[GOAL] Re: Predatory Publishing: A Modest Proposal

[Bo-Christer Björk]

Hi,

attached is the manuscript of an article of ours which will be published 
in a week or two in BMC Medicine.


“Predatory” Open Access – A longitudinal study of article volumes and 
market characteristics

Cenyu Shen* and Bo-Christer Björk
Information Systems Science, Hanken School of Economics, P.O.Box 479, 
Arkadiankatu 22 00101, Helsinki, FINLAND
*Corresponding author: Cenyu Shen, cenyu.shen at hanken.fi

best regards

Bo-Christer



On 9/9/15 1:24 PM, 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 published worldwide; 
> or even
>
> b) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’ 
> publishers compared to the total number of papers published as Gold OA 
> worldwide.
>
>
> If I had to guess, I would say that both proportions are tiny.
>
> David
>
>
>
> On 9 Sep 2015, at 09:42, Richard Poynder <richard.poynder at cantab.net 
> <mailto:richard.poynder at cantab.net>> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> Since then I have undertaken a number of other such interviews, and 
>> with each interview the allegations have tended to become more 
>> worrying — e.g. that the publisher is levying article-processing 
>> charges but not actually sending papers out for review, that it is 
>> publishing junk science, that it is claiming to be a member of a 
>> publishing organisation when in reality it is not a member, that it 
>> is deliberately choosing journal titles that are the same, or very 
>> similar, to those of prestigious journals (or even directly cloning 
>> titles) in order to fool researchers into submitting papers to it 
>> etc. etc.
>>
>> The number of predatory publishers continues to grow year by year, 
>> and yet far too little is still being done to address the issue.
>>
>> Discussion of the problem invariably focuses on the publishers. But 
>> in order to practise their trade predatory publishers depend on the 
>> co-operation of researchers, not least because they have to persuade 
>> a sufficient number to sit on their editorial boards in order to have 
>> any credibility. Without an editorial board a journal will struggle 
>> to attract many submissions.
>>
>> Is it time to approach the problem from a different direction?
>>
>> More here: 
>> http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/predatory-publishing-modest-proposal.html
>>
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