The Argonne Research Library has published a new LibGuide on predatory conferences and predatory publishing. A predatory publisher is an exploitative business that charges publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality or scientific legitimacy. Predatory publishers usually do not provide editorial services or other publication services, such as peer review, that are common when working with legitimate outlets. Predatory publishers often solicit submissions from scholars who are not familiar with the nature of academic publishing. Similarly, a predatory conference is one that charges fees for submissions with poor quality control and without peer review. Predatory conferences often fraudulently claim the involvement of legitimate scholars who are not actually participants. The instances of predatory publishing and predatory conferences are on the rise. There are estimates that as many as 8,000 academic journals and 3,000 conferences can be rated as predatory.
If you believe that you have been solicited by a predatory organization, you can ask an Argonne librarian to investigate it by sending a message to librarians@anl.gov.
The predatory publishing LibGuide offers more information on the predatory publishing industry and includes resources for identifying and avoiding predatory publishers.
The LibGuide can be viewed here: https://libguides.anl.gov/c.php?g=1058779.
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