A not-so-harmless experiment in predatory open access publishing - Martin - 2016 - Learned Publishing - Wiley Online Library

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Summary:

"Key points

  • Publishing articles in predatory or low quality open-access journals has been proven to be easy.
  • In the presented case study, the editor replaced the entire submitted manuscript with plagiarized texts, without explicitly informing the authors.
  • When strongly motivated to publish, editors and publishers may fraudulently change articles to make them more publishable.
  • Replacing the entire content of an article cannot be interpreted as a misguided attempt to improve article quality.
  • Plagiarism should not be solely blamed on authors when editors may be the culprits."

Link:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1060/full

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Tags:

oa.new oa.publishing oa.predatory oa.gold oa.case.journals oa.misconduct oa.plagiarism oa.journals

Date tagged:

09/27/2016, 10:26

Date published:

09/27/2016, 06:26