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The Predator Effect: Understanding the Past, Present and Future of Deceptive Academic Journals

Simon Linacre
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  • Contents

  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 So, What Is a Predatory Journal?
  • 3 Early Days
  • 4 Subscription Access versus Open Access
  • 5 The Beginning: Beall’s Investigations and Beall’s List
  • 6 The Rise and Rise of Predatory Practices
  • 7 Unaware or Unethical? Author Motivations
  • 8 Fighting Back against the Predator
  • 9 A Digital Future
  • Acknowledgments
  • Reading List
  • References
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Published: 2022
Publisher: Against the Grain (Media), LLC
License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license
ISBN(s)
  • 978-1-941269-57-2 (paper)
  • 978-1-941269-59-6 (open access)
  • 978-1-941269-58-9 (ebook)
Subject
  • Publishing
  • Predatory journals
  • Scientific communications
  • Open access
  • Publishing ethics
  • Academic publishing
  • Scholarly communications
  • Predatory publishing
  • Predatory conferences
  • Predatory practices
  • Scientific publishing
  • Open science
  • Research integrity
  • Academic journals
  • Digital publishing
  • Fraud
  • Organized crime
  • Beall's List
  • Misinformation
  • Disinformation
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