Behind the Spam: A "Spectral Analysis" of Predatory Publishers

Jeffrey Beall's bookmarks 2015-08-09

Summary:

Most researchers today are bombarded with spam email solicitations from questionable scholarly publishers. These emails solicit article manuscripts, editorial board service, and even ad hoc peer reviews. These "predatory" publishers exploit the scholarly publishing process, patterning themselves after legitimate scholarly publishers yet performing little or no peer review and quickly accepting submitted manuscripts and collecting fees from submitting authors. These counterfeit publishers and journals have published much junk science — especially in the field of cosmology — threatening the integrity of the academic record. This presentation examines the current state of predatory publishing and related scams such as fake impact factors and advises researchers how to navigate scholarly publishing to best avoid predatory publishers and other scholarly publishing-related perils.

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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015IAUGA..2244039B

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08/09/2015, 16:56

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08/09/2015, 12:56