The rise of predatory publishing poses a concerning trend among academics, including
librarians, in Nigeria. This study explores the essential aspects and consequences of …

Predatory journals challenge the scholarly community by muddling the boundary between
legitimate and dubious publishing practices. Despite the awareness of predatory publishers …

Open Access (OA) emerged as an important transition in scholarly publishing worldwide
during the past two decades. So far, this transition is increasingly based on article …

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Journal lists are instruments to categorize, compare, and assess research and scholarly
publications. Our study investigates the remarkable proliferation of such journal lists in …

The use of lists of questionable journals as a means to ensure research quality and integrity
is the subject of an ongoing debate due to their ambiguous criteria. To assess the …

Predatory publishing represents a major challenge to scholarly communication. This paper
maps the infiltration of journals suspected of predatory practices into the citation database …

Human gene research studies that describe wrongly identified nucleotide sequence
reagents have been mostly identified in journals of low to moderate impact factor, where …

Grasslands play an essential role in maintaining the health of planet Earth, but many
grasslands have lost their ecosystem services due to unsustainable management practices …

Predatory publications are proliferating on the open-access market at an alarming rate, and
they are getting better at imitating respectable journals. This paper examines the detective …