Every researcher who wants to publish research results, faces so called predatory publishing. These are publication venues that claim to be legitimate scholarly open access journals, but misrepresent their publishing practices. Because there is a wide spectrum from genuinely fraudulent and deceitful practices to questionable and unethical practices, we rather speak of predatory practices instead of predatory journals.

In this session we want to identify the predatory practices, analyse how and why they occur, and what you can do to avoid them.

Some elements of the training:

• identify predatory practices
• pitfalls in academic publishing
• the the sense and nonsense of black and white lists: how to assess the quality of a journal?
• update our publication strategy
• global initiatives explained

This session is targeted at researchers in health sciences

Registration: https://event.ugent.be/registration/predatory20240530