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This video discusses predatory practices in academia, specifically focusing on predatory publishing and conferences. It outlines how these practices involve socio-political and economic behaviors that have become prevalent in academic settings. The issue was first brought to light by librarian Jeffrey Beall around 2009-2010, who highlighted the rise of predatory journals and created a list of such entities, which is no longer available due to legal threats.

The speaker underscores that the emphasis on publishing as a measure of academic success in a neoliberal, capitalist system drives many academics, particularly those new to the field, to submit to predatory journals. This video phenomenon is viewed as a significant threat to the integrity of scholarship, as predatory publishers exploit the academic knowledge system.

The speaker also discusses the role of awareness and education in combating predatory practices, suggesting that academics should be trained to recognize predatory journals and understand the consequences of publishing there. Additionally, it highlights the need for institutional support through workshops and mentorship for novice scholars.

This video examines the socio-economic factors influencing knowledge production, emphasizing that the current academic publishing system is largely benefiting publishers rather than fostering equitable access to knowledge. It advocates for changes in the way academic contributions are evaluated, calling for a more democratic and accessible approach to disseminating knowledge, which includes publishing in various languages and utilizing social media platforms to reach broader audiences.

Moreover, the discussion reveals the complexities of predatory publishing, calling for a nuanced understanding that distinguishes between genuinely predatory journals and those lacking robust editorial practices. The speaker suggests that initiatives focusing on raising awareness and offering resources could help mitigate the impacts of predatory practices in academia.

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So when we talk about, predatory practices,

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basically we are looking at socio, rhetorical,

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sociopolitical and socioeconomic behaviors

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or misbehaviors that have become common in current academia.

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And it's not just by predators themselves,

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but by academics themselves.

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And generally speaking, we can divide them into two,

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you know, big categories.

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So, predatory journals or predatory publishing,

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and then predatory conferences or predatory, presenting.

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And, so if we look at this phenomenon,

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the very first time that people started to paying attention

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to this was back in 2009, 2010,

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when a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver,

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Jeffrey Bill actually published a piece,

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and, in, in nature

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and talked about, you know, predatory, publishing

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and the fact that predatory journals are mushrooming

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and they are attracting a lot of, you know,

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academic, audience.

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And then, he developed a list.

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Of course, that list was, you know, is,

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is not actually online anymore,

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because there was threats of lawsuit

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and then some major implications for him.

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But since then, academia has started to pay attention

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to this, this phenomenon in different fields,

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computer sciences, data science,

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and also in my field, which is generally speaking, education

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and applied linguistics.

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So, there is this,

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newly established fast growing discipline within applied

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linguistics called English

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for research publication purposes,

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or which is part of the bigger, discipline of English

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for academic purposes.

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And what I'm,

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and this field basically looks at the socioeconomics

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and geopolitics of knowledge production and dissemination

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and, writing and publishing in academic journals.

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Um, so in different international academic contexts,

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a new and a very important,

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stream within this field, is, predatory practices.

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So what are the dynamics, that, of this phenomenon?

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So what are the factors or actors that,

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incentivize people, or,

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or, push people towards, publishing in

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academic journals in different disciplines

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or, academic, you know,

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presenting at academic conferences.

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So, generally speaking, it looks at, psychological,

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social, rhetorical

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and discursive, aspects of, predatory,

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publishing and also pedagogical aspects.

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So what solutions we can, you know, come up with in order

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to, prevent academics, from,

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falling prey to, predatory journals

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and predatory, conferences.

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This is a very good question.

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I think that if we want to understand this phenomenon,

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we need to go and look at it

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and situated in a bigger picture of what has,

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what has happened in our, our world

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and, in our academia.

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So, a lot of us know that, there is a,

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unholy, treason between, the economy and,

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and, the state and academic institution.

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And, the situation that we are living

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and breathing in, in academia is a neoliberal,

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capitalist knowledge economy.

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So there has been a structure, structuration of academia

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and the ethos of academia

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and men of academia actually, you know,

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they've, they've changed.

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So we have transitioned from a, a cultural institution

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to a new liberal capitalist institution,

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and we are actually,

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working in a capitalist knowledge economy.

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So in this capitalist knowledge economy, there is,

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there is a lot of talk about, efficiency.

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So efficiency is the hallmark of this, you know,

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academia and academic work and productivity.

