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 that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and withou ...
. 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 research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre o ...
model.[ '']The Chronicle of Higher Education
''The Chronicle of Higher Education'' is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and student affairs professionals (staff members and administrators). A subscription is required to r ...
'' 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.J. Peter Pham
John Peter Pham (usually styled as J. Peter Pham) is an American academic and author specializing in international relations with a focus on African affairs. Pham was the United States Special Envoy for the Sahel Region of Africa, from March 202 ...
, who has been listed as on the editorial board of the ''International Journal of Humanities and Social Science'' since 2011, despite having sent letters asking to be removed.[ , 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
The ''Journal of Nuclear Cardiology'' is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in nuclear cardiology. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media and is the official journal of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. The edit ...
''.Beall's list
Beall's List was a prominent list of predatory open-access publishers that was maintained by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall on his blog ''Scholarly Open Access''. The list aimed to document open-access publishers who did not perf ...
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Titles found on CPI website:
References
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Open access publishers