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</html><description>What is predatory publishing? Predatory publishing, sometimes called&nbsp;write-only publishing&nbsp;or&nbsp;deceptive publishing, is an exploitive academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy and without providing the other editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. They are regarded as predatory [&hellip;]</description><thumbnail_url>https://blogs.uef.fi/ueflibrary-bors/wp-content/uploads/sites/152/2020/12/Logo_for_Think._Check._Submit.png</thumbnail_url></oembed>

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