Consequences and risks

Predatory journals are journals that trick researchers into submitting their articles to them, in the belief that they have submitted their work to a proper journal. When the error is discovered, the predatory journals demand a ransom for releasing the articles, so that they can be published in the originally intended journal.

What are the consequences?

• Finacial consequences – researchers have to pay to release articles for publication elsewhere
• It costs time and resources to release articles and it creates a lot of uncertainty amongst the researchers involved
• Researchers that publish in predatory journals miss out on citations and visibility
• When research is published by, or associated with, predatory publishers, it reflects badly on the individual researcher 
• It damages the reputation of DTU when DTU researchers publish in predatory journals.