Word of the Federal Trade Commission’s $50 million court judgment against OMICS International and its owner, Srinubabu Gedela, has reached all corners of the academic community. While there is no question this is a step in the right direction, there is little reason to believe this will do much to slow the growing problem of … Continue reading FTC’s victory will educate, but will it deter?
Do we need the Journal Blacklist?
As any scholar will attest, one of the most annoying aspects of becoming an academic author is the incessant emails popping into your inbox on a daily basis offering to publish your next article for a knockdown price – in just a few weeks’ time, in a subject area you know nothing about, for a … Continue reading Do we need the Journal Blacklist?
Blacklist Journals Overtake Whitelist
What’s in a number? Well, when the number of bad journals overtakes the number of good journals, we may have something to worry about. Simon Linacre takes a brief look behind the figures and shares some insight into the current dynamics of scholarly publishing. Right up there with ‘How many grains of sand are there … Continue reading Blacklist Journals Overtake Whitelist
Yosemite Sam is at Yale University? And he’s on the editorial board of an academic journal??
According to the fraudulent ‘journal’ American Journal of Biomedical Science & Research, published by Biomed Research and Technology, the answer is yes on both counts. Thanks to a tip from a subscriber—a librarian who, along with several colleagues, received an email calling for editorial board members for this publication—our Journal Blacklist team initiated an investigation … Continue reading Yosemite Sam is at Yale University? And he’s on the editorial board of an academic journal??
Curiosity, curation and cures
In his latest post, Simon Linacre considers ways to solve new problems in an old industry from CISPC 2018 This week saw the second hosting of the Challenges in the Scholarly Publishing Cycle (CISPC) event in London, where a motley collection of publishers, librarians and researchers convened to discuss the latest issues in the scholarly … Continue reading Curiosity, curation and cures
What lies beneath
On announcing that the Journal Blacklist has reached 10,000 journals - 10,060 to be precise - there have been two broad reactions. One group of people have said, 'Wow, I didn't even know there were 10,000 journals in total!', while another group has said, 'Wow, I bet that's just scratching the surface.' This underlines the … Continue reading What lies beneath
Tracking predatory publishers
Recently, we here at Cabells were fortunate enough to have an article (Cabells’ Journal Whitelist and Blacklist: Intelligent data for informed journal submissions) published in Learned Publishing, the journal of the Association of Learned & Professional Society Publishers, which is read around the world. We were very excited about this opportunity and received many wonderful … Continue reading Tracking predatory publishers