Some new journals dispense with peer review to milk the academic subsidy system and enrich their writers
A group of unscrupulous academics at local universities have joined the long list of unsavoury people adept at identifying weaknesses in government rules in order to game the system and tap into public funds.
Publishers of predatory journals use an open access model that turns the traditional business model on its head: instead of charging hefty subscription fees, open access journals ask researchers to pay to submit their work, and then provide free access after publication. The “publish or perish” culture that permeates universities, combined with a blunt subsidy scheme that rewards research output on a per publication basis has created a system ripe for exploitation.
The most recent work by Crest exposes how local researchers are publishing questionably large volumes of papers in journals on which they play an editorial role and are scamming the government for suspiciously large numbers of conference proceedings. The most egregious example identified by Crest involved a researcher who had his name on 117 conference proceedings in the space of a year.
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