Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Getting Away from a Predatory Publisher


Getting Away from a Predatory Publisher

Alan H. Chambers begins his article for Science on his experience with a predatory publisher with the following:

I was nursing my wounds from my latest manuscript rejection when the email arrived. I was about 2 years into my assistant professorship, with the tenure clock running at full speed, and the pressure to publish was immense. I knew that navigating rejection was part of the job, but I was also starting to wonder whether my study—a modest project designed to be feasible with the minimal lab space and skeleton crew of a new professor—would ever see the light of day. So when I received the email from a newly launched journal inviting me to publish with them, I saw a lifeline. That’s when my troubles started.


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