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"List of Standalone Journals: Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" (last archived ed.). Archived from the original on January 11, 2017. {}: CS1 maint: unfit URL ; Updated "Beall's List of Predatory Journals and Publishers" – maintained by an anonymous postdoctoral European researcher
Beall's list was used as an authoritative source by South Africa's Department of Higher Education and Training in maintaining its list of accredited journals: articles published in those journals will determine funding levels for their authors; however, journals identified as predatory will be removed from this list. [103]
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]
Beall has estimated that predatory open access journals publish about 5–10 percent of all open access articles, [16] and that at least 25 percent of open access journals are predatory. [21] He has been particularly critical of OMICS Publishing Group, which he described as "the worst of the worst" in a 2016 Inside Higher Education article. [22]
The American Journal of Biomedical Science and Research is an open-access medical journal for scientific and technical research papers. It is published by BiomedGrid. The journal has been included on the updated Beall's List of potential predatory open-access journals, [1] and has faced other criticisms of its publishing practices.
Herald Scholarly Open Access is an Indian publisher of various academic journals. It has a postal address in Herndon, Virginia, United States, [ 1 ] but is actually based in Hyderabad , India. [ 2 ] Herald Scholarly Open Access has been included on Beall's List of potential predatory open-access publishers , [ 3 ] and has faced other criticisms ...
[11] In February 2018, it was added as a potentially predatory journal publisher to the update to Beall's List of potentially predatory journals or publishers, no longer maintained by Beall but by an anonymous European postdoctoral researcher. [12] [13] As of September 2023 the most recent changes shown on the list were in December 2021. [13]
The first journal to be hijacked was the Swiss journal Archives des Sciences. In 2012 and 2013, more than 20 academic journals were hijacked. [ 1 ] In some cases, scammers find their victims in conference proceedings , extracting authors' emails from papers and sending them fake calls for papers.