The rise of predatory journals: The case of Dr. Anna Fraud

• Authors: Emanuel Kulczycki
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article discusses the challenges and problems caused by predatory journals in scholarly communication. By focusing on the editorial practices, I describe the case of Dr. Anna Fraud (Anna O. Szust in Polish): a bogus scientist created by four Polish scholars. Dr. Fraud became a member of editorial boards in over 40 scientific journals although she is a fake person and, obviously has no experience in journal editing. The present paper aims to show that scientist always have to care about a quality control and a peer review system. The article concludes with a presentation of the ‘Think. Check. Submit’ Initiative which provides useful and helpful tools for analysing journals by potential contributors.

Keywords

EN

predatory journals; Dr. Fraud; publish or perish; Journal Citation Reports; Directory of Open Access Journals; Beall’s list

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-09-05

Contributors

author

Emanuel Kulczycki