Gallent Torres Cinta
University of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
University of Valencia, Spain.
Heliyon. 2022 Feb 24;8(3):e08999. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e08999. eCollection 2022 Mar.
The number of publishers that offer academics, researchers, and postgraduate students the opportunity to publish articles and book chapters quickly and easily has been growing steadily in recent years. This can be ascribed to a variety of factors, e.g., increasing Internet use, the Open Access movement, academic pressure to publish, and the emergence of publishers with questionable interests that cast doubt on the reliability and the scientific rigor of the articles they publish. All this has transformed the scholarly and scientific publishing scene and has opened the door to the appearance of journals whose editorial procedures differ from those of legitimate journals. These publishers are called , because their manuscript publishing process deviates from the norm (very short publication times, non-existent or low-quality peer-review, surprisingly low rejection rates, etc.). The object of this article is to spell out the editorial practices of these journals to make them easier to spot and thus to alert researchers who are unfamiliar with them. It therefore reviews and highlights the work of other authors who have for years been calling attention to how these journals operate, to their unique features and behaviors, and to the consequences of publishing in them. The most relevant conclusions reached include the scant awareness of the existence of such journals (especially by researchers still lacking experience), the enormous harm they cause to authors' reputations, the harm they cause researchers taking part in promotion or professional accreditation procedures, and the feelings of chagrin and helplessness that come from seeing one's work printed in low-quality journals. Future comprehensive research on why authors decide to submit valuable articles to these journals is also needed. This paper therefore discusses the size of this phenomenon and how to distinguish those journals from ethical journals.
近年来，为学术人员、研究人员和研究生提供快速便捷地发表文章及书籍章节机会的出版商数量一直在稳步增长。这可归因于多种因素，例如互联网使用的增加、开放获取运动、发表文章的学术压力，以及一些利益存疑的出版商的出现，这些出版商对其所发表文章的可靠性和科学严谨性令人质疑。所有这些都改变了学术和科学出版的局面，并为编辑程序与正规期刊不同的期刊的出现打开了大门。这些出版商被称为 ，因为他们的稿件出版过程偏离常规（出版时间极短、同行评审不存在或质量低下、拒稿率出奇地低等）。本文的目的是阐明这些期刊的编辑做法，以便更容易识别它们，从而提醒不熟悉它们的研究人员。因此，本文回顾并强调了其他作者多年来一直关注这些期刊如何运作、它们的独特特征和行为以及在这些期刊上发表文章的后果的工作。得出的最相关结论包括对这类期刊存在的认识不足（尤其是经验不足的研究人员）、它们对作者声誉造成的巨大损害、它们对参与晋升或专业认证程序的研究人员造成的损害，以及看到自己的作品发表在低质量期刊上所产生的懊恼和无助感。未来还需要对作者为何决定向这些期刊提交有价值文章进行全面研究。因此，本文讨论了这一现象的规模以及如何将这些期刊与符合道德规范的期刊区分开来。
