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Comment on “Open is not forever: A study of vanished open access journals”
Author(s) -
Shelomi Matan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of the association for information science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.903
H-Index - 145
eISSN - 2330-1643
pISSN - 2330-1635
DOI - 10.1002/asi.24543
Subject(s) - directory , the internet , world wide web , internet portal , open access journal , computer science , internet privacy , history , political science , law , medline , scopus , operating system
This letter comments on a recent article by Laakso et al. ( 10.1002/asi.24460), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. One reason these journals may have vanished is that they were predatory journals: a possibility the original paper did not consider. The delisting of predators from the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2014 and the abundance of predatory journals and awareness thereof in North America parsimoniously explain the temporal and geographic patterns Laakso et al. observed.