Correspondence in ‘Nature’: “No Peer Review, No Point” [Update] – ConJunction

The journal Nature is not the usual outlet for organization studies scholars. Nevertheless, Maximilian Heimstädt, Katja Mayer, Tony Ross-Hellauer and myself submitted a short piece to Nature’s “Correspondence” section in response to an article trying to define predatory journals. 35 Authors led by Agnes Grudniewicz had developed such a definition but suggested leaving quality of peer review out of it.

In our response, we argue that there is no point in any definition of predatory journals that leaves peer review quality out: