Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice ...

A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards 1, 2. As editors and members of the International ...

Discover the growing crisis of predatory journals and how they undermine academic careers, erode credibility, and block ...

The global academic space is not owned by the West, and knowledge production is not the exclusive preserve of the United ...

Action by all stakeholders is required to protect authors and the public from predatory medical journals, an international group of prominent medical journal editors said Monday. Predatory journals ...

Predatory journals are a known scourge of science. They collect publication fees and publish articles without adequate (or sometimes any) peer review, ultimately wasting researchers’ time and money ...

(TNS) — The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades.

Open-access publishing expanded opportunities to give visibility to research results but was accompanied by the proliferation of predatory journals (PJos) that offer expedited publishing but ...

The research sector has become increasingly vulnerable to overt commercial predation. As academic and publishing business models, research evaluation and peer-review systems continue to evolve, they ...

This article initially appeared in the Society for Technical Communication Intercom Magazine, December 2018 and is used here with permission from both the publisher and the author. In early 2017, a ...

The practices that these entities employ include aggressive solicitation of manuscript submissions, the promise of extremely rapid turnaround times, and a lack of transparency about article submission ...

A 29 question-based cross-sectional survey was developed to explore knowledge and practices of predatory publishing and analyzed using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. Four ...