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That study, published in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing (University of Toronto Press) in 2017 by Derek Pyne at Thompson Rivers University, garnered wide public and media attention, even by renowned news outlets such as The New York Times and The Economist. Pyne claimed to have found that most of the human subjects of his study had published in \u201cpredatory\u201d OA journals, or in OA journals published by \u201cpredatory\u201d OA publishers, as classified by Jeffrey Beall. In this paper, we compare the so-called \u201cpredatory\u201d publications referred to in Pyne\u2019s study with Walt Crawford\u2019s gray open access (grayOA) list, as well as with Cabell\u2019s blacklist, which was introduced in 2017. Using Cabell\u2019s blacklist and Crawford\u2019s grayOA list, we found that approximately 2% of the total publications (451) of the research faculty at the small business school were published in potentially questionable journals, contrary to the Pyne study, which found significantly more publications (15.3%). In addition, this research casts doubt to the claim made in Pyne\u2019s study that research faculty members who have predatory publications have 4.3 \u201cpredatory\u201d publications on average.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/publications7020035","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,20]],"date-time":"2019-05-20T11:05:07Z","timestamp":1558350307000},"page":"35","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":11,"title":["Did the Research Faculty at a Small Canadian Business School Publish in \u201cPredatory\u201d Venues? 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