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Debasing the Currency of Science: The Growing Menace of Predatory Open Access Journals
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In recent years, the scientific publishing world has seen the creation and rapid growth of online journals, which do not respect the long-standing gentleman's agreement that has functioned as the primary quality-control mechanism for science: bona fide peer review and editorial oversight. Such predatory journals take advantage of the low cost and ease of online “publishing,” the open access movement, and use feigned associations with international standards and misleading claims of impact factors, aimed at deceiving researchers (especially inexperienced scientists) into believing they are legitimate. We present the history, evolution, and tactics of such journals, as well as recommendations for dealing with this threat to science itself.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beninger, P. G., Beall, J., & Shumway, S. E.
- Affiliations
- Université de Nantes (FR)
- University of Colorado Denver (US)
- University of Connecticut (US)
- Corresponding author
- Beninger, Peter G.
- Venue
- Journal of Shellfish Research
- Publisher
- National Shellfisheries Association
- Published
- 2016-04
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-5
- ISSN
- 0730-8000 (ISSN-L)
- 1943-6319
- OpenAlex
- W2346218582
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 11
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 7 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 7 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 11.99
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- other-oa
- Locations
- Journal of Shellfish Research (publishedVersion, other-oa)
- BioOne Complete (BioOne) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Academic Publishing and Open Access
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › Publishing and Scholarly Communication
- Social Sciences › Library and Information Sciences › scientometrics and bibliometrics research
- Keywords
- predatory journals, open access movement, peer review, editorial oversight, publication ethics, electronic journals
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