Today’s lunch seminar: Understanding and avoiding predatory journals

Dear Colleagues, postdocs and graduate students,

Have you ever published a paper? Are you planning to publish papers? Do you read published papers? If so, this seminar and discussion next week might be of interest to you!

Megan Sapp Nelson, Professor of Library Sciences and Associate Head of Information Studies, will hold a short introduction seminar followed by time for questions and discussion.

When? May 25, at 12pm

Where? MJIS 2001

What? Brief presentation (see background below) with Q&A

Food? Yes, light lunch provided

To protect our valuable work and to enhance Weldon’s reputation among our peer institutions, it is necessary for us to be mindful and educated about where we publish our work. Multiple sources, including leading publishers, are sending out warning signals about predatory journals and “hidden” predatory journals. As researchers, we know that one measure of the quality of work is rigorous peer review, even though there is no perfect peer review process. We will discuss how to identify shady and questionable review processes and to stay away from such journals and publishers.

Best Regards,

Young Kim

Associate Head for Research

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

Kaisa Ejendal

Research Scientist

Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering

-----------------------