How did we get here?
Scholarly Communications in Transition,
Once, over at the Predatory Publishing blog, they tried to figure out what the first predatory journal was and they came up…
Once, over at the Predatory Publishing blog, they tried to figure out what the first predatory journal was and they came up…
Rafael RepisoProfesor Titular de Metodologías de la Investigación y Documentación, UNIR – Universidad Internacional de La…
Predatory publishing has been the subject of much heated debate and conjecture. Panagiotis Tsigaris and Jaime A. Teixeira da…
Over the past sixty years, there has been an exponential growth in the global scholarly publishing landscape. Mapping or…
Science is probably the last bastion of true freethinking but is being swallowed by this make-money-get-profit world. Science…
Journal stings come in various shapes and sizes. There are the hilarious ones in which authors manage to get papers based on…
I’m proud of the 70 peer-reviewed journals and book chapters my group published over the years, and none in a predatory journal.
Despite daily updates to spam filters and contact blocking, I wake up every day to a variety of invitations to submit to…
From the Peer Review Congress, what's changed and what's about to change? John Sack conducts an interview with the Executive…
Source: https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/02/08/an-interview-with-jeffrey-beall/ An…
La entrada La revisión por pares tiene algunos problemas, pero la comunidad científica está trabajando en ello se publicó…
Авторы хотели указать на низкие стандарты публикации в этих журналах
A recent investigation led by an international group of journalists raised concerns over the scale of the problem of deceptive…
The key idea behind open access is that everyone with an Internet connection should be able to read academic papers without…
by Jeremy Horne (International Institute of Informatics and Systemics) Column Editors: Caroline J. Campbell (Promotions…
0000-0002-6635-8182Sure, it’s happened to all of us — the invitation to be keynote speaker at a conference you’ve never heard…
I’ve been contacted by editors who would just love for me to publish in international relations journals (I’m trained as an…
Not all scientific journals are created equal. With the advent of "predatory" journals that seem legitimate but function…
A number of so-called scientific journals have accepted a Star Wars-themed spoof paper. The manuscript is an absurd mess of…
As the saying goes, when no one is talking about money, you can be sure that it’s really all about money. We assume that…
A recent hoax is the latest among many tests of peer review. What should we learn from it?
Il cioccolato fondente è da sempre oggetto di diverse leggende, una in particolare è stata creata ad arte per dimostrare, anni…
IL PARCO DELLE BUFALE – La “Lista di Beall” – quattro in realtà – non è sparita insieme al blog Scholarly OA, però va aggiornata …
Last week, we learned that Scholarly Open Access, Jeffrey Beall's website and blog, had gone down. Beall, an academic librarian…
Jeffrey Beall, who has done invaluable work identifying predatory publishers and garnered legal threats for his pains, reports…
Pictured: Peer review; something that doesn’t happen in predatory…
Full adoption of open access has not been achieved mainly because researchers are not yet totally convinced that this type of…
The most comprehensive index of open access journals, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), reviewed its inclusion…
The most comprehensive index of open access journals, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), reviewed its inclusion…
No matter how tempting it might be: Jim Vander Putten suspected that some education conferences accepted any study pitched by…
AN UPDATE ON THIS STORY IS AVAILABLE HERERecently I was contacted by Library Journal (LJ) in connection with a series of video…
Source: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/02/08/an-interview-with-jeffrey-beall/Authors, Business Models, Commerce…
An interview with librarian and open access skeptic Jeffrey Beall. He discusses his work, the criteria for declaring an…
This week I've attended the "Gaming Metrics" conference at UC Davis. From the conference description: "Have we moved from 'publis…
A small, highly specialized medical journal makes its first attempt at satire in 21 years. The New Year’s Eve spoof paper in…
The resignation of the editorial board of an Elsevier-owned linguistics journal and its open access reorganization could get…
By Melissa Cheung The author pays model of open access (OA) publishing has given rise to predatory publishers, who do not…
Ormai dal gennaio 2014, DOAJ ha stabilito nuovi e più stringenti criteri per l’inclusione di nuove riviste open access nel…
Peer review system…in Polish (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A note on changes: I’m going to vary my usual practice in this series…
There has been much talk about both “academic freedom” as well as the responsibilities of scholars over the past few weeks.
The boundaries between scholarly speech and wider public speech are blurry, as separate discussions about Tim Hunt and…
There has been much talk about both “academic freedom” as well as the responsibilities of scholars over the past few weeks.
