Medical specialties should create a list of legitimate journals

There would be few of us who have not received an email praising our contributions to our chosen medical specialty and with an invitation to either submit a manuscript or to join the editorial board for a new open access on line journal. If you are an academic, expect to receive several of these emails on a daily basis.  This is the world of predatory publishing. For those in academic practice or for those who are building their academic credentials to help appointment to a particular position or promotion, there is a pressure to publish.  With this publish or perish environment, it creates a need for publications and often they are needed yesterday.  Predatory publishers on very much on to this and know that naïve, time poor, vulnerable academics are perfect fodder to make a dollar.  It’s a big business, and if it were not for the fact that money is being made, we would not see this exponential growth in the numbers of predatory publishers. Not surprisingly, the amount of spam email landing in our inboxes is increasing exponentially.  Don’t think that applying spam filters are going to make any difference.  The emails are constructed in such a way that it is difficult for email filters to differentiate between genuine and bogus emails and naturally we do not wish to miss out on the legitimate journal emails.   One particularly active predatory publishing house even goes to great lengths by regularly changing the domain name to avoid having their emails f...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - Category: Journals (General) Authors: Tags: Physician Specialist Source Type: blogs