Academia Should Stop Using Beall’s Lists and Review Their Use in Previous Studies

Silva, Jaime A. Teixeira da; Kendall, Graham

doi:10.47316/cajmhe.2023.4.1.04

CAJMHE

2023

DOI: 10.47316/cajmhe.2023.4.1.04

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Academia Should Stop Using Beall’s Lists and Review Their Use in Previous Studies

Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva¹,

Graham Kendall

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Abstract: Academics (should) strive to submit to journals which are academically sound and scholarly. To achieve this, they could either submit to journals that appear exclusively on safelists (occasionally referred to as whitelists, although this term tends to be avoided), or avoid submitting to journals on watchlists (occasionally referred to as blacklists, although this term tends to be avoided). The most well-known of these lists was curated by Jeffrey Beall. Beall’s Lists (there are two, one for stand-alone journal… Show more

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“…The identification and/or classification of a predatory journal or publisher is a challenging task that is currently not effectively being achieved by the scientific community. Beall's lists (Beall, 2017; Kendall, 2021) were popular ‘go‐to’ resources, but since Beall shut down the blog that housed them in 2017, they are now redundant, outdated, and thus of little academic use, and their use in some academic papers may invalidate their methodology and findings (Teixeira da Silva & Kendall, 2023a). Moreover, an AI‐driven software that also claims to effectively discern ‘normal’ from ‘suspected predatory’ journals also currently gives an apparently high false positive output, and thus the serious problem of journal misclassification, which can severely damage their reputations if characterizations are not accurate, or substantiated (Teixeira da Silva & Kendall, 2023b).…”

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Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills

Kendall

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Silva²

2023

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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“…The identification and/or classification of a predatory journal or publisher is a challenging task that is currently not effectively being achieved by the scientific community. Beall's lists (Beall, 2017; Kendall, 2021) were popular ‘go‐to’ resources, but since Beall shut down the blog that housed them in 2017, they are now redundant, outdated, and thus of little academic use, and their use in some academic papers may invalidate their methodology and findings (Teixeira da Silva & Kendall, 2023a). Moreover, an AI‐driven software that also claims to effectively discern ‘normal’ from ‘suspected predatory’ journals also currently gives an apparently high false positive output, and thus the serious problem of journal misclassification, which can severely damage their reputations if characterizations are not accurate, or substantiated (Teixeira da Silva & Kendall, 2023b).…”

Section: Chatgpt From the Prism Of Predatory Publishing And Paper Mil...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Risks of abuse of large language models, like ChatGPT, in scientific publishing: Authorship, predatory publishing, and paper mills

Kendall

¹

,

Silva²

2023

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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“…2023;8. https://doi.org/10.24069/ SEP- 2023;8 на существующие опасения, что «черные списки» Билла могут быть использованы и во вред -например, в качестве инструмента в руках ученых, конкурирующих между собой [4] -они продолжают функционировать как источник рекомендаций, в каких журналах публиковаться небезопасно. Тем не менее, в наши дни не принято считать этот источник надежным, поскольку блог Билла давно не обновлялся и содержит множество устаревшей и просто ошибочной информации [5]. Наоборот, внимание следует обращать на «белые» или «безопасные» списки, в которых представлены научные журналы или издатели, которые, по всей видимости, следуют этическому кодексу о научных публикациях [6].…”

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“…Объектом внимания настоящей статьи является редакционная политика Springer Nature (рис. 1 5 ; Springer Nature, 2023) в отношении ««хищнических» журналов и ссылок на публикации в таких журналах» (Predatory Journals and References Editorial Policies, далее по тексту -PJREP). Компания Springer Nature использует кавычки при упоминании явления «хищничества» в основном тексте руководства, но не использует их в названии, что вызывает путаницу относительно того, известны ли такие журналы доподлинно или нет.…”

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A reflection on Springer Nature’s current editorial policies related to “predatory” journals and references

Silva¹

2023

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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Are Any Top 50 Scimago Journal Rank-indexed Journals in the Nursing Category Considered “Predatory” by an AI-driven “Predatory” Journal Detector?

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Exaggerated anticipatory anxiety is common in social anxiety disorder (SAD). Neuroimaging studies have revealed altered neural activity in response to social stimuli in SAD, but fewer studies have examined neural activity during anticipation of feared social stimuli in SAD. The current study examined the time course and magnitude of activity in threat processing brain regions during speech anticipation in socially anxious individuals and healthy controls (HC). Method Participants (SAD n = 58; HC n = 16) underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during which they completed a 90s control anticipation task and 90s speech anticipation task.

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