{"id":2778,"date":"2016-10-30T13:22:39","date_gmt":"2016-10-30T13:22:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2017-01-27T15:30:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T15:30:43","slug":"pay-to-present-the-rise-of-predatory-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/2016\/10\/30\/pay-to-present-the-rise-of-predatory-conferences\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay-to-present: the rise of predatory conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pred-conf\"<\/a>Bea<\/a>ll\u2019s list<\/a> of predatory open access publishers \u2013 scholarly publishers with limited scientific credibility who charge fees to publish work with little or no peer review \u2013 increases in length every year. For many researchers, emptying their inbox of dubiously worded invitations to submit to questionable journals has become a daily routine.<\/p>\n

But as the marketplace becomes more crowded, predatory publishers are increasingly turning to the lucrative world of conference planning. In a recent article in the Huffington Post<\/a>, Madhukar Pai and Eduardo L. Franco draw attention to the burgeoning industry based around predatory conferences<\/a>. Exploiting the need for academics to gain international recognition for their work, predatory conferences invite participants \u2013 for a fee \u2013 to present their research to leaders in the field. The invitation might include the opportunity \u2013 for a higher fee \u2013 to chair an entire session. Accommodation, transport, meals and even guided tours can all be arranged courtesy of the organiser\u2019s commercial partners.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, prospective speakers discover only on arrival that the conference has few attendees and that the big names promised on the invite are not present. In some cases, these individuals might have had no association<\/a> with the conference, their details having been lifted from the internet. Just as predatory open access publishers risk tarring the reputation of the open access model, so predatory conferences risk undermining science communication.<\/p>\n

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Summary by Louisa Lyon, DPhil<\/a> from Aspire Scientific<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beall\u2019s list of predatory open access publishers \u2013 scholarly publishers with limited scientific credibility who charge fees to publish work with little or no peer review \u2013 increases in length … Continue Reading Pay-to-present: the rise of predatory conferences<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_publicize_connection_overrides":[],"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[72134889],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predatory-journals","post-has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Yk5l-IO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2789,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepublicationplan.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}