There are resources available to protect researchers from falling prey to unfortunate experiences with predatory publishing practices. One such tool is ThinkCheckSubmit, which is a checklist available ...

Predatory journals are also difficult to search, meaning that health-care providers and researchers can rarely learn from the data in these journals. Researchers from The Ottawa Hospital and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

With hundreds of predatory journals appearing and disappearing on a regular basis, researchers need to be vigilant in their approach to unfamiliar publishers. While predatory journals can be difficult ...

For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall's blog charted the murky world of predatory and vanity academic publishers, many ...

'Predatory journals' pose a danger that could undermine the quality, integrity, and reliability of published scientific research, a new joint statement from three leading organizations, professional ...

Their websites look like they belong to typical scholarly publishers: august names on editorial boards, claims of rigorous peer review, inclusion in all the right databases. But looks are deceiving.

There are more academic publishers out there than ever before. In 2014 there was an estimated 28,100 active scientific journals, but while the large majority of these journals are highly respected, ...

When Paul Vaucher received an invitation to submit an article in a special issue of the Journal of Forensic Research, he gladly accepted. A University of Geneva neuroscience PhD student at the time, ...

Call it a classic case of supply meeting demand. Universities, colleges, even community colleges insist that faculty publish scholarly research, and the more papers the better. Academics and the ...

A massive investigation published in Nature shows that contrary to popular belief, a majority of papers in suspected biomedical predatory journals (57 percent) are from high or upper middle income ...

For aficionados of bad science, the blog of University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall was essential reading. Beall’s blog charted the murky world of predatory and vanity academic publishers, many ...