x "Predatory" open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics

Shen, Cenyu; Björk, Bo-Christer

BMC Medicine Volume 13, Issue 1, DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2

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Predatory Publishing as a Rational Response to Poorly Governed Academic Incentives

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

Lista affidabile di riviste inaffidabili cercasi, disperatamente

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

Beall's list: Gone but not lost

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

Is Canadian research falling prey to predatory journals?

Healthy Debate, 19.01.2017

The post Is Canadian research falling prey to predatory journals? appeared first on Healthy Debate.

A walk on the wild side: Una investigación sobre la cantidad y calidad de las publicaciones `predatorias’

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&

FTC Sues Predatory Journal

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

Where to Publish and Not to Publish in Bioethics

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-

Open Access in Latin America free of predatory journals

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

Predatory journals: the dark side of Open Access

Research Blogging - All Topics - English, 13.11.2015

PPPPredatory Article Counts: An Investigation, Part 1

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

Open access: l’editoria predona e i suoi clienti

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 &

Twitter Open Access Report – 19 October 2015

, 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

Open Access vs Predator

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

Jocalyn Clark: Predatory journals debate raises controversies—but they’re not going away

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

Think. Check. Submit per aiutare giovani ricercatori a non finire nella trappola dei “predatory journals”

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

‘Predatory’ Open-access Journals Analyzed in Study

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’

New Research Article: “‘Predatory’ Open Access: A Longitudinal Study Of Article Volumes And Market Characteristics”

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 Bj&ouml

Think. Check. Submit. (How to Have Trust in Your Publisher.)

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.” (

Think. Check. Submit. A helpful checklist for researchers

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

Think. Check. Submit. (How to Have Trust in Your Publisher.)

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 →

Cross-industry campaign launches to help researchers make informed choices about where to publish

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

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x "Predatory" open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics