Scientia uses cookies to ensure we give you the best experience on our website. Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access standalone journals. Jeffrey Beall, a librarian and associate professor at University of Colorado-Denver, has compiled a list of questionable publishers (see below). Introduction. Predatory publishing, sometimes called write-only publishing or deceptive publishing, is an exploitive academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy and without providing the other editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. Azadi Bulding, Second Floor, Sulaimani, Kurdistan wherever it comes from and it is broadcated. for example click here). The table below details the growth of questionable publishers since 2011. For journals published by a publisher, please look for the publisher on the list of publishers, here . If you continue, we’ll assume that you are happy to receive all cookies. information about potential predatory publishers. fake is everywhere, no one is interested. If a journal is indexed by JCR or/and DOAJ, that is usually a very good indicator that the journal is not predatory. Researchers and academics in any scientific discipline are under great pressure to publish. There is a global downgrade of the world universities and the companies do not publish their discoveries! One may be viable; however, the remainder definitely are not (i.e. Instructions: first, find the journal's publisher - it is usually written at the bottom of journal's webpage or in the "About" section.Then simply enter the publisher's name or its URL in the search box above. Last year’s list included 225 publishers, and this year’s has over 477, evidence of the continued rapid growth in the number of predatory journals and publishers. Publishers Standalone Journals Vanity Press Contact Other Hello. Please refer to our Cookies Policy for more information, including how to disable them. You should always check whether a journal you want to publish in is telling the truth. If something is good is good! Unfortunately, the number of those tempted by the opportunity to publish quickly for fast-tracking their academic careers is on the rise (Moher and Srivastava, 2015, Maddy and Tosti, 2016).Solicitations in the Open Access (OA) era may come as electronic invitations for prompt … CONTACT US Prince Sultan University, Research and Initiatives Center (RIC) P: +966 (11) 494 - 8851 research@psu.edu.sa —— BEALLSLIST.NET —— BEALL'S LIST OF PREDATORY JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS. Please see beallslist.net.