Hunters and hunted | Times Higher Education (THE) (commentary by Martin Paul Eve)

"The rise in exploitative publishing practices must be countered not only by the open-access movement but also by everyone involved in research publication. However, there are a few aspects of the graph on “predatory” publishers that readers should be aware of (“Journals and publishers setting sights on the unwary”, News, 21 January). First, the source of the graph, Jeffrey Beall, began compiling his list only in 2010, so the graph does not necessarily represent growth, only what has been tracked...."