الابتزاز الأكاديمي : أحد صور الفساد في النشر العلمي : "حالة المدون المفترس جيفري بيل Jeffrey Beall's blog"

Abstract EN

The current paper discusses one of the forms of corruption in scientific publishing related to what it called academic blackmail, in light of what the recent period has witnessed of the great spread of electronic publishing, and many demand that all published research be made available to all researchers around the world free of charge through (Free Online Access).

Some weak-minded people exploited the need of colleagues for international and rapid scientific publishing, and they created many fake websites (Fake Scientific Journals / Publishers) on the Internet with bright names such as global periodicals that accept the publication of research in exchange for payment of heavy financial expenses that burden researchers, without observing the rules of scientific publishing from Reviewing and judging those researches or taking into account the quality of publishing, and some establishing forums containing lists of the names of these sites and calling everyone not to publish in them, and some at the same time blackmailing magazines and their boards of directors and threatening them to publish the names of their journals in that list, which required bringing them to trial and closing their blogs And warning them, not communicating with them, not responding to their blackmail, and informing the legal authorities, and the study evidenced that in the case of the resounding Predator Jeffrey Beall's blog