Intensified pressure to publish is a hallmark of a rapidly evolving higher education field
where the faculty of any hue cannot avoid the 'publish or perish'treadmill. Growing need to …

Background Academic publishing is a cornerstone of scholarly communications, yet is
unfortunately open to abuse, having given rise to 'predatory publishers'–groups that employ …

Scholars engage with so‐called predatory or questionable journals for many different
reasons. Among the contributing factors are monetary payoffs and the possibility of fast track …

Predatory journals and publishers are a growing concern in the scholarly publishing arena.
As one type of attempt to address this increasingly important issue, numerous individuals …

Abstract “Predatory” publishing is a non-binary academic phenomenon, but personal and
professional biases may influence the criteria used to create associated blacklists and …

Objective The purpose of predatory open access (OA) journals is primarily to make a profit
rather than to disseminate quality, peer-reviewed research. Publishing in these journals …

Introduction Learning research methodology is increasingly becoming an essential part of
graduate medical education worldwide, with many regulatory and accreditation bodies …

Purpose By distorting the peer review process, predatory journals lure researchers and
collect article processing charges (APCs) to earn income, thereby threatening clinical …

Educating authors and clinicians about predatory publishing and its consequences is vital to
protect scholarship and evidence-based practice and is particularly important for those early …

In our previous study on potentially predatory journal (PPJ) use by undergraduate students,
we found that 0.34% of their journal citations were from PPJ. We could not determine where …