Reproducibility issues with correlating Beall-listed publications and research awards at a small Canadian business school

The issue of “predatory” publishing began to directly affect academics following the creation of two blacklists by a US librarian, Jeffrey Beall. This paper provides a post-publication replication examination of a study that became a high media-profile case. That study involves Derek Pyne, who incorrectly claimed in a 2017 publication in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing that numerous research faculty members at a small business school in...