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"[...] is an exploitative academic #publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors while only superficially checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and without providing editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic #journals provide, whether open access or not."
Morning, people of Fediscience and other academics. What does everyone think about the Frontiers journals (esp Marine Science, but also more generally)? Are they predatory or not? They’re listed as potentially predatory, and they’ve pushed back on that, but neither side seems to provide much open evidence.
Any hard quotable evidence (or even ideas for where to look) would be EXTREMELY useful, but opinions would be useful too. #journals#science#Publishing
@helenczerski Just had this discussion recently with other colleagues. I have colleagues publishing in Frontiers and have cited F. published work. But if it's up to me, I would avoid them when submitting articles for publication. But avoiding them does beget the question whether their business model is fundamentally worse or more predatory than the traditional big publishing houses.
RT @ekulczycki
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