Re:Why I published in a predatory journal
by thomasahle on Monday April 24, 2017 @10:04AM
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> I don't feel like it's warranted to treat the journals customers as victims here.
He means they are victims of their universities' polices.
Re:Why I published in a predatory journal
by thaumasiotes on Monday April 24, 2017 @06:37PM
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OK, so if the customers are victims of their universities, why would we call the journals who help them out "predatory"?
The quoted phrase, "a bunch of predator journals have emerged to lighten the purses of these poor folks", clearly implies that the journals are out to hurt their customers.
Are the poor folks not getting exactly what they paid for in this instance? They wanted to be able to hit a published papers quota to get a raise/hired/not fired/whatever and the journal provided that. I don't feel like it's warranted to treat the journals customers as victims here. Both the 'predatory' journal and the customer are just playing the same shitty game set up by silly incentives being put in place by outside forces.