Early career researchers between predatory publishing and academic excellence: The views and behaviours of the millennials

• Main Authors: Nicholas, David, Herman, Eti, Watkinson, Anthony, Xu, Jie, Abrizah, Abdullah, Rodriguez-Bravo, Blanca, Boukacem-Zeghmouri, Cherifa, Polezhaeva, Tatiana, Swigon, Marzena
• Format: Article
• Published: Natl Research Univ Higher Sch Economics 2021
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/34989/
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

The paper draws on evidence of predatory publishing obtained from the four-year-long Harbingers research study of changing scholarly communication attitudes and behavior of early career researchers (ECRs). The project featured longitudinal interviews for its first three years with 116 ECRs researchi...