Before we begin, there is something I need to disclose: I am a scientist by training and received my PhD in microbiology and…
Most of the time when an author submits falsified…
The ATG NewsChannel presents the second interview in a series being posted by Richard Poynder on his Open
Who doesn’t love hijinks? Last week, science journalist John Bohannon brought the hijinks. He wrote on io9.com about how he…
A remarkable new “sting” of the “diet research-media complex” was just revealed. It tells us little we didn’t already know and…
A remarkable new “sting” of the "diet research-media complex" was just revealed. It tells us little we didn’t already know and…
John Bohannon is at it again. In 2013 he published the results of a sting operation in which he submitted terrible papers with…
O biólogo e jornalista John Bohannon, criador do "Dance your PhD" e autor de um experimento de submissão de artigo falso para vár…
Health and dietary science is clearly one of the softest disciplines out there but sometimes, one may still be surprised that it…
Following revelations in io9.com this week from John Bohannon about how he successfully “created” health news by conducting a…
“Slim by Chocolate!” the headlines blared. A team of German researchers had found that people on a low-carb diet lost weight 10…
Those who argue that "predatory" behavior is not only a problem among author-pays OA publishers have a good point. But this…
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, or more usually MDPI, is an open…
The recent publication of Monica Berger and Jill Cirasella’s piece in College and Research Libraries News “Beyond Beall’s List…
Journalist Cheryl Philips described using publicly accessible records of infrastructure assessments done by the Department of…
Although predatory publishers predate open access, their recent explosion was expedited by the emergence of fee-charging OA…
If the Internet created a burgeoning market of cheap academic journal knockoffs, should we be surprised to witness new knockoff…
Posted in: fr.hypothesesDans son « non manifeste », la rédaction du Carnet Zilsel a affiché très clairement ses ambitions : ...
Dr. Burton Lee is BACK! It’s always an honor to have Dr. Lee return to the US from Kenya and take a break from his critical…
Do we have a way of identifying these so-bad-they're-basically-bogus journals that is meaningful to the various audiences they…
Posted in: es.hypothesesEl professor Martin Weller, que desempeña sus funciones en el Institute of Educational Technology de…
Hace unas semanas tras asistir a un congreso recibí un email de una revista llamada “Journal of Business and Economics” donde…
Image: Mat McDermott, WikimediaMeet one of the worlds leading climate change skeptics.Though he is not a scientist, Christopher…
Article by Sarah Callaghan, British Atmospheric Data Centre, UK
Open access is still growing; the number of its supporters is growing, along with their influence in many decisive bodies. On…
In 2005 I submitted an essay about science publishing to a political magazine. I got a polite reply back saying that the…
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Podcast Link: SGEM Xtra Faust Date: October 29th, 2014 Guest Skeptic: Dr. Jeremy Faust. Emergency Medicine Resident, Mt. Sinai…
Last week was OPEN ACCESS WEEK. I will spare you my own description of what open access is, since a […]
The internet is pretty awesome guys. Privacy attacks and trolls aside, no other tool humans have ever created can match its…
It’s two years now since the journals BMC Pharmacology and BMC Clinical Pharmacology merged to create BMC Pharmacology and…
I am angry. Very, very angry. Personally I have never liked how scientific journals charge us to read the research that we…
Top scientific publisher chooses not to advance open…
Dave published an excellent post last week where he compared the academy to the fashion industry for its general lack of…
This editorial was first published in Development. We encourage feedback from the community on our policies – please leave any…
This article originally appeared on the Monkey Cage on Monday, August 25 here and has been reposted with the kind permission…
Last year, the world of open access scientific publishing was shaken by the Bohannon “sting operation.” The journalist behind…
This article by Erik Voeten originally appeared on The Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog under the title, “The opportunities…
This week around 7,000 political scientists will descend on Washington for the annual meeting of the American Political Science…
Science journalist, John Bohannon, castigates publishers as corrupt, scientists as furious, and journalists as the fix. Or did…
Welcome to part four of our How to “Research the Headlines” guide. By now, you should be familiar with some of our tips on how…
Science – unlike deranged, furious cursing – is not best cloistered behind closed doors, in the dark, with no audience.
At a time when more research articles are more readily available to more readers globally than ever before, it’s crucial we are…
Technological trends have enabled experiments in publishing. But now that we've seen plenty of experiments, is it time to bring…
As was explained in statement on the OASPA blog in October 2013 (http://oaspa.org/oaspas-second-statement-following-the-article-i…
With the rise of digital publishing, running a fake journal for profit has become a viable business model. State…
With the rise of digital publishing, running a fake journal for profit has become a viable business model. State…
I read Michael Sandel's What Money Can't Buy recently. It's not an anti-capitalist book, there are situations when the market…
Scientific journal publishing has undergone significant changes in the last couple of decades with the digital revolution and…
Dans Documentaliste – sciences de l’information, n°50 – 4, est paru récemment un article répondant au titre ci-dessus. Le…
Dans Documentaliste – sciences de l'information, n°50 – 4, est paru récemment un article répo...
This piece by Achilleas Kostoulas originally appeared at his blog under the title, “Fake Papers are Not the Real Problem in…
Comes another reminder that some scholarly journals, like some people, are less careful than others. [Another way to put this: if…
Editors keep allowing nonsense and gibberish to be published in their journals and conference proceedings. How many exposés and…
Blogs grew quickly into a dynamic and substantial element in the way we discuss, criticize and share information about…
(http://xkcd.com/451/)For those who have been paying attention to the latest news in science, you might have heard of computer…
The recent retraction of 120 articles from non-OA journals, coming after the attack on OA by the John Bohannon experiment, is…
Adam Etkin describes the workings and rationale for scoring papers and journals based on the rigor of peer review they received…