According to a survey by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, only 36% of domestic universities are dealing with the rampant Internet-only academic journals, which are called predatory journals and publish papers for the purpose of publication fees. rice field.The results of the survey were reported to the Information Committee of the Science and Technology Council.
The survey was conducted from May to June, and questionnaires were sent to 5 national, public and private universities nationwide that were the subject of the academic information infrastructure fact-finding survey, and responses were collected from 6 of them.
According to the report, 81% of national universities responded to concerns related to scholarly information distribution such as the rampant predatory journals, but only 37% of public universities and 27% of private universities, overall. Only 36% had a corresponding school.How to deal with it is to create a pamphlet and answer inquiries.
As open access to papers progresses, the number of predatory journals published on the Internet without proper peer review of papers submitted by researchers and without guaranteeing scientific legitimacy is increasing worldwide.In some cases, the names of prominent researchers are listed on the editorial board, and the location of the publisher is not listed, which is extremely malicious.
The business model imitates the gold open access method, which collects publication fees from researchers who submit, and is trying to publish papers and increase sales at no cost.
