#predatoryjournals

2025-05-16

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 NewsShaharima Parvin at the EASE conference podium. She is a south Asian woman, wearing a black hijab and a black and yellow spotted face covering.
2025-05-16

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.
Matthias Smed LarsenMatthias@mastodon.coffee
2025-04-28

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

Serhii Nazarovetsserhii@mstdn.science
2025-04-28

Most people still don't know: publishing in real scientific journals is usually free.
A new study shows how pseudo-journals in 🇮🇳 exploit researchers, offering "cheap" publications for just $25.

:doi: doi.org/10.1093/reseval/rvaf01

The authors of the #ResearchEvaluation study advise: carefully check open access models and journal fee policies. Education and critical thinking remain our main tools against academic fraud.

#OpenAccess #OpenScience #AcademicIntegrity #PredatoryJournals #OpenJournals

2025-04-13

Predatory journals have only gotten worse. A decade after 'Get Me Off Your F*ck*ng Mailing List' was accepted, the grift continues—and somehow it's even more shameless.
#academia #predatoryjournals #sciencenews

boingboing.net/2025/04/12/pred

Serhii Nazarovetsserhii@mstdn.science
2025-04-10

A small but telling academic exchange: Dr. Oviedo-García raised concerns about how we cited her 2021 paper on watchlists. We clarified it was only a historical reference to Beall’s lists - no claims implied.

:doi: doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.

Elsevier’s editors now suggest we bury the hatchet. Gladly. 🕊️

#AcademicPublishing #CitationEthics #PredatoryJournals #ScholarlyCommunication #ResearchIntegrity

Teixeira da Silva, J. A., Nazarovets, S., Daly, T., & Kendall, G. (2025). Response to comment on “The Chinese Early Warning Journal List: Strengths, weaknesses and solutions in the light of China’s global scientific rise.” The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 103049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2025.103049
Fachbibliothek Medizin EssenFachbibMedEssen@openbiblio.social
2025-01-31

Dieser Kommentar wurde gleichzeitig auf vielen hochrangigen Journals publiziert, initiert von der ICMJE.org:
thelancet.com/journals/lancet/
#predatoryJournals

2025-01-18

Stings aim to expose predatory journals by submitting papers so conspicuously flawed that a journal with peer reviewers and an attentive editor would reject them. Writing in European Science Editing, Adam Larson and Matan Shelomi propose guidelines and best practices for sting operations, peer review red flags, drafting public statements, and thoughts on costs and benefits to authors:
doi.org/10.3897/ese.2025.e1379

#AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #PredatoryJournals

Viewpoint: Stinging predatory journals: a brief overview and recommendations

Adam Larson & Matan Shelomi

"Predatory journals exploit the open access model for profit, often publishing papers with minimal or nonexistent peer review. Predatory publishing stings can identify predatory publishers and increase awareness of the problem, but there are no guidelines for effective stings. We propose that stings should include peer review red flags that would stop the sting from being accepted by reputable journals, be followed by a public sting statement to alert others to the predatory journal identified and predatory publishing in general, and avoid both payment to predatory publishers and risk to the stinger."

doi.org/10.3897/ese.2024.e137960

ese/European Science Editing
2024-12-20

Fallen #Forschende auf Doppelgänger-Journale oder andere #PredatoryJournals herein, können sie inzwischen zu Rückzahlungen und Retraktionen veranlasst werden. Unter anderem auch von der @dfg_public wie Bettina Dupont berichtet: laborjournal.de/editorials/315

Violette Blüte, die sich einer gespiegelten Doppelgängerblüte gegenüber sieht. Rechts daneben Überschrift "Der Publikationsmarkt ist in der Krise" des im Post verlinkten Artikels, gefolgt vond essen Vorspann.
2024-12-03

@crossref suspends
Springer Global LTD membership after @retractionwatch
Watch report – Retraction Watch
Springer aurait attribué des DOI aux articles de 13 #predatoryJournals
Mesure conservatoire
Instruction d'un dossier pouvant mener à la révocation
retractionwatch.com/2024/12/02

Serhii Nazarovetsserhii@mstdn.science
2024-10-31

🗓️ Tomorrow at 14:00 (#Kyiv time), join my open Zoom lecture in Ukrainian: "Academic Journal Fraud: What a Modern Scientist Needs to Know." We’ll explore predatory journals, hijacked journals, and more—crucial knowledge for early-career researchers aiming to safeguard their work! 🕵️‍♂️

📌 Register here: tinyurl.com/2xk85vxz
:goose_hacker: Presentation: dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.190

#AcademicIntegrity #ResearchEthics #ScienceFraud #OpenScience #AcademicPublishing #PredatoryJournals

Tomorrow at 14:00, join my open Zoom lecture: "Academic Journal Fraud: What a Modern Scientist Needs to Know." We’ll explore predatory journals, hijacked journals, and more—crucial knowledge for early-career researchers aiming to safeguard their work!
Serhii Nazarovetsserhii@mstdn.science
2024-10-29

This presentation dives into fraudulent practices in academic #publishing. Early-career researchers, learn to spot predatory, hijacked, and “grey zone” journals that threaten careers and credibility. We'll cover red flags like weak #peerreview, fake metrics, dubious editorial policies, plus offer tools for critical analysis and safeguarding research integrity.

🔍 Academic Journal Fraud: What Modern Scientists Need to Know dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.190

#PredatoryJournals #HijackedJournals #PaperMills

2024-10-12

predatoryjournals.org/news/f/d

Scientific publishing model shall become completely no-profit, this is unbearable!

#predatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #scientificpublishing

Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️persagen
2024-09-26

[thread] fraudulent science | pseudoscience
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudosc

* statements, beliefs, practices that claim to be both scientific & factual but are incompatible with the scientific method

2024-09-24

Erfindung von Zeitschriftenrankings, Paper Mill-Aktivitäten, Verkauf von Zitationen etc. - Predatory Journals lassen sich einiges einfallen, um Geld zu machen. Wie sollten Bibliotheken mit diesem Geschäftsmodell umgehen?

biblio.hypotheses.org/9169

#PredatoryJournals #Bibliotheken

Open Science Uni BernOSUniBe@openbiblio.social
2024-09-04

Springer Nature: “Enabling open-access equity remains a key part of our focus" - This has got to be a joke. Right? RIGHT? #openaccess #openscience #predatoryJournals
nature.com/articles/d41586-024

Prof Heino Falckehfalcke
2024-08-17

Now, I am really start getting insulted. Do you imply my astronomy papers are so boring that they make people fall asleep and you can perform surgery on them???

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