Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Terry McGlynn

David, the way that taxonomy works, an official species description or revision in a published venue has precedence over prior work and must be cited in future work. There are detailed reasons how and why this matters, as discussed in the articles and posts cited by Beall. Even though these are rinky-dink outfits, they are actually threatening the foundations of taxonomy in these fields. Presumably the rules for systematics will evolve to deal with contemporary pseudojournals, but at the moment, it’s a big issue.