I have very mixed feelings about that Dirty Western site. On the one hand it’s interesting to see how prevalent publishing in low-quality journals is but, on the other hand, some of it is, methinks, a bit nasty.
What would be interesting is collecting some data and reporting it in the time honored format: “Compass Point University is a Midwestern university with . An analysis of publishing records from to shows the following pattern.
Obviously these low-quality journals have a market because of the research evaluation practices of some universities.
