#predatorypublishers — Public Fediverse posts

Awareness of Predatory Journals and Open Access: an online survey among Italian Researchers

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2026/09/16/awareness-of-predatory-journals-and-open-access-an-online-survey-among-italian-researchers/

#EvaMndez #NriaBautistaPuig #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers #ScholarlyPublishing #ScientificCommunication #SilviaMaccarini

Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Mise à jour du référentiel pour les livres et articles #predatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers
https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Mise à jour du référentiel pour les livres et articles #predatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers
https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Identify trusted publishers for your research • Think. Check. Submit.
Mise à jour du référentiel pour les livres et articles #predatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers
https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing

There’s a short article on arXiv with the title How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM which is well worth reading. The abstract is not useful but the prelude reads:

Prelude. In November 2023, Clarivate announced that it had excluded the entire field of mathematics from the latest edition of its influential list of ‘highly cited researchers’. This prompted the IMU and the ICIAM to conduct a more thorough investigation into the problem of fraudulent publishing in the mathematical sciences (see [1]). Understanding the problem is one thing; finding a way out and regaining control is another. With the recommendations given below, we would like to start the discussion on how, as a global community, we can achieve this. We are all concerned. It affects the very core of the science we love so much. I.A.

arXiv:2509.09877

The paper correctly identifies predatory journals and citation cartels as two consequences of the effort to quantify and rank the quality of research through scientific ‘performance indicators’, in the form of bibliometric measures and suggests some possible remedies.

Many of the recommendations are already included in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (SFDORA). Many also apply beyond the mathematical sciences (which is why I dropped the Mathematical Sciences bit in the title of the paper from the title of this blog post) and it’s not a long paper so I suggest you read it.

In my view one of the most important steps to take is to ditch the reliance on such companies as Scopus and Clarivate, who have deliberately constructed a system that is so easy to game. All higher education institutes should follow the examples of the Sorbonne University in Paris and, more recently, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The academic publishing racket is inherently fraudulent. Too many universities, and indeed researchers employed by them, are willing participants in the system.

#arXiv250909877 #CitationCartels #Clarivate #DORA #PredatoryPublishers #SanFranciscoDeclarationOnResearchAssessment #SCOPUS #SFDORA

How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing

There’s a short article on arXiv with the title How to Fight Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences: Joint Recommendations of the IMU and the ICIAM which is well worth reading. The abstract is not useful but the prelude reads:

Prelude. In November 2023, Clarivate announced that it had excluded the entire field of mathematics from the latest edition of its influential list of ‘highly cited researchers’. This prompted the IMU and the ICIAM to conduct a more thorough investigation into the problem of fraudulent publishing in the mathematical sciences (see [1]). Understanding the problem is one thing; finding a way out and regaining control is another. With the recommendations given below, we would like to start the discussion on how, as a global community, we can achieve this. We are all concerned. It affects the very core of the science we love so much. I.A.

arXiv:2509.09877

The paper correctly identifies predatory journals and citation cartels as two consequences of the effort to quantify and rank the quality of research through scientific ‘performance indicators’, in the form of bibliometric measures and suggests some possible remedies.

Many of the recommendations are already included in the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (SFDORA). Many also apply beyond the mathematical sciences (which is why I dropped the Mathematical Sciences bit in the title of the paper from the title of this blog post) and it’s not a long paper so I suggest you read it.

In my view one of the most important steps to take is to ditch the reliance on such companies as Scopus and Clarivate, who have deliberately constructed a system that is so easy to game. All higher education institutes should follow the examples of the Sorbonne University in Paris and, more recently, Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The academic publishing racket is inherently fraudulent. Too many universities, and indeed researchers employed by them, are willing participants in the system.

#arXiv250909877 #CitationCartels #Clarivate #DORA #PredatoryPublishers #SanFranciscoDeclarationOnResearchAssessment #SCOPUS #SFDORA

Why does ResearchGate have Ads for Hindawi Journals ? #PredatoryPublishers

Why does ResearchGate have Ads for Hindawi Journals ? #PredatoryPublishers

Why does ResearchGate have Ads for Hindawi Journals ? #PredatoryPublishers

Why does ResearchGate have Ads for Hindawi Journals ? #PredatoryPublishers

Did anyone of you already receive #peerreview that was obviously created by #LLM? I can see how #predatorypublishers speed up their publication cycles, get rid of costly human interactions and deliver some seemingly plausible text to authors by just throwing manuscripts at a LLM and then let it generate reviews.

@academicchatter

Did anyone of you already receive #peerreview that was obviously created by #LLM? I can see how #predatorypublishers speed up their publication cycles, get rid of costly human interactions and deliver some seemingly plausible text to authors by just throwing manuscripts at a LLM and then let it generate reviews.

