This week's Nature has run yet another publication condemning the evil of predatory publication. However, there is a twist in the tale as the authors have found that authors from high-income countries also publish in these journals quite often! A group of authors spent a whole year combing through 2000 articles published in 200 potentially … Continue reading Condemning Predatory Journals/Publishers: Nature
Tag: Peer Review
Predatory Open Access: Part 3 – Research Spoofs and Publication Faux-Pas
Ever since the Science paper came out earlier this week, the world of academia has been a-flutter with excitement and controlled outrage. In the midst of all this, I decided to do a series of posts examining the situation at hand. This is the third and concluding portion of the series and prior to this: Predatory Open … Continue reading Predatory Open Access: Part 3 – Research Spoofs and Publication Faux-Pas
Predatory Open Access: Part 2 – Peer Review in OA and Ethics of “Sting Op Research”
Ever since the Science article about a sting operation to reveal the murky business that goes on in the name of Open Access journals came out, the academic world has been thrown into a tizzy. I decided to do a series of posts exploring the issue of predatory open access and the issues surrounding them. The first post … Continue reading Predatory Open Access: Part 2 – Peer Review in OA and Ethics of “Sting Op Research”
Social Peer Review: The IJMI Breaks New Ground
With an innovative move to have open peer review of submissions to the IJMI on the G+ community (closed and available only to the members of the group, who are invited by the Moderator/Editor of the Group), they have broken new ground. Now open peer review is nothing new. The BMJ has, amongst many other … Continue reading Social Peer Review: The IJMI Breaks New Ground
The Open Reviews Debate
The point-counter-point articles by Karim Khan and Trish Groves published on November 2010 caught my attention when the latter tweeted a link to her side of the story a couple of days ago: http://twitter.com/#!/trished/status/53044806108188672 At the outset of this post, let me make one thing clear: I know that open peer review is a good … Continue reading The Open Reviews Debate
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