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This paper based sting operation may have been successful to show that a lot of open access journals are just part of the taking business. However, it’s a pitty that the author did not performed a more elaborated sting by using bait without grave error but with fabricated data and have sent it to high quality journals. Meaning that no peer review can detect fabricated data as long as it is very well fabricated. Therefore, it is no surprise it may happen that hundreds or even thousands of accepted papers are just bogus papers. So the solution to try to solve this rampant publishing crime behaviour is not so much on having a policemen in every corner (put all efforts on pre publication peer review) but instead in having a policy mix with hard penalties for misconduct acts and with enough support to post publication review. In order to achieve that we need to stop focusing on publication on certain journals.

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References

    John, B. 2013. Who's Afraid of Peer Review?. Science.