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Science Publishing Group (SPG) is an open-access publisher of academic journals and books established in 2012. [1] It has an address in New York City [2] and many of its journals are named American Journal of..., but the company is actually based in Pakistan. [3] The company has been criticized for predatory publishing practices.
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing [1] [2] or deceptive publishing, [3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer-review process, is highly non ...
There are deep problems with science publishing. But the way to fix this is not to curtail open-access publishing. It is to fix peer review." [24] Eisen pointed out the irony of a subscription-based journal like Science publishing this report when its own peer review has failed so badly before, as in the 2010 publication of the arsenic DNA paper.
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory [1] [2] [3] academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality.
Jun. 29—Scammers are using a Publisher Clearing House ruse as the latest tactic to take people's money. Publishers Clearing House sweepstakes are legitimate, however, scammers have honed in on a ...
The number of predatory conferences has increased rapidly, with OMICS alone stating in 2016 that they host about 3,000 conferences per year. [citation needed] Christoph Bartneck, an associate professor in information technology at New Zealand's University of Canterbury, was invited to attend a conference, organised under OMICS' ConferenceSeries banner, [13] on atomic and nuclear physics to be ...
The paper was published in the United States-based Social Text spring/summer 1996 "Science Wars" issue. At that time, the journal did not practice academic peer review, and it did not submit the article for outside review by a physicist. [24] [25] On the day of its publication in May 1996, Sokal revealed in Lingua Franca that the article was a ...
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