{"title":"Testing the Robustness of COPE’s Characterization of Predatory Publishing on a COPE Member Publisher (Academic and Business Research Institute)","authors":"Salim Moussa, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09967-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09967-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) is a leading ethics-promoting organization associated with academic publishing. COPE continuously fortifies its ethics guidelines, also serving as a warning portal of “predatory” publishing behavior. A 2019 COPE discussion document on “predatory publishing” lists 16 warning signs of predatory publishers/journals. Grounded in legitimacy theory, this study examines, by adopting COPE’s 16 warning signs of “predatory publishing” as criteria, the case of a current COPE member publisher, Academic and Business Research Institute (AABRI). Our assessment reveals that, according to COPE’s own stated criteria, AABRI would be considered as “predatory.” The objective of this case study was to appreciate whether COPE’s 16 warning signs may be insufficiently sensitive to detect a predatory journal or publisher, or whether those criteria require an adjustment if the journal/publisher is academically legitimate but is found to be otherwise. If such criteria were to be used widely by academics (and others) to characterize journals or publishers, but result in a surprising or undesired negative classification (“predatory”), then this may have widespread ramifications not only for global academia but also for scholarship and society at large. An incorrect classification could also negatively impact the COPE “brand” of ethical and scholarly legitimacy.</p>","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"306 S1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138519932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska and Leigh Wilson, eds. 2020. The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible New Directions in Book History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. xvii + 281 pp. US$129.99. Hardback. ISBN: 978-3-030-48783-6. Also available in eBook, e-ISBN: 978-3-030-48784-3","authors":"Jodie Lea Martire","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09970-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09970-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"100 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135679257","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Philip Ajouri, Julia Bangert, Gerhard Lauer and Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, eds. 2023. Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 2023. Vol. 98. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. 253 pp. €98.00. Hardback. ISBN 978-3-44-712016-6","authors":"Albrecht Classen","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09964-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09964-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"120 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135932758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Richard Charkin with Tom Campbell. 2023. My Back Pages—An Undeniably Personal History of Publishing: 1972–2022. London: Marble Hill Publishers. 174 pp. £20. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-7392657-3-1.","authors":"David Hetherington","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09961-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09961-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":"309 - 310"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48901408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Georgina Colby, Kaja Marczewska and Leigh Wilson, eds. 2020. The Contemporary Small Press: Making Publishing Visible","authors":"Jodie Lea Martire","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09962-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09962-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52616915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amy J. Schneider: The Chicago Guide to Copyediting Fiction","authors":"Thomas R. Claire","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09960-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09960-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":"305 - 308"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41596626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publishing Queer Literature: A Comparison Between the Adult and Young Adult Markets from the Cold War to Present Day","authors":"Katie Schwab","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09959-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09959-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":"249 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46107948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Publishing Trends in Political Science: How Publishing Houses, Geographical Positions, and International Collaboration Shapes Academic Knowledge Production","authors":"Tamás Kaiser, T. Tóth, Márton Demeter","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09957-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09957-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":"201 - 218"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46210311","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Persuasion and Engagement in the Spanish Bookfluencers' Content","authors":"Marta Magadán-Díaz, Jesús I. Rivas-García","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09958-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09958-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":"234 - 248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49334342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"(Mis-)Classification of 17,721 Journals by an Artificial Intelligence Predatory Journal Detector","authors":"J. A. Teixeira da Silva, G. Kendall","doi":"10.1007/s12109-023-09956-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12109-023-09956-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44970,"journal":{"name":"PUBLISHING RESEARCH QUARTERLY","volume":"39 1","pages":"263 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44839239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}