To thwart publishing rackets that undermine scholars and scholarly publishing, legitimate journals should show their workings.
Indexing for our Lacuna database uncovered another alarming practice: re-publishing bootlegged copies of papers from legitimate sources, under new DOIs, without crediting the original journal, and sometimes not the original author. A researcher perusing what seem to be ‘back issues’ sees real peer-reviewed articles copied from legitimate journals.Journal of Bone Research and Reports. The first clue was the bizarre names of some authors, such as “urban center” and “parliamentarian”.
Vice-chairman of the India University Grants Commission Bhushan Patwardhan cautioned that predatory publishers are a “determined and adaptable foe”. If a publisher gains notoriety, creating new websites under other brands is cheap, easy, and profitable. The low marginal costs of online publishing allow scam journals to operate from anywhere, particularly where their business practices can operate with impunity.
Though it can be convenient to talk about predatory and legitimate journals, these are not binary classifications. There are different types and degrees of questionable publishing practices . Sharing blinded peer reviews online — or at least confidentially with stakeholders — would allow funders, researchers, librarians and institutions to identify scams and encourage good practices in legitimate journals.Modern universities have systems to vet vendors. They could expand those systems to include payments to journals . Requirements could include open peer review, as well as adherence to the, which stipulate explanations of how publishing fees are spent.
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