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Beall's List. Beall's List was a prominent list of predatory open-access publishers that was maintained by University of Colorado librarian Jeffrey Beall on his blog Scholarly Open Access. The list aimed to document open-access publishers who did not perform real peer review, effectively publishing any article as long as the authors pay the ...
Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist who drew attention to " predatory open access publishing ", a term he coined, [ 1 ] and created Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and particularly how predatory publishers use the open access ...
Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing[ 1 ][ 2 ] or deceptive publishing, [ 3 ] is an exploitative academic publishing business model, where the journal or publisher prioritizes self-interest at the expense of scholarship. It is characterized by misleading information, deviates from the standard peer review process, is highly non ...
The World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology or WASET is a predatory publisher of open access academic journals.The publisher has been listed as a "potential, possible, or probable" predatory publisher by American library scientist Jeffrey Beall [1] and is listed as such by the Max Planck Society [2] and Stop Predatory Journals. [3]
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is a predatory [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] academic publisher of open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies that are considered to be of questionable quality. [ 4 ][ 5 ][ 6 ] As of December 2014, it offered 244 English-language open-access journals in the areas of science ...
It started its first open-access journal, the Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, in 2008. [1] In 2012, OMICS Group had more than 200 journal titles, about 60% of which had no content. [18] By 2015, it claimed over 700 titles, but about half of them were defunct. [10] Several OMICS journals have names similar to existing publications.
www .alliedacademies .org. Allied Academies (also known as Allied Business Academies) [1] is a reportedly fraudulent corporation [2] [3] chartered under the laws of North Carolina. Its postal address is in London, United Kingdom. [4] It presents itself as an association of scholars, with supporting and encouraging research and the sharing and ...
List of scholarly publishing stings. This is a list of scholarly publishing "sting operations" such as the Sokal affair. These are nonsense papers that were accepted by an academic journal or academic conference; the list does not include cases of scientific misconduct. The intent of such publications is typically to expose shortcomings in a ...