Predatory journals - A threat to academic credibility There are gaps that leave many researchers who want to publish in Open Access journals without funding for APCs. They will charge an author to publish the article without providing the rigorous peer-review and editorial services that are expected from an academic journal. You can find out more about how PLOS processes your data by reading our, Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences. Independently verify the identity of the editor of the journal, including the email address and telephone number. Evaluation of Issues Affecting Time Between Study Completion, Manuscript Submission, Acceptance, and Publication in Medical Journals. The interactions of predator-prey are categorized on three trophic levels (i.e. Mouton defines 'predatory journals' as those published with the sole goal of profit. The authors therefore conclude that early-stage clinical researchers must be trained to differentiate between predatory and scientifically accurate journals. There were all kinds of typos, the grammar was wrong, she said in an interview from Ottawa. Predatory publishing 2.0: Why it is still a thing and what we can do Beware of unsolicited emails that arepersonalized and flattering. Indian PhDs, professors are paying to publish in real-sounding, fake journals. doi: 10.2196/36510. 0000-0002-7299-680X), PLOS is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) corporation, #C2354500, and is based in San Francisco, California, US, PLOS will use your email address to provide news and updates. Can you still use Commanders Strike if the only attack available to forego is an attack against an ally? compared to OMICS most publishers seem non-predatory. However if you read the quoted source, the objection is: Rose Simpson, the former managing editor of the Canadian Journal of General Internal Medicine, said that after the OMICS deal was announced in January, she went on the companys website and immediately noticed red flags as she started browsing through the journals. Article Declaration of Conflicting Interests Statement.