[GOAL] Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

What many now refer to as predatory publishing first came to my attention 7 years ago, when I interviewed a publisher who - I had been told - was bombarding researchers with invitations to submit papers to, and sit on the editorial boards of, the hundreds of new OA journals it was launching.

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

To get an idea of the size of the problem of ‘predatory' publishers, does anybody know: a) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’ publishers compared to the total number of papers published worldwide; or even b) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:24 AM, David Prosser wrote: > To get an idea of the size of the problem of ‘predatory' publishers, does > anybody know: > > a) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’ publishers > compared to the total number of papers

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Of course being trapped by a predatory publisher is a terrible thing for an individual. Just as sending your bank details to a Nigerian oil scammer and ending up being ripped off is a terrible thing. And some of these ‘publishers’ are behaving reprehensibly. But I think we have the right to

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Nobody said he was inventing the problem. I just want to know the size of it. So what’s your definition of ‘tiny’ Stevan? I would say if articles in ‘predatory’ journals make up less than 5% of total number of paper published, or of papers published in Gold OA, or even of papers published in

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Hi David, Even if anyone knows the answers to your questions they will not capture the nature and size of the problem of predatory publishing, not least because the way in which these companies extract money from researchers is mutating all the time. For instance, some have started to

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Hi all if you look at Walt Crawfords fantastic work on OA-journals ( http://citesandinsights.info/) I think it fair to say that we are talking about 5% of papers published in fully OA-journals charging APCs - I have not done the exact calculations cheers Lars Bjørnshauge On Wed, Sep 9, 2015

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Of course being trapped by a predatory publisher is a terrible thing for an individual. Just as sending your bank details to a Nigerian oil scammer and ending up being ripped off is a terrible thing. And some of these 'publishers' are behaving reprehensibly. But I think we have the right

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 9:07 AM, Lars Bjørnshauge wrote: > Hi all > > if you look at Walt Crawfords fantastic work on OA-journals ( > http://citesandinsights.info/) I think it fair to say that we are talking > about 5% of papers published in fully OA-journals charging APCs - I have

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Dear David and dear all ! A short contribution from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) based on the data underlying of this very short paper: http://beta.briefideas.org/ideas/f2e9ebaa34cd5655203c7de332618061 >From a sample of 683 OA articles with APC coming out of FWF funded projects >between

[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

Thank you for taking this on, Richard. One thought is whether it would be in the best interests of OA to welcome and encourage internal critique. Perhaps if we were quicker to denounce predatory practices, we would have more credibility when we support true friends of OA (to me, this of

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