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This is the first one of your articles that I’ve read that focused on what these journals are doing as far as promoting professors, etc. I would like to add my 2 rupees, if you don’t mind.

Where you say,

“In this case, researchers are using the quick, easy, and cheap publishing MCSER offers to get their quota of published articles in “impact factor journals” for tenure and promotion. It’s a breakdown of the academic system.
Academic promotions in many places are no longer based on merit.”

the implication of a break down is that a program of merit existed.

I would describe it differently. It seems to me that, in places where these are flourishing (and you know my experience is India), academia has never really existed in its modern form in the past. (Yes, there were foreign run systems and, yes, their “breakdown” affects the rest of us, but I’m talking about their system internally that allows these practices to flourish.) The attempt in these regions has been to build such a system quickly without proper understanding or resources. It is almost as if such publishers have seen the system from the outside but do not understand its foundations.

One good example is the idea that

“many universities are unaware of the bogus impact factor companies, or they choose to pretend they’re real.”

The alternative is that they do not understand what an impact factor is to begin with. In my experience, this alternative is common.

I have presented, for example, in a well-reputed university in front of hundreds of young academics who knew absolutely that they needed an impact factor but were completely surprised to learn what such a number would actually measure.

I will say this again. You bringing these journals to international attention is the best way to help, not only individual scholars as you do, but, ultimately, the journals and universities, as they are forced to recognize that academic publishing is not something they can continue to do only with their own standards in the isolation of their own systems.

Always a fan,
Dee


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