most of the things on Beall's list for example are just regional journals - major journals and publishers much more predatory and harmful
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the worst case journals I've seen called predatory in that space are really about giving appearance of credibility in exchange for fee
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but I know people who publish in those journals, and they do it because western journals don't even respond to them and they require pubs
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That's fine but that's not my experience in my field.
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BTW Oliver might not wanna be so tagged.
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untagged. interested to hear your experience - I've never spoken to anyone about it who didn't know what they were doing when they published
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asking what (in general terms) is the harm done by the journals that are labelled as predatory?
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False sense of achievement by student author. And false sense of worthy work by other student readers.
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PR doesn't tell us anything about the quality of the work though - people have to judge that for themselves?
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OK, I don't want to get into this because I disagree, I have work tomorrow and it's almost 2am, and I don't think tweeting is best medium.
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