Awareness of Predatory Journals in Library and Information Science Faculties in India

2022/10/14 by Madhuri Kumari, Kumari, Madhuri, A Subaveerapandiyan +1
Arts and Humanities · #Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Publishing and Scholarly Communication #Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.10092

openalex publication_date 2022/10/14 · openalex created_date 2022/10/22 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Predatory journals that pretended to resemble refereed journals but are used for money-making purposes. Predatory publishers produce less quality scientific and research papers; it is a severe academic threat in scientific publications. Researchers are ensuring the quality of the journal and peer-reviewing process before submitting the manuscript. This paper aims to know the Indian Library and Information Science faculties awareness and knowledge about Predatory journals.

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