I often receive e-mails inviting me to submit papers to what seem to be legitimate journals. The journals’ names look familiar, their editorial boards list wellcredentialed professionals, and some of these journals even claim to have impact factor rankings. Their invitations are tempting, promising expedient peer review and publication. If I were a new author eager to publish and unfamiliar wit...

Jeffrey Beall, a US librarian, coined the term “predatory publishing” specifically to describe movement or phenomenon of open access (OA) journals and publishers that he others believed displayed exploitative unscholarly principles. Using blog transmit those ideas, profiling specific cases using blacklists, one most polemic aspects Beall's was its tendency attract incite academic radicalism. Be...

We comment on a recent article by Laakso et al. (arXiv:2008.11933 [cs.DL]), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from Internet is noted. argue that one reason these may have vanished they were predatory journals. The de-listing predators Directory Open Access Journals 2014 and abundance awareness thereof North America parsimoniously explain temporal geographic patterns observed.

To the Editor: We read with great interest the Sarajevo Declaration on Integrity and Visibility of Scholarly Publications published as the editorial in the Croatian Medical Journal (1). We appreciate the efforts made by the authors, Journal Editors Group comprised of the selected lecturers at the First Mediterranean Seminar on Science Writing, Editing & Publishing (SWEP 2016). We agree with the...

Abstract This study uses content-based citation analysis to move beyond the simplified classification of predatory journals. We present that, when we analyze papers not only in terms quantity their citations but also content these citations, are able show various roles played by published journals accused being predatory. To accomplish this, analyzed 9,995 citances (i.e., sentences) from 6,706 ...