Donald Samulack, President, US Operations, Editage, Cactus Communications, speaks to Jeffrey Beall, author of the blog Scholarly Open Access and the man behind the famous Beall's List of Predatory Publishers, at the Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting held in San Antonio in May 2014. (Part 1 – 10:46, Part 2 – 8:34).
(Source: Editage, 2014)
"According to the complaint, the defendants deceptively claim that their journals provide authors with rigorous peer review and have editorial boards made up of prominent academics when in fact, many articles are published with little to no peer review and many individuals represented to be editors have not agreed to be affiliated with the journals."
"We spent 12 months rigorously characterizing nearly 2,000 biomedical articles from more than 200 journals thought likely to be predatory. More than half of the corresponding authors hailed from high- and upper-middle-income countries as defined by the World Bank."
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Rutgers University Library. (2021). Predatory Publishing: Scholarly Articles. https://libguides.rutgers.edu/predatory/Articles