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So what shows your productivity as an academic is,

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you know, how many papers you, you publish

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and in what journals and in what, languages.

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So basically, everything

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and everybody has become, has been commodified.

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So knowledge is marketized.

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And as an academic, you're expected to go

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and to, produce knowledge, to construct knowledge,

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and then package it in a very beautiful, you know,

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packaging and publish it in a very prestigious,

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journal.

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Uh, which is usually, an anglophone,

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journal, an English journal, in,

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with a high impact.

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So, and that's your responsibility to raise the echelon

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of yourself as an academic and your university.

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So you see that there's a process of, commodification

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for those, for both, academic institutions for knowledge

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and also for for academics.

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So in order to get, a better jobs, in order

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to get funding for your research, in order to get promotion

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to survive and establish yourself in

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academia, you have to publish.

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And this is a very major, reason

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that many academics, especially novice academics

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who are not, you know, who are new to this atmosphere

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and to this context, they're, under a lot of pressure

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to publish in those journals.

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Uh, but it doesn't

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Mean that it's just a system that is pushing academics,

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to publish in predatory journals

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and present at predatory conferences.

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So we also have unethical, you know, academics, who

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for a range of different reasons, they, they publish

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and present in those journals and in those, conferences.

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But, a big, part of it is on awareness

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of what is predatory publishing

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and predatory presenting, what are the consequences?

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And this phenomenon has turned into an existential,

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actually threat to the integrity and ethics of scholarship

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and, academic knowledge.

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But generally speaking, what we can see is

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that this business is, is growing.

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So this is basically a business model.

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And predatory publishers

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and journals are parasites

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that are feeding on the knowledge system that we have,

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or the knowledge economy that we have.

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So it's not just a small business

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or, you know, limited number of people that are doing that.

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And, and again, the, the concept

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of predatory publishing is a, is a vague

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and a, concept, and it's a gray area

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because, you know,

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and one of the critiques, against the list that Jeffrey

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Bale had was that this list, you know,

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is not clear enough in terms of differentiating journals

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that are, actually predatory journals

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and are exploiting the knowledge production

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and, you know, dissemination mechanism that we have

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from journals that,

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let's say they don't have a robust editorial system

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or a, a, a robust, editorial process

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for a gatekeeping knowledge.

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So we are dealing with a range of different concepts

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and different, you know, people and, enterprises

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and, you know, businesses there.

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Um, there is, journals that are not necessarily

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predatory journals, but they do not have, the,

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the high quality that you expect, of,

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an academic journal

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or a, a good, international academic journal.

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Um, so, and, part of it again, is

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because the, this gatekeeping system that, you know,

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we have currently is not working very well.

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So this gatekeeping system is basically working on the free

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work and service of many academics who are doing reviews,

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for journals and editing journals.

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And, nowadays, I'm a journal editor, myself,

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and, you know, we have difficulty finding people who can

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take, you know, some time, off their,

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busy schedules and review, for, for,

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their academic community for free.

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So, yeah, it's, it's very complicated.

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So, we should be aware of the fact that, both

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predatory journals and people

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who publish in predatory journals,

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we cannot just categorize them in one single category

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as people who are actually helping this system survive.

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So there is a lot of unaware, there is a lot of,

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you know, vague, blind spots there where,

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and there's a lot of confusion in terms of what is actually,

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predatory, publishing and predatory presenting.

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My research, is basic, generally speaking, at,

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in the field of education and applied linguistics.

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And it's, the, I I would say,

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my research areas and interests,

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are include academic literacies, academic writing

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and publishing, and, omes

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and the, geopolitics

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and socioeconomics

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of knowledge production and dissemination.

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So in this research and in this, field and,

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and the, as I said, the, the field of English

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for research publication purposes,

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which is basically looking at different aspects

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of knowledge production

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and dissemination, including, challenges

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that international academics,

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especially novice scholars have for writing and publishing

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and academic journals, mentorship

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and support mechanisms that we have at,

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different levels, individual, institutional, local

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and global levels for, you know, supporting academics

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to publish in, in, in academic journals, predatory,

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publishing, publishing practices of,

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underrepresented populations, female scholars,

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L-G-B-T-Q, community.

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So, and, what are some of the,

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institutional initiatives

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and measures that we can have in place in terms

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of workshops, in terms of courses, in terms

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of services at writing centers that we can develop in order

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to, help academics to, to especially novice academics

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to publish in academic journals.

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Um, that this specific book,

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basically is a, an edited book.

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Uh, and I co-edited that with a colleague of, mine.

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And, and this book, we,

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brought together an international cast of scholars,

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both anglophone scholars

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and multilingual,

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scholars from different international academic contexts,

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from, different countries, different continents,

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to try to, have a more nuanced, detailed picture

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of the dynamics, of,

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and the landscape of predatory,

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publishing in different academic contexts.

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So, generally speaking, we try to

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look at the contextual social, political, discursive,

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psychological, aspects of, you know,

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predatory, publishing.

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And the book,

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actually is divided into three sections or parts.

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We looked at, the roots of

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and the reasons for a predatory publishing.

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We looked at the incentives, and,

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and the lus that are there for academics

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to publish in academic journals.

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And also, we looked at solutions

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and strategies that we can adopt in order to,

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actually, to, to encounter, this,

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this, this problem.

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And, what is also very important is that,

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so we used, a range of different methodologies,

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discourse analysis, autoethnography,

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ethnographic studies,

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and we, looked at both, predatory publishing

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and predatory conferences.

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So there is an interesting chapter where, an academic,

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is talking about how they fell, prey

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to academic conferences,

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and they, you know, they had

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to spend their conference funding to go to, a, a fake

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and predatory conference.

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Um, so, the pedagogy of, writing

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for publication and the pedagogy that is related to,

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predatory publishing is, is an under, research area,

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and also the accounts

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and narratives that we can have from different academics

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because, a lot of times there's this stigma

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that people are not, open to say that,

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or I felt pre to this journal,

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or I published, as an academic.

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Because the general conception is that as an academic, you,

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you know, you know which journal is predatory

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and which journal is not,

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or which conference is predatory or not.

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But, again, even if you are an,

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an established academic, you may actually fall prey

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to those practices.

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And the fact is, those practices are,

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are getting more and more complicated.

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So if you look at the discourse of the predatory emails

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that, are sent to academics, they are,

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you know, very similar

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and get it approximating to, the,

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or the legitimate journals, the emails that we get

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for invitations that we get

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for publishing academic journals.

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So, which makes things, much more difficult

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for many academics, we should look at, micro, macro

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meso and micro, solutions.

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So maybe a, a,

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a big solution which may not be feasible now, is

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to change the mechanism

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and our imagination of knowledge production

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and dissemination the systems that we have

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or overhaul the current system that we have

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because, knowledge production

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and knowledge construction nowadays is not democratic.

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So basically, the only,

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stakeholder that is profiting basically,

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or the, the only entity

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that is profiting in this mechanism is publishers.

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And that's why we have publishers,

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because it's a lucrative business.

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It's a, multi-billion dollar business.

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So e even, I mean, more lucrative than some

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of these big companies like Apple,

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or, you know, car companies.

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Um, so, I, I don't know to what extent

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or whether at all we can change the system

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that knowledge goes through

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or behind the paywall of these publishers.

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And then, taxpayers money, academics free,

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you know, work is actually, contributing to,

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to the, to that business.

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And as I said, they are the only ones

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that are making money here.

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So we should come up with some ways to be able to,

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to democratize knowledge

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and to, find a mechanism where people's,

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taxpayer's money actually benefits them

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by making knowledge more accessible to general public.

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So this way, maybe,

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and, we can, kind of, you know,

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counteract against what is happening in the

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predatory, sphere.

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Um, the other thing is the, the monopoly that we have in,

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in, in terms of the language of publication that,

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you know, English, medium,

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publications are valued the most.

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Um, so that pushes many predatory journals, many,

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academics to actually seek ways to, to publish,

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or to solicit, you know,

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publishing in predatory journals.

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Um, part of the, solution is the educational,

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you know, part, and what academic institutions

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and, you know, individual scholars can do, mentors,

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supervisors raising awareness of predatory, you know,

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publishing, you know, offering courses, workshops,

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seminars, you know, talks,

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on predatory publishing

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and creating this network of support, especially

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for novice scholars, with their peers,

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with their supervisors.

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Where, unfortunately, one of the things

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that is not happening in many academic contexts is,

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writing for publication

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and English for research publication purposes, courses

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where we are not, we are taking it for granted that someone

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who gets into a doctoral program basically learns about

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academic publishing, and we don't need

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to teach them academic discourse or academic publishing.

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So if we can offer these courses, these,

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or make it part of another, course like research

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methodology, so we can raise awareness of, the,

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of the, of this, phenomenon.

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Also other stakeholders like librarians, for example,

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in this book, we had a couple of chapters by librarians

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who, you know, shared their solutions as to how we can help,

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novice scholars, institutions.

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to predatory publishing is the evaluation regimes

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that we have at institutional and, and national

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and international devils

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that they're pushing you towards publishing,

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in international English medium journals.

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So if we can change those, you know,

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evaluation systems and also the, the extent

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to which local knowledge economies are interacting,

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or are separate from the global knowledge economy,

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and how strong they they are,

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because if the, the, the local knowledge economy is strong

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and academics can publish in their own language

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or local languages, indigenous languages,

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rather than being pushed

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to publish an international journal.

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So this could, could maybe help them,

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to, to, to strike a balance between, okay, to what extent

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of my, I want to share with global academic community

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and what extent it may work.

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I want to share with my local community and what mediums

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and also exploiting the, the affordances

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of social media, in, in terms of

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how we can make knowledge more democratic

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and accessible to general public.

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ivory towers and then sharing, the, the knowledge

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that is produced with those who are living in those towers.

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and taxpayers money that is funding universities

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and, you know, funding agencies to be able

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to support scholarship and research.

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and produce knowledge actually should, should benefit

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and go to general public as well.

"Understanding Predatory Practices in Academia: A Socioeconomic Analysis"

00:00:00 - So when we talk about, predatory practices, basically we are looking at socio, rhetorical, sociopolitical and socioeconomic behaviors or misbehaviors that have become common in current academia. And it's not just by predators themselves, but by academics themselves. And generally speaking, we can divide them into two, you know, big categories. So, predatory journals or predatory publishing, and then predatory conferences or predatory, presenting. And, so if we look at this phenomenon,
00:00:44 - to this was back in 2009, 2010, when a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, Jeffrey Bill actually published a piece, and, in, in nature and talked about, you know, predatory, publishing and the fact that predatory journals are mushrooming and they are attracting a lot of, you know, academic, audience. And then, he developed a list. Of course, that list was, you know, is, is not actually online anymore, because there was threats of lawsuit
00:01:26 - But since then, academia has started to pay attention to this, this phenomenon in different fields, computer sciences, data science, and also in my field, which is generally speaking, education and applied linguistics. So, there is this, newly established fast growing discipline within applied linguistics called English for research publication purposes, or which is part of the bigger, discipline of English for academic purposes. And what I'm, and this field basically looks at the socioeconomics and geopolitics of knowledge production and dissemination
00:02:08 - so in different international academic contexts, a new and a very important, stream within this field, is, predatory practices. So what are the dynamics, that, of this phenomenon? So what are the factors or actors that, incentivize people, or, or, push people towards, publishing in academic journals in different disciplines or, academic, you know, presenting at academic conferences. So, generally speaking, it looks at, psychological,
00:02:48 - and discursive, aspects of, predatory, publishing and also pedagogical aspects. So what solutions we can, you know, come up with in order to, prevent academics, from, falling prey to, predatory journals and predatory, conferences. This is a very good question. I think that if we want to understand this phenomenon, we need to go and look at it and situated in a bigger picture of what has, what has happened in our, our world and, in our academia. So, a lot of us know that, there is a,
00:03:32 - and, the state and academic institution. And, the situation that we are living and breathing in, in academia is a neoliberal, capitalist knowledge economy. So there has been a structure, structuration of academia and the ethos of academia and men of academia actually, you know, they've, they've changed. So we have transitioned from a, a cultural institution to a new liberal capitalist institution, and we are actually, working in a capitalist knowledge economy.

