[LIS-Forum] India is among the leaders in predatory publishing

[Satish Munnolli]

We often receive queries at our centre from scientists about identifying authenticity / credibility of OA journals. 
There is a list of questionable publishers and journals by Jeffrey Beall available on open platform. Please refer the below link.  

http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/

We suggest our scientists to refer / cross verify with the list before considering any journal for publishing their research.  At times, we also find it difficult to identify the credentials of a journal, when the journal is listed both in Jeffrey's list and the same is indexed in Journal Citation Report of Thomson Reuters with high impact factor!  

Regards,

Satish Munnolli
ACTREC 


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I think the best way to create awareness among LIS professionals about predatory journals is to create a list of such journals and post them on Listservs. Koteswara Rao.


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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 8:11 AM -0700, "Vasumathi Sriganesh (QMed)" <vasu at qmedkf.org.in> wrote:
I recently attended a conference of the World Association of Medical Editors (it was open to anyone who had anything to do with medical journals).  Some of the key points that emerged were:

a) One major reason for these (esp medical) predator journals to emerge is the "publish or perish" scenario - as medical faculty need to have two original research publications for their promotion (in addition to other criteria). The sheer magnitude of medical teachers (even though there is a
shortage) does not match the available no of journals in India that can accept their articles quickly

b) There is a HUGE need for training in both research methodology as well as writing a paper. Since majority of authors have not received the right training, their articles do not get accepted easily and they fall prey to predatory journals that accept their papers

c) Librarians should be involved a lot more in spreading awareness about all these issues to potential authors.

There were two conference participants - one from Manila and one from Nepal who said that their Medical Editors Associations constantly trained authors, peer reviewers, editors and librarians to help the publishing and writing scenario.

I have offered to the Indian Association of Medical Journal Editors that I would be happy to participate in training of medical librarians

All librarians of all branches - must familiarize themselves with issues relating to predatory journals and also learn more about publications and publication ethics

Regards

Vasumathi Sriganesh
QMed Knowledge Foundation
(Trust - Reg No: E-24663)
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On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Ishwar Goudar <goudarishwar at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Friends,
>
> Predatory journals are a big menace in scholarly publication activity.
> ​...
>

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