Predatory Publishing Is Alive and Well

Predatory publishing is no joke.

I often receive e-mails inviting me to submit papers to what seem to be legitimate journals. The journals’ names look familiar, their editorial boards list wellcredentialed professionals, and some of these journals even claim to have impact factor rankings. Their invitations are tempting, promising expedient peer review and publication. If I were a new author eager to publish and unfamiliar wit...

Predatory publishing and you.

Once upon a time there was an academic librarian at the University of Colorado who led a quiet librarian life until the day he noticed predators in the midst of scholarly publishing. Jeffrey Beall discovered, studied, revealed, and blogged about what he would eventually name Predatory Publishing. His Web site, Scholarly Open Access (http:// scholarlyoa.com), is an increasingly important source ...

The impact bias is alive and well.

A substantial body of research on affective forecasting has found that people often overestimate the affective impact of future events. Levine, Lench, Kaplan, and Safer (2012) argued that whereas people may overestimate the duration of their emotional responses, they do not overestimate the initial intensity of these responses as much as previous research has suggested. We suggest that Levine e...

The Yentl syndrome is alive and well.

More women than men die annually from ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in the developed world. This represents a reversal of fortune from previous decades and places women firmly as the new majority now impacted. Notably, the adverse IHD gender gap is the widest in relatively young women, where myocardial infarction (MI) mortality is 2-fold higher in women under 50 years compared with age-matched ...

Authority Control is Alive and ... Well ? Richard