Are Predatory Conferences the Dark Side of the Open Access Movement? | Aesthetic Surgery Journal | Oxford Academic

"Beginning in 2008, the predatory publishing landscape was bubbling and brewing as Open Access was taking root.3 It has now matured and new iterations are revealing themselves. It’s easy to believe this is just the tip of the Open Access iceberg that has plagued publishers since its onset. The creation of what some call a “catch-all” journal—PLOS ONE—publishes peer-reviewed content from any discipline in medicine or science. Many of today’s predatory publishers have attempted to replicate this model but by doing so have set off alarms in the minds of scholars."