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.