With the upsurging, “Publish or Perish” culture in academia, researchers are under continuous pressure to publish their study in high-impact factor journals. Some opportunistic publishing venues take undue advantage of this vulnerability of researchers and exploit them for financial gains. Cases of researchers falling prey to predatory publishing have increased at an alarming rate over the past few years. This has resulted in the absolute necessity for researchers to be aware of the warning signs and recognize the predatory publishers/journals while choosing the journal. Enago in collaboration with Cabells, a world-class scholarly services provider sharing accurate and up-to-date information about academic journals, conducted a webinar providing authors an overview of predatory publishing practices and sharing useful tips for avoiding and dealing with it effectively.
Through this webinar, researchers will learn:
- Overview of predatory publishing
- How to identify predatory publishers/journals
- Best practices to avoid predatory journals
- How to deal with predatory publishers/journals
About Cabells
Cabells started over 40 years ago as a directory of recommended business and management journals. Now, Cabells has expanded its services to include systems for identifying both Whitelist and Blacklist journals, manuscript preparation tools, and a suite of powerful metrics to help its users find the right journals, no matter what stage of their career.
About the Speakers
Dr. Fiona Murphy, DPhil English Literature, University of Oxford
Dr. Murphy is DPhil in English Literature from the University of Oxford and has collaborated with several reputed publishers like Oxford University Press, Bloomsbury Academic, and Earth and Environmental Sciences at Wiley in past. She has also written and presented widely on data publishing, Open Data, and Open Science.
Simon Linacre, Director of International Marketing & Development, Cabells