Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications

Abstract

Predatory publishing has proven to be a complex, mutable phenomenon in scholarly communication, with numerous debates and controversies surrounding its definition and measurement
(operationalization). A cursory search of the LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) database results in more than 400 academic treatments of predatory publishing since 2010 (with Beall’s coining of the term “predatory publishing”), with more than ninety appearing just since 2023.1 Monica Berger’s Predatory Publishing and Global Scholarly Communications presents an expertly and thoroughly researched critical appraisal of predatory publishing that places the practice into the context of larger scholarly communication debates, such as open access;