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@article{184651,
        author = {Devaraju and Paramesha S},
        title = {Scholarly production on predatory publishing: A Systematic review},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {4},
        pages = {2810-2818},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=184651},
        abstract = {This article provides a systematic review of research studies on so-called ‘predatory’ publishing, a new but fast-growing area of research, with a particular focus on the awareness of prospective authors about so-called ‘predatory’ publishing. The Systematic review aims to identify of the research reported in this paper was evaluated within the context of efforts to understand and combat predatory publishing, a new but fast-growing area of research. It integrated the trends observed in scholarly production in predatory publishing, with a particular focus on the volume and distributed over time within different journals. It also looks at the composition of the predatory publishing literature in terms of the type of the study, methods, topics, field of the study, and contexts where research was conducted. Data were extracted from Science Direct, Taylor & Francis, and Wiley open access database and identified 299 articles for evaluation published in 285 journals. The result demonstrates that the literature on predatory publishing with 40.4 % of studies published from 2015 to 2024. Only 26.42% reported empirical research, and majority of these were quantitative studies with weak statistical test. Medical journals carried the most articles. We conclude that predatory publishing is future development, and it is was surprising to find no studies in leading higher education journals, and this study reveals a research area that is still continuing},
        keywords = {Scholarly production, Predatory publication, Predatory journals, ethics, Open Access.},
        month = {September},
        }