Predatory journals are a global threat to quality science that was largely unknown a decade ago. There are now an estimated 8,000 predatory journals collectively publishing more than 400,000 research ...

Predatory journals are a known scourge of science. They collect publication fees and publish articles without adequate (or sometimes any) peer review, ultimately wasting researchers’ time and money ...

Higher education institutions in Nigeria need to train academics to spot fraudulent journals, researchers say. The researchers, members of the Nigerian Academy of Science (NAS), noted this in a ...

When David Moher, the founding director of the Centre for Journalology at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI), proposed creating the organization, he felt that most researchers were unaware ...

There is a rising number of predatory journals in academia, challenging scholars to determine which publications are legitimate. Marat Musabitov/Getty Images Taxpayers fund a lot of university ...