University Libraries Publications and Scholarship

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9196-0394

Abstract

Open access publishing not only increases accessibility to library materials and publications but also provokes the growth of predatory journals. The objectives of this study were to 1) corroborate the increasing concern of predatory journals, 2) identify journals publishing articles that commented on this issue, and 3) pinpoint occupations, academic disciplines, and geographic locations of these authors. This bibliometric study covered 2010-2020 tracking the library and information science literatures on the subject of predatory journals and outlined the trends. Analytical results of this study showed that there was an increasing global awareness of predatory journals among academic librarians and the scholarly community. The findings suggest a critical need for establishing information literacy in academia in the context of predatory journals, prompting academic librarians and scholarly authors to collaboratively deal with the pandemic of predatory publications.

Publisher

The American Library Association

First Page

3

Last Page

14

Publication Date

2022

College

University Libraries

Keywords

Predatory Journals, Predatory Publishing, Open Access

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