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Predatory open-access publishing

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Predatory open-access publishing is an exploitative open-access academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals (open access or not). [1]

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Academic journal

An academic or scholarly journal is a periodical publication in which scholarship relating to a particular academic discipline is published.

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Academic journal publishing reform

Academic journal publishing reform refers to advocacy for changes in the way academic journals are created and distributed in the age of the Internet and the advent of electronic publishing.

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Advanced Science Letters

Advanced Science Letters is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by American Scientific Publishers.

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African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines

The African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines is a peer-reviewed open access medical journal covering research on medicinal plants, traditional medicine, complementary alternative medicine, and food and agricultural technologies.

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Aging (journal)

Aging is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal.

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Allied Academies

Allied Academies is a reportedly-fraudulent corporation chartered under the laws of North Carolina.

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AME Publishing Company

AME Publishing Company is an academic publishing company which publishes medical journals and books.

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Association of American Physicians and Surgeons

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) is a politically conservative non-profit association founded in 1943 to "fight socialized medicine and to fight the government takeover of medicine." The group was reported to have approximately 4,000 members in 2005, and 5,000 in 2014.

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Auraria Library

Auraria Library is an academic library in downtown Denver, Colorado.

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Author mill

An author mill is a publisher that relies on producing large numbers of small-run books by different authors, as opposed to a smaller number of works published in larger numbers.

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Bentham Science Publishers

Bentham Science Publishers is a company that publishes scientific, technical, and medical journals and e-books.

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BIT Life Sciences

BIT Life Sciences (or BIT Congress Inc., BIT Group Global Ltd) is a predatory, for profit meetings, incentives, conferencing, exhibitions (MICE) company based in Dalian, China that specializes in arranging multiple scientific congresses that have been described as "predatory".

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Cabell's blacklist

On June 15, 2017, the Beaumont, Texas–based company Cabell's International launched a blacklist of what it claims are predatory scholarly journals.

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Clinical Practice

Clinical Practice is a bimonthly peer-reviewed open access medical journal.

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Communications in Numerical Analysis

Communications in Numerical Analysis is a mathematics journal that covers research in all areas of numerical, computational, and applied mathematics.

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Conflicts of interest in academic publishing

Conflicts of interest (COIs) often arise in academic publishing.

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Corruption in Canada

Transparency International's 2016 Corruption Perception Index ranks the country as the 9th least corrupt nation out of 176 countries, and the least corrupt nation in the Americas.

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Daniel Bogden

Daniel G. Bogden (born 1950) is best known for serving as United States Attorney for the District of Nevada, and being part of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy.

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Diploma mill

A diploma mill (also known as a degree mill) is a company or organization that claims to be a higher education institution but provides illegitimate academic degrees and diplomas for a fee.

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Dove Medical Press

Dove Medical Press is an academic publisher of open access peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals, with offices in Manchester, London (United Kingdom), Princeton, New Jersey (United States), and Auckland (New Zealand).

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Experimental & Clinical Cardiology

Experimental & Clinical Cardiology is an open access medical journal covering cardiology and heart health-related topics, including hypertension, myocardial ischemia, diabetes, and other cardiovascular diseases.

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Federal Trade Commission

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act.

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Frontiers in Bioscience

Frontiers in Bioscience is a peer reviewed scientific journal.

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Frontiers Media

Frontiers Media SA is an academic publisher of peer-reviewed open access scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine.

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Gaussian correlation inequality

The Gaussian correlation inequality (GCI), formerly known as the Gaussian correlation conjecture (GCC), is a mathematical theorem in the fields of mathematical statistics and convex geometry.

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Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a freely accessible web search engine that indexes the full text or metadata of scholarly literature across an array of publishing formats and disciplines.

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Hijacked journal

A hijacked journal is a legitimate academic journal for which a bogus website has been created by a malicious third party for the purpose of fraudulently offering academics the opportunity to rapidly publish their research online for a fee.

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Hindawi Publishing Corporation

Hindawi Publishing Corporation is a commercial publisher of scientific, technical, and medical (STM) literature.

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Imaging in Medicine

Imaging in Medicine is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access medical journal.

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Impact factor

The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a measure reflecting the yearly average number of citations to recent articles published in that journal.

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Index Copernicus

Index Copernicus (IC) is an online database of user-contributed information, including scientist profiles, as well as of scientific institutions, publications and projects established in 1999 in Poland, and operated by Index Copernicus International.

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Index Medicus

Index Medicus (IM) is a curated subset of MEDLINE, which is a bibliographic database of life science and biomedical science information, principally scientific journal articles.

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International Archives of Medicine

The International Archives of Medicine is an open access medical journal covering all aspects of medicine.

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International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology

The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology is a publication which has been described as a predatory open access journal – a publication which has some of the surface attributes of a benign open access journal but is actually an exploitative and deceptive corruption of that model, operating as a disreputable vanity press with little scholarly value.

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International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology

The International Journal of Clinical Rheumatology is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access medical journal.

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Jeffrey Beall

Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian.

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John Bohannon

John Bohannon is a biologist and science journalist based at Harvard University.

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Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology

The Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering fundamental and applied research pertaining to nanotechnology applications in all fields of the life sciences.

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Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

The Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by American Scientific Publishers,a company identified by Jeffrey Beall as a predatory publisher.

