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Various journal review websites (crowd-sourced or expert-run) have been started, some focusing on the quality of the peer review process and extending to non-OA publications. [128] [129] A group of libraries and publishers launched an awareness campaign. [130] [131] A number of measures have been suggested to further combat predatory journals.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Minnesota dubbed the scheme the "magazine scam" and has created a webpage for victims to recover stolen funds and make impact statements.
The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal Archives des Sciences. In 2012 and 2013, more than 20 academic journals were hijacked. [ 1 ] In some cases, scammers find their victims in conference proceedings , extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.
The company has been accused of using email spam to solicit papers for submission. [8] Although it has an address in southern California, according to Jeffrey Beall it is a Chinese operation. [ 8 ] In 2014 there was a mass resignation of the editorial board of one of the company's journals, Advances in Anthropology , with the outgoing editor-in ...
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Juniper Publishers was listed in Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers. [3] The company has been criticized for sending out email spam to scientists, calling for papers, [11] [12] [13] and for publishing at least one paper that violated research integrity (missing conflict of interest statement, missing informed consent by patients, and plagiarism).
All it takes is a quick glance to know if the call is for real or not. The post Avoid Answering Calls from These Area Codes: Scam Phone Numbers Guide appeared first on Reader's Digest.
SAGE Publishing was a founding member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) when it was established in 2008. [13] In November 2013, OASPA reviewed SAGE's membership after the Journal of International Medical Research accepted a false and intentionally flawed paper created and submitted by a reporter for the journal Science as part of a "sting" to test the effectiveness of ...