Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015
By Jeffrey Beall, January 2, 2015Â Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers. Because...
New publisher: Scientific & Academic Publishing
One of the most recent additions to my list of questionable publishers is Scientific & Academic Publishing. This publisher claims to be...
Hijacked Journals
Sometimes someone will create a counterfeit website that pretends to be the website of a legitimate scholarly journal. The website...
Is SciELO a Publication Favela?
Scholarly open-access publishing has little value when it’s effectively hidden and almost no one reads the published research. It’s possible...
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013
The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt...
Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition)
In August 2012, I published the first edition of my Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers. I received many helpful comments...
Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper
The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology has accepted for publication a manuscript that was first written in 2005 to protest spam...
List of Predatory Publishers 2014
The gold (author pays) open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers...
List of standalone journals
Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals
This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access standalone journals. For journals published...
Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science
Google Scholar is the world’s largest and most-used academic search engine, yet it is increasingly becoming polluted with junk science, making...
