On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 6:24 AM, David Prosser <david.pros...@rluk.ac.uk> wrote:
> To get an idea of the size of the problem of ‘predatory' publishers, does > anybody know: > > a) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’ publishers > compared to the total number of papers published worldwide; or even > > b) the proportion of papers published each year in ‘predatory’ publishers > compared to the total number of papers published as Gold OA worldwide. > > If I had to guess, I would say that both proportions are tiny. > Richard may be over-estimating the size of the problem, but he is not inventing it, and I doubt it's tiny. And the right comparison is as a percentage of paid Gold, not Gold. SH > > On 9 Sep 2015, at 09:42, Richard Poynder <richard.poyn...@cantab.net> > wrote: > > 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. > > > > 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. > > > > The number of predatory publishers continues to grow year by year, and yet > far too little is still being done to address the issue. > > > > 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. > > > > Is it time to approach the problem from a different direction? > > > > More here: > http://poynder.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09/predatory-publishing-modest-proposal.html > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > > > > _______________________________________________ > GOAL mailing list > GOAL@eprints.org > http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal > >
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