"Predatory journals solicit articles from researchers through practices that exploit the pressure on researchers to publish. Features of predatory journals include rapid pay-to-publish models without rigorous peer-review, fake editorial boards falsely listing respected scientists, fraudulent impact factors, journal titles that are deceptively similar to those of legitimate journals, paid review articles that promote fake science, and aggressive spam invitations to submit articles, including outside of a researcher’s expertise. Furthermore, it is common practice for predatory journals to exploit the “author-pays” model of open access for financial gain."
-Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences published by InterAcademy Partnership
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Solicitation |
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Peer Review |
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Impact Factors |
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Editorial Board |
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Indexing |
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Watch lists |
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Other Factors |
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Used with the kind permission of Meg Shields, Digital Services Librarian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell Library