The Malaysian government has decided to no longer compensate APC authors who publish their articles in journals belonging to MDPI, Frontiers, and Hindawi publishers.

Another bunch of controversial theses around predatory journals and conferences

"A wide range of services for scientists..." - many such "services" are now multiplying. It seems that every university should introduce mandatory initial courses for all teachers not only about how to write articles but also about what not to do.

In the article "Article Processing Charges in Gold Open Access Journals: An Empirical Study," the authors write about the presence and size of article processing charges (APC) in journals included in the DOAJ.

The editors of the journals NeuroImage and NeuroImage: Reports decided to stop working with Elsevier after the publisher refused their request to reduce the article processing charges for authors.

Paper mills increase their production. Neuropsychologist Bernhard Sabel developed a detector to identify such articles. After screening 5,000 articles, it showed that up to 34% of neuroscience articles published in 2020 were probably made up or plagiarized.