Comment on `Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals'
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This is a comment to an article by Laakso, Matthias and Jahn (arXiv:2008.11933).
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Comment on "Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals"
We comment on a recent article by Laakso et al. (arXiv:2008.11933 [cs.DL]), in which the disappearance of 176 open access journals from the Internet is noted. We argue that one reason these journals may have vanished is that they were predatory journals. The de-listing of predators from the Directory of Open Access Journals in 2014 and the abundance of predatory journals and awareness thereof in North America parsimoniously explain the temporal and geographic patterns Laakso et al. observed.
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Open is not forever: a study of vanished open access journals
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