scholarly journals Predatory Journals: A Threat to Scholarly Publishing

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Jiban Shrestha ◽  
Subash Subedi ◽  
Behzad Shokati ◽  
Amit Chaudhary
Keyword(s):  
Scholarly Publishing ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Quality Of Research

Nowadays the world of scholarly publishing is in serious trouble because of the increasing number of predatory publishing. Besides, citation of articles from predatory journals is also unethical that undermines the quality of research papers. Because of ignorance of predatory publishing and/or compulsion of getting published in a limited time, scholars from Universities and young researchers become victim to predatory or hijacked journals. The purpose of this paper is to create awareness among authors, especially novice ones, about predatory publication. Research institutions should encourage their researchers to publish their articles  in valuable journals indexed in Web of Science's Journal Citation Reports (JCR), Clarivate Analytics, formerly part of Thomson-Reuters) or other famous scientific databases such as Scopus, PubMed and MEDLINE. In this way, attention to the Thomson Reuters’ Journal Impact Factor (JIF) and Journal Ranking (JRK) and Scopus grade (Q1, Q2 and Q3) may be useful and necessary.

scholarly journals Predatory publishing: A threat to the credibility of science

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
Jiban Shrestha ◽  
Subash Subedi ◽  
Krishna Prasad Timsina
Keyword(s):  
Web Of Science ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Science Journal ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Scientific Databases ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Global Threat ◽  
Medline Citation

Predatory journals pose a global threat to science. Young scientists and scholars are easy victims of the predatory publications. Predatory publications reduce the accuracy, reliability, and validity of the scientific works published. The predatory publications are worthless, just a waste of time, resources, money, and efforts. Predatory publications undermine the value of legitimate publications. In order to discourage predatory publications, educational and research institutions should set the rules for publication in the journals that must be indexed in web of science, Journal Citation Reports (JCR, Clarivate Analytics, formerly Thomson-Reuters) or other famous scientific databases such as Scopus, DOAJ, PubMed, and MEDLINE. Citation of articles from predatory journals should be discouraged. The students, academics, and researchers should be careful to avoid predatory publications to maintain their credentials.

Measuring the Value of Sociology? Some Notes on Performative Metricization in the Contemporary Academy

2011 ◽  
Vol 59 (2_suppl) ◽  
pp. 130-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aidan Kelly ◽  
Roger Burrows
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Research Assessment ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

The performative co-construction of academic life through myriad metrics is now a global phenomenon as indicated by the plethora of university research or journal ranking systems and the publication of ‘league’ tables based on them. If these metrics are seen as actively constituting the social world, can an analysis of this ‘naturally occurring’ data reveal how these new technologies of value and measure are recursively defining the practices and subjects of university life? In the UK higher education sector, the otherwise mundane realities of academic life have come to be recursively lived through a succession of research assessment exercises (RAEs). Lived through not only in the RAEs themselves, but also through the managed incremental changes to the academic and organizational practices linked to the institutional imaginings of planning for, and anticipating the consequences of, the actual exercises. In the ‘planning for’ mode an increasing proportion of formerly sociology submissions have shifted into ‘social policy’. This is one instance of how institutional ‘game-playing’ in relation to the RAE enacts the social in quite fundamental ways. Planning an RAE 2008 submission in Sociology required anticipation of how a panel of 16 peers would evaluate 39 institutions by weighted, relative worth of: aggregated data from 1,267 individuals who, between them cited a total of 3,729 ‘outputs’; the detailed narrative and statistical data on the research environment; and a narrative account of academic ‘esteem’. This data provided such institutional variables as postgraduate student numbers, sources of student funding, and research income from various sources. To evaluate the ‘quality’ of outputs various measures of the ‘impact’ and/or ‘influence’ of journals, as developed from the Thomson-Reuters Journal Citation Reports, was linked to the data. An exploratory modelling exercise using these variables to predict RAE 2008 revealed that despite what we might like to think about the subtle nuances involved in peer review judgements, it turns out that a fairly astonishing 83 per cent of the variance in outcomes can be predicted by some fairly simple ‘shadow metrics’: quality of journals in the submission, research income per capita and scale of research activity. We conclude that measuring the value of sociology involves multiple mutual constructions of reality within which ever more nuanced data assemblages are increasingly implicated and that analysis of this data can make explicit some of the parameters of enactment within which we operate in the contemporary academy.

Predatory publishing and the Ghana experience: A call to action for information professionals

IFLA Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-288 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kodjo Atiso ◽  
Jenna Kammer ◽  
Jenny Bossaller
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
Research Organizations ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
Research Scientists

Researchers in developing countries are more likely to publish in predatory journals (Xia et al., 2015). This study investigates the understanding that research scientists in Ghana, a developing country, have about predatory journals and their publishing practices. Using a mixed methods approach, research scientists within one cluster of research organizations in Ghana were asked about their awareness of the characteristics of predatory journals, based on their own experience as a researcher. Their publications were also examined. The results indicate that most of the research scientists in this study are aware of predatory journals and are often solicited by them, but are less aware of tools they can use to determine the quality of a particular publication. In addition, 12% of the articles published that make up 24% of the unique journals in which these researchers published could be considered “predatory”. The findings of this research are significant because they indicate that research scientists may have more awareness of predatory journals than is expected, but that they may lack the training or tools necessary for deciding whether or not a journal is legitimate.

