It is hard to imagine that universities are the highest hall of knowledge in the eyes of ordinary people; now, they have become a tool for people to plunder and profit. Commonwealth Magazine lasted 6 months to cooperate with the international media to investigate the number of papers published in 22 suspected predatory publishing group journals. As a result, it was found that scholars from 114 colleges and 15 hospitals have stepped into the increasingly rampant In the international academic trap. In fact, the proportion of Taiwanese scholars participating in suspected predatory conferences is relatively high. Estimated on an academic scale, they may be among the best in the world. This unhealthy trend is the helplessness of scholars to survive, or the management of loopholes? How does it affect Taiwan's academic climate? Is there a way to manage it? Predatory journals/seminars refer to low-quality journals or seminars that publishers publish purely for profit. Such journals and conferences often falsely claim that there are professional editors, peer review, high impact factors, etc. to induce authors to submit manuscripts, just to charge expensive manuscript processing fees. Predatory journals not only hurt the money and research efforts of individual scholars, but also bring pseudo-science to the academic environment.

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Date: 2020/10/06