Beware of scientific scams! Hints to avoid predatory publishing in biological journals

Our motivation for writing this editorial is to alert the academic community about the risks of predatory publishing in Biology. By piggy-backing on the open access (OA) movement and taking advantage of the “publish or perish” culture in a system that prioritises quantity over quality, predatory pub...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Cássio Cardoso Pereira, Marco A. R. Mello, Daniel Negreiros, João Carlos Gomes Figueiredo, Walisson Kenedy-Siqueira, Lara Ribeiro Maia, Stephannie Fernandes, Gabriela França Carneiro Fernandes, Amanda Ponce de Leon, Lorena Ashworth, Yumi Oki, Gislene Carvalho de Castro, Ramiro Aguilar, Philip M. Fearnside, G. Wilson Fernandes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2023-08-01
Series:Neotropical Biology and Conservation
Online Access:https://neotropical.pensoft.net/article/108887/download/pdf/