First came the spam emails professing faith in the recipient and requesting the safekeeping of millions of dollars that the sender, located in some distant land, had fortuitously chanced up. Many “lucky” recipients walked into the trap only to lose money. The scamsters then moved on to hacking the email accounts of individuals and sending … Continue reading On the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind
Jeffrey Beall
Fake journal publishing flourishes in India
A scam of the most scholarly kind on the Internet — publishing “scientific papers” in fake open access journals (also called as predatory journals) — has become more insidious and grown tremendously in size. And tragically, India has singularly contributed to the cancerous growth of pseudo-science. “Open Access (OA) ‘predatory’ journals are now part of … Continue reading Fake journal publishing flourishes in India