LibGuides: Predatory Publishing: Articles And Additional Resources

Articles About Predatory Publishing

Best practices for scholarly authors in the age of predatory journals
Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England. 2016;98(2):77-79.
Essential Information About Predatory Publishers and Journals
Beall, J. International Higher Education, Summer 2016.
Predatory publishers: Implications for pharmacy practice and practitioners
Canadian Pharmacists Journal, First Published September 1, 2017, Editorial
Research Whisperer
Scientific Articles Accepted (Personal Checks, Too)
The New York Times, April 7, 2013
Investigating journals: The dark side of publishing
Nature, 27 March 2013
Sham journals scam authors
Nature, 27 March 2013
To Catch a Predatory Publisher
Sullivan, B. SciComm (PLOS Blog), October 4, 2017.
A Confusion of Journals: What is PubMed Now?
Anderson, K. The Scholarly Kitchen, September 7, 2017.
Potential Predatory and Legitimate Biomedical Journals: Can You Tell the Difference? A cross-sectional comparison
Shamseer, L., Moher, D., Maduekwe, O., Turner, L., Barbour, V., Burch, R., & ... Shea, B. J. (2017). BMC Medicine, 15(1), 28.
Open Access Medical Journals: Promise, Perils, and Pitfalls
Baker EF, Iserson KV, Aswegan AL, Larkin GL, Derse AR, Kraus CK. Acad Med. 2019 May;94(5):634-639. doi: 10.1097/ACM.0000000000002563. PubMed PMID: 30570493.

Examples of Scams

Cabell's Journalytics This link opens in a new window
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A source for publication information, evaluation metrics, and submission details for journals in a multitude of disciplines. Journalytics identifies appropriate venues for your research. Search by topic or journal title and filter results as desired.
Search and select journals most likely to publish your manuscript. Covers business, computer science, education, health administration, nursing, psychology and psychiatry. Includes submission guidelines, circulation, contacts, and acceptance rates.

JournalGuide
A growing journal database across all academic fields. Search, filter, sort, and compare journals from more than 46,000 titles.
Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association
The mission of OASPA is to support and represent the interests of Open Access (OA) journal and book publishers globally in all scientific, technical, and scholarly disciplines.
Thinkchecksubmit
Think. Check. Submit. is a campaign to help researchers identify trusted
journals for their research. It is a simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.
JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator)
Have you recently written a paper, but you're not sure to which journal you should submit it? Or maybe you want to find relevant articles to cite in your paper? Or are you an editor, and do you need to find reviewers for a particular paper? Jane can help!
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JANE relies on the data in PubMed, which can contain papers from predatory journals. To help identify high-quality journals, JANE now tags journals that are currently indexed in MEDLINE, and open access journals approved by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ).
Journal Evaluation Tool (PDF)
Rele, Shilpa; Kennedy, Marie; and Blas, Nataly, "Journal Evaluation Tool" (2017). LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations. 40.
Librarians at Loyola Marymount University created a rubric to help authors evaluate journals. This rubric can be used as a guide when deciding if a journal is legitimate or predatory.