Predatory Publishing

Predatory Publishing has been facilitated by the growth of online publishing and has flourished under the Open Access publication model, a model that often charges an author fee in order to make an article freely available for public viewing. Predatory publishing is characterized by some or all of the following characteristics:

• Charging exorbitant author fees for publication (these fees may not be upfront, but rather an invoice may be generated after an article is submitted) 
• Phishing emails soliciting manuscripts for publication
• Lack of an editorial board or true peer review system
• No digital preservation plan
• Poor journal quality
• Journals are not covered (indexed) in scholarly databases

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