Center for Promoting Ideas

The Center for Promoting Ideas (CPI) is an organization that engages in predatory publishing. Run out of Bangladesh with a claimed office in New York, it publishes a number of journals that publish academic articles for payment, claiming they are "peer-reviewed and refereed".{{cite web |url=https://www.ijhssnet.com/index.php/aims-scope.html |title=Aims and Scope |access-date=February 25, 2021 |publisher=International Journal of Humanities and Social Science}} Like many predatory journals it operates under the guise of an open access model. The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2018 that authors wired money to Bangladesh and sometimes never saw their paper published, or edited poorly. In addition, the CPI habitually lists unwitting academics as editors in chief or members of the editorial board, against their wishes.{{cite journal |journal=The Chronicle of Higher Education |access-date=February 25, 2021 |title=These Professors Don't Work for a Predatory Publisher. It Keeps Claiming They Do. |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/these-professors-dont-work-for-a-predatory-publisher-it-keeps-claiming-they-do/ |first=Emma |last=Pettit |date=August 1, 2018}}

One such scholar is American academic J. Peter Pham, who has been listed as on the editorial board of the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science since 2011, despite having sent letters asking to be removed. {{As of|November 2022}}, he is still listed.{{cite web |url=https://www.ijhssnet.com/index.php/editorial-board |title=Editorial Board |access-date=February 25, 2021 |publisher=International Journal of Humanities and Social Science}}