The Pressure to Publish More and the Scope of Predatory Publishing Activities : Armen Yuri Gasparyan, Bekaidar Nurmashev, Alexander A. Voronov, Alexey N. Gerasimov, Anna M. Koroleva, George D. Kitas J Korean Med Sci. 2016 Dec; 31(12): 1874–1878. Published online 2016 Sep 22. doi: 10.3346/jkms.2016.31.12.1874 PMCID: PMC5102848 One of the earliest motives behind publishing scholarly articles was the dissemination of information among professionals. It also aimed to encourage discussions and preserve valuable information for use by future generations. This approach has been embraced by all top academic journals today, and as the authors write, most authors and readers take this for granted. With the growth in means and methods of…