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The Troubling Allure of Predatory Publishing – The Goodmen Project (Research Outreach | October 2021)

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on November 10, 2021
Keywords: Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research results, Researcher responsibilities, Supervision, Training

The Linked Original Item was Posted On October 18, 2021

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Articles of potential scientific value could be lost because they are published in these journals.

Predatory publishing has become increasingly ubiquitous across the sciences and beyond. Importantly, Dr Nicola Alberto Valente, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, compiled and studied the barrage of invitations he received over the course of an academic year. He then attempted to quantitatively assess the impact these invitations had on him and his work. Research Outreach spoke to Dr Valente about his findings, and about the impact of these publishers more generally.

A topic often not discussed when questionable publishers are spoken about is the degree to which potentially valuable work is lost to science and society when it appears in a dubious publication.

Many researchers may now feel the influx of suspicious journal ‘invitations’ via email have become a kind of background noise, to be filed away in ‘spam’ without a second thought. Yet these invitations can be far graver than mere inconveniences. Young researchers, or those who are flattered by the promises made by the predatory journal, may succumb to the temptation of publication – only to find the promises were unfounded, and the costs attached were not remunerated. In other circumstances, it may be difficult to confidently separate the genuine from the predatory, which seriously affects a researcher’s willingness to proceed with publication. This context only breeds distrust and anxiety.

Dr Valente is in a great position to shed light on the troubling allure of these publishers, and to impart some much-needed advice on how to make informed and confident decisions about journals.

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The Troubling Allure of Predatory Publishing
Articles of potential scientific value could be lost because they are published in these journals.

Related Reading

Dozens of scientific journals have vanished from the internet, and no one preserved them – Science (Jeffrey Brainard | September 2020)

How Frequently are Articles in Predatory Open Access Journals Cited (Papers: Bo-Christer Björk, et al | December 2019)

Citation Contamination: References to Predatory Journals in the Legitimate Scientific Literature – Scholarly Kitchen (Rick Anderson | October 2019)

Pondering on whether to submit your research output to a journal?

Repairing an Institutional Reputation Tarnished by Fraudulent Publishing – Scholarly Kitchen (Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe | September 2019)

Mentors help authors say “no” to predatory journals – Elsevier Connect (Marilynn Larkin | November 2018)

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