Webinar: Predatory academic journals and conferences

Datum: 2022-04-07

Tid: 15:00 - 16:30

Lokal: Online on Zoom

Webinar: Predatory academic journals and conferences

Organised by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It connects to the report ”Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences” that was released by IAP, Inter-Academy Partnership, in March, 2022. More information>

The webinar will be live streamed but if you want to be able to ask questions, you need to register and participate via Zoom.

Programme

15:00
Presentation of the IAP report by Stefan Eriksson, member of the IAP expert group and associate professor in research ethics, Uppsala University

15:30
”Predators or prey: questionable publishing practices in Swedish academia”, presentation of a recent research project by Gustaf Nelhans, senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. The article is available here> 

15:40 
Panel discussion
Moderator: Dan Larhammar, President of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Panelists:

  • Stefan Eriksson, member of the IAP expert group and associate professor in research ethics, Uppsala University
  • Gustaf Nelhans, senior lecturer at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås
  • Anna Dreber Almenberg, Johan Björkman professor of economics, Stockholm School of Economics, Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • Lynn Kamerlin, professor of structural biology, Uppsala University
  • Bo Söderström, associate professor, editor-in-chief for Ambio, a journal of environment and society published by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences together with Springer Nature 

16:20
Q&A with questions from the digital audience

16:30
End of webinar

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