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StatusofCUNYFacultyPublicationsinDisreputable

Journals

Sincewe’velastmet

• ThreearticleswerepublishedintheNYPostregardingpredatorypublishingandconferencesatQCC.Namingtwofacultymemberswhohaveparticipatedinthispractice.• TheNYTimes,NYPost,CUNYPresidents,BrookhavenNationalLabs,thePSC,theChancellor,andNYInspectorGeneralwereallnotifiedofthisissuebyagroupofconcernedQCCfaculty.• TheCUNYOfficeofResearchhasconductedaninternalanalysisofself-reportedfacultyscholarshipdataoverthepast5yearstounderstandhowprevalant thisissueisatCUNY.

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RawFacultyScholarshipData(DanMcCloskey2012)

college dept_name faculty_name work_type citation

CollegeOfStatenIsland Psychology

McCloskey,Daniel

ConferencePresentation-publishedasproceedings

SusanP.Imberman,MichaelE.Kress,DanielP.McCloskey,"FromMarketBasketstoMoleRats:UsingDataMiningTechniquestoAnalyzeRFIDDataDescribingLaboratoryAnimalBehavior", Proceedingsofthe17thACMSIGKDD,2012.

CollegeOfStatenIsland Psychology

McCloskey,Daniel

ConferencePresentation,other

Imberman,S.P.,KressM.E.,McCloskey,D.P.(2012)Usingfrequentpatternminingtoidentifybehaviorsinanakedmoleratcolony.ProceedingsOfTheTwenty-FifthInternationalFloridaArtificialIntelligenceResearchSocietyConference.Pp394-399.

CollegeOfStatenIsland Psychology

McCloskey,Daniel

JournalArticle,peer-reviewed

Wei,H.,Chadman,K.K.,McCloskey,D.P.,Sheikh,A.M.,Malik,M.,Sheng,Z.,Brown,W.T.,Li,X.(2012)IL-6elevationinbraincausesneuralcircuitryimbalanceandmediatesautism-likebehavior.BiochimicaetBiophysicaActa- MolecularBasisofDisease.1822(6):831-842.

CollegeOfStatenIsland Psychology

McCloskey,Daniel

JournalArticle,peer-reviewed

Levano,K.,Punia,V.,Raghunath,M.,RanjanDebata,P.,Curcio,G.,Mogha,A.,Purkayastha,S.,McCloskey,D.,Fata,J.,Banerjee,P.(2012)Atp8a1deficiencyisassociatedwithphosphatidylserineexternalizationinhippocampusanddelayedhippocampus-dependentlearning.JournalofNeurochemistry120(2):302-313.

CollegeOfStatenIsland Psychology

McCloskey,Daniel Lecture(Invited)

McCloskey,Dan,2012"NewApproachesforStudyingAnimalBehavior(panelist),CUNYAnimalBehaviorInitiative(CABI)1stAnnualConference,NewYork,NY.March31,2012.

CollegeOfStatenIsland Psychology

McCloskey,Daniel Lecture(Invited)

2012- SpringBrainConference,Tucson,Arizona,March14-17,2012

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Partiallistofknown“predatoryjournals” accessedfromJeffereyBeall’sList

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Numberandpercentageofarticlespublishedinknown“predatoryjournals”listedaspeer-reviewedintheCUNYFacultyScholarship

Data2012-2016Year TotalWorks ”Journal Article,

peer-reviewed”Matchestoknown

predatoryjournalsa

(#offaculty)

Percentof“peer-reviewed”

publications inpredatoryjournals

2012 18,647 3477 17(17) 0.48%

2013 18,563 3752 22(19) 0.59%

2014 20,881 3964 12(11) 0.30%

2015 19,558 3667 12(10) 0.33%

2016 21,687 3347 5(5) 0.15%

Total 99,736 18,207 68 (54) 0.37%

a) Source:Beall’sListof1663predatorypublishersandjournals,accessedfromhttps://beallslist.weebly.com.

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Numberandpercentageofarticlespublishedinknown“predatoryjournals”andlistedas“peer-reviewed”byyear:2012-2016

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2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

Numberof"PeerReviewed"PublicationsinPredatoryJournals

Majornewsandacademicarticlesconcerning"predatorypublisshing"

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Percentageof“peer-reviewed”articlesinknown“predatoryjournals”bycampustype

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48%

37%

15%

SeniorColleges(8)

CommunityColleges(7)

ComprehensiveColleges(3)

Percentageofarticlesinknown“predatoryjournals”listedas“peer-reviewed”basedondisciplineofthecitation

(fromatotalof68works)

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Education/Pedagogy34%

PoliticalScience3%Business

23%

ComputerScience11%

Mathematics2%

Psychology7%

Biology9%

EnvironmentalSciences2%

Physics9%

ByDiscipline

Education/Pedagogy

PoliticalScience

Business

ComputerScience

Mathematics

Psychology

Biology

EnvironmentalSciences

Physics

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NextSteps

• Improvethequalityoffacultyself-reporteddatasothatfacultyscholarshipreports=facultyCVs.Incentivizereporting.• Turnthepagefrom“predatoryoutlets”to“performanceenhancingoutlets”bylaunchinganinformationcampaignaboutwhattheseareandwheretofindthem.• Departmentmeetingsareprobablythebestforumfordiscussion.

• DevaluethecurrencyofPEOsbyensuringtheyarenotwrongfullycategorizedas“peerreviewed”,andnotconsideredduringtenureandpromotiondecisions.• Createacultureof”CVHygiene”withcomparablemetricsoneachcampus.

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PleasereviewyourcampusCV

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