Comments on: What kind of journal publishes nonsense? http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/what-kind-of-journal-publishes-nonsense/ Making sense of science Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:14:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Paul Matthews http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/what-kind-of-journal-publishes-nonsense/#comment-3803 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 17:58:01 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3521#comment-3803 Brilliant! Despite being a mathematician I had to look through the titles quite carefully to spot the fake one.

Seriously though, as you say, this highlights one of the weaknesses of the so-called ‘gold’ model of open access where the writer pays. It encourages the formation of junk journals that will publish anything. I regularly get invitations from such journals to publish papers. In one email recently, the subject line was

Subject: Call for paper’s

]]> By: protonsforbreakfast http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/what-kind-of-journal-publishes-nonsense/#comment-3695 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 16:34:21 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3521#comment-3695 Not correct: try again :-)

]]> By: Dominic http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/what-kind-of-journal-publishes-nonsense/#comment-3691 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 11:37:08 +0000 http://protonsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/?p=3521#comment-3691 I honestly have not got a clue but will plump for the first – who would say ‘The double nature of THE probability’ rather tahn ‘The double nature of probability’?

A friend points out that Nature have published a piece on the problems of OA journals -
http://www.nature.com/news/predatory-publishers-are-corrupting-open-access-1.11385

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