LIST OF PUBLISHERS

Beall’s List:

Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers

This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards.  The criteria for determining predatory publishers are here.

We hope that tenure and promotion committees can also decide for themselves how importantly or not to rate articles published in these journals in the context of their own institutional standards and/or geocultural locus.  We emphasize that journal publishers and journals change in their business and editorial practices over time. This list is kept up-to-date to the best extent possible but may not reflect sudden, unreported, or unknown enhancements

Last updated May 18, 2013

Appeals: If you are a publisher and would like to appeal your firm’s inclusion on this list, please go here.

70 Responses to LIST OF PUBLISHERS

  1. On the problem of “predatory open-access publishers” « Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring says:
    September 17, 2012 at 8:50 AM

    [...] open access publishers” is well known — in fact, Bell himself maintains an excellent list of such publishers and a helpful set of criteria for recognising [...]

  2. I predoni dell’open access, cont. « Oggi Scienza says:
    September 19, 2012 at 12:27 AM

    [...] del Colorado, Jeffrey Beall tiene aggiornato l’elenco dei disonesti e lo pubblica sul blog Scholarly Open Access. A noi giornalisti serve a capire come hanno fatto, per esempio, Alberto Carpinteri et al. a [...]

  3. Biotechnology, food security, pharma and spam | Professor Douglas Kell's blog says:
    October 1, 2012 at 1:13 AM

    [...] that were known only to them. Given the clear need to deal with this, as illustrated by Jeffrey Beall’s predatory publishing list, I am now going to start listing those who spam me the most. Hopefully we can than remove them all [...]

  4. Open access: la lista nera delle riviste « La Scienza siamo anche noi says:
    October 1, 2012 at 3:58 AM

    [...] dal dubbio valore siano esaminati con estrema cura, durante il processo di valutazione.See on scholarlyoa.com Share this:StampaEmailTwitterFacebookLinkedInDiggRedditStumbleUponLike this:Mi piaceBe the first to [...]

  5. I always thought you looked dodgy | Open-ise. says:
    October 2, 2012 at 3:55 AM

    [...] shrewd Colorado Librarian has compiled a list of “suspect” open access publishers looking to cash-in on academics’ angst to publish in OA journals.  Some you might be taken [...]

  6. Open access publishers: separating the wheat from the chaff? | Research Staff @ Lboro says:
    October 2, 2012 at 7:22 AM

    [...] on researchers’ need to publish by setting up low-quality OA journals.  We came across this list of “suspect” OA Publishers, and thought it might be a useful starting point.  If you want any further advice on choosing [...]

  7. Publishing open access in neuroscience | Erin C. McKiernan says:
    October 19, 2012 at 1:59 AM

    [...] over at SV-POW! (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5).  Finally, I have excluded journals from suspected ‘predatory’ publishers. You can refer to the table below, or download the full spreadsheet [...]

  8. Open Access Resources | Research Impact: Scholarly Communication @ Carleton University says:
    October 22, 2012 at 7:39 AM

    [...] Beall’s List of Predatory Open Access Journals: It’s important to be aware of publishers/journals “that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open access publishing (Gold OA) for their own profit” [...]

  9. Open Access Week: Publishers role in Open Access | Florida Institute of Technology says:
    October 24, 2012 at 10:02 AM

    [...] ‘predatory’ publishers. According to Jeffrey Beall, who publishes a list of publishers he calls ‘predatory’: “Predatory, open-access publishers are those that [...]

  10. Open Access Week 2012 | Infectious Thoughts says:
    October 28, 2012 at 3:04 AM

    [...] a nutshell, check out the fantastic Jeffrey Beall‘s blog which has a list of dubious publishers best [...]

  11. e-Science, Scholarly Communication, and Open Access | e-Science Community says:
    November 5, 2012 at 5:56 PM

    [...] of “predatory” publishers and questionable open access journals. Beall’s List<http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/&gt; describes “predatory publishers” as using unethical practices such as high author [...]

  12. Don’t fall into the trap: this is not Open Access! « Open Access Belgium says:
    November 12, 2012 at 7:21 AM

    [...] Jeffrey Beal, in 2 recent articles published in the Scientist and Nature, offers a hard hitting summary of these practices and on his blog draws up an updated list of these ‘predatory publishers‘. [...]

  13. It Could Happen to a Dean: Open Access and the Problem of Predatory Publishers | Strategist.ie says:
    November 22, 2012 at 1:19 PM

    [...] at the University of California has a very active blog discussing the issue. The blog provides a list of questionable journals and so I did a little [...]

