掠夺性出版 [Predatory Publishing]
定义: 掠夺性出版(又称“虚荣出版”),是指出版商在出版科研成果的过程中用于牟利的一系列商业行为,主要包括收取版面费。这些行为往往缺乏必要的质量把控(如同行评审)或编辑服务。最极端的情况下,掠夺性出版商会在收取费用后发表任何文章。其他相对隐蔽的做法,例如大量发送未经邀约的编辑请求或在收费的特刊中发表等,同样被视为掠夺性出版行为(Crosetto, 2021)。
相关术语: Article Processing Charge (APC), Gaming (the system)
参考文献:
- Crosetto, P. (2021). Is MDPI a predatory publisher? https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/
- Xia, J., Harmon, J. L., Connolly, K. G., Donnelly, R. M., Anderson, M. R., & Howard, H. A. (2015). Who publishes in “predatory” journals? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 66(7), 1406–1417. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23265
原稿作者: Nick Ballou
审阅者: Olmo van den Akker, Helena Hartmann, Aleksandra Lazić, Graham Reid, Flávio Azevedo
翻译者: AI-driven translation tool "TransFlow" (developed by Jinbiao Yang and COSN OpenTransfer team)
译稿审阅者: Zixi Wang, Liangjie Chen, Ruoting Liu, Shuxian Jin