Thanks Jeffery for this update. You are surely doing a formidable job that needs to be encouraged.
My questions:
- With about 477 predatory publishers and 303 predatory journals, are we not heading for a situation where all open access journals will be predatory?
It will thus become very daunting for researchers to find an appropriate journal with acceptable ethical standards to publish their findings, if clear guidelines are not set up and published to guide for the choice of a good journal or publisher.
- Some publishers are cited as predatory, and not all of the journals they publish are predatory. How then can a choice be made from a journal not cited as predatory but published by a publisher cited as predatory?
- In an earlier post here the ‘African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines’ was cited as predatory whereas it is indexed in PUMED which is the most reliable international platform of medical publications. How can this paradox be explained?
Happy New Year, and continue in the same direction with the same strength in 2014.
Andreas
Yaounde- Cameroon
