Predatory conferences and practices: Nature interviews feature IAP

The journal Nature has published a series of articles on predatory journals and conferences. Three articles feature the IAP study overview and quote the IAP co-chair Diane Negra, who was a member of the IAP Predatory Practices Working Group.

Read the three articles here:

1. How to spot a predatory conference, and what science needs to do about them: a guide. Researchers who have fallen prey to predatory conferences share the tell-tale signs of a dud event.

2. Predatory conferences are on the rise. Here are five ways to tackle them.
   Early-career researchers are being targeted by organizers of exploitative meetings. There needs to be more awareness and perhaps legal redress over this dangerous development.

3. What is it like to attend a predatory conference? Nature sent a reporter to find out as part of an investigation into dud events.

The InterAcademy Partnership and other advocacy groups issue guidance to researchers on how to spot a predatory conference. The initiative Stop Predatory Practices, mentioned in the first Nature article, was developed by the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague, with support from IAP through a small grant.

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