KOLKATA: As much as 27.1 per cent of the publishers of fake scientific journals are from India, putting the country on top in the list of predatory publishers in the world, a study has found.
Published in October in BMC Medicine journal, the paper sheds light on various aspects of this branch of e-business, including information on extent and regional distribution. The study notes over the 2010 to 2014 period, predatory journals have rapidly increased their publication volumes from 53,000 in 2010 to an estimated 420,000 articles in 2014, published by around 8,000 active journals. Other regions of the world that were brought under the study are: Europe (8.8 per cent), Africa (5.5 per cent), South America (0.5 per cent), etc.
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