Please share your experience if you have ever been a victim of predatory journal.
Does your work still count as scientific contribution?
Publishing in a predatory journal is one thing and the content of the publication is another. I have seen some famously cited publications from predatory journals probably because the content was good. Nevertheless, it's hard to count such as scholarly contributions
Yes, I have been a victim when I started my academic career. It was a Scopus indexed journal which was later pronounced as a predatory. When I published my work there, I thought it was a good journal. I don't claim that piece of research anymore as I don't show predatory journal on my CV or on my profile elsewhere. I would like to hear from others on this topic as well.
Hy. I have recently being succesful in resisting predatory publishers' creative and proactive intention to motivate me to publish my book in English which is originaly written in Croatian. It was really hard because they have send me a dozen mails by day for a few months arguing the importance of my work and their role in it's visibility. It took me a few days firstly to investigate the publisher and almost a month to persuade them I am not interested for collaboration. Finally only blocking their email adress was useful. That was not my first experience with that kind of publishers, but it was one of the worst.
On the other hand, as I have never publish anything in predatory journals, I am not familiar about the policy of reviewing articles published through that channel.
I never had to publish in a predatory journal but I just feel like it would be heart breaking for me and just a lost for the scientific community.
it is one of the bad experiences I was exploited during my early publishing experience, I was been alarmed by one of my coauthors, I stopped the process and from that time I checked first the predatory list then I submit.
Publishing in a predatory journal is one thing and the content of the publication is another. I have seen some famously cited publications from predatory journals probably because the content was good. Nevertheless, it's hard to count such as scholarly contributions
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