For those that publish

[imatfaal]

For all those who actually publish academic papers and are increasingly frustrated and annoyed by the epidemic of pay-to-publish / open access pseudo-journals; here is a lovely proof that sad huge number of these journals are vanity publishing of the worse sort.

 

https://scholarlyoa.com/2014/11/20/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-laced-anti-spam-paper/

 

I won't post screen shots because of the profanity

[Function]

We actually came to the conclusion that open access journals are generally spoken just better. Some societies will indeed just publish anything in their journals for money, which thus doesn't only cost money, but also quality.

[Klaynos]

I get a few emails a day at the moment from these types of journals and conferences. Really really annoying.

[ecoli]

I'm a bit off the radar still for these journals... but when you can upload papers to Bio/chem/ArXiv these days, there's absolutely no reason to fall for this.

[imatfaal]

I'm a bit off the radar still for these journals... but when you can upload papers to Bio/chem/ArXiv these days, there's absolutely no reason to fall for this.

 

But isn't that the case with almost every scam? People still do fall for them. Did you know that the word 'gullible' isn't in any dictionary...?

 

I guess even a 'wafer-thin' veneer of peer-review is important to some people. I don't really mind the true vanity publishing in which both parties realize that it is merely a financial transaction and there is no pretense towards editing, reviewing, or quality control. But some of these open-access pay-to-publish are sheer scams - they rip off old papers without permission to pad both their pages and their cite count/index, they set up fake sites with look-a-like names to real journals, and I have heard of cases in which the editorial panel are unaware of their own supposed involvement and thus theft of their imprimatur and good name

[CharonY]

And considering how tight the academic market has become, there are sufficiently desperate people somewhere.