@academicchatter

Did anyone of you already receive #peerreview that was obviously created by #LLM? I can see how #predatorypublishers speed up their publication cycles, get rid of costly human interactions and deliver some seemingly plausible text to authors by just throwing manuscripts at a LLM and then let it generate reviews.

@academicchatter

Did anyone of you already receive #peerreview that was obviously created by #LLM? I can see how #predatorypublishers speed up their publication cycles, get rid of costly human interactions and deliver some seemingly plausible text to authors by just throwing manuscripts at a LLM and then let it generate reviews.

@academicchatter

Did anyone of you already receive #peerreview that was obviously created by #LLM? I can see how #predatorypublishers speed up their publication cycles, get rid of costly human interactions and deliver some seemingly plausible text to authors by just throwing manuscripts at a LLM and then let it generate reviews.

@academicchatter

Reflections on #PredatoryPublishers from a survey of researchers: whole spectrum of responses including those who understood the publishers were predatory but still went with them as a way to progress their careers through to those experiencing cyber crime

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Suggests institutions should take a lead in supporting #researchers to understand the #ScientificPublishing landscape better, and that needs differ in low- and middle-income countries

#ResearchIntegrity #Equity

Reflections on #PredatoryPublishers from a survey of researchers: whole spectrum of responses including those who understood the publishers were predatory but still went with them as a way to progress their careers through to those experiencing cyber crime

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Suggests institutions should take a lead in supporting #researchers to understand the #ScientificPublishing landscape better, and that needs differ in low- and middle-income countries

#ResearchIntegrity #Equity

Reflections on #PredatoryPublishers from a survey of researchers: whole spectrum of responses including those who understood the publishers were predatory but still went with them as a way to progress their careers through to those experiencing cyber crime

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Suggests institutions should take a lead in supporting #researchers to understand the #ScientificPublishing landscape better, and that needs differ in low- and middle-income countries

#ResearchIntegrity #Equity

Reflections on #PredatoryPublishers from a survey of researchers: whole spectrum of responses including those who understood the publishers were predatory but still went with them as a way to progress their careers through to those experiencing cyber crime

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Suggests institutions should take a lead in supporting #researchers to understand the #ScientificPublishing landscape better, and that needs differ in low- and middle-income countries

#ResearchIntegrity #Equity

Reflections on #PredatoryPublishers from a survey of researchers: whole spectrum of responses including those who understood the publishers were predatory but still went with them as a way to progress their careers through to those experiencing cyber crime

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

Suggests institutions should take a lead in supporting #researchers to understand the #ScientificPublishing landscape better, and that needs differ in low- and middle-income countries

#ResearchIntegrity #Equity

[Pre-print] #Predatory Journals on #Twitter: The Lack of Community Engagement

By Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher https://goo.gl/scholar/2c5mz7

#PredatoryJournals #OAPred #PredatoryPublishers #publishing #research #OMICS #scholComm

[Pre-print] #Predatory Journals on #Twitter: The Lack of Community Engagement

By Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher https://goo.gl/scholar/2c5mz7

#PredatoryJournals #OAPred #PredatoryPublishers #publishing #research #OMICS #scholComm

[Pre-print] #Predatory Journals on #Twitter: The Lack of Community Engagement

By Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher https://goo.gl/scholar/2c5mz7

#PredatoryJournals #OAPred #PredatoryPublishers #publishing #research #OMICS #scholComm

[Pre-print] #Predatory Journals on #Twitter: The Lack of Community Engagement

By Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher https://goo.gl/scholar/2c5mz7

#PredatoryJournals #OAPred #PredatoryPublishers #publishing #research #OMICS #scholComm

@erinnacland @ElisabethBik @academicchatter Is Hindawi refunding all those publication fees? #PredatoryPublishers

@erinnacland @ElisabethBik @academicchatter Is Hindawi refunding all those publication fees? #PredatoryPublishers

@erinnacland @ElisabethBik @academicchatter Is Hindawi refunding all those publication fees? #PredatoryPublishers

@erinnacland @ElisabethBik @academicchatter Is Hindawi refunding all those publication fees? #PredatoryPublishers

@erinnacland @ElisabethBik @academicchatter Is Hindawi refunding all those publication fees? #PredatoryPublishers

Over on NeuroDojo, @DoctorZen reports the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia won't fund publications in Hindawi, Frontier and #MDPI 🤨http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2023/08/malaysia-puts-pressure-on-researchers.html Presumably they have reason to consider them #PredatoryPublishers but not stated in the annoucment... and did they mean Frontiers Media SA?

