Is a journal that has an IF<1, charges 100 Euros an article, reviews and publishes within a week, and prints 80-100 totally unrelated articles a month predatory or very predatory?
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Replying to @GidMK
The two first sentences has nothing to do with being predatory. By that definition
@Meta_Psy or any FAIR oa https://www.fairopenaccess.org is predatory. We have low or no APC and typically no IF. Very disappointed at this tweet.5 replies 0 retweets 8 likes -
Replying to @RickCarlsson @Meta_Psy
It's more the second half of the tweet that's the issue, as well as it all together tbh. The 80-100 articles twice a month on completely unrelated topics...
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But fair enough, I probably should've worded differently and also included a screenshot of the journal I was looking at because that makes it quite a bit more obvious
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Yeah sorry if I’m sounding harsh. I don’t care that much about the IF part (but running a journal and putting in hard work to get the APC down to zero and knowing people thinks (It’s very common) signaling predatory… it’s frustrating.
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But at least we’re slow enough that no one suspects foul play

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Tbh the low publishing charge to me means nothing without the high number of articles - I admire journals that can charge only a little except when they just publish endless hundreds of articles with no review!
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Agree. Best way is transparent editorial process publishing the full reviews etc.
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