ABSTRACT
This chapter provides background information about the appearance and growth of the predatory publishing business. It describes the model of pay-to-publish by authors as the root cause, particularly when the model is made popular by open access efforts. It also explores the impact of publish-or-perish pressure on researchers and its wide spread in the world because of the globalization movement in the last several decades. It discusses the popular peer-review practice as the key criterion in the identification of predatory publishing.