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Judith Wilyman PhD controversy

A controversy arose from 2012 to 2016 over the supervision and final acceptance by the University of Wollongong (UOW) of a PhD thesis titled "A critical analysis of the Australian government’s rationale for its vaccination policy" by Roslyn Judith (Judy) Wilyman, one of Australia's "most vocal anti-vaccination activists".

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K. K. Aggarwal

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Kenneth Blum

Kenneth Blum (born August 8, 1939) is a scientist who has studied neuropsychopharmacology and genetics.

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Libertas Academica

Libertas Academica is an open access academic journal publisher specializing in the biological sciences and clinical medicine.

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List of animals with fraudulent diplomas

This list of animals with fraudulent diplomas includes nonhuman animals who have been submitted as applicants to suspected diploma mills.

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List of confidence tricks

This list of confidence tricks and scams should not be considered complete, but covers the most common examples.

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List of MDPI academic journals

This is a list of academic journals published by MDPI, a publisher listed on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014Jeffrey Beall (18 February 2014),, Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing but which was removed in 2015.

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List of scholarly publishing stings

This is a list of scholarly publishing "sting operations" such as the Sokal affair.

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MDPI

MDPI is an organisational acronym used by two related organisations, Molecular Diversity Preservation International and Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, which were both co-founded by Shu-Kun Lin.

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Mega journal

A mega journal (also mega-journal and megajournal) is a peer-reviewed academic open access journal designed to be much larger than a traditional journal by exercising low selectivity among accepted articles.

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Michael Silbermann

Michael Silbermann is an Israeli maxillofacial surgeon and health educator.

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Mikhail Blagosklonny

Mikhail Blagosklonny is a scientist who studies cancer and aging.

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OMICS Publishing Group

OMICS Publishing Group is a publisher of open access journals that is widely regarded as predatory.

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OmniScriptum

Omniscriptum Publishing Group, formerly known as VDM Verlag Dr.

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Oncotarget

Oncotarget is a twice weekly peer-reviewed open access bio-medical journal covering research on all aspects of oncology and publishing sub-sections on topics beyond oncology.

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Open access

Open access (OA) refers to research outputs which are distributed online and free of cost or other barriers, and possibly with the addition of a Creative Commons license to promote reuse.

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Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association

The Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA) is a non-profit trade association representing the interests of open access journal publishers globally in all scientific, technical and scholarly disciplines.

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Pan European Networks

Pan European Networks (PEN) is a marketing company per the European Commission.

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Pattern Recognition in Physics

Pattern Recognition in Physics was an open-access journal originally published by Copernicus Publications which was established in March 2013 and terminated in January 2014.

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Peter Boghossian

Peter Gregory Boghossian (born July 25, 1966) is an American philosopher.

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Peter Murray-Rust

Peter Murray-Rust (born 1941) is a chemist currently working at the University of Cambridge.

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Plastic Surgery (journal)

Plastic Surgery (formerly Canadian Journal of Plastic Surgery) is a peer-reviewed medical journal dealing with plastic surgery.

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Predatory conference

Predatory conferences or predatory meetings are meetings set up to appear like legitimate scientific conferences but which are exploitative as they do not provide proper editorial control over presentations and advertising can include claims of involvement of prominent academics who are, in fact, uninvolved.

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Proteomics

Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins.

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Pseudo-scholarship

Pseudo-scholarship (from pseudo- + scholarship) is a work (e.g., publication, lecture) or body of work that is presented as, but is not, the product of rigorous and objective study or research; the act of producing such work; or the pretended learning upon which it is based.

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Pulsus Group

Pulsus Group is a Health informatics and Healthcare services company and a publisher of scientific, technical, and medical literature.

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Radiation and Public Health Project

Radiation and Public Health Project is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1985 by Jay M. Gould, a statistician and epidemiologist, and Ernest Sternglass.

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ResearchGate

ResearchGate is a social networking site for scientists and researchers to share papers, ask and answer questions, and find collaborators.

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Scholarly peer review

Scholarly peer review (also known as refereeing) is the process of subjecting an author's scholarly work, research, or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the same field, before a paper describing this work is published in a journal, conference proceedings or as a book.

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Scientific Research Publishing

Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is an academic publisher of presumably peer-reviewed open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies of questionable quality.

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Self-publishing

Self-publishing is the publication of any book, album, or other media by its author without the involvement of an established publisher.

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St. Thomas College, Thrissur

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Stephanie Seneff

Stephanie Seneff (born April 20, 1948 in Columbia, Missouri) is a senior research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

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Timeline of the open-access movement

The following is a timeline of the international movement for open access to scholarly communication.

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University of Colorado Denver

The University of Colorado Denver is a public research university in the U.S. state of Colorado.

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Vanity press

A vanity press, vanity publisher, or subsidy publisher is a publishing house in which authors pay to have their books published.

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Wessex Institute of Technology

The Wessex Institute of Technology (usually referred to as just Wessex Institute or WIT) is an educational and research institute.

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Who's Afraid of Peer Review?

"Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" is an article written by ''Science'' correspondent John Bohannon that describes his investigation of peer review among fee-charging open-access journals.

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World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology

The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a publisher of a number of open access journals on a wide variety of scientific and technical subjects.

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World Journal of Gastroenterology

World Journal of Gastroenterology is a weekly peer-reviewed open access medical journal that covers research in gastroenterology.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_open-access_publishing

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