Over on NeuroDojo, @DoctorZen reports the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia won't fund publications in Hindawi, Frontier and #MDPI 🤨http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2023/08/malaysia-puts-pressure-on-researchers.html Presumably they have reason to consider them #PredatoryPublishers but not stated in the annoucment... and did they mean Frontiers Media SA?

Over on NeuroDojo, @DoctorZen reports the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia won't fund publications in Hindawi, Frontier and #MDPI 🤨http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2023/08/malaysia-puts-pressure-on-researchers.html Presumably they have reason to consider them #PredatoryPublishers but not stated in the annoucment... and did they mean Frontiers Media SA?

Over on NeuroDojo, @DoctorZen reports the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia won't fund publications in Hindawi, Frontier and #MDPI 🤨http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2023/08/malaysia-puts-pressure-on-researchers.html Presumably they have reason to consider them #PredatoryPublishers but not stated in the annoucment... and did they mean Frontiers Media SA?

Over on NeuroDojo, @DoctorZen reports the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia won't fund publications in Hindawi, Frontier and #MDPI 🤨http://neurodojo.blogspot.com/2023/08/malaysia-puts-pressure-on-researchers.html Presumably they have reason to consider them #PredatoryPublishers but not stated in the annoucment... and did they mean Frontiers Media SA?

[ebook] #Predatory Practices in Scholarly #Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship. Routledge

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170723

#PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers #PredatoryPublishing #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #OAPred #OpenAccess #HigherEd #research #ethics

cc @Bernardpo

[ebook] #Predatory Practices in Scholarly #Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship. Routledge

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170723

#PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers #PredatoryPublishing #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #OAPred #OpenAccess #HigherEd #research #ethics

cc @Bernardpo

[ebook] #Predatory Practices in Scholarly #Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship. Routledge

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170723

#PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers #PredatoryPublishing #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #OAPred #OpenAccess #HigherEd #research #ethics

cc @Bernardpo

[ebook] #Predatory Practices in Scholarly #Publishing and Knowledge Sharing: Causes and Implications for Scholarship. Routledge

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003170723

#PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishers #PredatoryPublishing #scholcomm #ScholarlyCommunication #OAPred #OpenAccess #HigherEd #research #ethics

cc @Bernardpo

For those in #Academia, who still think there's a difference between #PredatoryPublishers and the "legit" nigh-profitable ones, some pieces of text seen in a just published paper in "Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution"
https://www.springer.com/journal/10722

Given the properly billion of profit after tax, SpringerNature generates for Holtzbrinck's shareholders, what about hiring at least some English proof-readers?

For those in #Academia, who still think there's a difference between #PredatoryPublishers and the "legit" nigh-profitable ones, some pieces of text seen in a just published paper in "Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution"
https://www.springer.com/journal/10722

Given the properly billion of profit after tax, SpringerNature generates for Holtzbrinck's shareholders, what about hiring at least some English proof-readers?

For those in #Academia, who still think there's a difference between #PredatoryPublishers and the "legit" nigh-profitable ones, some pieces of text seen in a just published paper in "Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution"
https://www.springer.com/journal/10722

Given the properly billion of profit after tax, SpringerNature generates for Holtzbrinck's shareholders, what about hiring at least some English proof-readers?

For those in #Academia, who still think there's a difference between #PredatoryPublishers and the "legit" nigh-profitable ones, some pieces of text seen in a just published paper in "Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution"
https://www.springer.com/journal/10722

Given the properly billion of profit after tax, SpringerNature generates for Holtzbrinck's shareholders, what about hiring at least some English proof-readers?

For those in #Academia, who still think there's a difference between #PredatoryPublishers and the "legit" nigh-profitable ones, some pieces of text seen in a just published paper in "Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution"
https://www.springer.com/journal/10722

Given the properly billion of profit after tax, SpringerNature generates for Holtzbrinck's shareholders, what about hiring at least some English proof-readers?

The right to reject an unwanted #citations: do we need it?
A letter to Scientometrics editors

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04702-9

#metrics #predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #publishing

The right to reject an unwanted #citations: do we need it?
A letter to Scientometrics editors

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04702-9

#metrics #predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #publishing

The right to reject an unwanted #citations: do we need it?
A letter to Scientometrics editors

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11192-023-04702-9

#metrics #predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #publishing

Beware of #predatory publishing – but also of low-quality #blacklists
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg

👉 "We should be wary of low-quality #journals and predatory #OA #publishing. But we should also know which sources’ judgement to trust. Is the new website Predatory Reports a trustworthy source of information?"

https://doi.org/10.7557/11.7010

#predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #predatorypublishing #openscience

Beware of #predatory publishing – but also of low-quality #blacklists
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg

👉 "We should be wary of low-quality #journals and predatory #OA #publishing. But we should also know which sources’ judgement to trust. Is the new website Predatory Reports a trustworthy source of information?"

https://doi.org/10.7557/11.7010

#predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #predatorypublishing #openscience

Beware of #predatory publishing – but also of low-quality #blacklists
By Jan Erik Frantsvåg

👉 "We should be wary of low-quality #journals and predatory #OA #publishing. But we should also know which sources’ judgement to trust. Is the new website Predatory Reports a trustworthy source of information?"

https://doi.org/10.7557/11.7010

#predatoryjournals #predatorypublishers #predatorypublishing #openscience

Looking for the right journal for your research?

