#predatoryjournals
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #predatoryjournals from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #predatoryjournals
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-06 14:46 UTC0 uses by 0 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-11-06 14:46 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #predatoryjournals.
Live pulse
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-06 14:46 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~17347 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 08:00
Languages: English (21) · German (9) · French (8) · Ukrainian (2)
Avg boosts / post: 1.9
Top of the latest posts
So, there are fake accounts on Google scholar. I got an email from an alleged colleague at TU Delft who offers help in publishing papers. This raised my suspicion. I didn't find him on the TU Delft websites, but he gives a Google Scholar pa
Who hasn’t received spam from predatory journals or fake conferences? 🙄 What’s worse, even preprints trigger a flood of “invitations” with fake impact factors and promises of instant review I usually delete this junk, but my colleague Jaim
Wenn in deiner Publikationsliste plötzlich ein Artikel zu viel auftaucht, hat womöglich jemand deinen Namen für die Autorenzeile eines Fake-Papers gekapert. Ein Beispiel dafür in unserem Blog: https://www.laborjournal.de/blog/?p=14366 #Pred
#predatoryjournals across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #predatoryjournals straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/predatoryjournals