In March 2022, the InterAcademy Partnership (IAP) has published a report on “Combatting predatory academic journals and conferences”.
The report focuses on predatory publishing (journals) and predatory conferences. Both are motivated by profit rather than scholarship, soliciting articles and abstracts from researchers through actions that exploit the pressure on researchers to publish and present their work. Features of these practices include, but are not limited to, rapid pay-to-publish or pay-to-present models without rigorous (or even any) peerreview, fake editorial boards falsely listing respected scientists, fraudulent impact factors or metrics, journal and conference titles that are deceptively similar to those of legitimate ones, paid review articles that promote fake science, and aggressive spam invitations to solicit articles and abstracts, including outside of a researcher’s own expertise.
The conclusions of the study are:
A recording of the official report launch event webinar (Wednesday March 12, 2022) is available here. It includes an overview of the IAP study on predatory academic journals and conferences as well as recommendations for, and responses from stakeholder communities.
The IAP is a global network of over 140 science, engineering & medical academies working together to provide independent expert advice on scientific, technological & health issues.
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