Predatory publishers’ latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers

Siler, K., Vincent-Lamarre, P., Sugimoto, C. R. et Lariviere, V. (2021, Oct). Predatory publishers' latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers. Nature, 598(7882), 563-565.   

In 2018, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) won a US$50-million ruling against the publisher OMICS for deceptive business practices. The FTC’s investigation found that OMICS accepted and published nearly 69,000 articles in academic disciplines with little or no peer review. The judgement against the infamous publisher, located in Hyderabad, India, proved difficult to enforce. But the ensuing stigma still carries a penalty. In the two years after the FTC filed its complaint, the articles OMICS published under its imprint fell by 40%. After all, a publisher with no reputation is preferable to a publisher with a bad one. […]

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