<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4285"><span>Hi,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4284"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_5863">Quite interesting to discover that SA researchers engage in Predatory Scholarship considering that an earlier study conducted in Nigeria which was published in 'Learned Publishing' (2015) titled 'Penetration of Nigerian Predatory Biomedical Open Access Journals 2007-2012: A Bibliometric Study, discussed SA role in Predatory publishing extensively. This very instrumental study was conveniently ignored by this SA study and does not show true scholarship by these set of authors. And might be encouraging knowledge hoarding among African scholars.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_5864">It's very unfortunate and raises the question concerning the quality of peer review done by South African Journal of Science on studies pertaining to Science Communication.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283"><span><br></span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr"><span>Obinna Ojemeni {M.Ed; M.Info.Sc}</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr"><span>Lecturer,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr"><span>Department of Library and Information Science,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr"><span>Enugu State University of Science & Technology,</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr">Nigeria.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr">@OBi_Ojemany</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr">PhD Student,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr">Nnamdi Azikiwe University,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1502276981911_4283" dir="ltr">Awka.</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Friday, August 4, 2017 11:24 PM, Ina Smith <Ina@assaf.org.za> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3122483001"><style><!--
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