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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]
In early 2017, Beall's list was abruptly taken offline, leading to speculation that Cabells was involved in the list's removal; the company denied any involvement. [5] On June 15, 2017, Cabells launched its own database of academic journals it considers predatory. In June 2020, Cabells changed the name of its blacklist to Predatory Reports. [4]
Beall's List was an example of a free blacklist, and Cabells' Predatory Reports is an example of a paid blacklist database. The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) recommends against blindly trusting any list of fake or predatory journals, especially if they do not publish the criteria by which journals are evaluated. [ 83 ]
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. [13]
Cabells' Predatory Reports; Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature; Catalogue of Scientific Papers; Centers for Agricultural Safety and Health;
The report also described a paper published in Affilia which contained a reworded excerpt from Mein Kampf. [28] Social studies: 2015: The Sociétés hoax: Using a false identity, Manuel Quinon and Arnaud Saint-Martin submitted an intentionally inept and absurd article on the Autolib', a small rentable car in Paris, to Michel Maffesoli's ...
A blacklist of predatory publishers is also maintained by Cabell's blacklist (a successor to Beall's List). [230] [231] Increased transparency of the peer review and publication process has been proposed as a way to combat predatory journal practices. [90] [211] [232]
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]