Predatory publishing definition aims to tackle scientific scourge

‘Predatory journals’ are proliferating and now represent a global threat to science, undermining the scientific literature by publishing poor studies with cursory or non-existent peer review for a fee. Now, a team of prominent scholars and publishers from around the world have put their heads together to create a consensus definition of predatory publishing. The researchers hope that this will help to crackdown on these journals, of which there are now an estimated 8000 that together publish more than 400,000 research papers annually.