‘Predatory’ Scientific Publisher Is Hit With A $50 Million Judgment
These practices stand in sharp contrast to those of legitimate scientific journals, where editors send papers to experts for review, a process that can take weeks or months, and often ask for extensive revisions. On Wednesday, James DuBois, director of the Center for Clinical Research Ethics at Washington University in St. Louis, forwarded to The Times an email he had just received. “It is learnt that you have published a paper titled ‘The Role of Culture and Acculturation in Researchers’ Perceptions of Rules in Science’ in SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING ETHICS and we are impressed by the subject,” the email said.
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