“Dear readers, greetings for the day. We hope this editorial finds you well.” These
introductory words will certainly sound familiar to you, from the numerous spam emails that …

Predatory journals and publishers are a well described and pervasive problem in research
across the globe. Although their characteristics are often debated, an international …

Objectives The number of predatory journals is increasing in the scholarly communication
realm. These journals use questionable business practices, minimal or no peer review, or …

Scholarly publishing is important for faculty members as it fulfills the promotion requirement,
enhances the credibility and reputation of the researcher, institutions and the country as a …

Sažetak A predatory journal could be provisionally defined as one masquerading as a
genuine academic publication but offer little, if any, rigorous peer review. Predatory journals …

Cathy Vakil MD CCFP FCFP Many academic family physicians, especially those involved in
research, receive regular, frequent e-mails from medical journals requesting that they submit …

Later, Cukier and colleagues undertook an online Delphi exercise with the objective of
arriving at a consensus regarding the definition of predatory journals amongst a group of …

Madam, the rapid rise in the number of predatory journals and invitations to submit are more
than a nuisance to the researchers. 1, 2 And, this problem can be further escalated by the …

Publishing in predatory journals has been described as a ''waste of people, animals and
money''(Moher et al. 2017). Because predatory journals were assumed not to be indexed in …