Ugh.

Research-integrity analysts are warning that ‘journal snatchers’ — companies that acquire scholarly journals from reputable publishers — are turning legitimate titles into predatory, low-quality publications with questionable practices.

~Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Invasion of the ‘journal snatchers’, Nature News 17-APR.

Interesting abstract from Herzenstein et al suggests that replicable studies are transparent and confident relative to non-replicable ones.

Alas for itself, the abstract is timid. They “allude to the possibility that”.

Even if true, likely temporarily so. But I’ve requested the full text.