#5yrsago #Qanon “codes” are consistent with an English-speaker mashing a QWERTY keyboard https://www.vice.com/en/article/9km87z/qanon-codes-are-random-typing

#5yrsago To rescue journalism, journalists must defend free expression, not merely condemning Trump https://dangillmor.medium.com/dear-journalists-the-war-on-what-you-do-is-escalating-eb584529a271

#5yrsago Leaked #FBI memo warns banks of looming “unlimited ATM cashout” https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/fbi-warns-of-unlimited-atm-cashout-blitz/

#5yrsago #PredatoryJournals aren’t just a scam: they’re also how quacks and corporate shills #sciencewash their bullshit https://www.vice.com/en/article/3ky45y/hundreds-of-researchers-from-harvard-yale-and-stanford-were-published-in-fake-academic-journals

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Dear @univroma3 ,
Do you agree that one of your profs, owning the patent on an invention for a 🧫 #microbiology test, writes 18 sci papers 📄 (first in #predatoryjournals then in @plosone and @ESCMID ‘s #EJCMID) with employees of the manufacturer of that test, without EVER declaring any #ConflictOfInterest ? 🧐 #scienceintegrity
https://pubpeer.com/publications/3ED71F62D2476ED0A635E9FD97B8C4

There's a lot of discourse about #PredatoryJournals or proto-predatory publishers like #MDPI, #Frontiers, #BMC, etc. This often devolves into "Well the big publishers (#Springer #Elsevier etc.) are just as bad!" Am I the only one who prefers publishing in society journals? Maybe it's me being a bad P.I., but I would rather my team's papers be evaluated and read by people in our scientific communities.

I’ve had a few papers published with mid author credits as I helped provide data and analysis when I worked as a bioinformatician. So I’ve been getting the normal spam from predatory journals ever since praising my research, inviting me to fake conferences or soliciting me for further research papers to publish in their negative h-index journals. I got one of the least effort spam emails today through: “Dear Dr Researcher”. I mean, even academics absolutely desperate for publication and willing to overlook a few red flags for a low level journal are going to see through that.
#predatoryjournals #spam

Predatory Journals — Kommentierte Ressourcenliste https://mela.de/blog/2023/05/04/predatory-journals-kommentierte-ressourcenliste/ #PredatoryJournals, #PredatoryPublishing, #Raubpublikationen, #Raubverlage, #Wissenschaft

Predatory journals are targeting high school students as college admissions start expecting publications. https://www.propublica.org/article/college-high-school-research-peer-review-publications
#PredatoryJournals #CollegeAdmissions #HighSchool

Predatory Journals — Kommentierte Ressourcenliste
Eine kommentierte Ressourcenliste, mit Ressourcen, die dabei helfen die Seriosität wissenschaftlicher Publikationen einzuschätzen.
https://mela.de/blog/2023/05/04/predatory-journals-kommentierte-ressourcenliste/
#Informationskompetenz #Studium&Wissen #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #Raubpublikationen #Raubverlage #Wissenschaft

Universities may be motivated to a good and ethical part of the research community, but they may be constrained by government policy, university rankings, etc., says @briannosek.

We can make misconduct harder to do, focus less on papers and more on peer review, and alter incentives.

To undermine the market for #PaperMills and #PredatoryJournals,
Brian provocatively suggests a no-fee journal that will publish all submissions.

#PublicationEthics
#ResearchAssessment #ResearchCulture

About #PredatoryJournals
“Statement from COPE Officers
COPE believes that authors and institutions should treat lists of predatory (or fake) journals with the same degree of scrutiny as they do with the journals themselves. Lists that are not transparent about criteria used should not be relied on. Moreover, such lists may perpetuate systemic bias and include journals with limited resources but which are legitimate journals with the best intentions”.
@academicchatter
https://publicationethics.org/news/identifying-fake-journals

Fast-growing open-access journals stripped of coveted impact factors
https://www.science.org/content/article/fast-growing-open-access-journals-stripped-coveted-impact-factors
#Science #OpenAccess #PredatoryJournals

Web of Science de-listed 82 journals, including 15 from Hindawi
https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/web-of-science-de-listed-82-journal-including-15-from-hindawi
#PredatoryJournals #WebOfScience

Is Frontiers Media a Predatory Publisher?

