PREDATORY PUBLISHING
While many OA publishers are known to be highly reputable, a few are not
- “Predatory publishing” is a dubious practice that detracts from the positive qualities of OA Publishing
- It is regarded as entirely disreputable, and is aimed directly at researchers seeking to publish
- It involves various tactics employed by dubious publishers - and includes spamming researchers - in an effort to persuade them to submit to their journals
- The OA movement has responded to this impediment in a number of ways, including:
- Recommending that prior to choosing a publisher, researchers check various reputable sources that comment on, or grade individual journal quality
Source: Wilson, P 2022 "Academic Fraud: Solving the crisis in modern academia", In Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal, 7:3 pp 14-44
