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Articles on Predatory Publishing

• Imposters Hijack Journal’s Peer Review Process to Publish Substandard Papers

  Durrani, J. Chemistry World, January 18, 2021.

• Publish and Be Damned: The Damage Being Created by Predatory Publishing

  Wallace, W. The Bone & Joint Journal, April 2019

• Why Should We Worry about Predatory Journals? Here's One Reason

  Anderson, R. The Source, March 3, 2020.

• Growth of Predatory Publishing Shows No Sign of Slowing

  Linacre, S. The Source, February 26, 2020.

• Open Access Physical Therapy Journals: Do Predatory Journals Publish Lower-Quality Randomized Controlled Trials?

  Bianchini, C., Consentino, C., Paci, M., Baccini, M. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, January 28, 2020.

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• Predatory-journal Papers Have Little Scientific Impact

  Chawla, D.S. Nature (news), January 13, 2020.

• Articles in 'Predatory' Journals Receive Few or No Citations

  Brainard, J. Science, January 7, 2020.

• Publishing Habits and Perceptions of Open Access Publishing and Public Access Amongst Clinical and Research Fellows

  O'Hanlon, R., McSweeney, J., Stabler, S. Journal of the Medical Library Association, January 1, 2020.

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• Predatory Journals: No Definition, No Defence

  Grudniewicz, A. et. al. Nature, December 11, 2019.

• Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature

  Anderson, R. The Scholarly Kitchen, October 28, 2019.

• Fighting Citation Pollution: The Challenge of Detecting Fraudulent Journals in Works Cited

  Hinchliffe, L.J., Clarke, M. The Scholarly Kitchen, September 25, 2019

• Deceptive Publishing

  Anderson, R. OSI Issue Briefs, March 2019.

• How I Became Easy Prey

  Chambers, A.H. Science, May 10, 2019

• Why Do Researchers Decide to Publish in Questionable Journals? A Review of the Literature

  Frandsen, T.F. Learned Publishing, January 24, 2019

• Denialism on the Rocks: It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter

  Anderson, R. The Scholarly Kitchen, August 7, 2018.

• Dropping the Hammer: Predatory Publishers Get Pounded by Regulators and the Press

  Anderson, K. The Scholarly Kitchen, July 30, 2018.

• Fake Science: Face Behind Biggest of All - '40 Countries, Million Articles'

  Yadav, S. The Indian Express, July 22, 2018.

• More Than 5,000 German Scientists Have Published Papers in Pseudo-Scientific Journals

  Lesezeit. NDR, July 19, 2018.

• Inside India's Fake Research Paper Shops: Pay, Publish, Profit

  Yadav, S. The Indian Express, July 19, 2018.

• Use of Solicited Publishing by Academic Surgeons

  Nguyen, V., Marmor, R.A., Ramamoorthy, S.L., Costantini, T.W., Baumgartner, J.M., Berumen, J. ... Sicklick, J.K. (2018). Surgery, May 1, 2018.

• Predatory Publishing and Cybercrime Targeting Academics

  Umlauf, M.G., Mochizuki, Y. International Journal of Nursing Practice, April 17, 2018

• Put Your Email Inbox on a Low-Spam Diet

  Perkel, J. Nature Jobs Blog, April 11, 2018

• Predatory Publishing: What Are the Alternatives to Beall's List?

  Strielkowski, W. American Journal of Medicine, April 1, 2018.

• False Gold: Safely Navigating Open Access Publishing to Avoid Predatory Publishers and Journals

  McCann, T.V., Polacsek, M. Journal of Advanced Nursing, April 2018.

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• Undercover Academic Keeping Tabs on 'Predatory' Publishing

  Chawla, D.S. Nature, March 16, 2018

• Persistence of Predatory Publishing

  Ojala, M. Online Searcher, May/June 2018.

• Paper Accepted...Unless the Letter was Forged

  Cochran, A. The Scholarly Kitchen, April 18, 2018.

• When Authors Get Caught in the Predatory (Illegitimate Publishing) Net

  Cress, P. The Scholarly Kitchen, December 11, 2017.

• Why Garbage Science Gets Published: Predatory journals keep the pseudoscience flowing

  Marcus, A., Oransky, I. Nautilus. December 7, 2017.

• Many Academics Are Eager to Publish in Worthless Journals

  Kolata, G. The New York Times, October 30, 2017.

• Researchers may be part of the problem in predatory publishing

  Vogel, L. Canadian Medical Association. Journal, Vol. 189, Iss. 42. Oct 23, 2017.

• To Catch a Predatory Publisher

  Sullivan, B. SciComm (PLOS Blog), October 4, 2017.

• A Confusion of Journals: What is PubMed Now?

  Anderson, K. The Scholarly Kitchen, September 7, 2017.

• Predatory Journals: Not Just a Problem in Developing World Countries, Says New Nature Paper

  Oransky, I. Retraction Watch, September 6, 2017.

• Stop This Waste of People, Animals and Money

  Moher, D., Shamseer, L., Cobey, K., et all. Nature, September 6, 2017.

• Publishing Too Much?; CRISPR Doubts; Phrama in Predatory Journals

  Oransky, I. Retraction Watch, September 2, 2017.

• Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem

  Deprez, E., Chen, C. August 29, 2017

• Predatory Fraud; Risky Spreadsheets; How to Report Issues in a Paper

  Oransky, I. Retraction Watch, August 12, 2017.

• On Blacklists and Whitelists: Experts Debate How Best to Point Researchers to Reputable Publishers and Steer Them Away from Predatory Ones

  Vence, T. The Scientist, July 17, 2017.

