Predatory Journals

We’re back, baby! 🔥 More motivated than ever and calling out predatory journals louder. Follow the fight here too ⬇️🦋 bsky.app/profile/predat… #AcademicPublishing #PredatoryJournals

¿Hay alternativa a la locura de precios de las APCs de la ruta de "oro" del acceso abierto?📖 En @Revista_REDOC, analizamos las revistas de filosofía en España: un ecosistema que supone una alternativa real a las APCs. 👇 redc.revistas.csic.es/index.php/redc… #CienciaAbierta #OpenAccess #RRI

#MiniReviewMill 68 #FakeReview #CoerciveCitation @MDPIOpenAccess Reviewers 🔹Miqdam T. Chaichan @uottechnology1 🇮🇶 @Soharuniv 🇴🇲 🔹Salam J. Yaqoob @ujaen 🇪🇸 🔷5 almost verbatim review reports 🔷4 Miqdam T. Chaichan’s articles to be cited 🧵

Scientific Reports @SciReports is full of fake and low quality papers. #Predatory 🧐⚠️

⚠️🚨 Science of the Total Environment has been removed from Web of Science in Nov. 2025 after retractions due to review-fraud and quality failures. Its publisher @ElsevierConnect raked in massive profits while “mega-publishing” suspect papers. 🤑🤡 english.elpais.com/science-tech/2…

#CoerciveCitation @qeios @MDPIOpenAccess Reviewers 🔹Meisam Mahdavi @ujaen 🇪🇸 @unb_oficial 🇧🇷 🔹Anonymous 🔷3 review reports 🔷5 Meisam Mahdavi’s articles to be cited 🧵

🧪 After 25 years, a landmark study claiming the herbicide Glyphosate/Roundup was “safe” has been officially retracted, due to ghost-writing and clear conflicts of interest. What was once scientific “proof” now collapses. #Science #Glyphosate #Retracted ☣️ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/d…

📉 Niche fields, early-career scholars, and emerging topics risk being sidelined — not for lack of merit, but for lack of reviewers. 🔧 Solution? Expand reviewer pools, give credit to reviewers, increase transparency — science must be evaluated on quality, not logistics.

🚨 Peer review crisis alert! When journals reject good science simply because they can’t find enough reviewers, the whole integrity of research is on the line. the-scientist.com/when-reviewer-… #AcademicPublishing #PeerReview #ResearchIntegrity #SciencePolicy

1/6 🚨 Springer Nature is retracting an entire book on machine learning. Why? It was full of plagiarized content, nonsensical claims, and had no proper peer review. 🤯 Retraction Watch: 1 Springer’s credibility: 0

#MiniReviewMill 58 #FakeReview #CoerciveCitation Reviewers 🔹Monica Butnariu➕Ionel Samfira➕Sarac Ioan University @life_timisoara 🇷🇴 🔹Anonymous 🔷24 verbatim review reports 🔷47 Monica Butnariu’s works to be cited H/T Reese Richardson (database)➕another sleuth (key) 🧵

Edelweiss Applied Science and Technology (E-ISSN: 2576-8484) is now in @Scopus, yet: ⚠️ Published 12 papers in 2023 → 1,186 in 2024 → 1,068 in 2025. ⚠️ Lists 1,079 editors across 85 countries. ⚠️ Former publisher Edelweiss Publications is on Beall’s List. @Scopus doing great!

Scientific societies, journals, editors and researchers are pushing back against mean-spirited peer reviews go.nature.com/4ncswwY

🕵️‍♂️ Design isn’t just cosmetic. Visual cues can help flag low-quality or predatory journals—especially when screening large volumes. Content still matters, but the look tells a story too. #OpenScience #ResearchIntegrity

📄 Study compared ~443 “legit” vs ~555 suspected predatory articles. Predatory ones tend to be shorter, use common office fonts, stick to A4 page size, and show simpler metadata. Visual fingerprints can help spot low-quality journals. 👀 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🧐 Predatory articles are statistically: ~half the length (fewer pages & characters) Using “default” fonts (Arial, Calibri) Standard A4 pages, little typographic variety Simpler metadata, less polished

🧵1: Peer Review Is Cracking. Researchers are churning out papers to survive. Peer reviewers are overwhelmed. Editors chase quantity, not quality. It's not science—it’s a paper factory. Reform is urgent, or public trust will collapse. theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

"If Trump wants to eliminate fraud at universities, why gut research integrity agencies?" bostonglobe.com/2025/08/31/opi…