A Blog about Predatory and Other Phenomena in Academia
Besides predatory publishing, there are other practices in the area of scholarly publishing which are not about advancing science, but rather primarily intended to increase the authors’ output or impact in return for financial compensation. David Bimler terms this “publication facilitation”, which also includes dubious or hijacked journals because they offer dishonest researchers an opportunity…
Duden, the unchallenged authority of the German language, defines the perpetrator as a person who commits or has committed an act, i.e. actively taken action. On the other hand, the victim is described as someone who suffers harm from someone/something, i.e. passively endures his harm. According to these definitions, the perpetrator and the victim are…
Once, over at the Predatory Publishing blog, they tried to figure out what the first predatory journal was and they came up with the Journal of Biological Sciences, initially published in 2001. This means from the launch of the first open access journals to what is considered the first predatory journal, it took approximately 12…
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