Predatory journals, or journals that charge an article processing charge (APC) to authors, yet do not have the hallmarks of legitimate scholarly journals such as peer review and editing, Editorial Boards, editorial offices, and other editorial standards, pose a number of new ethical issues in journal publishing. This paper discusses ethical issues around predatory journals and publishing in the...

This letter addresses the current scenario ofpredatory publishers in the medical fieldand strategies to curb young researchers frompredatory publishing. Today, the increasingtrend and magnitude of predatory publishershave proposed a big challenge to youngresearchers in the medical field (1). Predatorypublishers are publishers which publish paperswith questionable peer review, charge enormouspub...

BACKGROUND A negative consequence of the rapid growth of scholarly open access publishing funded by article processing charges is the emergence of publishers and journals with highly questionable marketing and peer review practices. These so-called predatory publishers are causing unfounded negative publicity for open access publishing in general. Reports about this branch of e-business have so...

Purpose The academic community has warned that predatory journals may attempt to capitalize on the confusion caused by COVID-19 pandemic further publish low quality work, eroding credibility of scholarly publishing. Design/methodology/approach This article first chronicles risks publishing, especially related misinformation surrounding health research. Next, author offers an empirical investiga...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to identify predatory journals in nursing, describe their characteristics and editorial standards, and document experiences of authors, peer reviewers, and editors affiliated with these journals. DESIGN Using two sources that list predatory journals, the research team created a list of nursing journals. In Phase One, the team collected data on characteris...

Jeffrey Beall, a US librarian, coined the term “predatory publishing” specifically to describe movement or phenomenon of open access (OA) journals and publishers that he others believed displayed exploitative unscholarly principles. Using blog transmit those ideas, profiling specific cases using blacklists, one most polemic aspects Beall's was its tendency attract incite academic radicalism. Be...

The 1960s represent an important chapter in U.S. business history, partly because they ushered in a new tactic of corporate combination-the predatory takeover Predatory takeovers not only facilitate the restructuring of corporate enterprises, they also alter the internal structure of the business elite. We explore the factors that led large corporations to be acquired through friendly and preda...

Regulators express growing concern over “predatory lending,” which we take to mean lending that reduces the expected utility of borrowers. We present a rational model of consumer credit in which such lending is possible, and we identify the circumstances in which it arises with and without competition. Predatory lending is associated with imperfect competition, highly collateralized loans, and ...

Regulators express growing concern over “predatory lending,” which we take to mean lending that reduces the expected utility of borrowers. We present a rational model of consumer credit in which such lending is possible and we identify the circumstances in which it arises with and without competition. Predatory lending is associated with imperfect competition, highly collateralized loans and po...