- In the past decade or two, predatory publishers have built a parallel universe of publication opportunities preying on the least privileged & most vulnerable of our colleagues I got my hands on what passes for peer review at one such journal ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...Jan 16, 2026 07:51
- "Predatory publishers run a pyramid scheme in which they’ve convinced enough folks this is how it works, and having bought into the system those folks keep convincing others — all while the bad actors scoop up APCs." ideophone.org/on-plagiaris...
- This is the full extent of the "peer review" an author got at a predatory journal published by ARC journals. "The paper, a unique study on Linguistics, is accepted."
- "The predatory publishers that poison the well of scholarly publishing deserve all our scorn. But authors who fall prey to them deserve grace and understanding — and above all, they deserve alternatives that work. Ultimately, viable scholar-led diamond open access venues are better for us all."
