Please look at the #Wikipedia entry about the #megajournal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_journal

Does it sound unbiased / objective to you?

A greeting like

"DEAR PROF. ,

Greetings for the Day!!

We are pleased to inform you that MEGA JOURNAL OF CASE REPORTS (ISSN
2236-4960) is an International open-access peer-review journal which
has been listed in PUBMED and indexed in Google scholar and it
has (IMPACT FACTOR: 2.809**)."

must be is legit. Right?

#OpenAccess #publishing #PeerReview #predatory #Beall

#Predatory Publishing in Indian LIS #Research

👉 "The results indicate that predatory #publishing was rampant in the early years but declined gradually."

But how accurate is still #Beall's list nowadays? 🤔

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00987913.2023.2174405

#India #library #libraries #LIS #science #PredatoryJournals #PredatoryPublishing #BeallsList #integrity

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#beall #ivanov #parks highway #collision #fatality

[Preprint] Are some academic #librarians providing misinformation about #predatory #publishing?

👉 In academic scholarly communication, the #predatorypublishing debate is hotly contested. Despite errors, weaknesses and flaws with Jeffrey #Beall’s #blacklists, it is not uncommon to observe academic papers and derivative websites citing, using and promoting those now-defunct blacklists.

https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/2xscw/

#OAPred #PredatoryJournals #universities #research