A growing number of entities misrepresent themselves as scholarly journals for financial gain despite not meeting scholarly publishing standards 1, 2. As editors and members of the International ...

Taxpayers fund a lot of university research in the U.S., and these findings published in scholarly journals often produce major breakthroughs in medicine, vehicle safety, food safety, criminal justice ...

The false idea that vaccines cause autism began when a fraudulent 1998 study was published by British doctor Andrew Wakefield — a claim that spread misinformation that continued for decades. “There ...

In 2017, a study in the Nature journal showed that the highest number of papers published in dubious “predatory journals” came from Indian academics. Publishing research papers is an essential ...

The practices that these entities employ include aggressive solicitation of manuscript submissions, the promise of extremely rapid turnaround times, and a lack of transparency about article submission ...