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Key points The term ‘predatory journal’ hides a wide range of scholarly publishing misconduct. The term ‘predatory journal’ unhelpfully bundles misconduct with poor quality. The term ‘predatory journal’ blinds us to important possibilities, needs, and questions arising in the developing scholarly landscape. The current scholarly publishing environment cannot rely on such a simplified classification of journals into predatory or not.
Eriksson et al. (Mon,) studied this question.