Abstract Ongoing debates surrounding Open Access to the scholarly literature are
multifaceted and complicated by disparate and often polarised viewpoints from engaged …

Background: There is no standardized definition of what a predatory journal is, nor have the
characteristics of these journals been delineated or agreed upon. In order to study the …

Background A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access
publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers and …

This sequential explanatory mixed-methods study investigated where predatory/fake
journals (PFJs) are founded, which countries' researchers publish more frequently in PFJs …

The extent to which predatory journals can harm scientific practice increases as the numbers
of such journals expand, in so far as they undermine scientific integrity, quality, and …

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This study examines the reasons why authors publish in 'predatory'OA journals. In total, 50
journals were randomly selected from Beall's list of 'predatory'journals. Different methods …

Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper
maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation database …

This article systematically reviews recent empirical research on the factors shaping
academics' knowledge about, and motivations to publish work in, so‐called …