• When Most Faculty Publish in Predatory Journals, Does the School Become "Complicit?"

  McCook, A. Retraction Watch, May 9, 2017.

• Multiple OMICS Journals Delisted from Major Index Over Concerns

  McCook, A. Retraction Watch, March 27, 2017.

• Investigations Need Sunlight: Should We Name Fraudster Names?: How to Kill Predatory Journals

  Oransky, I. Retraction Watch, March 18, 2017.

• Black Lists, White Lists and the Evidence: Exploring the Features of 'Predatory' Journals

  Moher, D., Shamseer, L. BMC Research in Progress Blog, March 16, 2017.

• Indies, Vanity, and Predators: Helping Faculty and Students Find Publishers

  Burns, D. ACRLog (Association of College & Research Libraries blog), March 16, 2017.

• Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Predatory Publishing but Were Afraid to Ask

  Berger, M. Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2017 Proceedings: Conference Paper. March 2017.

• I Don't Want My Article Next to That: Educating Faculty & Graduate Students about Issues of Open Access, Institutional Repositories, and "Predatory" Publishers

  Dunham, D. Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) 2017 Proceedings: Conference Paper. March 2017.

• Predatory Publishing as a Rational Response to Poorly Governed Academic Incentives

  Crotty, D. The Scholarly Kitchen, February 28, 2017.

• Predatory Invitations from Journals: More Than Just a Nuisance?

  Clemons, M., de Costa, E.S.M., Joy, A.A., Cobey, K.D., Mazzarello, S., Stober, C., Hutton, B. Oncologist, 22(2) February 2017.

• Upside of Predatory Publishers: Why No One Replicates: The Pain of Manuscript Submission

  Oransky, I. Retraction Watch, February 18, 2017.

• Potential Predatory and Legitimate Biomedical Journals: Can You Tell the Difference? A cross-sectional comparison

  Shamseer, L., Moher, D., Maduekwe, O., Turner, L., Barbour, V., Burch, R., & ... Shea, B. J. (2017). BMC Medicine, 15(1), 28.

• A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia

  Carey, K. The New York Times, December 29, 2016.

• Stop Predatory Publishers Now: Act Collaboratively

  Moher, D., Moher, E. Annals of Internal Medicine, May 3, 2016.

• How to Avoid Predatory Open Access Publishers

  Schlosser, M. Digital Scholarship @ The Libraries (Ohio State University Libraries Blog), December 4, 2015.

• 'Predatory' Open Access: A Longitudinal Study of Article Volumes and Market Characteristics

  Shen, C., Bjork, B. BMC Medicine, October 1, 2015.

• 'Predatory' Publishing Up

  Straumsheim, C. Inside Higher Ed. October 1, 2015.

• Deceptive Publishing: Why We Need a Blacklist, and Some Suggestions on How to Do It Right

  Anderson, R. The Scholarly Kitchen, August 17, 2015.

• How to Avoid Predatory Journals: A Five Point Plan

  Clark, J. The BMJ Opinion, January 19, 2015

• Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

  Bohannon, J. Science, October 4, 2013.

• Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)

  Kolata, G. The New York Times, April 7, 2013.

• Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing

  Butler, D. Nature, March 27, 2013

• Sham Journals Scam Authors

  Butler, D. Nature, March 27, 2013

• "Predatory" Open Access Publishers: The Natural Extreme of an Author-Pays Model

  Anderson, K. The Scholarly Kitchen, March 6, 2012.

• 'Predatory' Online Journals Lure Scholars Who Are Eager to Publish

  Stratford, M. Chronicle of Higher Education, March 4, 2012.

Fake Editor Articles

• Australian Dog Serves on the Editorial Boards of Seven Medical Journals

  Cross, R. Science, May 24, 2017.

• Latest Sting: Will Predatory Journals Hire "Dr. Fraud"?

  McCook, A. Retraction Watch, March 22, 2017.

• Predatory Journals Recruit Fake Editor

  Sorokowski, P., Kulczycki, E., Sorokowska, A., Pisanski, K. Nature, March 22, 2017.

• Editor is Deceased: Fake Science Journals Hit New Low

  Spears, T. Ottawa Citizen, October 26, 2015.

Covid-19 and Predatory Publishing

• Hydroxychloroquine, Push-scooters, and COVID-19: A Journal Gets Stung, and Swiftly Retracts

  Marcus, A. Retraction Watch. August 16, 2020.

• An Alert to COVID-19 Literature in Predatory Publishing Venues

  Teixeira da Silva. (2020). An alert to COVID-19 literature in predatory publishing venues. The Journal of Academic Librarianship. (46)5.

• Money Down the Drain: Predatory Publishing in the COVID-19 Era

  Vervoort, D., Ma, X., & Shrime, M. G. (2020). Money down the drain: Predatory publishing in the COVID-19 era. Canadian Journal of Public Health, 1-2.

• Publishing Volumes in Major Databases Related to Covid-19

  Teixeira da Silva, J.A., Tsigaris, P. & Erfanmanesh, M. Publishing volumes in major databases related to Covid-19. Scientometrics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-020-03675-3

• ‘Collaborate Now with Worldwide Physicians and Scientists!’—The Obscenity of Predatory Science

  Evelyne de Leeuw, ‘Collaborate now with worldwide physicians and scientists!’—the obscenity of predatory science, Health Promotion International, Volume 35, Issue 4, August 2020, Pages 633–638, https://doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daaa078