An editorial titled ‘Predatory Journals: What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey’ was jointly published across the world’s most prestigious scientific journals in their first issue of January 2025.

Those who publish studies in scientific journals are now sounding the alarm about predatory scientific journals. Unlike traditional medical journals, predatory scientific journals are designed to ...

For some members of the scientific community, the presence of predatory journals, publications that tend to churn out low-quality content and engage in unethical publishing practices—has been a ...

What is a predatory publication or journal? To understand how exactly a predatory journal functions, let's try to understand how academic publishing works in the first place. "Peer-reviewed" is a ...

The supposedly “peer-reviewed” journal published the paper. The journal’s previous owner, Pulsus Publishing Group, sold Experimental & Clinical Cardiology last year. Former publisher Robert Kalina ...

Peer review ensures the findings of research are trustworthy. But what happens when it’s performed by an AI model?

A study carried out by researchers from the School of Business Administration at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) has analyzed the influence of predatory journals—international open ...

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen has made significant strides in understanding the ...

Those papers are housed at -- you guessed it -- PubMed. Predatory journals, fraudulent articles, and bad-faith actors have infiltrated the scientific discourse. While PubMed indexing is far from ...