The Science Rant: Predatory Journals: They will destroy open access trustworthiness.

lterrat's bookmarks 2017-08-10

Summary:

"Visiting a predatory publisher and journal website quickly reveals that they are not a journal that belongs to any scholarly society for the fields they publish in, nor do they have an expected list of experienced scholars with actual jobs as professors in their editors lists.

Real scholarly journals do not cold-email people asking for the 'kind submission of your excellent manuscript' nor do they note that they liked a real paper you published recently and can you send one similar to them as well. For a fee of course. It is up to us scholars, professors and scientists to make sure our students and post-docs do not fall into the trap of either serving on the editorial boards of these predatory journals or in wasting their time and money publishing in them."

Link:

http://thesciencerant.blogspot.com/2017/08/predatory-journals-they-will-destroy.html

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Tags:

oa.journals

Date tagged:

08/10/2017, 19:31

Date published:

08/10/2017, 15:31