Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory ...
academic.oup.com › rev › articleIntroduction. The journal Nature recently published a definition of the predatory journal (Grudniewicz et al. 2019), a milestone that highlights the increasing concern within academia of these pernicious journals that are exploiting the gold open-access publication model to their upmost, generating enormous financial gain ‘which appears to be the main criteria for publication’ (Frandsen 2017).