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Corresponding author: Amy Koerber Contact Information: Amy.Koerber@ttu.edu DOI: 10.12746/swrccc.v8i35.715 In December 2019, the well-known scientific journal Nature published an article entitled, “Predatory journals: no definition, no defence.” The collaborative effort, which was co-authored by a record 35 authors from scientific, technical, and medical publishers around the world, was illustrated by an eye-catching piece of art based on the primeval myth of deceptive appearances —a sinister-looking wolf in sheep’s clothing. In the illustration, the “clothing” that the wolf uses as its camouflage is an open academic journal with a sheep on its cover. That article raised the alarm about a phenomenon that the researchers, who represented fields of research, education, libraries, publishing, and research funding, consider a “global threat.”

Profiting from the paradigm shift in scholarly journal publishing: the case of predatory publishers