Predatory Journals: A New Perspective

The origin of deceptive publishing traces back to 2008, initiated by Gunther Eysenbach¹. He believed authors are those black sheep who are at an edge of “publish or perish” as quoted by Megan O’Donnell. She defined predatory journals as “an opportunistic publishing venue that exploits the academic need to publish but offers little reward for those using their services”². The increasing spam emails for article publishing and conference participation without robust editorial services indicate predatory publishing is an inevitable problem mainly rising from the developing world researchers and institutions.