“Predatory publishers” promise to publish academic articles for a fee. However, these publishers may not conduct adequate or any peer review and may request bank account or other personal information.

This article initially appeared in the Society for Technical Communication Intercom Magazine, December 2018 and is used here with permission from both the publisher and the author. In early 2017, a ...

When librarian Jeffrey Beall shut down his controversial blog listing potentially ‘predatory’ scholarly publishers and journals last year, archived copies swiftly appeared elsewhere online. More than ...

Irritated by predatory journals and fake conferences, one mathematics researcher decided to submit an obviously AI-generated ...

The practices that these entities employ include aggressive solicitation of manuscript submissions, the promise of extremely rapid turnaround times, and a lack of transparency about article submission ...

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Action by all stakeholders is required to protect authors and the public from predatory medical journals, an international group of prominent medical journal editors said Monday. Predatory journals ...

A group of 11 authors, in coordination with the Authors Guild, has filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Florida, alleging that a ‘predatory’ publishing company is withholding "thousands of dollars" ...

The global academic space is not owned by the West, and knowledge production is not the exclusive preserve of the United States and Europe. Yet, within Nigerian universities, we have increasingly ...

Academics have expressed mounting concern about the threat that predatory journals pose to doctoral students, with at least one institution tightening up its quality criteria for Ph.D.s by publication ...