HOW FAKE JOURNALS BUY CREDIBILITY
It’s not hard to get credentials as a top-line research journal. First: Have a PayPal account. The predatory publishing business only wants money. Then: Make up enough fancy academic language to pretend you’re legitimate. Our version included this: “Our journal is at the forefront of cross-disciplinary analysis of contemporary political philosophy and civic theory. It has a particular focus on Canadian politics at the federal and provincial levels, with analysis of evolving trends in the public policy implications of civic activism. Articles cover the analysis of modern and postmodern political thought ranging from Edmund Burke to Edwin Encarnacion. In the current year, many are tending toward a stochastic or sarcogenic approach … “Next: Fake an editorial board, which is a group of senior academics supervising your work.
We volunteered Dr. Don Cherry as an expert in diplomacy, literacy and non-violent conflict resolution, Dr. Mike Duffy on ethics and fiscal restraint, and Dr. Bobby Orr on defence policy.
Oddly, many bogus journal like to show off an impressive statement of ethics. We plagiarized one from Canadian Science Publishing, in Ottawa. They run real journals.