Arbitral action and preventive methods against predatory journal practice

Canadian cardiac journal turns "predatory".

Protecting against Predatory Practices

A major reason for security professionals not seeming able to protect fully against the rapidly changing threat environment and sophisticated attacks is that they often don’t have available the necessary application security data for detecting and responding to such increasingly stealthy attacks. Furthermore, easily generated application security data are generally not reported timely or accura...

Protecting against Predatory Practices

Software security represents a major concern as cyber attacks continue to grow in number and sophistication. One security-weakening factor is related to the standardized software ecosystem that facilitates the spread of malware in systems that share common vulnerabilities. In this overview article, the main concepts associated with diversity and software redundancy are described in the perspect...

Predatory publishers: Time for action

Plenty is being written about predatory publishers (Clark & Thompson, 2017; Pickler et al., 2015) but little is being done to stop them. The one valiant effort to expose them: Beall’s List of Predatory publishers, has been forcibly removed from the Internet (Watson, 2017a), and while someone else has made the list available online (http://beallslist. weebly.com/; accessed 18 September 2017), th...

Arbitral Functions and Constitutive Rules

It is nowadays widely recognized that constitutive rules play a key role in social ontology. Their definitional character is the primary source of the meaning of every rule-based activity, but what can ensure the persistence of this activity? The most common reply found in literature is to rely on social acceptance; even though this is certainly true, it is nonetheless not sufficient to explain...