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It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter

posted by martyb on Wednesday August 08 2018, @07:51AM   Printer-friendly
from the Publish-AND-Perish dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The first solid indication of how widespread this problem really is came with last year's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) action against one of the largest and most profitable of the alleged predators, the prolific journal publisher and conference organizer OMICS, which publishes 785 titles generating over $50M in annual revenues. The FTC alleges that OMICS makes false promises of peer review in return for article processing charges (APCs), assesses those charges without disclosing them up front (then refuses to let authors withdraw their papers from submission), and lies about both the membership of its editorial boards and the names of presenters at the many conferences it sponsors - all classic examples of predatory publishing practices.

Now comes a small flood of even more alarming reports [...]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:40PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 08 2018, @01:40PM (#718770)

    There is no way these journals could exist without authors submitting papers. Who sends a paper to a journal that they've never heard of? It must be authors who are padding their CV.