Predatory Journals Recruite Fake Editor

A research study published in Nature talks about the issue of predatory journals. These journals generally only try to make money from the academic community rather than giving good peer reviwed publications.

The researchers created a fake person, Anna O. Szust, with fake credentials (but real twitter page) and had her apply to be an editor to 360 journals. Way too many of the open access journals accepted her and seemed more interested in getting money rather than scholarly work.

URL: http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-journals-recruit-fake-editor-1.21662