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Reading list
Bad Science by ISBN: 0771035799The progenium XY complex -- Homeopathy -- The placebo effect -- The nonsense du jour -- Nutritionists -- The doctor will sue you now -- Is mainstream medicine evil? -- Why clever people believe stupid things -- Bad stats.
Pseudoscience by ISBN: 9780262344814Publication Date: 2018-01-26See chapters 12 (Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals), and 13 (Pseudoscience, Coming to a Peer-Reviewed Journal Near You)
Predatory data
The Surgisphere scandal during COVID-19
Baker, N. et al. (2020) Coronapod: The Surgisphere scandal that rocked coronavirus drug research. Nature (London). [Online]
Piller, C. (2020) Who’s to blame? These three scientists are at the heart of the Surgisphere COVID-19 scandal. Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science). [Online]
Predatory publishers in science: overview
All of the following articles are peer-reviewed, open-access and available through the University of Waterloo Library
- Beall, J. (2012) Predatory publishers are corrupting open access. Nature (London). [Online] 489 (7415), 179–179.
- Grudniewicz, A. et al. (2019) Predatory journals: no definition, no defence. Nature (London). [Online] 576 (7786), 210–212.
- Siler, K. et al. (2021) Predatory publishers’ latest scam: bootlegged and rebranded papers. Nature (London). [Online] 598 (7882), 563–565.
- Wilson, N. (2023) Predatory Journals. Bioscience. [Online]
- Xia, J. et al. (2015) Who publishes in ‘predatory’ journals? Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology. [Online] 66 (7), 1406–1417.
Predatory publishing and COVID-19
- Capodici, A. et al. (2023) Biased, wrong and counterfeited evidences published during the COVID-19 pandemic, a systematic review of retracted COVID-19 papers. Quality & quantity. [Online] 57 (5), 4881–4913.
- Else, H. (2020) How a torrent of COVID science changed research publishing - in seven charts. Nature (London). [Online] 588 (7839), 553–553.
- Teixeira da Silva, J. A. (2020) An Alert to COVID-19 Literature in Predatory Publishing Venues. The Journal of academic librarianship. [Online] 46 (5), 102187–102187.
- Vervoort, D. et al. (2020) Money down the drain: predatory publishing in the COVID-19 era. Canadian journal of public health. [Online] 111 (5), 665–666.