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One-third of suspected predatory journals appoint ‘Dr Anna, a fraud’ as editor
One-third of predatory academic journals, targeted in a sting operation, appointed an editor named Dr Anna O Szust, whose name, when translated from Polish to English, means ‘Dr Anna, a fraud'.
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Apparently you did not read carefully the paper reported here. “120 academic journals appoint ‘Dr Anna, a fraud’ as editor” is not correct.
It is 33% of 120 “predatory journals” (=40) and 7% of 120 “DOAJ journals” = 9 -> 49 journals totoal
Hi Maksym,
You are correct and thank you for pointing out the error. I have corrected my article.
Cheers,
James
This trend is exacerbated by the ‘publish or perish’ culture, but it is not exasperated by it. We academics are the ones who are exasperated by it.
And rightfully so Larry. I’ve corrected that mistake.
Cheers,
James