Predatory conference

Meetings set up to appear as legitimate scientific conferences

Predatory conferences or predatory meetings are meetings set up to appear as legitimate scientific conferences but which are exploitative as they do not provide proper editorial control over presentations, and advertising can include claims of involvement of prominent academics who are, in fact, uninvolved.^[1][2] They are an expansion of the predatory publishing business model, which involves the creation of academic publications built around an exploitative business model that generally involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.^[1][2]

1. ^ ^{a b} Cite error: The named reference BeallPM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
2. ^ ^{a b} Stone, Teresa Elizabeth; Rossiter, Rachel Cathrine (2015). "Predatory publishing: Take care that you are not caught in the Open Access net". Nursing & Health Sciences. 17 (3): 277–279. doi:10.1111/nhs.12215. PMID 26224548.

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