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AUTHOR(S): Badea Lepadatescu, Xiaodong Zhuang, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Paolo Mercorelli, Michael N Katehakis
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TITLE Has WSEAS been ever engaged in Predatory Publishing Practices? |
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ABSTRACT In this paper, we investigate whether WSEAS has ever engaged in predatory publishing practices. Since its founding in 1996, WSEAS has cultivated a strong culture that emphasizes rigorous peer review as the foundation of all its academic activities. We firmly believe that journals and conferences lacking a proper peer-review process are unsustainable and short-lived. Even if such outlets achieve temporary recognition or indexing, they ultimately fail to gain credibility within the academic community. Without peer review, scholarly publications lose their integrity and are unlikely to be taken seriously by researchers, institutions, or funding bodies. Organizing journals or conferences without peer review is, in our view, both reckless and self-destructive for any publisher or academic society. According to Wikipedia, predatory publishing—also referred to as write-only publishing or deceptive publishing—is an exploitative model that involves charging authors publication fees without performing meaningful quality checks or providing the editorial and publishing services expected of legitimate academic journals. This practice undermines the credibility of scholarly communication and is widely condemned across academia. Has WSEAS ever participated in such unethical publishing practices? The answer is a definitive no. We are committed to maintaining high academic standards and transparency in all our publications and events. For further details and supporting documentation, please refer to the information provided here. |
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KEYWORDS Predatory publishing, WSEAS, peer review, open access, transparency, academic publishing ethics |
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Cite this paper Badea Lepadatescu, Xiaodong Zhuang, Nikos E. Mastorakis, Paolo Mercorelli, Michael N Katehakis. (2025) Has WSEAS been ever engaged in Predatory Publishing Practices?. International Journal of Communications, 10, 1-7 |
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