This is not my first or likely my last post on this issue, but I have reached the point where I receive, most days, multiple solitications to submit articles to what are unfamiliar and likely predatory journals. I get a lot of solitications to be a keynote speaker, too.
The Mixed Methods International Research Association provided some nice cautionary information about predatory journals in their weekly email newsletter last week; it seems that academics (and students) are still often deceived by some of these contacts. I personally think that the practices of 'good' journals and respectible publishers have contributed to some extent to the rise in interest in lower quality outlets. Additionally, I believe my students are less discriminatory and more likely to prefer open access by virtue of it being open access - even when they have free remote access to university research resources. Things that I think have helped create the environment for emergence of predatory journals:
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AuthorI am Sheryl L. Chatfield, Ph.D, C.T.R.S. I am a member of the faculty in the College of Public Health at Kent State University. I also Co-coordinate the Graduate Certificate in Qualitative Research and I am a member of the Design Innovation Team at Kent State. Archives
February 2024
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