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Predatory Journals: Write, Submit, and Publish the Next Day

Hakami, Ramzi
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/predatory_journals_write_submit_and_publish_the_next_day

Publisher:  www.csicop.org
Date Written:  01/09/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Predatory journals can be defined as "publications [that take] large fees without providing robust editorial or publishing services." They usually "recruit articles through aggressive marketing and spam emails, promising quick review and open access publication for a price. There is little if any quality control and virtually no transparency about processes and fees. Their motive is financial gain, and they are corrupting the communication of science. Their main victims are institutions and researchers in low and middle income countries..."

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Unfortunately, fake journals have increased aggressively and succeeded in establishing their positions in the world of academic writing, which may lead, if they remain unquestioned, to what Frank Truth calls "academic racketeering" (Truth 2012).

In 2010, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Jeffrey Beall, developed a list of "predatory open-access journals" (Beall 2012; 2017). At the beginning, there were only twenty journals on his blacklist, but by 2013 the number exceeded 300 (Kolata 2013). One on Beall's list of "questionable, scholarly open-access publishers" (Beall 2017) is the journal of choice among many of my undergraduate colleagues and even professors who used to be very happy when they received the acceptance letter and request to pay not more than $50. It seemed to me like charity, and I wanted to be one of those lucky international researchers publishing via this "Research Publish Journals" organization (http://www.researchpublish.com/).

Day #1: A Well-Organized Website and a Prestigious Editorial Board

The first marketing bubble I found at researchpublish.com was this question "Why choose us?" I was very suspicious when I read one of their answers: "Presence of large numbers of if's and buts in paper submission process of other Journals require lots of effort of authors unnecessarily." I stopped reading and said to myself: "What a wonderful beginning!" As any English beginner would notice, there are many grammar and writing mistakes in addition to the poor writing quality. I was not shocked because I expected that.

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