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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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]
The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology (IJACT) is a publication which has been described as a predatory open access journal [1] [2] [3] —a publication which has some of the surface attributes of a benign open access journal but is actually an exploitative and deceptive corruption of that model, operating as a disreputable vanity press with little scholarly value.
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 ...
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