Predatory Journals als neue Anbieter im Markt für wissenschaftliche Publikationen: Eine (ordnungs-)ökonomische Sicht

Daumann Frank () and Follert Florian ()
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Daumann Frank: Lehrstuhl für Sportökonomie und Gesundheitsökonomie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Seidelstrasse 20, D-07749 JenaGermany
Follert Florian: Professur für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, insbesondere betriebswirtschaftliche Entscheidungslehre, Privatuniversität Schloss Seeburg, Seeburgstrasse 8, A-5201 Seekirchen am Wallersee, SalzburgAustria

ORDO. Jahrbuch für die Ordnung von Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, 2025, vol. 74, issue 1, 42-67

Abstract: Especially as a result of digitization and external control of science, the market for scholarly journals has been subject to change for a number of years. On the one hand new providers of these journals enter the market and on the other hand the established market participants adapt their business models. In this article, we discuss the emergence of so-called predatory journals from an economic point of view and, from a perspective of Ordnungsökonomik, we investigate the extent to which the new conditions pose dangers for the scientific community which should be countered by governmental market interventions. We argue that there is no need for a governmental intervention to secure scholars who weigh up to publish in these journals. A possible dissemination of false information to the economy or to the society is not a science-specific problem. Rather, what could be appropriate is a corresponding sensitization of the relevant players.

Keywords: Wissenschaft; Zeitschriften; Ordnungsökonomie; Predatory Journals; Anreize; Science; scholarly journals; predatory journals; incentives; institutional economics; Freiburg School of economics; Wissenschaft; Zeitschriften; Ordnungsökonomie; Predatory Journals; Anreize; Science; scholarly journals; predatory journals; incentives; institutional economics; Freiburg School of economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 I28 Z18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1515/ordo-2024-2001

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