Why do authors publish in predatory journals?
@article{Kurt2018WhyDA, title={Why do authors publish in predatory journals?}, author={Serhat Kurt}, journal={Learned Publishing}, year={2018}, volume={31} }
E-mail: fskurt@gmail.com Abstract This study examines the reasons why authors publish in ‘predatory’ OA journals. [...] Key Method Different methods, including WHOIS tracking, were utilized to query basic information about the selected journals, including location and registrant. Then, 300 articles were randomly selected from within selected journals in various scientific fields. Authors of the selected articles were contacted and sent survey questions to complete.Expand Abstract
Topics from this paper
Paper Mentions
53 Citations
Publishing in predatory open access journals: Authors' perspectives
- Political Science, Computer Science
- Learn. Publ.
- 2020
- 5
Knowledge and motivations of researchers publishing in presumed predatory journals: a survey
- Medicine
- BMJ Open
- 2019
- 24
- PDF
Predatory journals: Who publishes in them and why?
- Political Science, Computer Science
- J. Informetrics
- 2018
- 47
Predatory Journals as a Threat to Science, Scientific Communication, and Author’s Reputation
- Political Science
- 2018
- PDF
Being a deliberate prey of a predator: Researchers’ thoughts after having published in predatory journal
- Political Science
- 2018
- 11
- PDF
How to respond to and what to do for papers published in predatory journals
- Computer Science
- 2018
- 11
- PDF
Faculty knowledge and attitudes regarding predatory open access journals: a needs assessment study
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of the Medical Library Association : JMLA
- 2020
- 1
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 27 REFERENCES
Who publishes in “predatory” journals?
- Political Science, Computer Science
- J. Assoc. Inf. Sci. Technol.
- 2015
- 173
- PDF
Science for sale: the rise of predatory journals
- Medicine
- Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
- 2014
- 95
Hijacked Journals and Predatory Publishers: Is There a Need to Re-Think How to Assess the Quality of Academic Research?
- Medicine
- 2014
- 62
The STM report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing fourth edition
- Political Science, Geography
- 2015
- 354
- PDF
Spurious alternative impact factors: The scale of the problem from an academic perspective
- Sociology, Medicine
- BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology
- 2015
- 46
Deflecting the trajectory and changing the narrative: how self-affirmation affects academic performance and motivation under identity threat.
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of personality and social psychology
- 2013
- 263
- PDF
Predatory publishers are corrupting open access
- Political Science, Medicine
- Nature
- 2012
- 459
- Highly Influential
- PDF