  14. Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) | Research Impact: Scholarly Communication @ Carleton University says:
    December 3, 2012 at 6:50 AM

    [...] If you receive an email asking you to publish, make sure you research that publisher, and verify that their name does not appear on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers. [...]

  15. 5,000 Open Access (OA) journals now in JournalTOCs, the free current awareness service for researchers « Roddy Macleod's Blog says:
    December 3, 2012 at 8:26 PM

    [...] Genamics JournalSeek is often good for finding ISSNs. 3. If the journal’s publisher is on Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers, then I am very unlikely to add it.  There is no hard and fast rule to this, and identifying true [...]

  16. First-World Academic Problems | Pen, Book, Sword. says:
    December 7, 2012 at 3:18 PM

    [...] is a big thing now, such that Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado, maintains a database of predatory open-access journal publishers. I mention this because I have now received about 4 unsolicited e-mails from David Publishing, one [...]

  17. All That Glitters Is Not Gold, But Is It Diamond? | SCRIPTed says:
    December 15, 2012 at 4:40 AM

    [...] http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/  (accessed 8 Dec [...]

  18. Integritas akademik dan publikasi internasional « Melakukan Publikasi Internasional says:
    December 16, 2012 at 10:14 PM

    [...] or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers’. Yang tertarik sila, lirik daftarnya di sini. Daftar kriteria yang dibuat oleh Beall dalam menentukan penerbit yang masuk ke dalam daftar [...]

  19. Scholarly journal publishing – Things turn nasty « Roddy Macleod's Blog says:
    December 18, 2012 at 11:39 AM

    [...] a hard working librarian at University of Colorado Denver called Jeffrey Beall who maintains Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers.  This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers.  There’s carefully [...]

  20. Digital publishing: a great opportunity for science « Science and the Web says:
    January 3, 2013 at 7:09 AM

    [...] and do not provide quality control. But scholars already started to collect information about questionable open access publishers. He also talks about the loss of blinded reviews in open peer review. Anonymity gives reviewers [...]

  21. On Bogus Journals « Achilleas Kostoulas says:
    January 7, 2013 at 6:38 AM

    [...] may wish to consult a very useful list of publishers who appear to engage in dubious publication practices, compiled by Jeffrey Beal, a [...]

  22. Leave the Door Ajar « Andrew Richard Schrock says:
    January 22, 2013 at 4:31 PM

    [...] up a major issue that gets overlooked in many discussions in the open culture movement about how predatory journals are voraciously appropriating the term “open access.” By predatory, I mean [...]

  23. The New Face of the Professional Society « The Scholarly Kitchen says:
    January 28, 2013 at 2:30 AM

    [...] Some of the organizations that are imitating PLoS ONE are doing so more vertically; they are identifying specific domains and inviting authors to submit papers (e.g., “ChemistryOpen” from John Wiley). We can imagine an environment where every discipline or subdiscipline of any size has its own author-pays service. Some of these services will be branded with the name of an established publisher or institution, some will be upstarts, and some will be labelled as “predatory” publishers because of the limitations of their peer-review … [...]

  24. Open Access uitgevers als roofdier | TU Delft Library weblog says:
    February 7, 2013 at 2:25 AM

    [...] zijn lijsten beschikbaar die dergelijke uitgevers op een rijtje zetten waar je veel voordeel van kunt [...]

  25. Hati-hati dengan Jurnal Internasional Ini | Pengkaji Cyberculture says:
    February 9, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    [...] Suryansh Publications [...]

  26. Predatory Open Access Archaeology Journals or just poor quality? PAGEPRESS Publishers « Doug's Archaeology says:
    February 11, 2013 at 4:14 AM

    [...] a whole website devote to the subject with a list run by Jeffery Beall. While PagePress is not on his official list, they are on his watch [...]

  27. Infobib » Canadian Centre for Science and Education Vs. Beall’s List says:
    February 16, 2013 at 12:55 AM

    [...] Inside Higher Ed berichtet über das Vorgehen eines Verlags (Canadian Centre for Science and Education) gegen die auch hier schon erwähnte Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers. [...]

  28. Encore un bibliothécaire critique menacé par des éditeurs « biblioth|ê|thique says:
    February 19, 2013 at 1:47 AM

    [...] sur l’Open Access, les politiques d’OA, les mandats, le plagiat, etc., il tient également une liste de « Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers ». Véritable [...]

