Predatory Conferences ****************************************************************************************** * ****************************************************************************************** Predatory conferences (sometimes referred to as bogus / fake conferences or predatory meet to be legitimate scientific conferences, but their purpose is to profit from registration any qualitative contribution to the scientific community. This unfair practice often abuse participate in international conferences of beginning scientists. Predatory conferences take two forms: 1.The conference does not take place at all • The conference is announced on its website and often by unsolicited e-mails, but after registration fee, all communication ends and the event never takes place. 2.The conference takes place, but in inadequate quality • The event actually takes place, however, its quality does not meet well-established st often accompanied by a weak organization, changes in the programme, missing presenters presentations without a logical connection between them. By registering and potential participating in a predatory conference, the author can not o significant amount of money, but also damage his/her scientific reputation. Some predatory are organized by predatory journals / publishers [ URL "OSCIEN-36.html "] , which organize (sometimes up to thousands per year) to artificially increase the credibility of speakers of published articles by automatically publishing accepted articles in their open access j preventing authors from publishing the article with a trusted publisher after the conferen ****************************************************************************************** * Characteristics of a predatory conferences ****************************************************************************************** Typically, predatory conferences show several of the following characteristics: • They are to take place in tourist attractive destinations (Paris, Dubai, Rome, Tokyo, et • In the title they use general words like global, international, etc. • Invitations and communication with the organizers contain numerous grammatical errors an • Invitations are sent as unsolicited e-mails (SPAM) or via private messages on social net Facebook, etc.) • Invitations are sent from a public email account without affiliation to the institution etc.) • In the invitation you are asked to invite your colleagues to the conference (also for ac participation) • You are invited to a conference of a topic that does not match your area of research and • The conference deals with a large number of thematic areas without any logical connectio • The conference takes place only online (so-called virtual conference) - NOTE: in respons COVID-19 epidemic, even legitimate conferences move into the online environment • Important dates change frequently and repeatedly (submission of abstracts, conference da deadline) • The conference is preceded by an unusual process of accepting a paper (without a selecti procedure) • The method of payment of the registration fee is different from payment by credit card w refundable policy, i.e. in case of cancellation it does not return the money or returns of credit to another of their conferences • The conference organizer provides false information about indexing or affiliation to a m or service • Information about the conference programme is unclear and changes frequently • The invitation email states "you are invited" in the subject line • The organizer will send you a certificate of participation after paying the registration ****************************************************************************************** * How to avoid predatory conferences? ****************************************************************************************** Attending conferences of questionable quality conflicts with the Code of Ethics of Charles "https://cuni.cz/UKEN-731.html"] , damages your reputation and the reputation of CU. If you are interested in a conference, we recommend that you evaluate whether it is a pred before registering, using the following steps: • Check the identity of the conference organizer to see if it is a predatory publisher [ U "OSCIEN-36.html#2"] • Assess whether the given conference does not show characteristics of a predatory confere • If the conference organizer reports indexing in known databases or services, verify that searchable Other specific steps to verify trustworthiness of a conference are provided the applicatio Attend [ URL "https://thinkcheckattend.org/"] . If you are unsure of the credibility of your chosen journal, contact OA Central Support [ "OSCIEN-14.html#1"] or consult your supervisor, faculty library, or field colleague. ****************************************************************************************** * Useful resources ****************************************************************************************** ASADI, Amin, Nader RAHBAR, Mohammad JAVAD REZVANI a Fahime ASADI. 2018. Fake/Bogus Confere Features and Some Subtle Ways to Differentiate Them From Real Ones. Science and Engineerin [online]. (24), 779-784 [cit. 2020-06-09]. DOI: 10.1007/s11948-017-9906-2 [ URL "https://d s11948-017-9906-2"] . ISSN 1471-5546. BOURGAULT, Annette M. 2019. Predatory Conferences: Not the Meeting You Expected. Critical [online]. 39(5), 10-12 [cit. 2020-06-09]. DOI: 10.4037/ccn2019805 [ URL "https://doi.org/1 ccn2019805"] . ISSN 0279-5442.