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Novel Aspects of Open-Access / Predatory Science Publishing: Samizdat* Avenue for Novel Ideas and the Concept of Predatory Editors

by Jan C Biro

Posted: August 13, 2025
Server: Preprints.org
DOI: 10.20944/preprints202508.0679.v1

Two fundamentally new approach is presented to the ongoing and heated debate around the predatory division of the open access science publishing. 1. The somewhat relaxed peer-review practices of some Open-Access / Predatory [OA/P] journals have an important, not widely recognized function: it makes possible to disclose novel scientific insights which are automatically censored by the paradigm-oriented or politically manipulated Scholarly / Academic (S/A) publishers. They can be the contemporary “Samizdat” [1] alternative for some original and daring scientists. 2. Much of the critic against OA/P journals is failing even if they are well founded. It can be changed by publicly recognizing each Editorial Board member of every predatory journal as Predatory Editors, i.e. accomplices [2] in the fraudulent, deceptive publishing practices.

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