  29. Predatory online journals include subscription access journals - Ross Mounce says:
    February 20, 2013 at 9:48 AM

    [...] a quick post to say that I think Beall’s list of “predatory journals” should be expanded to include dubious subscription access [...]

  30. Bubble, Blur, Flip, Spin, Hoard, Hug. Part Five: Flip (5b: Publishing) | Emerging Technologies Librarian says:
    February 22, 2013 at 10:19 AM

    [...] Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ [...]

  31. oa | simonbatterbury says:
    February 25, 2013 at 4:58 PM

    [...] a quick buck and bringing a bad name to Open Access publishing, see  Beall’s list – http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers. These are enterprising companies or individuals who have realised they can offer quick publication [...]

  32. Yildiray Keskin's Blog says:
    March 3, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    [...] http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ [...]

  33. Tuesday Tab Taming – The “In Case You Missed It” Edition ← Sigh. says:
    March 5, 2013 at 8:35 PM

    [...] Beall’s List: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers [...]

  34. Nuove generazioni « Oggi Scienza says:
    March 6, 2013 at 3:57 AM

    [...] 2009 Philip Davis, uno studente dell’Università Cornell, decise di controllare se un predone dell’open access, Bentham Science Publishers,  praticava la peer-review come dichiarato. [...]

  35. “What I find offensive is not that they plagiarized us, it’s that they did it so badly” | Retraction Watch says:
    March 7, 2013 at 2:20 PM

    [...] journal is published by CSCanada, which runs 15 journals and is on Jeffrey Beall’s list of “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly [...]

  36. ฺเมื่อจะตีพิมพ์จงระวัง Bogus Journals | Thai Grads says:
    March 7, 2013 at 10:26 PM

    [...] http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ [...]

  37. Dodgy journals go for gold | Frederick Guy says:
    March 12, 2013 at 6:49 AM

    [...] Jeffrey Beale, a librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, publishes a list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers“; his blog, Scholarly Open Access, discusses cases. Read a few of the cases and the line [...]

  38. If you’re going to solicit papers for a journal, use proper grammar. Lessons for predatory publishers. | downwithtime says:
    March 12, 2013 at 9:40 AM

    [...] a great solicitation from David Publishing Company, a company on Beall’s list of predatory publishers (I’ve reformatted it so you don’t have to see all the fonts they [...]

  39. Texas DNA specialist writes that Sasquatch is a modern human being. UPDATED 3/17/2013. That was 2010; now she says it’s a hybrid. Or something. | Over the line, Smokey! says:
    March 20, 2013 at 1:01 PM

    [...] “Curious” in the comments) that Dr. Ketchum’s journal/publishing entity is now on Beall’s List of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals. OTL,S! sees several [...]

  40. Journal International | JUMLI ALAM MAPGUN says:
    March 27, 2013 at 3:27 AM

    [...] Journal International [...]

  41. Print on Demand Publishers | USF Libraries Faculty & Staff Newsletter says:
    March 28, 2013 at 10:02 AM

    [...] that are vanity publishers. Given that some startup publishers are predatory in nature (see also Beall’s List of Predatory Open Access Journal Publishers), this can be a very useful [...]

  42. 学术出版的未来 » 中国开放获取研究 says:
    March 29, 2013 at 7:48 AM

    [...] “Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing”一文详细介绍了Jeffrey Beall抵制可疑OA出版商的心路历程，以及科学界同行和出版商对此的反应。我在上篇博文中提到Jeffrey Beall的可疑出版商名单，截止到2013年3月21日，已经有315个可能存在问题的OA出版商被列在上面。在Beall看来，“2012 was basically the year of the predatory publisher; that was when they really exploded”。或许，2012年真的是开放获取大发展的一年，也是“掠夺性出版商”大爆发的一年。文章提到不是所有人都认同Beall的做法，比如他判定可以出版商的标准可能过于严格，也有一些人和组织正在尝试建立更可靠的标准来判定正当的出版商。但这提醒我们，如我在之前某篇博文中提到过的，科学家个人，应该掌握一些判断能力来决定是否往某个期刊投稿或加入编委会。 [...]

  43. TUHH Universitätsbibliothek: Zur Zukunft des Publizierens says:
    April 2, 2013 at 11:31 PM

    [...] zur manchmal problematischen Qualität von Open-Access-Verlagen [...]

