Study finds dozens of journals that have hiked their fees and started churning out papers after being acquired by small, ...

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.

“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.

Behind the polished facade of peer-reviewed journals lurks a growing epidemic of junk science — propped up by predatory publishers, ignored conflicts of interest, and research so bad it refuses to die ...

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 ...

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 ...