More on the Open Access Sting Article

I wrote here about the recent article by John Bohannon in Science, where he submitted a clearly substandard article to a long list of open-access publishers. (The results reflected poorly on many of them). Now here's a follow-up interview with Bohannon at The Scholarly Kitchen, where he addresses many of the critiques of the piece. Well worth a read if this issue interests you. Q: What has been the response of editors and publishers? Have any journals ceased publication? Have any editors/editorial board members resigned in protest? Do any of them blame you, personally, for the outcomes? Have any threats (legal or otherwise) been made towards you or Science Magazine as a result of the exposé? A couple of weeks before the story was published, I contacted editors and publishers specifically named in the story. Their responses are printed in the article, ranging from falling on their own sword and accepting responsibility to blaming the publishers and claiming they were not involved with the journal. But since the story was published, editors and publishers have largely fallen silent. One exception is an editor based in the Middle East who says that the sting has cost him his job. It pains me to hear that. But then again, he clearly wasn’t doing his job. As far as I can tell, it has been business as usual for the 157 publishers that got stung. I know of only one fully confirmed closure of a journal (as reported in Retraction Watch). There have been statements by publishers...
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