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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
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attached is the manuscript of an article of ours which will be
published in a week or two in BMC Medicine.<br>
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“Predatory” Open Access – A longitudinal study of article volumes
and market characteristics<br>
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Cenyu Shen* and Bo-Christer Björk<br>
Information Systems Science, Hanken School of Economics, P.O.Box
479, Arkadiankatu 22 00101, Helsinki, FINLAND<br>
*Corresponding author: Cenyu Shen, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cenyu.shen@hanken.fi">cenyu.shen@hanken.fi</a><br>
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best regards<br>
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Bo-Christer<br>
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On 9/9/15 1:24 PM, David Prosser wrote:<br>
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To get an idea of the size of the problem of ‘predatory'
publishers, does anybody know:
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<div>a) the proportion of papers published each year in
‘predatory’ publishers compared to the total number of papers
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<div>b) the proportion of papers published each year in
‘predatory’ publishers compared to the total number of papers
published as Gold OA worldwide.</div>
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<div>If I had to guess, I would say that both proportions are
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<div>On 9 Sep 2015, at 09:42, Richard Poynder <<a
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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.</p>
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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.</p>
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The number of predatory publishers continues to grow
year by year, and yet far too little is still being
done to address the issue.
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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.</p>
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Is it time to approach the problem from a different
direction? </p>
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More here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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