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A not‐so‐harmless experiment in predatory open access publishing
Author(s) -
Martin Alexandre,
Martin Tristan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
learned publishing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.06
H-Index - 34
eISSN - 1741-4857
pISSN - 0953-1513
DOI - 10.1002/leap.1060
Subject(s) - publication , publishing , key (lock) , quality (philosophy) , computer science , world wide web , library science , political science , law and economics , internet privacy , law , sociology , computer security , epistemology , philosophy
Key points Publishing articles in predatory or low quality open-access journals has been proven to be easy. In the presented case study, the editor replaced the entire submitted manuscript with plagiarized texts, without explicitly informing the authors. When strongly motivated to publish, editors and publishers may fraudulently change articles to make them more publishable. Replacing the entire content of an article cannot be interpreted as a misguided attempt to improve article quality. Plagiarism should not be solely blamed on authors when editors may be the culprits.