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That is a question I frequently ask myself. The same goes for bad journals. Are these people doing research alone in a desert?

Your supervisor, peers, colleagues surely know very well which are the good conferences and journals in your field. And if you are the most experienced person in your research group and still don’t know that, there is something wrong with the hiring process at your institution.

I suspect a lot of authors who submit to bogus conferences and shady journals are well aware of their pay-for-publish nature, for a variety of reasons their research is not publishable in reputable venues and they hope to trick their (usually naive) institution by showing a long list of bogus publications.

An exception to this are inexperienced researchers who fell for the ‘open-access-is-good-karma’ argument from some established researchers and thought they were genuinely doing something good for society by paying 500$ of grant money to a ‘publisher’ operating from an internet cafe.


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