“Dog Of A Dilemma: The Rise Of The Predatory Journal”

A terrier among tulips — Not all Staffordshire terriers have entered academia, of course. Some, like this one, have taken time to smell the roses (or, more precisely in this case, the tulips). And there are times, I confess, when I think that such a course might be the wisest course. (Public domain image from Wikimedia Commons)

This is pretty funny, and pretty sad:

https://www.doctorportal.com.au/mjainsight/2017/19/dog-of-a-dilemma-the-rise-of-the-predatory-journal/

As it happens, I had a somewhat shady academic friend a number of years ago (not at BYU), who was something of an entrepreneurial type. Every once in a while, hoping to gain favors from me (and/or from BYU), he would put me on the editorial board of some journal or other that he had started. (None of them, I think, were money-making ventures. He just liked to launch such things.) I never looked to see, but I believe that I may still be a member of the board of, among other things, a journal of Chinese literature and a journal of “Africana studies.” Fortunately, I doubt that many others have seen them, either.

“Dog of a dilemma: the rise of the predatory journal”