The practices that these entities employ include aggressive solicitation of manuscript submissions, the promise of extremely rapid turnaround times, and a lack of transparency about article submission ...

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(TNS) — The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades.

(Yicai) Feb. 27 -- The Chinese Academy of Sciences plans to stop paying article processing charges for more than 30 international open access journals, including Nature Communications, Cell Reports, ...

When accounting Professor Arline Savage, Ph.D., gets mad she hits the books. "My research is all over the place, because what appeals to me is usually something that made me angry," she said. Fed up ...

The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades. “There ...

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

Over the course of the pandemic, many scientific papers have made headlines for detailing new information that can help stop the spread of Covid-19 and treat the people infected with it. This ...

Action by all stakeholders is required to protect authors and the public from predatory medical journals, an international group of prominent medical journal editors said Monday. Predatory journals ...

The research sector has become increasingly vulnerable to overt commercial predation. As academic and publishing business models, research evaluation and peer-review systems continue to evolve, they ...

A 29 question-based cross-sectional survey was developed to explore knowledge and practices of predatory publishing and analyzed using descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression. Four ...

Austin, Texas — Like the Texas Rangers of yore rounding up gangs of cattle rustlers and gunslingers, another Texas outfit led by Kathleen Berryman is after a different kind of outlaw: fraudsters in ...