Shen, Cenyu; Björk, Bo-Christer
BMC Medicine Volume 13, Issue 1, DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2
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Blog posts
Walt at Random, 03.04.2017
[This is Chapter 4 of Gray OA 2012-016, a comprehensive study of journals on “the lists.”] Cenyu Shen and Bo-Christer Björk published “‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market cha
Ars Technica, 23.03.2017
Enlarge (credit: Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier) Anna O. Szust is not a real person. She is, literally, a fraud: oszust means “fraud” in Polish. Nonetheless, Szust has been appointed as an editor at 40 bogus academic journals. After sen
The CSP Blog, 23.03.2017
By Erin Zimmerman, Ph.D. “Scientific literacy must include the ability to recognize publishing fraud.” – Jeffrey Beall, Nature (2012) 489(7415):179 By the time you reach the point in your career when you're deciding which jo
The Scholarly Kitchen, 28.02.2017
Are we thinking about predatory publishing the wrong way? Are researchers deliberately choosing these journals, and if so, what are the incentives driving this decision? The post Predatory Publishing as a Rational Response to Poorly Governed Academic Incen
OggiScienza, 08.02.2017
IL PARCO DELLE BUFALE – La “Lista di Beall” – quattro in realtà – non è sparita insieme al blog Scholarly OA, però va aggiornata e controllata: alcuni predoni scompaiono, altri cambiano
Publons, 24.01.2017
Beall’s list of ‘predatory’ open access journals has disappeared but the information isn’t lost: It still exists across many resources - including on Publons. Predatory publishers. Most researchers have heard of them, some have
Healthy Debate, 19.01.2017
The post Is Canadian research falling prey to predatory journals? appeared first on Healthy Debate.
Nada es Gratis, 29.12.2016
(por Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini y Natalia Zinoveyva) Estamos tan tristemente acostumbrados a recibir noticias sobre los fraudes que se producen en el mundo académico que es probable que más de un lector se pregunte hasta que punto est&
Science-Based Medicine, 21.09.2016
Pictured: Peer review; something that doesn’t happen in predatory journals Because I have a university e-mail address I frequently get spam from journals I have never heard of soliciting submissions, and even offering editorial positions. I have gen
Journal of Medical Ethics blog, 05.05.2016
Guest Post by Stefan Eriksson & Gert Helgesson, Uppsala University * Note: this is a cross-posting from The Ethics Blog, hosted by the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University. The link to the original article is here. Re-
SciELO in Perspective, 13.11.2015
Low quality non peer reviewed open access journals called ‘predatory’ compromise the credibility of open access publishing and cause damage to this business model’s reputation. A detailed study analyzes these journals and their publishers
Research Blogging - All Topics - English, 13.11.2015
Walt at Random, 09.11.2015
If you read all the way through the December 2015 essay Ethics and Access 2015 (and if you didn’t, you really should!), you may remember a trio of items in The Lists! section relating to “‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal stud
OggiScienza, 02.11.2015
ECONOMIA – Su BMC Medicine, la rivista di uno dei più grandi editori open access, Cenyu Shen e Bo-Christer Björk, ricercatori alla Hanken School of Economics di Helsinki, tentano – con parecchie incertezze &
, 19.10.2015
A Dutch initiative called LingOA has launched, in which the editorial boards of five linguistics journals have begun the process of leaving their publishers or renegotiating their agreements in order to publish with Ubiquity Press in association with
Research Blogging - All Topics - English, 09.10.2015
Predatory Open Access publishers on the rise open access, publishing, open access publishing, predators, predatory publishing, articles, peer review The increase in so-called “predatory” Open Access publishers is posing a threat to the integr
Latest BMJ blogs, 08.10.2015
I think it’s fair to say that the topic of so-called predatory journals was the hot one at the recent World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) conference. The meeting coincided with the publication of new evidence of the enormous growth of the mar
CLUG Newsletter, 07.10.2015
Think. Check. Submit è una nuova iniziativa portata avanti da ALPSP, DOAJ, INASP,ISSN, LIBER, OASPA, STM, UKSG e da singoli editori. La sua finalità è fornire un elenco di indicatori di qualità che possono aiutare i ricercator
Laboratory Equipment News, 05.10.2015
Scientists and researchers who must “publish or perish” have a wealth of options to pay for their work to get into suspect online journals, according to a new analysis published by researchers in Finland.Read more about ‘Predatory’
LJ INFOdocket, 02.10.2015
The following full text article was recently published by BMC Medicine. Title Predatory’ Open Access: A Longitudinal Study Of Article Volumes And Market Characteristics Authors Cenyu ShenHanken School of EconomicsHelsinki, Finland Bo-Christer Bjö
Progressive Geographies, 02.10.2015
stuartelden:A new initiative for academics submitting to journals, directed at saving people and papers from “predatory” publishers. Originally posted on The Scholarly Kitchen: Today sees the launch of “Think. Check. Submit.” (
BioMed Central blog, 01.10.2015
A new cross-industry campaign launches today to provide information for researchers about the criteria they should look for when selecting where to publish their research. Think. Check. Submit. is available through an online hub. What is this
The Scholarly Kitchen, 01.10.2015
Charlie Rapple reports on "Think. Check. Submit.", a campaign to help researchers learn who they can trust when they are seeking to publish their work. Continue reading →
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, 01.10.2015
Press Release: Think. Check. Submit. 1st October 2015 Helping researchers to make informed publication choices A new cross-industry campaign launches today – Think. Check. Submit. The campaign will provide information for researchers, through
mBiosphere, 19.05.2010
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