Achilleas Kostoulas

Applied Linguistics & Language Teacher Education

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  • How to spot a predatory journal (and why to avoid them!)

    How to spot a predatory journal (and why to avoid them!)

    Publishing your work in a predatory journal is a very bad career move. This post explains why, and presents a list of six criteria to help you avoid this mistake.

  • What does a predatory journal look like?

    What does a predatory journal look like?

    Predatory journals are dishonest publishing ventures that mimic the academic publishing model in order to collect money from naive or desperate academics. I have written elsewhere about some of the features of such journals, but the truth is that –just like pornography– predatory publishing is hard to define and easy to recognise. So what I…

  • How are we encouraging predatory publishers?

    How are we encouraging predatory publishers?

    Recently, Scholarly Open Access, an authoritative blog that tracks the activity of predatory publishers, issued a warning (link no longer active) about The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (I used to have a link to them as well, but I decided they don’t deserve one), a fraudulent journal that seems to target ELT professionals.…

  • King’s London, bogus science, author mills, and predatory publishers

    King’s London, bogus science, author mills, and predatory publishers

    About this post: This is a weekly roundup of blog posts, online articles and other content about Higher Education, language teaching and learning and academic writing that appeared online in December 2015.

  • Predatory publishing, languages, quitting and persevering

    Predatory publishing, languages, quitting and persevering

    This is a collection of articles, blog posts and other content about Higher Education, academic publishing and language teaching and learning, which appeared in April 2014. This week’s collection of noteworthy stories, articles and posts looks into academic publishing practices (predatory and mainstream), celebrates language preservation, contemplates quitting the Ivory Tower, and reminds readers to persevere in…