Reporting on Predatory Journals

Articles

• Esmé E Deprez & Caroline Chen, Medical Journals Have a Fake News Problem, Bloomberg Businessweek, Aug. 29, 2017
• Kevin Carey, Fake Academe, Looking Much Like the Real Thing, N.Y. Times, Dec. 30, 2016
• David Moher & Ester Moher, Stop Predatory Publishers Now: Act Collaboratively, Annals Internal Med. (2016)
• Jocalyn Clark & Richard Smith, Firm Action Needed on Predatory Journals, 350 Brit. Med. J. h210 (2015), doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h210
• Cenyu Shen & Bo-Christer Björk, ‘Predatory’ Open Access: A Longitudinal Study of Article Volumes and Market Characteristics, 13 BMC Medicine 230 (2015), DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0469-2
• John D. Bowman, Predatory Publishing, Questionable Peer Review, and Fraudulent Conferences, 78 Am. J. Pharm. Educ. 176 (2014), doi: 10.5688/ajpe7810176, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4315198/
• Declan Butler, Investigating Journals: The Dark Side of Publishing, 495 Nature 433 (2013)
• Colleen Flaherty, Librarians and Lawyers, Inside Higher Education, Feb 15, 2013

Blogs

• Megan O'Dopnnell, Understanding Predator Publishers, Iowa State University Library, Sep 11, 2018 (recognizing and dealing with predatory journals)
• Fiona McQuarrie, Predatory Journals: An Experiment, All About Work. Jan. 26, 2016 (reporting on the acceptance of nonsensical papers)
• Sherry Towers, Predatory Journals and Conferences, Polymatheia, Dec. 19, 2018 (how to spot predatory journals, conferences, and misleading advertising)