5. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Predatory Publishing: Guidance for Graduate Students and Junior Scholars

Abstract

In Chapter 5, ‘Training and Mentoring of Graduate Students and Junior Scholars,’ Karin Ardon-Dryer explores the important question of how emerging scholars become enculturated into the world of scholarly publishing. It has perhaps always been the case that more established scholars are faced with the task of training the new generation of scholars, but at the same time, this new generation is facing challenges never faced, or even imagined, by their senior colleagues. This is one of the ‘paradoxes’ inherent in the predatory paradox that is the book’s central focus. But we argue in this chapter that this situation is intensified today, with so many new publishing trends emerging and the pace of scholarly research increasing so rapidly. There has simply been no other era in which so many changes have occurred so quickly. Our goal in this chapter is to report what our interview research taught us about what it takes to be an effective mentor of junior scholars in this rapidly changing environment and, hopefully, provide both senior and junior scholars with a toolset that serves as a starting place for this challenging endeavor.