Oral and Maxillofacial Pathologist, BAHAWA House of Dental Care, Pune, Maharashtra, India.
Postgraduate Student, Department of Prosthodontics, Government Dental College and Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2020 Jan-Mar;64(1):86-89. doi: 10.4103/ijph.IJPH_249_19.
The impact of scholarly journals has increased with invent of Internet due to improved access, faster dissemination, and ease of searching a variety of publications. With the increasing trend of research, open access (OA) publishing has increased intensely over the last few years. The core intent of OA is faster dissemination of research by making it available to readers free of cost. However, some publishers exploited this novel idea for their own benefit. Beall termed them as predatory publishers/journals. In this article, authors have made efforts to understand the predatory publishers/journal, reasons behind their upsurge, their modus operandi, their common targets, and the points which will help readers to identify them. The aim of this article is to expose facts behind the predatory journal and to create awareness among not only budding researchers but also faculty members, authors, and editors about the threat predatory journals carry toward scientific world and to their own curricula.
由于互联网的发展，学术期刊的影响力也随之增加，这得益于其访问便利性的提高、传播速度的加快以及各种出版物的搜索便利性。随着研究趋势的不断增长，开放获取（OA）出版在过去几年中得到了迅猛发展。OA 的核心意图是通过免费向读者提供研究成果来加快研究成果的传播。然而，一些出版商却利用这一新颖的理念为自己谋取利益。比厄尔将这些出版商/期刊称为掠夺性出版商/期刊。在本文中，作者努力理解掠夺性出版商/期刊的本质、它们兴起的原因、它们的运作模式、它们的常见目标以及帮助读者识别它们的要点。本文的目的是揭露掠夺性期刊背后的事实，并不仅在崭露头角的研究人员中，而且在教师、作者和编辑中提高对掠夺性期刊对科学界及其自身课程的威胁的认识。
