A Scholarly Sting Operation Shines a Light on ‘Predatory’ Journals

By |2021-11-11T17:14:06-08:00March 23rd, 2017|Brief Bulletins from the Field, We Know Psychiatry|

The New York Times today reported that researchers writing for the journal, Nature, found that There are now thousands of fake open-access journals, about as many as legitimate ones. The authors created a fake 'Editor" that they then applied to numerous 'scientific journals.' The applicant’s nom de plume was not [...]