[Coral-List] How to spot dodgy academic journals

[Douglas Fenner]

The Economist
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/05/30/how-to-spot-dodgy-academic-journals


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I note that the two countries with by far the most predatory journals are
India and Nigeria.  According to the article, India has 300 legit journals
and 4,400 predatory.

A favorite strategy is to list an address in the US or another developed
country as the journal address, even though all the journal's offices and
activities are carried out in one of the countries that has most of these
journals.  The article doesn't point out that all this is made possible by
the internet.

Cheers,  Doug

Douglas Fenner
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"mitigating climate change is the critical wedge to set coral reefs on a
recovery trajectory"  Duarte et al 2020 Rebuilding marine life Nature

"Already, more people die  <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."


https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths


Even 50-year old climate models correctly predicted global warmng
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/12/even-50-year-old-climate-models-correctly-predicted-global-warming?utm_campaign=news_weekly_2019-12-06&et_rid=17045989&et_cid=3113276

"Global warming is manifestly the foremost current threat to coral reefs,
and must be addressed by the global community if reefs as we know them will
have any chance to persist."  Williams et al, 2019, Frontiers in Marine
Science