  44. Pesce risorto, cont. – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it says:
    April 3, 2013 at 11:13 AM

    [...] L’editoria predona è un fatto ben documentato. Per dirla con il Pulitzer, invito il “co-signer” ad approfondire il tema. [...]

  45. It’s a Jungle Out There | jcommunicators says:
    April 4, 2013 at 1:37 AM

    [...] are quite a few predatory journals (http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/) and publishers (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/). Here in Finland, reliable journals and publishers are presumably well covered in the Publication [...]

  46. Open Access Publishing – things to to watch out for | NTU Art & Design Library says:
    April 9, 2013 at 3:14 AM

    [...] Denver, in the USA, has, through much research and time, complied a list of publications and a list of publishers to be very wary of.  He’s also explained his criteria for how these have been selected, and [...]

  47. Turorial 23: How to avoid giving your work to a “predatory open access publisher” | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring says:
    April 9, 2013 at 9:26 AM

    [...] an awful lot of talk about “predatory open access publishers” recently. So much talk that I can’t help wondering whether the phrase is being pushed [...]

  48. Tutorial 23: How to avoid giving your work to a “predatory open access publisher” | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring says:
    April 9, 2013 at 9:27 AM

    [...] an awful lot of talk about “predatory open access publishers” recently. So much talk that I can’t help wondering whether the phrase is being pushed [...]

  49. CINCO DICAS AO ESCOLHER UMA REVISTA CIENTÍFICA PARA PUBLICAR OS SEUS DADOS | Crônicas da Ciência says:
    April 10, 2013 at 10:21 AM

    [...] cuja única      finalidade é lucrar com a publicação de artigos científicos. Veja aqui (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/)      uma lista elaborada pelo pesquisador Jeffrey [...]

  50. “Predatory” Open-Access Scientific Journals Threaten Academic Reputations says:
    April 12, 2013 at 5:40 AM

    [...] at the University of Colorado in Denver, became so concerned with the trend that he developed Scholarly Open Access, a blacklist of open-access publishers he believes may be engaging in pseudo-academia. He said [...]

  51. ACRLog » Evaluating Information: The Light Side of Open Access says:
    April 14, 2013 at 9:50 AM

    [...] with and photo of University of Colorado Denver librarian Jeffrey Beall, compiler of the useful Beall’s List guide to potentially predatory open access scholarly journals and [...]

  52. Predatory publishers and fake/bogus conferences | Soft Handover says:
    April 16, 2013 at 4:17 PM

    [...] to Beall because he is doing a huge favor to the research community. His database of “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers” and the list of “potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access [...]

  53. Waspada Jurnal Internasional Palsu | Aminuddin Blog says:
    April 18, 2013 at 6:33 PM

    [...] Tidak gampang memang mengetahui jurnal internasional itu kredibel atau tidak, butuh sedikit usaha dan keinginan kuat menelusuri dan menyelidiki sendiri jurnal-jurnal tersebut, salah satunya mungkin dengan melihat sendiri kualitas paper yang diterbitkan. Tapi sekali lagi susah, apalagi bagi mereka yang baru bergelut dalam penelitian. Untung saja Dr. Beall sudah mendaftarkan sebagian jurnal-jurnal tersebut dan juga mengulas alasan-alasanya, serta orang-orang yang ada dibelakangnya. Anda bisa membaca kriteria-kriteria jurnal palsu menurut Beall di blognya itu. Sebuah blog yang juga dikunjungi oleh banyak ilmuwan dan editor jurnal. Ada diskusi yang hidup pula di bagian komentarnya. Untuk teman-teman dosen bisa mengecek daftar mutakhir nama-nama publisher yang dianggap abal abal ini di sini. [...]

  54. Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine says:
    April 20, 2013 at 1:35 PM

    [...] of course, but as costs of administrative expenses and the like. Librarian Jeffrey Beall  lists publishers and journals that seem to be blatantly dishonest, for example in claiming to use peer review while [...]

  55. AISR News & What’s New on JEFFLINE » Blog Archive » Predatory Publishers: Where Should I Submit My Research? says:
    April 22, 2013 at 12:27 PM

    [...] Publishers By Journal titles View the criteria for inclusion in the list (highly recommended [...]

