Predatory journals

Abstract

There is a high probability that you have received an email from a publishing house inviting you to write in one of their magazines, mail where they say that it has a high impact factor, an editorial committee with great academic characters, an acceptance process of articles very fast, and to be able to publish in the magazine you should only send your article.

But beware, you may be about to be the victim of fraud by a predatory magazine (known in English as predatory journals). Jeffrey Beall, librarian and academic at the University of Colorado, described them in 2010 as those publications that use and distort the valuable open access model for their own benefit. Taking advantage of the pressures that are exerted against researchers and academics to publish constantly, these journals operate to obtain the payment of the authors, breaking all the ethical standards of the scientific publication. They are characterized by having several levels of deception and lack of transparency in their operations (...)