Let us prey – journals that aren’t all they claim to be | Don't Forget the Roundabouts

peter.suber's bookmarks 2018-08-22

Summary:

"If you discount the increasing number of spam invitations clogging up your email in-box, predatory journals are mainly a minor nuisance for us academics, the biggest problem being when you are doing a literature search and have to sift out the crap.  In the long-term, work published in the predatory journals will mostly go unrecognised and uncited by the relevant academic communities.  The problem arises when a non-expert member of the public or worse still, a journalist comes across what looks like a legitimate paper when searching the internet and takes what they read as gospel.  After all, it has been published in a journal, it must be right...."

Link:

https://simonleather.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/let-us-prey-journals-that-arent-all-they-claim-to-be/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » peter.suber's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.predatory oa.quality oa.credibility oa.new oa.gold oa.journals

Date tagged:

08/22/2018, 11:17

Date published:

08/22/2018, 07:17