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Wednesday, 02/23/2022 3:21:41 PM

Wednesday, February 23, 2022 3:21:41 PM

RE: Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News (GEN), the flagship publication of Mary Ann Liebert, Inc.
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Predatory Journals: librarians please alert your researchers to this scam

These are fake or scam journals that target researchers (especially those in LMI Countries) with an offer to publish their research in an open access journal in exchange for payment.

Often the editor boasts of an impact factor (2.35 in the case reported by Mary Ann Liebert*, CEO of the publisher Mary Ann Liebert Inc.) She decided to test the journal’s scientific credentials by composing “an absurd abstract, completely fabricating a hypothesis and findings” that linked two totally unrelated diseases and suggested that human gene therapy might be used to combat their spread. Its acceptance showed that editorial judgement and peer review were completely absent. The impact factor in such cases is more than likely to be false.

https://jeanshawphi.wordpress.com/2015/02/10/predatory-journals-librarians-please-alert-your-researchers-to-this-scam/