If the answer is yes, how to identify such type of publication houses? As these corrupted journals misuse the open access (OA) model by demanding a huge amount of money as article processing charges (APCs) from authors to publish their articles and are accepting low-quality papers without going through the standard peer-reviewing process.
What should be the mechanism to regulate these publishers??
Yes.
These 2 articles might help you
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326096675_How_to_detect_and_avoid_predatory_Journals
Article The Rising Menace Of Predatory Publishing: Terms, Concepts, ...
I think no. It helps to publish the new researchers to publish in good quality journals with low costs.
Of course yes. Lets try to get our good research papers in good journals.
Definitely yes.
Scientists always focusing on the research quality rather than quantity.
Thank you for adding your answers Saswatik Tripathy Sadia Nikhat
Dilip Kumar Pal Magboul Sulieman
Dr. Bruno Chrcanovic , Thank you so much for sharing your valuable experiences in detail, this will help young researchers to avoid predatory journals.
Yes.
"They just help new researchers get some quick publications." - and sorry, but this is no excuse. I understand the need, but this is the wrong path and can hurt careers.
Solution:
Dirt cheap online publishing with online review. The pre-print server model.
Except, submissions can be elevated to levels of respectability of good science. At a certain level, it can qualify for indexing and impact factoring.
Thank you, Dr. Randolph B Caldwell for the answer and solutions to avoid publications in predatory/corrupted journals.
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