{"id":6153,"date":"2014-06-10T14:47:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T14:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/experts\/emerging-trends-in-bogus-metrics-the-future-of-open-access-and-more\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T09:42:07","slug":"emerging-trends-in-bogus-metrics-the-future-of-open-access-and-more","status":"publish","type":"experts","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/emerging-trends-in-bogus-metrics-the-future-of-open-access-and-more","title":{"rendered":"Emerging trends in bogus metrics, the future of open access, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">Jeffrey Beall is a librarian renowned for his activities against predatory open access publishing, and the author of the blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scholarly Open Access<\/a>, where he maintains a <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarlyoa.com\/publishers\/\">list of predatory publishers.<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\">In this second part of our video interview (see part one <a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/predatory-publishers-use-lots-of-tricks-to-make-people-think-that-they-are-legitimate\">here<\/a>), Beall throws light on some disturbing new developments, such as creating bogus citation metrics and copying pages from legitimate journals, that the predatory journals are using as tools to lure authors. He also shares his views on where open access is headed and how the menace of publishing fraud can be dealt with.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/donald-samulack\">Donald Samulack<\/a>, President, US Operations, Editage, Cactus Communications, speaks to Jeffrey Beall at the Council of Science Editors Annual Meeting held in San Antonio in May 2014 where they co-presented a session titled\u00a0<em>Predatory Publishers: How to Recognize Publishing Fraud. \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S8A9BI6R3qw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":33313,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"new_categories":[],"new_tags":[],"series":[2823],"class_list":["post-6153","experts","type-experts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","series-interview-with-jeffrey-beall"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Emerging trends in bogus metrics, the future of open access, and more | Editage Insights<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch the second part of our video interview with Jeffrey Beall, the man behind the famous Beall\u2019s List of Predatory Publishers and the author of the Scholarly Open Access blog. 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