This guide is designed to assist faculty members in identifying the right journals to publish their research work. This includes exploring tools to discover specific journals in dedicated fields, understanding criteria and requirements of prominent publishers related to quality journals, and many others.
In this guide, we selected a few definitions and explanations provided by researchers in their research works related to predatory journals.
Manuel Bagues, Mauro Sylos-Labini, Natalia Zinovyeva, A walk on the wild side: ‘Predatory’ journals and information asymmetries in scientific evaluations, Research Policy, Volume 48, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 462-477, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2018.04.013.
"The academic librarian Jeffrey Beall launched in 2012 a blacklist of publishers and standalone journals who, according to his judgement, did not comply with some basic criteria. These journals did not conduct peer-review, they publicized fake impact factors and editorial boards, or they falsely claimed a non-existent association with an academic institution or geographic location. The 2012 edition of the list included 143 standalone journals and about 269 publishers; two years later, it included 468 standalone journals and 667 publishers, and by January 2017 there were 1294 standalone journals and 1155 publishers."
Grzbowski, A. Patryn, R. & Joroslaw, S. Predatory journals and dishonesty. Clinics in Dermatology, 35 (2017), 607-611.
Predatory magazines are created by unreliable publishers who, after collecting a fee, publish the submitted paper in the Open Access (OA) formula without providing substantive control. For the purpose of encouraging authors to submit their work, they often impersonate existing periodicals by using a similar-sounding title, a similar webpage, and copied names of editors of the editorial board. They also offer credits close in name to the Impact Factor. The purpose of such activity is to deceive authors and to earn money in an unfair manner. This contribution presents mechanisms used by such journals and includes suggestions for protection from the duplicity and the subsequent disappointment of publishing, often for an exorbitant fee.
