The city claims The Agora Companies is running a ‘sophisticated’ marketing scheme targeting seniors. Now the founder is ...

“Predatory publishers” promise to publish academic articles for a fee. However, these publishers may not conduct adequate or any peer review and may request bank account or other personal information.

Predatory publishers are opportunistic publishing venues that exploit researchers and professors based on their academic requirements to have their work published. Predatory publishing organizations ...

Texas Tech University academics have been awarded funding to create a training program helping scientists identify and avoid predatory publishers. With support from the National Science Foundation, an ...

Their websites look like they belong to typical scholarly publishers: august names on editorial boards, claims of rigorous peer review, inclusion in all the right databases. But looks are deceiving.

Many academic authors by now have heard the phrase “predatory publishers.” It’s usually associated with a list of fraudulent pseudo-publishing operations maintained by Jeffrey Beall, whose crusade to ...

Not long ago, Marilyn Oermann, a professor of nursing at Duke University, got an alarming email from a colleague. The researcher in question had submitted an article to a scientific journal. Within 48 ...