Subsidies for academic papers could be withdrawn in ‘predatory publishing’ probe
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Summary:
"An analysis by Stellenbosch University researchers found that from 2005 to 2014, South African academics published more than 4,200 papers in 47 journals that were either "probably or possibly predatory".
Predatory publishing involves unscrupulous open access publishers who publish articles with little or no real peer review."