Ridiculous OA Journal Launches with Ridiculous Title
The world’s newest open-access journal is the Integrated Journal of British (IJBRITISH). If the journal’s name strikes you as strange, that’s because...
Sudanese Researcher Falls Victim to Questionable Publisher
Our friend Ravi Murugesan, a Mumbai-based teacher of scientific writing, shared a story about a Sudanese researcher who contacted him...
Introduction to “Super Closed Access Journals”
There is a new class of scholarly journal. These journals are not open-access. You can’t purchase their articles individually. Individuals...
Icelandic Journal Latest Victim of Journal Hijacking
The old print journal Jökull, published in Iceland since 1951, has been hijacked. The hijackers set up two bogus web sites...
Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals?
by Robert Calin-Jageman and Jeffrey Beall
Society benefits from the results of scientific research in many ways. Scholarly research supports expert testimony in...
A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company
Virtually all the publishers on my list of predatory publishers maintain a website for the publisher with links to, among...
Six New Vanity Presses — One with an Unbelievable Name
Today we present six new (or newly discovered) vanity presses that we have added to the list of predatory publishers.
Intellectual...
David Publishing: Flipping Its Model
This publisher is an enigma to me.
David Publishing made my 2012 list of predatory open-access publishers. I wrote:
“Although this publisher purports...
The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research”
A recent article in the National Review used the term “advocacy research” to describe unscientific articles published in predatory journals to promote a social...
More Duplication of Journal Titles and Conference Names by Predatory Publishers
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve received several emails informing me about two scholarly publishers/conference organizers and their intentional...
