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- Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals
Alex Gillis, University Affairs, Jan 12, 2017 The world of scholarly publishing is in serious trouble. The number of predatory journals has skyrocketed in the past three to four years, leading to a tidal wave of poor-quality research being published. Beall’s List, the popular blacklist website compiled by Mr. Beall, contains more than 1,200 publications and 1,000 publishers that he calls potentially predatory. Five years ago, there were only 18 publishers on the list.
- Beall's List of Potential Predatory Journals and Publishers
This is an archived version of the Beall’s list – a list of potential predatory publishers created by a librarian Jeffrey Beall, who at some point felt it necessary to discontinue publishing the list. Only links are being updated and notes added to the original list.
- Commercial academic publishing
- Flaky Academic Conferences
- Mystery as controversial list of predatory publishers disappears
Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science, Jan. 17, 2017 A popular blog that lists “potential, possible, or probable predatory” publishers and journals has disappeared, but it is not clear why. The blog—started in 2010 by librarian Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado in Denver (CU Denver)—now states: “This service is no longer is available.”
- The Royal Society - Publishing ethics and policies
Authorship, competing interests and funding Misconduct and dual publication Research ethics and animal treatment Editorial standards and processes Data sharing and mining Plagiarism, copyright and intellectual property Preprints and media embargoes Digital preservation
- What’s in a Name? Ghostly Spirits, Spinning Science to Sell Drugs, Stalk the Medical Literature
Myron Levin, FairWarning, November 6, 2019
An associate professor at Georgetown University Medical Center, Adriane Fugh-Berman was contacted in 2004 by a medical communications firm working for drug maker AstraZeneca with a proposition: Would she like an author credit on a forthcoming article to be submitted to a journal?