Time to stop talking about ‘predatory journals’ |
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| Authors: | Stefan Eriksson Gert Helgesson |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Associate Professor, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;2. Professor, Stockholm Centre for Healthcare Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Key points - The term ‘predatory journal’ hides a wide range of scholarly publishing misconduct.
- The term ‘predatory journal’ unhelpfully bundles misconduct with poor quality.
- The term ‘predatory journal’ blinds us to important possibilities, needs, and questions arising in the developing scholarly landscape.
- The current scholarly publishing environment cannot rely on such a simplified classification of journals into predatory or not.
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