This definition will help institutions, funders and other stakeholders generate practical guidance on avoiding predatory journals and publishers. This is an open access article distributed in ...

When using sources for your research, please be aware that material could have been published in questionable, scholarly, usually Open Access journals. These “predatory” journals include the variety ...

A study carried out by researchers from the School of Business Administration at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) has analyzed the influence of predatory journals—international open ...

Not all open access journals have the same level of quality ... predatory publishers only publish predatory journals. This does not mean that journals coming from legitimate publishers cannot give the ...

There is a useful checklist provided by Butler, D. (2013) Investigating journals: the dark side of publishing. Nature. 495 (7442) https://doi.org/10.1038/495433a: ...

Journals that publish work without proper peer review and which charge scholars sometimes huge fees to submit should not be allowed to share space with legitimate journals and publishers, whether open ...

The open access publication model creates new financial flows ... The Library has subscribed to a directory listing predatory journals and publishers, but unfortunately it is not exhaustive. Should ...

Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.

The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg, and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the ...

Science rankings rely on papers in academic journals. Broadening the view to include many more open-access journals will upend the usual order – thanks to China’s vast number of publications.