[Irtalk] Predatory publishers earned $75 million last year, study finds | Science/AAAS | News

[Hilton Gibson]

Need to get your research published? Don't want to be hassled by peer
review or editorial quality control? You are in luck: There are thousands
of scientific journals waiting to publish it right away, for a fee.

A new study finds that the fake journal business is booming—and puts some
hard numbers on this murky academic underworld. Last year alone, so-called
predatory publishers took in about $75 million and published nearly half a
million articles, researchers report today online in BMJ Medicine.

http://news.sciencemag.org/education/2015/09/predatory-publishers-earned-75-million-last-year-study-finds
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