Have a read of this @dem_researcher blog post on #PredatoryPublishers & step-by-step considerations to choose the right journal.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-find-the-right-journal-for-your-research-avoid-predators/

Looking for the right journal for your research?

Have a read of this @dem_researcher blog post on #PredatoryPublishers & step-by-step considerations to choose the right journal.
https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk/guest-blog-find-the-right-journal-for-your-research-avoid-predators/

Beware of predatory publishers

https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/beware-of-predatory-publishers/

In all likelihood, you also get numerous requests to #review articles, contribute articles to special issues, compile or edit a special issue, or even to join an editorial board.

Recently colleagues asked me how to deal with such requests. Most of these requests come from #PredatoryPublishers such as SCIRP, MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.

Beware of predatory publishers

https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/beware-of-predatory-publishers/

In all likelihood, you also get numerous requests to #review articles, contribute articles to special issues, compile or edit a special issue, or even to join an editorial board.

Recently colleagues asked me how to deal with such requests. Most of these requests come from #PredatoryPublishers such as SCIRP, MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.

Beware of predatory publishers

https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/beware-of-predatory-publishers/

In all likelihood, you also get numerous requests to #review articles, contribute articles to special issues, compile or edit a special issue, or even to join an editorial board.

Recently colleagues asked me how to deal with such requests. Most of these requests come from #PredatoryPublishers such as SCIRP, MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.

Beware of predatory publishers

https://renebekkers.wordpress.com/2023/03/27/beware-of-predatory-publishers/

In all likelihood, you also get numerous requests to #review articles, contribute articles to special issues, compile or edit a special issue, or even to join an editorial board.

Recently colleagues asked me how to deal with such requests. Most of these requests come from #PredatoryPublishers such as SCIRP, MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers.

so... re: the new discourse on #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPublishers... y'all know that's industry propaganda right? the "think, check, submit" thing is a dead giveaway. see the contributing organizations section: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/about/

Who exactly benefits from labeling journals as predatory publishers? might be the industry they're siphoning off business from. As APC-driven OA really becomes dominant, the big 5 will of course launch more of their own journals with indistinguishable practices, just a lot more lobbying and branding power. Don't take my word for it, that's just what they have literally said they're going to do.

so... re: the new discourse on #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPublishers... y'all know that's industry propaganda right? the "think, check, submit" thing is a dead giveaway. see the contributing organizations section: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/about/

Who exactly benefits from labeling journals as predatory publishers? might be the industry they're siphoning off business from. As APC-driven OA really becomes dominant, the big 5 will of course launch more of their own journals with indistinguishable practices, just a lot more lobbying and branding power. Don't take my word for it, that's just what they have literally said they're going to do.

so... re: the new discourse on #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPublishers... y'all know that's industry propaganda right? the "think, check, submit" thing is a dead giveaway. see the contributing organizations section: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/about/

Who exactly benefits from labeling journals as predatory publishers? might be the industry they're siphoning off business from. As APC-driven OA really becomes dominant, the big 5 will of course launch more of their own journals with indistinguishable practices, just a lot more lobbying and branding power. Don't take my word for it, that's just what they have literally said they're going to do.

so... re: the new discourse on #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPublishers... y'all know that's industry propaganda right? the "think, check, submit" thing is a dead giveaway. see the contributing organizations section: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/about/

Who exactly benefits from labeling journals as predatory publishers? might be the industry they're siphoning off business from. As APC-driven OA really becomes dominant, the big 5 will of course launch more of their own journals with indistinguishable practices, just a lot more lobbying and branding power. Don't take my word for it, that's just what they have literally said they're going to do.

so... re: the new discourse on #PredatoryPublishing #PredatoryPublishers... y'all know that's industry propaganda right? the "think, check, submit" thing is a dead giveaway. see the contributing organizations section: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/about/

Who exactly benefits from labeling journals as predatory publishers? might be the industry they're siphoning off business from. As APC-driven OA really becomes dominant, the big 5 will of course launch more of their own journals with indistinguishable practices, just a lot more lobbying and branding power. Don't take my word for it, that's just what they have literally said they're going to do.