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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]
"Think. Check. Submit." poster by an international initiative to help researchers avoid predatory publishing. 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 ...
In June 2020, Cabells changed the name of its blacklist to Predatory Reports. [4] In February 2020, Predatory Reports exceeded 13,000 deceptive journals listed. [ 6 ] Like their original whitelist they have maintained since 1978, Predatory Reports is subscription-only.
Since Beall's List closed, similar lists have been started by others, [40] including CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, and an anonymous group at Stop Predatory Journals. [ 40 ] [ 41 ] Cabell's International, a company that offers scholarly publishing analytics and other scholarly services, has also offered both a black list and a ...
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]
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.
As of November 2023 a list published by Predatory Reports, "an organization made up of volunteer researchers who have been harmed by predatory publishers and want to help researchers identify trusted journals and publishers for their research", [14] lists Cambridge Scholars in its list of Predatory Publishers [15] and discusses it at length in ...
OMICS Publishing Group, an open-access publisher widely regarded as predatory, purchased Pulsus in 2016, causing controversy and putting the future of the journals into question. [10] Pulsus was placed on Jeffrey Beall's list of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers, [11] before the list shut down in 2017.