Predatory Journals and Publishers

Predatory journals and publishers in Publication ethics.

1. PREDATORY Publisher's AND JOURNALS RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION ETHICS NASEEM BANU S.P

2. Predatory publishing or deceptive publishing is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and without providing editorial and publishing services that legitimate  academic journals provide, whether open access or not. INTRODUCTION

3. Their primary goal is to make money (i.e. there will be fees). They do not care about the quality of the work published (i.e. no or little editing or peer-review). They make false claims or promises (i.e. claims of impact factors and indexing). They engage in unethical business practices (i.e. not as advertised ). Using ISSN improperly Citing or non-existent impact factors They fail to follow accepted standards or best practices of scholarly publishing (various ). Characteristics Of Predatory Publishers

4. What is Predatory Journal? Predatory journal is a publication that actively asks researchers for manuscripts. They have no peer review system and no true editorial board and are often found to publish or even worthless papers They charges huge publication charges. For many, career progression depends on publishing, so one may look for journals that promise to publish all submissions

5. Cabell's Blacklist ------ A New Way to Tackle Predatory Journals Jeffrey Beall - L ibrarian at the University of Colorado in Denver coined the term “predatory publishers” It was launched on June 15. It would publish both “White List” and “Black List.” Approximately 4000 journals were included to the list. Both open access- and subscription-based journals are included. The whitelist database includes 18 academic disciplines from more than 13,000 international scholarly publications as per the website. Cabell’s Blacklist

6. Peer review involves subjecting the author's scholarly work and research to the scrutiny of other experts in the same field to check its validity and evaluate its suitability for publication . A peer review helps the publisher decide whether a work should be accepted. Medical sciences hard hit GOALS OF PEER REVIEW Scholarly work falls within the journal's scope A suitable approach has been taken to address the scientific issues involved Examines the methodology and reproducibility of the work. The peer review will also cover ethical aspects. In addition, the author of the work will generally receive useful advice on how to improve their work. Why Peer Review Is Important?

7. No editorial board No academic expertise Insufficient information Hidden fees Name unrelated to mission or origin Poor website with dead links Unauthorized use of licensed images Republishing published papers Location is hidden Baell’s Criteria – Identifying Fake Journals

8. Software Tool to Identify P redatory P ublications D eveloped B y SPPU Savitribai Phule Pune University appointed a committee to look after the issues of the predatory journals . A recent analysis of who is publishing in such spurious Journals has indicated that most authors in predatory journals are from developing countries, especially India, Nigeria, and some African and Middle East countries. In such a situation, the appointment of this committee by the Hon Vice Chancellor, Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) is commendable.

9. Edanz Journal Selector Edanz is an editing service but also provides journal selection from among 28,554 journals and 12,010,643 abstracts. It uses the cutting-edge semantic technology which can refine the results based on publication frequency and impact factor or publishing model for even open access journals . Elsevier Journal Finder Elsevier Journal Finder using smart search technology and field of research specific vocabularies to match the input with the Elsevier journals to publish them. Journal Finding Tools

10. EndNote Manuscript Matcher requires registration through Web of Science or EndNote register login using the ECU email to give the right journal match for the keywords, title and abstract. Along with the appropriate journal, it also gives the journal impact factor and also related articles. EndNote Manuscript Matcher

11. JANE- Journal/Author Name Estimator (PubMed) JANE tags journals that are currently indexed in MEDLINE and also open access journals approved by DOAJ or Directory of Open Access Journals. It also relies on the data in PubMed to identify high-quality journals from the predatory journals as PubMed contains both kinds of journals in its data.

12. IEEE Publication Recommender It searches 170 + periodicals and 1500 + conferences to compare critical points such as impact factor and submission to publication time for the best match for the scholarly research paper.

13. Elmore, S. A., & Weston, E. H. (2020). Predatory Journals: What They Are and How to Avoid Them.  Toxicologic pathology ,  48 (4), 607–610. https:// doi.org/10.1177/0192623320920209 Grudniewicz , Agnes; Wicherts , Jelte M.; Lalu , Manoj M, etal . (2019).  Predatory journals: no definition, no defence. Nature, 576(7786), 210–212.  doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03759-y  https://pubrica.com/academy/journal-selection/topmost-research-tools-for-selecting-the-best-journal-for-your-research-article/ https://mdanderson.libanswers.com/faq/206446 REFERENCES

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