From: "Jim O'Donnell" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 13:43:20 -0700

Article in today's CHE reports a study by a business faculty member at
a mid-sized business school in British Columbia who studied the impact
of publishing in journals that others have marked as predatory on the
careers of faculty who publish in them.  As near as he could tell from
a set of about 35 faculty, publishing in predatory journals was
positively correlated with promotion and pay raises and he found no
negative consequences.

Behind the CHE paywall at:

http://www.chronicle.com/article/Does-It-Pay-to-Be-Published-in/240202?cid=wcontentlist_hp_latest

The research reported was published in the Journal of Scholarly
Publishing:  http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/jsp.48.3.137

Jim O'Donnell
ASU

Opening paragraphs of the CHE article:

It’s commonly assumed that scholars want to avoid submitting their
work to so-called predatory academic journals, which typically charge
authors a fee while offering little in the way of editing and research
quality control. A recent study of one university’s business school,
however, found that many of its professors had repeatedly published in
journals with such reputations, and actually appear to have improved
their pay and prestige by doing so.

Derek Pyne, an associate professor of economics at Thompson Rivers
University, in British Columbia, conducted the study partly by
tracking down where his business school’s 38 faculty members had been
published. He also took into account their compensation and how often
each had received one of the school’s awards for research excellence.