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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 ...
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]
Jeffrey Beall coined the term "predatory meetings" as analogous to "predatory publications" and explains that the business model involves "conferences organized by revenue-seeking companies that want to exploit researchers' need to build their vitas with conference presentations and papers in the published proceedings or affiliated journals," these affiliated journals being predatory journals. [4]
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 ...
He has published a number of analyses of predatory OA journals, such as one of Bentham Open in The Charleston Advisor in 2009. [15] However, his interest in such journals began when, in 2008, he started to receive numerous requests from dubious journals to serve on their editorial boards. He has said that he "immediately became fascinated ...
Online archive. Frontiers in Psychology is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal covering all aspects of psychology. It was established in 2010 and is published by Frontiers Media, a controversial company that is included in Jeffrey Beall 's list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory publishers ". [ 1 ][ 2 ] The editor-in-chief ...
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 ...