Comments on: OA Publisher Offers Author Fee Waivers in Exchange for Citing Its Journals

By: Predatory publishers – A guide | Biblioteksbloggen

Predatory publishers – A guide | Biblioteksbloggen — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:47:42 +0000

[...] The latest way in trying to up the journals impact factor is to buy citations. Some publishers have started to send thank-you e-mails to those who have cited articles from their journals in other publishers’ journals. In these e-mails they say they will not charge you APC if you ever want to publish in one of their journal with the condition that you continue to cite their articles. The aim with this is to increase the number of citations so that the journal’s impact factor will increase. This kind of play with impact factor is unethical and something serious science should not be a part of. Read more of this and other topics on predatory publishers in Jeffery Beall’s blog. [...]

By: Predatory publishers and fake/bogus conferences | Soft Handover

Predatory publishers and fake/bogus conferences | Soft Handover — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 22:17:13 +0000

[...] journals out there that coming up with a brand new name is becoming difficult. And, in some cases, some of these journals offer fee waivers to authors if they cite papers from that journal. And the list goes on and on and one… including other topics, like shady publishers that fool [...]

By: Predatory publishers – A guide | Forskningsrelaterat

Predatory publishers – A guide | Forskningsrelaterat — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:50:44 +0000

By: Tveksamma förlag – release på den engelska versionen | Forskningsrelaterat

Tveksamma förlag – release på den engelska versionen | Forskningsrelaterat — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 13:48:54 +0000

[...] Det senaste knepet att höja tidskriftens impact factor är att köpa citeringar. Vissa förlag har börjat skicka tack-meddelanden till dem som har citerat artiklar från dess tidskrifter i andra förlags tidskrifter. I dessa e-postbrev skriver de att de erbjuder gratis publicering av dina kommande artiklar i sina tidskrifter så klart om du citerar deras artiklar tillräckligt många gånger. Syftet med detta förfarande är alltså att öka citeringar så att förlagets tidskrifter och därmed tidskriftens får hög impact factor, vilket är oetiskt. Läs mer om detta och se ett exempel på tack-e-postbrevet i Jeffery Beall’s blogg. [...]

By: Tveksamma förlag – release på den engelska versionen | Biblioteksbloggen

Tveksamma förlag – release på den engelska versionen | Biblioteksbloggen — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:43:59 +0000

By: Predatory publishers – A guide | The Library Blog

Predatory publishers – A guide | The Library Blog — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 06:43:20 +0000

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:21:19 +0000

Serendipituously, the paper that was cited had “papermill” in it, I suppose used in the context of a mill that manufactures paper, whatever that means nowadays.