesinformación
#Revistadepredadora
#revistas

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Shaharima Parvin of East West University in Bangladesh presents her experience as a librarian.

"Information wants to be free. It also wants to be expensive" - Stewart Brand, 1984

Trust is at risk, but open access helps promote scholarly communication - however, many senior researchers believe all OA is predatory. Many academics want to publish asap, don't know about indexing, and lack funds.

#EASEevents #EASEoslo #Librarians #ScholComm #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #Bangladesh

Key Challenges Facing LIS Professionals in Bangladesh

Understanding of librarians' roles is unclear.

Librarians feel insecure when interacting with scholars. This insecurity can hinder effective support for publishing.

A significant gap exists between librarians' positive view ofcOpen Access and the reality of work environments.

Trying to promote:

FAIR Principles

Think. Check. Submit.

AuthorAID

Journal Publishing Practices and Standards (JPPS)

IFLA's How to Spot Fake News

Shaharima Parvin at the EASE conference podium. She is a south Asian woman, wearing a black hijab and a black and yellow spotted face covering.

Think. Check. Submit. helps teach researchers and others to identify predatory and questionable journals. Sofie Wennström presents at our conference in Oslo on how the tips guide authors as an alternative to block lists, allow lists, and the uncritical use of journal metrics. They also help journals ensure they are being and presenting as trustworthy.

#PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryJournals #ThinkCheckSubmit #JournalPublishing #CriticalAppraisal #PublicationEthics #EASEevents #EASEoslo

Sofie Wennström at the EASE conference podium. She's a white woman with black hair with bangs, wearing a black long sleeved top and with glasses on her head.

Today in #PredatoryPublishing: A predatory journal encouraging me to submit an editorial piece I wrote for *another journal* about being an editor of *that journal*, for publication in their predatory journal.

Chef's kiss 🤌

@academicchatter

#Academic #Writing #AcademicWriting #PredatoryJournals

#PredatoryJournals

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