This article initially appeared in the Society for Technical Communication Intercom Magazine, December 2018 and is used here with permission from both the publisher and the author. In early 2017, a ...

Predatory journals pose a danger that could undermine the quality, integrity, and reliability of published scientific research, a new joint statement from three leading organizations, professional in ...

Predatory journals and political interference threaten scientific independence, undermining research integrity and public trust. Industries, notably tobacco, manipulate science through misinformation ...

With hundreds of predatory journals appearing and disappearing on a regular basis, researchers need to be vigilant in their approach to unfamiliar publishers. While predatory journals can be difficult ...

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Their websites look like they belong to typical scholarly publishers: august names on editorial boards, claims of rigorous peer review, inclusion in all the right databases. But looks are deceiving.

“Predatory publishers” promise to publish academic articles for a fee. However, these publishers may not conduct adequate or any peer review and may request bank account or other personal information.

The global academic space is not owned by the West, and knowledge production is not the exclusive preserve of the United States and Europe. Yet, within Nigerian universities, we have increasingly ...

Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice ...