The Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI) is an organization that engages in
predatory publishing
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misle ...
. Run out of Bangladesh with a claimed office in New York, it publishes a number of journals that publish academic articles for payment,
[ claiming they are "peer-reviewed and refereed". Like many predatory journals it operates under the guise of an ]open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which nominally copyrightable publications are delivered to readers free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 de ...
model.[ '']The Chronicle of Higher Education
''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' is an American newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals, including staff members and administrators. A subscription ...
'' reported in 2018 that authors wired money to Bangladesh and sometimes never saw their paper published, or edited poorly. In addition, the CPI habitually lists unwitting academics as editors in chief or members of the editorial board, against their wishes.[ , he is still listed.
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Journals published by the CPI
Predatory journals often take an existing journal's name and put "International" in front of it, according to an editorial in the '' Journal of Nuclear Cardiology''.
References
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Open access publishers