what is predatory publishing?
what is predatory publishing?
"predatory publishers or journals are those which charge authors a fee for publication with no intention of providing the expected services – such as editorial or peer review – in return. charging a fee is a legitimate business model, but the publisher should be providing a good publishing service in return. authors, realizing that they have submitted their paper to a questionable publisher, can find they are charged a large fee if they want to withdraw their article"*
*about predatory publishing • think. check. submit. (n.d.). think. check. submit. retrieved july 28, 2022, from https://thinkchecksubmit.org/resources/about-predatory-publishing/
think, check, submit
what to look out for?
- is this journal scholary? is it connected to a scholarly organization or publisher?
- is it peer reviewed?
- what are the submission policies of the journal?
- is it indexed in a trusted database or index? (pubmed, psycinfo)
- is the title of the journal similar to a highly cited journal?
- are there grammatical errors on the journal homepage?
- are you receiving unsolicited or spam email?
helpful tools
- cabell's scholarly analytics this link opens in a new windowcabell's is the complete source for journal info, evaluation metrics, and submission details-for universities of any size.
- doaj (directory of open access journals) this link opens in a new windowan online directory that indexes and provides access to quality open access, peer-reviewed journals.