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(Canada) Do Tenure and Promotion Policies Discourage Publications in Predatory Journals? (Papers: Fiona A.E. McQuarrie, April 2020et al | )

Posted by Dr Gary Allen in Research Integrity on September 25, 2020
Keywords: Analysis, Institutional responsibilities, Journal, Research integrity, Research results, Researcher responsibilities

The Linked Original Item was Posted On April, 29 2020

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Abstract

This Canadian paper should prompt us all to ask a couple of questions: How does my institution compare?  Or my country?”

Predatory journals are a concern in academia because they lack meaningful peer review and engage in questionable business practices. Nevertheless, predatory journals continue to flourish, in part because of increasing expectations that academic researchers demonstrate publishing productivity in quantifiable forms. We examined tenure and promotion policies at twenty Canadian universities and did not find any language that explicitly discourages publications in predatory journals. Instead, subjective criteria such as ‘quality’ are commonly used to assess the appropriateness of publication outlets. Additionally, information on avoiding predatory journals was located only on the library’s website at nearly every institution, and the information was primarily directed at students rather than at faculty members. We argue that if predatory journals are truly a threat to the integrity of academic research and knowledge dissemination, universities must take more substantive action against them. We recommend four institutional initiatives to discourage faculty members from publishing in predatory journals.

Keywords:
Predatory journals, research, tenure and promotion policy, university faculty

McQuarrie, FAE, Kondra, A.Z., Lamertz, K.  (2020) Do Tenure and Promotion Policies Discourage Publications in Predatory Journals? Journal of Scholarly Publishing.  51:3, 165-181
https://doi.org/10.3138/jsp.51.3.01
Publisher: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/pdf/10.3138/jsp.51.3.01

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