Practicality versus idealism for curbing predatory publishing: a reply to Teixeira da Silva

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  • Rajeev Raghavan Center for Taxonomy of Aquatic Animals, Department of Fisheries Resource Management, Kerala University of Fisheries and Ocean Studies (KUFOS), Kochi, Kerala 682506, India and Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO), 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4612-3271
  • Neelesh Dahanukar Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), G1 Block, Dr. Homi Bhabha Road, Pashan, Pune, Maharashtra 411008, India and Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO), 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-9023
  • Sanjay Molur Founder & Chief Editor, Journal of Threatened Taxa, Wildlife Information Liaison Development (WILD) Society, 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India and Zoo Outreach Organization (ZOO), 96 Kumudham Nagar, Vilankurichi Road, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641035, India http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8230-518X

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https://doi.org/10.11609/jott.2472.7.15.8307-8308

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References

Beall, J. (2015a). http://scholarlyoa.com. Accessed on 18 December 2015.

Raghavan, R., N. Dahanukar & S. Molur (2015). Curbing academic predators: JoTT’s policy regarding citation of publications from predatory journals. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7609–7611; http://dx.doi.org/10.11609/JoTT.o4388.7609-11

Teixeira da Silva, J.A. (2013). Predatory publishing: a quantitative assessment, the predatory score. The Asian and Australasian Journal of Plant Science and Biotechnology 7(Special Issue 1): 21–34.

Teixeira da Silva, J.A. (2014). Global Science Books: a tale from the cuckoo’s nest. How predatory open access publishing can influence the metrics of a traditional scholarly publisher. KOME 2(2): 73–81.

Teixeira da Silva, J.A. (2015). A response to the editorial on predatory publishing. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(15): xx–xx; http://dx.doi.org/xx.xxxxx/JoTT.xxxxx.xxxxx-xx

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26-12-2015

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