  56. Explaining Open Access Journals with the Language of Math (for Those Who Like that Sort of Thing) | Open Access @ CUNY says:
    April 22, 2013 at 5:31 PM

    [...] of questionable quality. For more about predatory open access journals, see Jeffrey Beall’s List of Potential, Possible, or Probable Predatory Scholarly Open-Access Publishers.  Unfortunately, by having shady practices, these journals put the reputation of open access more [...]

  57. An Exploding World of Pseudo-Academia : Stacy Trasancos says:
    April 23, 2013 at 11:27 AM

    [...] but the scientist or group publishing the paper must pay to be published, thus the term “predatory journal“. Likewise with conferences, described as [...]

  58. Jurnal yang Perlu Dipertimbangkan untuk Kenaikan Pangkat/Jabatan Dosen | Sistem Penilaian Angka Kredit Dosen says:
    April 25, 2013 at 5:08 PM

    [...] Bila karya ilmiah tidak ditemukan disalah satu laman tersebut maka akan di periksa di laman scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ dan scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals yang memberikan informasi tentang publisher dan [...]

  59. The business of for-profit “science” « Skepticism about science and medicine says:
    April 26, 2013 at 3:25 PM

    [...] then there’s Landes Bioscience. It isn’t listed by Beall among “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers”, but it came to my attention because I received a notice from Oncoimmunology announcing their [...]

  60. Open access con occhiali da sole – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it says:
    April 29, 2013 at 12:46 PM

    [...] ma sono una più sberluccicante dell’altra e tutte dai titoli talmente credibili che l’editore non è nemmeno nella lista di Beall. [...]

  61. Jeff Beall’s Blog about Predatory Open Access Publishers | USF Libraries Faculty & Staff Newsletter says:
    April 29, 2013 at 3:00 PM

    [...] that keeps up with Open Access issues, particularly ferreting out predatory journal publishers. His list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers is very helpful if academic faculty or graduate students are solicited for manuscripts from [...]

  62. Predatory publishers: a real problem | Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week #AcademicSpring says:
    April 29, 2013 at 3:31 PM

    [...] publishers are an increasingly prevalent problem. Jeffrey Beall’s list is getting a lot of coverage recently, including stories in Nature and in the New York [...]

  63. TUHH Library: The future of publishing says:
    April 30, 2013 at 1:13 AM

    [...] zur manchmal problematischen Qualität von Open-Access-Verlagen [...]

  64. From Ms. Cole's Desk » Post Topic » Research Websites – Beyond Google says:
    May 9, 2013 at 7:53 AM

    […] http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ […]

  65. Resist Thy Temptations! | Getting to know Structural Bioinformatics says:
    May 9, 2013 at 11:51 AM

    […] to the question of Where can I verify if this is a spam? Access the full list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ If  you see the name here, be cautious and keep an open mind! Click here to find out how Jeffrey […]

  66. Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement - Science AAAS - Ag2 Literary Agency says:
    May 9, 2013 at 1:03 PM

    […] to critics such as Jeffrey Beall, a University of Colorado, Denver, librarian who keeps a list of so-called predatory publishers. Now, the U.S. government has jumped in as an enforcer, warning […]

  67. Predatory Publishers: Government Accuses Open Access Publisher of Trademark Infringement | LJ INFOdocket says:
    May 9, 2013 at 2:10 PM

    […] to critics such as Jeffrey Beall, a University of Colorado, Denver, librarian who keeps a list of so-called predatory publishers. Now, the U.S. government has jumped in as an enforcer, warning […]

  68. Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - Ag2 Literary Agency says:
    May 15, 2013 at 11:23 AM

    […] blog and the list, which is known to librarians and professors simply as “Beall’s List,” has led to Mr. Beall’s being featured in The New York Times, Nature, and The Chronicle. The […]

  69. Another librarian faces lawsuit threat from publisher | African Studies library says:
    May 15, 2013 at 1:56 PM

    […] A recent technology blog entry (New, Jake. 2013. “Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion” Chronicle of Higher Education) signals that librarian Jeff Beall has recently been threatened with a $1B lawsuit by the online publisher OMICS: “On his blog, Mr. Beall accuses OMICS of spamming scholars with invitations to publish, quickly accepting their papers, then charging them a nearly $3,000 publishing fee after a paper has been accepted.” Beall maintains a list of “predatory publishers” at http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ […]

  70. Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion | 1freelancers.com says:
    May 15, 2013 at 5:49 PM

    […] blog and the list, which is known to librarians and professors simply as “Beall’s List,” has led to Mr. Beall’s being featured in The New York Times, Nature, and The Chronicle. The […]

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