All publishers are predatory - some are bigger than others

Publishing at Any Cost? The Need for the Improvement of the Quality of Scholarly Publications

“…Gades and Toth (2019) maintain that a good deal of renowned journals also have submission or processing fees, and the published articles are available in open-access. Amaral (2018) offers an interesting and illustrative example of the charge (very high, from his standpoint) of the publication fee of a highly prestigious journal, which is indexed in the most acknowledged and legitimate databases. The author claims that the publisher does little to justify such a fee.…”

“…On the opposite side of this equation, the author(s) work for two or more years putting together a manuscript, from the literature review, data collection and analysis (if it is an empirical study) to the discussion of the results. In the author's words, this does not "sound like a fair deal" (Amaral, 2018(Amaral, , p. 1645.…”

A emergência dos preprints para a ciência brasileira: considerações sob a ótica da Enfermagem

“…Dialectically, the adoption of a preprint model directly dialogues with the defense of the open science initiative, since it provides for free to authors and readers research results which frequently are behind paywalls, i.e. charges for article access, largely benefiting big publishers and databases through institutional or government subscriptions (11,17) . The same applies to the end of the double-blind model, which can be seen with concern by part of the scientific community and, conversely, can be taken as an advance towards more transparency in the manuscripts' review process.…”

“…The postponing of Plan S to 2021 shows the imbroglio in the current panorama, in which the interests of authors, readers, funding agencies, publishers, databases, universities, and society are confronted. This same society depends on science's advances and, in contexts such as Brazil, supports research through their taxes (17,24) .…”

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Dealing with predatory publishing is a shared responsibility: the role of Latin American journals

“…However, recent evidence suggests that 34.7%, 16.4%, and 9.2% of the corresponding authors publishing in predatory journals represent India, Africa, and North America respectively (Gasparyan et al 2016a). Although few recently published papers by Latin American journals may be visible, the contribution is far below the magnitude of the problem (Amaral 2018, Cartes-Velasquez 2017, Cordeiro and Lima 2017, Goldenberg 2017. It might also be noted that the scope of predatory publishing activities is diverse, and covers almost all fields and specialties and regions of the world, particularly non-Anglophonic and nonmainstream science countries (Gasparyan et al 2016a(Gasparyan et al , 2017.…”