"The Commodification of Academic Publishing: Efficiency, Pressure, and Predatory Practices"

00:04:13 - there is a lot of talk about, efficiency. So efficiency is the hallmark of this, you know, academia and academic work and productivity. So what shows your productivity as an academic is, you know, how many papers you, you publish and in what journals and in what, languages. So basically, everything and everybody has become, has been commodified. So knowledge is marketized. And as an academic, you're expected to go and to, produce knowledge, to construct knowledge,
00:04:55 - packaging and publish it in a very prestigious, journal. which is usually, an anglophone, journal, an English journal, in, with a high impact. So, and that's your responsibility to raise the echelon of yourself as an academic and your university. So you see that there's a process of, commodification for those, for both, academic institutions for knowledge and also for for academics. So in order to get, a better jobs, in order to get funding for your research, in order to get promotion
00:05:36 - academia, you have to publish. And this is a very major, reason that many academics, especially novice academics who are not, you know, who are new to this atmosphere and to this context, they're, under a lot of pressure to publish in those journals. but it doesn't Mean that it's just a system that is pushing academics, to publish in predatory journals and present at predatory conferences. So we also have unethical, you know, academics, who for a range of different reasons, they, they publish
00:06:18 - But, a big, part of it is on awareness of what is predatory publishing and predatory presenting, what are the consequences? And this phenomenon has turned into an existential, actually threat to the integrity and ethics of scholarship and, academic knowledge. But generally speaking, what we can see is that this business is, is growing. So this is basically a business model. And predatory publishers and journals are parasites that are feeding on the knowledge system that we have,
00:06:56 - So it's not just a small business or, you know, limited number of people that are doing that. And, and again, the, the concept of predatory publishing is a, is a vague and a, concept, and it's a gray area because, you know, and one of the critiques, against the list that Jeffrey Bale had was that this list, you know, is not clear enough in terms of differentiating journals that are, actually predatory journals and are exploiting the knowledge production and, you know, dissemination mechanism that we have from journals that, let's say they don't have a robust editorial system
00:07:42 - for a gatekeeping knowledge. So we are dealing with a range of different concepts and different, you know, people and, enterprises and, you know, businesses there. there is, journals that are not necessarily predatory journals, but they do not have, the, the high quality that you expect, of, an academic journal or a, a good, international academic journal. so, and, part of it again, is because the, this gatekeeping system that, you know,

"Navigating the Complications of Predatory Publishing and Academic Gatekeeping"

00:08:24 - So this gatekeeping system is basically working on the free work and service of many academics who are doing reviews, for journals and editing journals. And, nowadays, I'm a journal editor, myself, and, you know, we have difficulty finding people who can take, you know, some time, off their, busy schedules and review, for, for, their academic community for free. So, yeah, it's, it's very complicated. So, we should be aware of the fact that, both
00:09:04 - who publish in predatory journals, we cannot just categorize them in one single category as people who are actually helping this system survive. So there is a lot of unaware, there is a lot of, you know, vague, blind spots there where, and there's a lot of confusion in terms of what is actually, predatory, publishing and predatory presenting. My research, is basic, generally speaking, at, in the field of education and applied linguistics. And it's, the, I I would say,
00:09:44 - are include academic literacies, academic writing and publishing, and, omes and the, geopolitics and socioeconomics of knowledge production and dissemination. So in this research and in this, field and, and the, as I said, the, the field of English for research publication purposes, which is basically looking at different aspects of knowledge production and dissemination, including, challenges that international academics, especially novice scholars have for writing and publishing and academic journals, mentorship and support mechanisms that we have at,
00:10:26 - and global levels for, you know, supporting academics to publish in, in, in academic journals, predatory, publishing, publishing practices of, underrepresented populations, female scholars, L-G-B-T-Q, community. So, and, what are some of the, institutional initiatives and measures that we can have in place in terms of workshops, in terms of courses, in terms of services at writing centers that we can develop in order to, help academics to, to especially novice academics to publish in academic journals.
00:11:07 - basically is a, an edited book. and I co-edited that with a colleague of, mine. And, and this book, we, brought together an international cast of scholars, both anglophone scholars and multilingual, scholars from different international academic contexts, from, different countries, different continents, to try to, have a more nuanced, detailed picture of the dynamics, of, and the landscape of predatory, publishing in different academic contexts. So, generally speaking, we try to look at the contextual social, political, discursive,
00:11:52 - predatory, publishing. And the book, actually is divided into three sections or parts. We looked at, the roots of and the reasons for a predatory publishing. We looked at the incentives, and, and the lus that are there for academics to publish in academic journals. And also, we looked at solutions and strategies that we can adopt in order to, actually, to, to encounter, this, this, this problem. And, what is also very important is that,

