{"title":"There is no such thing as a predatory journal","authors":"Mike Downes","doi":"10.1002/leap.1568","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A journal is inanimate and incapable of predation, hence there is no such thing as a predatory journal. The predators are the publishing company CEOs, journal owners and other complicit people. Those committing fraud and identity theft should be prosecuted. Less time and effort should be spent on scholarly investigations. More time and effort should now be devoted to prosecutions.","PeriodicalId":51636,"journal":{"name":"Learned Publishing","volume":"36 4","pages":"709-711"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Learned Publishing","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/leap.1568","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A journal is inanimate and incapable of predation, hence there is no such thing as a predatory journal. The predators are the publishing company CEOs, journal owners and other complicit people. Those committing fraud and identity theft should be prosecuted. Less time and effort should be spent on scholarly investigations. More time and effort should now be devoted to prosecutions.