Sir, the recent publication on “Publication Ethics” is very interesting (1). The article by Fazly Bazzaz and Sadeghi demonstrated many interesting cases                   of misconducts. Indeed, the misconducts can be seen  in many ways. As mentioned in the present publication, both author and editor can perform publication misconducts. Nevertheless, the problem has many more facets. Sometimes,...

Ever since theWomen’s Dermatologic Society (WDS) Board of Directors voted in March of 2014 to establish a peer-reviewed journal, our leadership has realized how the advent of predatory publishing has affected the establishment of a legitimate medical publication. For example, in 2014, there were already approximately 40 different dermatologic journals but nonewith a specific focus onwomen’s ski...

Severe environmental quality deterioration, along with predatory exploitation of energy resources, are generally associated with economic growth, especially in China. Against this background, the 6th Annual Conference of Energy Economics and Management provides a platform for examining outperforming governance factors and mechanisms of energy economics and policy. Thanks to Sustainability for p...

We estimate continuous-time event-history models of the acquisition of conglomerate vs. non-conglomerate and predatory vs. friendly acquisitions among the 1962 Fortune 500 between January, 1963, and December, 1968. Our analysis of predatory acquisitions reveals that there were strong disciplinary motivations for these acquisitions in the 1960s. Q ratios were, by a large margin, the most importa...

In 2014 over 400,000 articles were published in about 8000 journals that many regard as predatory.1 The term “predatory publishers” was first used by Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado, who until recently documented this phenomenon on his blog and in an annual list.2 Although this term, and variants such as “predatory journals”, are widely used, they have been criticised.3e5 One proble...

In recent years, scholarly publishing has been faced with many distractive phenomena. Generally, most researchers are unaware of fraudulent practices now common to scholarly publishing and are at risk of becoming a victim of them. Editors also need to have sufficient knowledge about these practices. There are papers that try to increase awareness of authors about fraud in scholarly publishing, ...

JOURNAL OF PESTICIDE REFORM / WINTER 1991 / VOL. 11, NO. 4 Caroline Cox is JPR’s editor. pearance of peregrine falcons (see article beginning on p.), bald and golden eagles, ospreys, kestrels, and other predatory birds were recorded. DDT’s history certainly paints a frightening picture. But what about the many other pesticides in use today? How do they impact birds? This article is a brief over...

Journal of Orthopaedic Case Reports | pISSN 2250-0685 | eISSN | Available on www.jocr.co.in | doi: 2321-3817 10.13107/jocr.2250-0685.330 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, p...

Abstract The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers of such expand, in so far they undermine integrity, quality, and credibility, especially if those leak into prestigious databases. Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), a reference for assessment researchers grant-making decisions, is used standard whitelist, selectivity JCR-indexed journ...