What does ChatGPT advise about predatory publishing?

Panagiotis Tsigaris; Graham Kendall; Jaime A Teixeira da Silva

doi:10.1016/j.profnurs.2023.08.002

What does ChatGPT advise about predatory publishing?

J Prof Nurs. 2023 Nov-Dec:49:188-189. doi: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2023.08.002. Epub 2023 Aug 19.

Authors

Panagiotis Tsigaris¹, Graham Kendall², Jaime A Teixeira da Silva³

Affiliations

¹ 805 TRU Way, Department of Economics, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, British Columbia V2C 0C8, Canada. Electronic address: ptsigaris@tru.ca.
² University of Nottingham (UK and Malaysia), University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK. Electronic address: graham.kendall@nottingham.edu.my.
³ Ikenobe 3011-2, Kagawa-ken 761-0799, Japan. Electronic address: jaimetex@yahoo.com.

PMID: 38042556
DOI: 10.1016/j.profnurs.2023.08.002

Abstract

The debate surrounding "predatory publishing" continues to be unable to find entirely effective solutions to dealing with this problem, despite fervent efforts by many academics and policy makers around the world. Given this situation, we were interested in appreciating whether ChatGPT would be able to offer insight and solutions, to complement current human-based efforts.

Keywords: Ethics; Safelists (whitelists) and watchlists (blacklists); Transparency; Trust.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Artificial Intelligence*
Predatory Journals as Topic*
Publishing*