Citations in introduction and literature review sections should not count for quality

2015 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adeleke Victor Adedayo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Citation Count ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Status ◽  
New Methodologies ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
Made In

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to suggest that citations made in the introduction and literature review sections of academic writings should not count in the analysis of citations to measure the quality of research papers. Design/methodology/approach – Elucidatory expositions are made on the purposes of the introduction and literature review sections. Findings – The nature of citations to knowledge to establish these purposes is identified and used to suggest that citations made in these sections should not count in citation analysis that are used to determine quality of publications. Introduction sections are written to identify the importance and justification for the subject of study, while literature reviews are written to identify gaps, opposing views, strengths and weaknesses in the status quo knowledge. Originality/value – This paper will provide insight and awareness to new methodologies to cull and curate appropriate citation count in the computation of quality of publications.

scholarly journals On the dark side of open access and new expectations of scientific productivity in adult education research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Vetter ◽  
Michael Schemmann
Keyword(s):  
Education Research ◽  
Adult Education ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Side Effect ◽  
Scientific Productivity ◽  
Open Science ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Predatory Publishing

AbstractThe aim of this paper is to explore international adult education research in the context of predatory publishing or predatory journals. The paper presents empirical characteristics of predatory journals, determines the quantitative occurrence of predatory journals in the field of adult education by means of a catalogue of criteria, takes a closer look at the authors of adult education contributions identified, and examines the content and quality of the contributions. The article deals with the phenomenon of predatory publishing, an unintended side effect of the Open Access movement, and thus operates in the context of Open Science.

scholarly journals The Role of Paraphrasing in Writing Research Papers

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-128
Author(s):  
Pungky Ramadhani
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Know How ◽  
Writing Research ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Quality Of Research

Almost all people in this world have experienced in writing a research paper. Nevertheless, there are only some people who understand how to write appropriately. Plagiarism still becomes a big problem among the writers. This happens because they often get difficulty in integrating sources into the text. As the writers, they should know how to overcome that problem. The existence of paraphrasing can be a way to avoid the plagiarism. The writers can paraphrase a direct quote of someone using their own words. This can be a great way to increase the quality of research papers.

scholarly journals The Impact of Predatory Publishing in Academic Research: A General Review [El impacto de las publicaciones depredadoras en la investigación académica: Una revisión general]

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 10
Author(s):  
Carlos E Linares
Keyword(s):  
Academic Research ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Academic Environment ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Predatory Journals ◽  
Publish Or Perish ◽  
Predatory Publishing ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Print Publications

Scientists and researchers from universities have become the target of predatory journals over the last few years. These false journals use deceptive practices to victimize researchers by promising them a guaranteed acceptance of their research and ensuring both online and print publications. There is a persistent culture in the academic environment of “publish or perish” to climb the ladder in academic careers. Because of that, these predatory journals take advantage of the pressure’s academics have to publish to deceive and exploit them intentionally for their profit. Those journals are insatiably motivated by money. They market their services by sending emails to academicians, encouraging them to submit their research papers through them. However, submissions are not free; they charge the authors for services they do not provide, such as peer-review, proofreading, and quality assurance. The purpose of this narrative is to create awareness about predatory journals and increase the knowledge of who they are to prevent scholars’ scientific articles get lost in the limbo forever. Furthermore, academics should avoid the negative consequences of publishing their research in these so-called predatory journals when they are encouraged through emails to send their publications. Those publishers not only can take the scientist’s or universities’ money but also the researcher’s reputation.

scholarly journals Scientometrics of the future: Scoring and profiling as new bibliometric standard tools

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Ball ◽  
A. Zemskov
Keyword(s):  
Information Services ◽  
English Text ◽  
The Past ◽  
Thomson Reuters ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Basic Ideas ◽  
Quality Of Research

The purpose of this publication is to show the continuity and development of the basic ideas of bibliometrics over the past 15 years. Continuity is essential not only in preserving the subject matter, but also in personalities: Dr. Ball, the organizer of the 2003 conference, is actively pursuing research in this area and his assessments of the prospects for bibliometrics are quite reasonable and clear. Equally significant is the role of the successor of support, training and promotion work, the company Clarivate Analytics in maintaining interest in the practical results of bibliometric research. It is very important that in 2003 there were outlined the essential limitations in the possibility of using bibliometric methods for assessing the quality of research of individual scientists. These warnings are still valid today. At the same time, many of the criticisms made at that time related to the monopolistic nature of the of Thomson Reuters, which is no longer so significant, since several competing systems have appeared. In general, we can assume that bibliometrics (scientometrics) have excellent prospects. Therefore, the establishment of practical work of libraries of all types, but primarily university and scientific-technical ones, on servicing with the bibliometric data can be an interesting and useful addition to the traditional reference and information services of libraries. Original English text is at http://library.gpntb.ru/publications/scientometrics.pdf.

The Use of the Effect Size in JCR Spanish Journals of Psychology: From Theory to Fact

2011 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1050-1055 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan García García ◽  
Elena Ortega Campos ◽  
Leticia De la Fuente Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Effect Size ◽  
Task Force ◽  
American Psychological Association ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
American Psychological ◽  
Journal Citation Reports ◽  
Size Index ◽  
Effect Size Index

In 1999, Wilkinson and the Task Force on Statistical Inference published “Statistical Methods and Psychology: Guidelines and Explanation.” The authors made several recommendations about how to improve the quality of Psychology research papers. One of these was to report some effect-size index in the results of the research. In 2001, the fifth edition of thePublication Manual of the American Psychological Associationincluded this recommendation. In Spain, in 2003, scientific journals likePsicothemaor theInternational Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology(IJCHP) published editorials and papers expressing the need to calculate the effect size in the research papers. The aim of this study is to determine whether the papers published from 2003 to 2008 in the four Spanish journals indexed in theJournal Citation Reportshave reported some effect-size index of their results. The findings indicate that, in general, the follow-up of the norm has been scanty, though the evolution over the analyzed period is different depending on the journal.

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