Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory ...

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.

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 ...

“The breadth and growth of predatory journals are astonishing and concerning,” Jocalyn Clark, a public health researcher at the University of Toronto who was not involved with the study, told Science.

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 ...

The Mainichi looked into the journal amid predatory publishers' spreading use of AI to target Japanese researchers. The ...

There are signs artificial intelligence is exacerbating this problem. Predatory journals with dubious publishing practices such as charging authors a fee for publishing an article also publish low ...