This site, Predatory Publishers, deals solely with publishers and is allied to two other sites, Predatory Journals, the content of which is self-explanatory, and Scholarly Outlaws which deals with conferences and academics. Information about academics who are caught up, willingly or otherwise, in the scam scholarly publishing industry is a departure from the standard interest […]
Read MoreThe 8 criteria used to evaluate fraudulence in predatory publishers
Predatory publishers are scammers but they are not all equally culpable. There has to be some measure of the extent to which they violate the ethics of scholarly publishing. I use eight criteria. Although any one of them could well be considered sufficient, for historical and practical reasons I require publishers to be at fault […]
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There is no need for me to present the evidence showing that Srinubabu Gedela (CEO of OMICS) is fraudulent. He has already been convicted of fraud in an American court in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission. The case was not defended, the finding was guilty and the sentence was a fine of […]
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