I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD "COMBAT" PREDATORY PUBLISHERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFFREY BEALL

Beall's List was discontinued in January 2017. It catalogued potential predatory publishers, known for publishing non -peer -reviewed open access articles with profit motives. This leads to a pollution of the academic record with poorly reviewed pseudo -scientific data, which is harmful for science in general. In this interview, Beall discusses some aspects and impacts of predatory publishing, as well as the dilemma of open -access research and what different entities can do to diminish the influence of predatory journals.