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Frontiers journals have become a conspicuous presence in academic publishing since they started in 2007 with the advent of Frontiers i...
In its first case involving crowdfunding, the Federal Trade Commission has taken legal action against the deceptive tactics of a project creator who raised money from consumers to produce a board
Predatory open access journals seem to be a hot topic these days. In fact, there seems to be kind of a moral panic surrounding them. I would like to counter the admittedly shocking and scary stories around that moral panic by pointing out that perhaps we shouldn't be worrying so much about a fairly small number of admittedly bad actors and that we should be more concerned with the larger issues around the limitations of peer review and how scientific error and fraud leak through that system.
Matson, self-citation, and fraudulent Elsevier journals.
Okay, I’ve got a story. It’s a sort of scary one. I think independent/self-publishing authors need to know about it, and telling it carefully and correctly is also important for my own situat…
InTech's at it again.
Another Elsevier scam journal. Citation gaming via self-citation.
A Harvard scientist wanted to see exactly how easy it is to get medical research published. In some cases, $500 is pretty much all it takes.
An academic journal accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training has come under scrutiny after failing a peer review test. The Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, published in Italy, has been called a scam but it appears on the CVs of several professors at Unisa as the publisher of papers authored by them.
A respected Canadian medical journal that was sold to offshore owners last year is now printing scientific junk for hire, but still trading on its original…
Tengrinews.kz ▶ Publications in pseudoscientific journals damage reputation of Kazakhstani scholars: 17 августа 2014, 11:59 ▶ read more news and events on Tengrinews.kz
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How a reporter's entirely fake study got accepted by eight terrible journals
One morning I opened my email to find that I had become editor-in-chief of an academic journal. Well, ‘chief editor’ to be [...]
I am currently too upset to be able to do a good job of writing this article concisely and effectively, so please be patient and read the whole rambling thing. Note also: I’m not upset about the existence of one such conference – the real problem are the publish-or-perish rules in colleges/universities that are forcing … Continue reading How I published a fake paper, and why it is the fault of our education system