This article discusses the growing problem of predatory lending, particularly in low-income, inner city neighborhoods, with a case study of communities in Syracuse, New York. The author documents mortgage lending activities and foreclosure patterns in central New York and argues for continued education throughout the home-buying process. A program that reduced foreclosures in low-income urban n...

ABSTRACT- Several species of aphids cause severe damage to citrus in the north of Iran. Predatory insects play an important role in biological control of the pests in citrus orchards. In this study, potential predatory insects of citrus aphids, Aphis spiraecola, A. gossypii and Toxoptera aurantii, were identified and their seasonal population dynamics...

Predatory publishing venues publish questionable articles and pose a global threat to the integrity quality of scientific literature. They have given rise dark side scholarly their effects reached political, societal, economic, health aspects. Given consequences proliferation, several solutions been developed help detect them; however, these are manual time-consuming. While researchers, student...

Cloned journals develop a mirror image of reputed and attract more articles than predatory journals. Journal Positive School Psychology (JPSP) is one such Scopus indexed journal that has been cloned used as case study for this article. JPSP (cloned journal) published over 3,000 in its last four issues (2nd to 5th) 2022. Volume 6 No.2 (2022) 6,302 pages, No.3 10,210 No.4 11,881 No.5 4,335 pages....

I have been closely following and participating in the open-access (OA) movement since 2008. In that year, when the gold OA model fi rst began to be implemented on a large scale, I noticed the appearance of several new publishers that lacked transparency and used deceptive websites to attract manuscript sub missions and the accompanying author fees. Initially, I printed out copies of their web ...

This study focuses on the phenomenon of presumed predatory scientific publications in field Educational Sciences, and utilization email by editors to request manuscripts. It examined, using content analysis methods, 210 emails received three professors Education, at a Spanish university with different research profiles over period 3 months. Through unsolicited total 139 journals 37 publishers w...

The issue of “predatory journal” has become a major concern within the academic domain. This paper outlines underlying reasons behind publishing in predatory journals mainly by some authors from developing countries. I conducted semi-structured telephone interviews with fifty six countries who have already published their papers journals. recorded whole interview and later documented those conv...

مقدمه:امروزه تعدد و کیفیت نامعلوم مجلات حیطه‏های مختلف علوم پزشکی، پژوهشگران را در انتخاب مجله مناسب برای انتشار نتایج تحقیقات علمی سردرگم کرده است. شاید معیارهای سنجش کیفیت مجلات بتوانند این مشکل را تا حدودی حل کنند؛ لذا مطالعه حاضر با هدف بررسی کیفیت مجلات حوزه‏ زنان و مامایی بر اساس شاخص‏های رتبه‏بندی مجلات در پایگاه‏های اطلاعاتی معتبر انجام شد. روش کار: این مطالعه به صورت توصیفی تحلیلی و به...

introduction: today, huge quantity of medical journals with indescribable quality, have confused health researchers while choosing a suitable journal to publish their scientific results. it seems that quality measuring criteria of journals could have solved this problem to some extent. in this study, we studied quality of journals of obstetrics and gynecology field indexed in the valid database...