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 ...

Let me introduce “Scholarly Open Access” (SOA), the watchdog blog/website of Jeffrey Beall, an academic librarian at the University of Colorado-Denver, where he is also a tenured associate professor.

This article initially appeared in the Society for Technical Communication Intercom Magazine, December 2018 and is used here with permission from both the publisher and the author. In early 2017, a ...

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 ...

Predatory journals are a global and growing problem contaminating all domains of science. A coordinated response by all stakeholders (researchers, institutions, funders, regulators and patients) will ...

Predatory journals and political interference threaten scientific independence, undermining research integrity and public trust. Industries, notably tobacco, manipulate science through misinformation ...

New light is shed on the volume and market characteristics of so-called 'predatory' scholarly journal publishing in a study conducted by researchers from Hanken School of Economics and published in ...

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, ...