Scholarly Communications in Transition
A Blog about Predatory and Other Phenomena in Academia
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Predator & Prey – A Classic Role Allocation or a Symbiosis?
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 action1. On the other hand, the victim is described as someone who suffers harm from someone/something, i.e. passively endures his harm2. According to these definitions, the perpetrator and the victim are…
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How did we get here?
Once, over at the Predatory Publishingy1 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 journals2 to what is considered the first predatory journal3, it took approximately 12…
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Predatory and other questionable practices in scholarly communication
This blog post aims to explore the broad field of questionable practices and map the terrain, so to speak, that we are traversing in regards to the phenomenon of predatory publishing. First, we will discuss essential characteristics and concepts related to the phenomenon of predatory publishing. The second part of the paper explores the various…