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Cabells' Predatory Reports is a paid subscription service provided by Cabell Publishing featuring a database of deceptive and predatory journals, and Journalytics is a database of "verified, reputable journals", with details about those journals' acceptance rates and invited article percentages. [1]
Since then, it has grown to include Journalytics, a database with analytics on reputable journals, Predatory Reports, a database of predatory journals with violation reports, journal metrics, and manuscript preparation tools. Journalytics has been expanded to include many types of information about the included journals, such as article ...
In March 2022, the InterAcademy Partnership published a report, Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences, with a series of recommendations. [147] This study emphasized, that predatory publishing practices is not a binary (good or bad) phenomenon, but rather a spectrum. They proposed the following classification:
The hoax was revealed and halted after one of the papers in the England-based feminist geography journal Gender, Place and Culture was criticized on social media, and then on Campus Reform, which led a Wall Street Journal editorial writer to investigate and report on it. [27]
The remaining 13 publishers had significantly increased the number of journals they were publishing, to a total of 1,650 individual journals (about 10% of the number of journals listed in Cabells' Predatory Reports in 2022), primarily due to the dramatic increase in the number of journals published by OMICS Publishing Group from 63 to 742.
In 2021 Cabells' Predatory Reports described SCIRP as a "well-known predatory publisher". [2] In the Norwegian Scientific Index the publisher and all of its journals have a rating of 0 (non-academic). [18] An academic study published in 2022 stated that SCIRP was "widely known to host 'fake journals'". [3]
Cabells' Predatory Reports is part of WikiProject Open Access, a collaborative attempt at improving the coverage of topics related to Open Access and at improving other articles with the help of materials from Open Access sources.
OMICS Publishing Group was founded in 2007 by Gedela Srinubabu, [18] who remains the company's director. [19] [20] He founded OMICS because of his difficulty in accessing high-cost journal contents as a PhD student.