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Jeffrey Beall

University of Colorado Denver

ORCID ID 0000-0001-9012-5330

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Spam email from apredatory mega-journal

ISSN

Quick acceptance

Indexing

International

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Distribution models for scholarlypublishing The traditional model

Validation function

The open-access movement

The gold open-access model (APCs)

Green open-access model

Platinum open-access model

The Big Deal in libraries

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Predatory Publishers

Use the gold open-access model Conflict of interest: more papers = more income

Not all OA journals are bad; not all traditional ones are good

Monetary transactions between authors and publishers are with troubles

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How predatory publishers operate(continued)

Bogus metrics companies Other spam comes from article promotion companies, Lamb

hijacked journals

http://www.citefactor.org/http://journal-index.org/index.php/asi

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My work with predatory publisher

First became interested in 2009 via spam Coined term predatory publisher in summer, 2010

Blog with three lists: publishers, standalone journals, misleametrics. Commentary

My work has been less than perfect

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http://scholarlyoa.com

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Predatoryidentification

Criteria

Lack of transparency (hidinginformation conventionally given bypublishers)

Deception

Dont follow industry standards

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Why predatory publishers areproblematic

They corrupt open-access and give it a bad name Possibly have increased the occurrence of research

misconduct

Threaten demarcation and the cumulative nature ofresearch

Bogus research has affected societal institutions

They have fostered the creation of predatoryconferences

General public has access to bad science

They dont back up their content

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Other

Retraction Watch

Using predatory journals to promote bogus science

Be wary of researchers that approach you with new scienc

Many still unaware of predatory publishers

Academic misconduct

Data and image manipulation

Plagiarism

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Thanks jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.ed