Early career researchers and predatory journals during the Covid-19 pandemic. An international analysis

Author:

Nicholas David1ORCID,Rodríguez-Bravo Blanca2ORCID,Boukacem-Zeghmouri Cherifa3ORCID,Herman Eti1ORCID,Clark David1ORCID,Xu Jie4ORCID,Abrizah Abdullah5ORCID,Świgoń Marzena6ORCID,Watkinson Anthony1ORCID,Sims David7ORCID,Jamali Hamid R.8ORCID,Tenopir Carol7ORCID,Allard Suzie7ORCID

Affiliation:

1. CIBER Research Ltd

2. Universidad de León

3. Université de Lyon

4. Wuhan University

5. University of Malaya

6. Uniwersytet Warminsko-Mazurski

7. University of Tennessee

8. Charles Sturt University

Abstract

Around 170 early career researchers (ECRs) from 8 countries were interviewed about the whole range of their scholarly communication attitudes/behaviours during pandemic times and this paper analyses what they said about predatory journals in a wide range of scholarly communication contexts. Because of the delicacy of the topic there was just one question exclusively directed at predatory journals, which asked about policies rather than actions, which yielded nevertheless wide-ranging comments on the topic. ECRs also volunteered information on predatory journals in another half dozen questions, most notably including one on questionable research practices. The source of data was mainly the final interview of three undertaken, with some comparisons made to rounds one and two. Findings disclose the existence of a whole raft of formal and informal assessment policies/coded that direct ECRs to legitimate journals and away from predatory ones. Despite being junior, ECRs are very accultured to the criteria of what is considered as prestige and quality and believe predatory publishing is not even conceivable. They are far more concerned about low-quality research, preprints and borderline ‘grey’ journals. The pandemic has increased the level of questionable practices and low-quality research, but predatory journals were only singled out by a relatively small number of ECRs.

Publisher

Ediciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL

Subject

Library and Information Sciences,Information Systems,General Medicine

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