TY - JOUR
T1 - First predatory journals, now conferences
T2 - The need to establish lists of fake conferences
AU - Sonne, Christian
AU - Ok, Yong Sik
AU - Lam, Su Shiung
AU - Rinklebe, Jörg
AU - Alstrup, Aage K.O.
AU - Kim, Ki Hyun
PY - 2020/5/1
Y1 - 2020/5/1
N2 - Science of the Total Environment recently discussed how open access and predatory journals affect the flow of scientific knowledge in an unfortunate way. Now, South Korea's Ministry of Education is intervening to establish a system that will help its researchers avoid the growing global number of fake conferences of low academic and scientific merit. Here, we discuss solutions to this problem with respect to what is needed. Particularly, a list similar to that of Beall's for predatory conferences, without restricting researchers' academic freedom.
AB - Science of the Total Environment recently discussed how open access and predatory journals affect the flow of scientific knowledge in an unfortunate way. Now, South Korea's Ministry of Education is intervening to establish a system that will help its researchers avoid the growing global number of fake conferences of low academic and scientific merit. Here, we discuss solutions to this problem with respect to what is needed. Particularly, a list similar to that of Beall's for predatory conferences, without restricting researchers' academic freedom.
KW - Academic freedom
KW - Knowledge exchange
KW - Overseas
KW - Predatory conferences
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136990
DO - 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.136990
M3 - Comment/debate
C2 - 32014787
AN - SCOPUS:85078668758
VL - 715
JO - Science of the Total Environment
JF - Science of the Total Environment
SN - 0048-9697
M1 - 136990
ER -