Predatory journals are journals that do not adhere to best editorial and publication practices.
They often provide false or misleading information. Similarly, predatory journals have a long …

Accepted: 8 November 2017/Published online: 13 November 2017© Springer-Verlag GmbH
Germany, part of Springer Nature 2017 org/), Journal Guide by Research Square …

One of the latest threats emerged to the integrity of academic publishing is predatory
journals. These journals have paved the way for low-quality articles by exploiting gold open …

Seemingly unscrupulous entities, referred to as “predatory” journals, have appeared in
scholarly publishing over the past decade. Predatory journals have been characterized as …

Science progresses on the basis of data generated by honest and trustworthy research
published in peer reviewed journals. Over the last few years, the confidence in published …

We thank the author of the recent letter to the Editor [1] for commenting on our article on the
listing of scientific journals [2]. We would like to reiterate and discuss further a few important …

Predatory journals are a blemish on scholarly publishing and academia and the studies
published within them are more likely to contain data that is false. The inclusion of studies …

Predatory journals (PJ) exploit the open-access model promising high acceptance rate and
fast track publishing without proper peer review. At minimum, PJ are eroding the credibility of …

Over the past decade a group of scholarly journals have proliferated that have become
known as “predatory journals” produced by “predatory publishers.”“Predatory” refers to the …

Dear Editor-in-Chief, We read with great interest the articles on predatory practices by Beall
(1) and Gasparyan et al.(2). As editors and editorial board members of the Indian Journal of …