The annual list of the world’s shaky and outright fake science journals is out, and Canada figures prominently, with hundreds of new entries calling themselves the Canadian Journal of one thing or another.
This is not a category where Canada wants to aspire to global leadership.
Each year, Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado updates his authoritative list of fake and low-quality online science journals, and the 2017 list is now public.
Real science journals are where academics show off all their latest discoveries. Crummy ones publish junk for hire, so that would-be scientists can buy their way to credibility. They also …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
