title: Academic nightmares: Predatory publishing.
abstract: Academic researchers who seek to publish their work are confronted daily with a barrage of e-mails from aggressive marketing campaigns that solicit them to publish their research with a specialized, often newly launched, journal. Known as predatory journals, they often promise high editorial and publishing standards, yet their exploitive business models, poor quality control, and minimal overall transparency victimize those researchers with limited academic experience and pave the way for low-quality articles that threaten the foundation of evidence-based research. Understanding how to identify these predatory journals requires thorough due diligence on the part of the submitting authors, and a commitment by reputable publishers, institutions, and researchers to publicly identify these predators and eliminate them as a threat to the careers of young scientists seeking to disseminate their work in scholarly journals. Anat Sci Educ 10: 392-394. © 2016 American Association of Anatomists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Sonya E
authors.initials: SE
authors.lastname: Van Nuland
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
authors.forename: Kem A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000329:Advertising; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans; D055811:Journal Impact Factor; D017712:Peer Review, Research / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D011643:Publishing / Q000941:ethics* / Q000592:standards; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000523:psychology*; D015871:Scientific Misconduct / Q000941:ethics*
keywords: academic publishing; open access journals; paid access journals; predatory journals; predatory publishing; research; scientific publications