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Unfortunately, this article is published in a predatory journal. If "Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences" was legitimate, it would be listed in PubMed, but it is not: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/jo….
While the journal and its publisher Longdom is not mentioned in this 2022 list: openacessjournal.com/bl…, Longdom is listed on Beall's original …
Unfortunately, this article is published in a predatory journal. If "Poultry, Fisheries & Wildlife Sciences" was legitimate, it would be listed in PubMed, but it is not: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/journals/.
While the journal and its publisher Longdom is not mentioned in this 2022 list: https://www.openacessjournal.com/blog/predatory-journals-list/, Longdom is listed on Beall's original list of predatory journals: https://beallslist.net and reports like these:
https://www.editage.com/insights/my-research-has-been-published-in-a-predatory-journal
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Longdom_Publication_Issue-Is_that_a_Predatory_Publication
https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj.q452 (Paywalled, but the PDF is at: http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/march/predatoryjournals.pdf
make it clear that Longdom is a predatory publisher. It is a brand of long-established predatory publisher OMICS: https://insights.uksg.org/articles/10.1629/uksg.631 .
This research is probably perfectly good and, if so, is extremely pertinent to protecting human health and to improving regulation of the biological research industry. However, by publishing it in a journal not indexed in PubMed, many people who need to take notice of it will fail to do so and the research itself can easily be dismissed as invalid, since predatory journals do not provide proper peer-review.
Unfortunately, legitimate publishers are not all sweetness and light - they may refuse to publish articles which question the veracity of the current, highly corrupted, system of research and government oversight. The answer is to persist and find a legitimate publisher, not to pay good money to criminal (fraudulent) companies who publish predatory journals.
If you ever see a journal site with an animated graphic surrounding the journal's phone number (in this case, a UK phone number, probably redirected to another country), this is a good reason to suspect it is predatory.
Wow. I knew of the industry capture, and the corruption of today's medical journals, but did not know about "predatory journals".
Bad enough that they're roping in genuine, but unaware, researchers, in a financial exploitation racket, but worse would be the researchers who willingly participate in it as a pay-to-play racket as well.
This whole sector needs a major overhaul to clean it up and restore ethical integrity (sadly not likely to happen anytime soon when predatory pharmaceutical companies are also involved).
Thanks for the enlightening post.
Who determines what is or is not “predatory?” What purpose is served by branding a journal as “predatory?” Does not the study and supporting data stand on its own?