"Navigating the Challenges of Predatory Publishing and Academic Conferences"

00:12:33 - discourse analysis, autoethnography, ethnographic studies, and we, looked at both, predatory publishing and predatory conferences. So there is an interesting chapter where, an academic, is talking about how they fell, prey to academic conferences, and they, you know, they had to spend their conference funding to go to, a, a fake and predatory conference. so, the pedagogy of, writing for publication and the pedagogy that is related to,
00:13:16 - and also the accounts and narratives that we can have from different academics because, a lot of times there's this stigma that people are not, open to say that, or I felt pre to this journal, or I published, as an academic. Because the general conception is that as an academic, you, you know, you know which journal is predatory and which journal is not, or which conference is predatory or not. But, again, even if you are an, an established academic, you may actually fall prey to those practices. And the fact is, those practices are,
00:13:57 - So if you look at the discourse of the predatory emails that, are sent to academics, they are, you know, very similar and get it approximating to, the, or the legitimate journals, the emails that we get for invitations that we get for publishing academic journals. So, which makes things, much more difficult for many academics, we should look at, micro, macro meso and micro, solutions. So maybe a, a, a big solution which may not be feasible now, is to change the mechanism and our imagination of knowledge production
00:14:39 - or overhaul the current system that we have because, knowledge production and knowledge construction nowadays is not democratic. So basically, the only, stakeholder that is profiting basically, or the, the only entity that is profiting in this mechanism is publishers. And that's why we have publishers, because it's a lucrative business. It's a, multi-billion dollar business. So e even, I mean, more lucrative than some of these big companies like Apple,
00:15:18 - so, I, I don't know to what extent or whether at all we can change the system that knowledge goes through or behind the paywall of these publishers. And then, taxpayers money, academics free, you know, work is actually, contributing to, to the, to that business. And as I said, they are the only ones that are making money here. So we should come up with some ways to be able to, to democratize knowledge and to, find a mechanism where people's, taxpayer's money actually benefits them by making knowledge more accessible to general public.
00:16:02 - and, we can, kind of, you know, counteract against what is happening in the predatory, sphere. the other thing is the, the monopoly that we have in, in, in terms of the language of publication that, you know, English, medium, publications are valued the most. so that pushes many predatory journals, many, academics to actually seek ways to, to publish, or to solicit, you know, publishing in predatory journals.

"Enhancing Awareness and Support for Novice Scholars Against Predatory Publishing"

00:16:43 - you know, part, and what academic institutions and, you know, individual scholars can do, mentors, supervisors raising awareness of predatory, you know, publishing, you know, offering courses, workshops, seminars, you know, talks, on predatory publishing and creating this network of support, especially for novice scholars, with their peers, with their supervisors. Where, unfortunately, one of the things that is not happening in many academic contexts is,
00:17:22 - and English for research publication purposes, courses where we are not, we are taking it for granted that someone who gets into a doctoral program basically learns about academic publishing, and we don't need to teach them academic discourse or academic publishing. So if we can offer these courses, these, or make it part of another, course like research methodology, so we can raise awareness of, the, of the, of this, phenomenon. Also other stakeholders like librarians, for example, in this book, we had a couple of chapters by librarians who, you know, shared their solutions as to how we can help,
00:18:07 - So, one of the reasons for, resorting to predatory publishing is the evaluation regimes that we have at institutional and, and national and international devils that they're pushing you towards publishing, in international English medium journals. So if we can change those, you know, evaluation systems and also the, the extent to which local knowledge economies are interacting, or are separate from the global knowledge economy, and how strong they they are, because if the, the, the local knowledge economy is strong
00:18:47 - or local languages, indigenous languages, rather than being pushed to publish an international journal. So this could, could maybe help them, to, to, to strike a balance between, okay, to what extent of my, I want to share with global academic community and what extent it may work. I want to share with my local community and what mediums and also exploiting the, the affordances of social media, in, in terms of how we can make knowledge more democratic and accessible to general public. instead of just, you know, living in our,
00:19:51 - that is produced with those who are living in those towers. because basically, as I said, it's the general public and taxpayers money that is funding universities and, you know, funding agencies to be able to support scholarship and research. So this accumulated knowledge and produce knowledge actually should, should benefit and go to general public as well.

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