Sting Operation Reveals Science's Insane Fake News Problem 

peter.suber's bookmarks 2017-03-22

Summary:

"That being said, some folks I spoke to, including Beall and people in the open access community, thought it was a larger problem than open access publishing alone. The community tries to regulate itself after all, Andrew Wesolek, head of digital scholarship at Clemson, pointed out to Gizmodo. The DOAJ removed 39 of the 120 journals listed in its directory before the analysis came out in Nature today, though six of the eight journals that accepted the fake editor still remain. When I called Lars Bjørnshauge, their founder and managing director, he immediately asked to be put in touch with Pisanski so he could find out the titles of the six journals. He said the DOAJ removes journals with fake editors immediately. ..."

Link:

http://gizmodo.com/sting-operation-reveals-sciences-insane-fake-news-probl-1793523135

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Tags:

oa.new oa.predatory oa.gold oa.credibility oa.doaj oa.journals

Date tagged:

03/22/2017, 15:35

Date published:

03/22/2017, 11:35