Predatory publishers are opportunistic publishing venues that exploit researchers and professors based on their academic requirements to have their work published. Predatory publishing organizations ...

Texas Tech University academics have been awarded funding to create a training program helping scientists identify and avoid predatory publishers. With support from the National Science Foundation, an ...

“Predatory publishers” promise to publish academic articles for a fee. However, these publishers may not conduct adequate or any peer review and may request bank account or other personal information.

Their websites look like they belong to typical scholarly publishers: august names on editorial boards, claims of rigorous peer review, inclusion in all the right databases. But looks are deceiving.

This article initially appeared in the Society for Technical Communication Intercom Magazine, December 2018 and is used here with permission from both the publisher and the author. In early 2017, a ...

You’re excited that a new journal has accepted your first article for publication. You paid $500 for the privilege of being published, but you believe it was worth it to gain recognition and deepen ...

The Federal Trade Commission is "marking a line in the sand" with its first lawsuit against publishers that take advantage of scholars wishing to publish in open-access journals. The Federal Trade ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major ...

With hundreds of predatory journals appearing and disappearing on a regular basis, researchers need to be vigilant in their approach to unfamiliar publishers. While predatory journals can be difficult ...

Not long ago, Marilyn Oermann, a professor of nursing at Duke University, got an alarming email from a colleague. The researcher in question had submitted an article to a scientific journal. Within 48 ...

When Paul Vaucher received an invitation to submit an article in a special issue of the Journal of Forensic Research, he gladly accepted. A University of Geneva neuroscience PhD student at the time, ...