Comment on New Term: MOAMJ = Multidisciplinary Open Access Mega Journal by Felipe G. Nievinski

I’m starting to think that community might be a useful demarcation principle, i.e., whether or not a journal is sponsored or organized by an academic or professional member society. The rationale is that, contrary to creating a website, it is not trivial to attract and retain members. This principle separates well bogus or fake journals. It also separates mega journals (open or not), such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Access, Nature Scientific Reports, etc. which, although genuine, don’t serve any single community — their signal-to-noise ratio is low for any individual scientist.