The authors at the Predatory Reports team say yes, and provide this evidence
https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/is-frontiers-media-a-predatory-publisher

#academia #AcademicEthics #publishing #researchethics #research #predatoryjournals #openaccess

I hope everyone has noticed that MDPI journals (422 of them) have been declared #PredatoryJournals.

https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publications?fbclid=IwAR2FbGSY4Dktl4X8GWkcfgAuBcBNZLk2uzmywGpv0CoJ8-2E9usR-3P8Glg

All of the journals published by MDPI have now been placed on a predatory publishers list:
https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publications
The article gives their evidence for this decision.

Personally, I've avoided MDPI, and recommended early career colleagues to do the same (not always successfully). Then, a few weeks ago, a collaborator resubmitted a paper that I was a coauthor on to an MDPI journal without asking me first. Rather than ask to be removed, I had first-hand experience of the publishing process.

In short, my experience was there were some excellent reviewer comments. But you could ignore some (maybe many) and get published. Which to me, invalidates the review process. IMO (and it seems many others) it confirms that the publishers want your open access fee over good science.

The paper that I am a coauthor on was accepted, and at least I could advise my senior author to make sure they did the best job possible in improving the paper through the 'review process'. I suspect you could make all sorts of changes at this stage and there would be no come back (no, we didn't try this). We had numerous missed 'deadline' emails from the journal, followed by very prompt invoicing.

My experience mirrors the examples in the article. I have yet to review for MDPI and do not plan to do so, and I will continue to recommend colleagues to publish elsewhere.

#academia #publishing #science #predatoryjournals #openaccess

In Times Higher Education's article on 'Identity theft victims back legal action against journals', our Research Integrity Manager, Matt Hodgkinson was quoted.

Links to view the full article:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/identity-theft-victims-back-legal-action-against-journals

(Register to Times Higher Education to be able to read 3 articles a month)

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/10/leading-scientists-worldwide-are-victims-fake-articles

(5 free articles per month from Inside Higher Ed)

#IdentityTheft #PredatoryJournals #PublicationEthics #TimesHigherEducation

For my #academia friends: how do you deal with invitations for articles and #conferences which are vastly out of your field?
I parse them through the #spam folder but end up wondering sometimes if some legitimate journal invitation ends up there...
Do you have a definitive list of #PredatoryJournals to look or do you just google it like I do?
And what's the business model of phony conference invitations anyway? What do they gain?
Thanks!

Allied Business Academies, aka Allied Academies, are a publisher to avoid. No surprise, as they're an OMICS brand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Academies

Compare: Zen Faulkes' 2018 paper "Resolving authorship disputes by mediation and arbitration" https://researchintegrityjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41073-018-0057-z

to Laura Sandra's 2021 paper, "Alternative Dispute Resolution in Academic Publishing"
https://www.abacademies.org/articles/alternative-dispute-resolution-in-academic-publishing-11857.html

Ms Sandra isn't real. Scopus were right to stop indexing in 2016!

#PredatoryJournals #AlliedBusinessAcademies #AlliedAcademies

6 years ago: Beall's List bowed out

A criterion for Jeffrey Beall's infamous list of 'predatory journals' was "Has no policies or practices for digital preservation". His own blog vanished in January 2017 without being formally archived, though various copies live on.
http://retractionwatch.com/2017/01/17/bealls-list-potential-predatory-publishers-go-dark/

Beall's parting thoughts: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5493177/
Response from his then boss: https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/16837/18435

#OAirony #PredatoryJournals #BeallsList #OpenAccess

On LinkedIn, Alex Zhavoronkov is celebrating (?) publishing nonsense in #Oncoscience in a day using ChatGPT. Citing the EiC likely helped. The AI churned out text on Pascal’s wager in the context of Rapamycin that fails develops an argument linking religious belief to the merits of life extension.

I hope this is a sting and Alex doesn't stand by the inane content.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-7013916204583063553-ZOnH?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_android

#ChatGPT #AIwriting #PredatoryJournals #Stings #LongevityMedicine #PascalsWager #Rapamycin #LinkedIn

This looks exciting!

Frank et al. 2023: Open access publishing – noble intention, flawed reality

"This paper lays out, in non-technical language, the pros and cons of [open access] publishing and who is affected by them"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027795362200898X

#OpenAccess #STS #PredatoryJournals #AcademicChatter @academicchatter