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Scholarly Communications in Transition

A Blog about Predatory and Other Phenomena in Academia

  • Predator & Prey – A Classic Role Allocation or a Symbiosis?

    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 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…

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    Edith Leitner & Melanie Stummvoll

    July 18, 2023
  • How did we get here?

    How did we get here?

    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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    Susanne Luger

    May 23, 2023
  • Predatory and other questionable practices in scholarly communication

    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…

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    Andreas Ferus & Gerlinde Maxl

    February 14, 2023

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