Predatory journals and publishers in Publication ethics.

1. PREDATORY Publisher's AND JOURNALS
NASEEM BANU S.P

2. Predatory publishing or deceptive publishing is an exploitative academic
publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors
without checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and without providing
editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide,
whether open access or not.
INTRODUCTION

3. • Their primary goal is to make money (i.e. there will be fees).
• They do not care about the quality of the work published (i.e. no or little editing
or peer-review).
• They make false claims or promises (i.e. claims of impact factors and indexing).
• They engage in unethical business practices (i.e. not as advertised).
• Using ISSN improperly
• Citing or non-existent impact factors
• They fail to follow accepted standards or best practices of scholarly publishing
(various).
Characteristics Of Predatory Publishers

4. What is Predatory Journal?
• Predatory journal is a publication that actively asks researchers for
manuscripts.
• They have no peer review system and no true editorial board and are often
found to publish or even worthless papers
• They charges huge publication charges.
• For many, career progression depends on publishing, so one may look for
journals that promise to publish all submissions

5. Cabell's Blacklist ------ A New Way to Tackle Predatory Journals
• Jeffrey Beall - Librarian at the University of Colorado in Denver
• coined the term “predatory publishers”
• It was launched on June 15.
• It would publish both “White List” and “Black List.”
• Approximately 4000 journals were included to the list.
• Both open access- and subscription-based journals are included.
• The whitelist database includes 18 academic disciplines from more than
13,000 international scholarly publications as per the website.
Cabell’s Blacklist

6. • Peer review involves subjecting the author's scholarly work and research to the
scrutiny of other experts in the same field to check its validity and evaluate its
suitability for publication.
• A peer review helps the publisher decide whether a work should be accepted.
• Medical sciences hard hit
GOALS OF PEER REVIEW
• Scholarly work falls within the journal's scope
• A suitable approach has been taken to address the scientific issues involved
• Examines the methodology and reproducibility of the work.
• The peer review will also cover ethical aspects.
• In addition, the author of the work will generally receive useful advice on how to
improve their work.
Why Peer Review Is Important?

7. • No editorial board
• No academic expertise
• Insufficient information
• Hidden fees
• Name unrelated to mission or origin
• Poor website with dead links
• Unauthorized use of licensed images
• Republishing published papers
• Location is hidden
Baell’s Criteria – Identifying Fake Journals

10. Software Tool to Identify Predatory Publications Developed
By SPPU
• Savitribai Phule Pune University appointed a committee to look after the issues of
the predatory journals.
• A recent analysis of who is publishing in such spurious Journals has indicated that
most authors in predatory journals are from developing countries, especially India,
Nigeria, and some African and Middle East countries.
• In such a situation, the appointment of this committee by the Hon Vice Chancellor,
Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) is commendable.

11. Edanz Journal Selector
Edanz is an editing service but also provides journal selection from among 28,554 journals
and 12,010,643 abstracts. It uses the cutting-edge semantic technology which can refine the results
based on publication frequency and impact factor or publishing model for even open access journals.
Elsevier Journal Finder
Elsevier Journal Finder using smart search technology and field of
research specific vocabularies to match the input with the Elsevier journals to
publish them.
Journal Finding Tools

12. EndNote Manuscript Matcher requires registration through Web of Science or EndNote register
login using the ECU email to give the right journal match for the keywords, title and abstract. Along with
the appropriate journal, it also gives the journal impact factor and also related articles.
EndNote Manuscript Matcher

13. JANE- Journal/Author Name Estimator (PubMed)
• JANE tags journals that are
currently indexed in MEDLINE
and also open access journals
approved by DOAJ or
Directory of Open Access
Journals. It also relies on the
data in PubMed to identify
high-quality journals from the
predatory journals as
PubMed contains both kinds
of journals in its data.

14. IEEE Publication Recommender
It searches 170 + periodicals and 1500 + conferences to compare
critical points such as impact factor and submission to publication time
for the best match for the scholarly research paper.

15. • Elmore, S. A., & Weston, E. H. (2020). Predatory Journals: What They Are and How to
Avoid Them. Toxicologic pathology, 48(4), 607–610.
https://doi.org/10.1177/0192623320920209
• Grudniewicz, Agnes; Wicherts, Jelte M.; Lalu, Manoj M, etal. (2019). Predatory journals:
no definition, no defence. Nature, 576(7786), 210–212. doi:10.1038/d41586-019-03759-
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• https://pubrica.com/academy/journal-selection/topmost-research-tools-for-selecting-
the-best-journal-for-your-research-article/
• https://mdanderson.libanswers.com/faq/206446
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