This is a list of questionable companies that purport to provide valid scholarly metrics at the researcher, article, or journal level.
- AE Global Index
- Advanced Science Index
- African Quality Centre for Journals
- American Standards for Journals and Research (ASJR)
- Arab Impact Factor = معامل التأثير العربي
- CiteFactor
- Cosmos Impact Factor
- Digital Identification Database System (DIDS)
- Digital Online Identifier-Database System (doi ds) DOI Indexed Journals Impact Factor (DOIJIF)
- Directory of Indexing and Impact Factor (DIIF)
- Directory of Journal Quality Factor
- Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI)
- Einstein Institute for Scientific Information (EISI)
- Eurasian Scientific Journal Index (ESJI)
- General Impact Factor
- Global Impact Factor
- Global Science Citation Impact Factor (GSCIF)
- IMPACT-FACTOR.RU
- Impact Factor Services for International Journals (I.F.S.I.J.)
- Index Scientific Journals (ISJ)
- IndexCopernicus
- Infobase Index
- Institute for Science Information (ISI)
- International Accreditation and Research Council (IARC)
- International Impact Factor Services
- International Innovative Journal Impact Factor (IIJIF)
- International Institute for Research
- International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR)
- International Journal Impact Factor (IJIF)
- International Scientific Indexing (ISI)
- International Scientific Institute (ISI) (scijournal.org)
- International Services for Impact Factor and Indexing (ISIFI)
- International Society for Research Activity (ISRA) Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
- Jour Informatics
- Journal Impact Factor
- Journals Impact Factor (JIFACTOR)
- Journal Influence Factor
- Journals Consortium. Journal Influence Factor (JIF)
- JPR Impact Factor
- Online Publications Quality Control Association (OPQC)
- Open Academic Journals Index
- Perma Society of Technical Education and Research
- Pubicon Science Index
- RJI Factor (Research Journal Impact Factor)
- Root Indexing
- Science Impact Factor
- Scientific Indexing Services (SIS)
- Scientific Journal Impact Factor
- SCIJOURNAL.ORG (International Scientific Institute)
- SPARC Indexing
- Systematic Impact Factor
- Technical Impact Factor
- Universal Impact Factor
Last updated: November 3, 2016
Criteria for Determining Misleading Metrics
- The website for the metric is nontransparent and provides little information about itself such as location, management team and its experience, other company information, and the like
- The company charges journals for inclusion in the list.
- The values (scores) for most or all of the journals on the list increase each year.
- The company uses Google Scholar as its database for calculating metrics (Google Scholar does not screen for quality and indexes predatory journals)
- The metric uses the term “impact factor” in its name.
- The methodology for calculating the value is contrived, unscientific, or unoriginal.
- The company exists solely for the purpose of earning money from questionable journals that use the gold open-access model. The company charges the journals and assigns them a value, and then the journals use the number to help increase article submissions and therefore revenue. Alternatively, the company exists as a front for an existing publisher and assigns values to that publisher’s journals.
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Thank you very much Jeffrey Beall sir for opening this blog.
Dear Sir
Directory of Journal Quality Factor is probably bogus agency for evaluation of Journals, its prime aim is to earn money.
Some major concerns are given below:
They write on their website that evaluation on journals is performed by factors like Journal Quality, Author’s Contribution, Publisher quality, Technical Quality, Manuscript Quality, and standard quality but I can’t find any well defined formula or criterion for assessment of journal on their website (only name of criteria is given, not detailed are given).
They proposed some credit based system in which just 4 point is given to author’s contribution out of 22.
They do not give credit to significant scholarly results and finding published by journals.
No editorial member lists are available on website having educational backgrounds relevant to their areas of responsibility.
It seems that they do not know basic publishing standards and COPE.
Owner admits that they are not registered.
WOAH!!! JPEE used point 6 above when I asked them about their impact factor!!!
What about cosmos impact factor thing?
Hi Jefferey,
I want to report two identity stealing journals: the International Journal of Current Medical and Pharmaceutical Research (which is now included in your list) and International Journal of Current Medical Sciences (which is not listed as an predatory journal) . They listed Dr. Weifeng Han-me (Flinders University, South Australia) as a member of editorial board, which I never agreed with. I have no direct or indirect relation with these two journals. I have not, and will not, authorize these two journals or its publisher to invite any author to publish in these two journals.
Related information can be found through the following links:
http://journalcmpr.com/editorial-board
http://sjifactor.com/passport.php?id=18579
http://www.journals.indexcopernicus.com/International+Journal+of+Current+Medical+Sciences,p3729,3.html
http://journalijcmes.com/editorial-board
I contacted them earlier and asked them to stop using my identity. But they did not seem to intend to do so. Do you have any good advice on such weirdness?
Thanks!
Weifeng
Thanks for sharing this information. I just added the International Journal of Current Medical Sciences to my list here. It is often difficult to get what are essentially criminal organizations to remove names from their websites. You may try a letter from an attorney. It is difficult to work with firms that are bogus, such as these publishers.
Thank you very Jeffrey! These bogus journals/publishers are really annoying. There is not much we can do, I’m afraid.
Professor Jeffrey Beall, We respect you but you never understand this. We are not interested in earning money professor. You are please join with us. we will good one to the world and also we are properly get registered. with regards thiyagu – Directory of Journal quality factor
The link to the quality factor report on the DJQF site doesn’t seem to be working:
http://www.qualityfactor.org/report.html
Professor Liam Mac Liam, Please understand that we have started DJQF on 2014 and our calculating metric will be published on June’2014 and will include in that page (http://www.qualityfactor.org/report.html). So, really sorry for the inconvenience. Please check after July’2014 page will be included.
Sorry, But who authorized you to put up a DJQF and why should I believe it.Look at how you wrote your text and you call yourself a director ????
This is a good addition to the site but I am wondering about criteria 2, 3 and 5 because they also apply to Thompson Reuters. And yes, correct me if I am wrong, but that appears to include criterion 3.
As long as more journals have themselves added to Web of Science each year, it is a logical necessity that most scores go up even if the actual number of citations doesn’t change, for the simple reason that only citations in those journals that are part of the list are counted to calculate the scores for the journals on the list. There is no cheating involved, it is just the mechanics of how the scores are calculated, and they will stop increasing once the number of journals on the list plateaus.
It is thus hard to use this criterion to identify predatory ranking providers.
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Here is another. Please check http://www.impactfactorjournals.com
Thanks for sharing this. I’ve added it to the Meaningless Metrics page.
Another one to be added http://www.infobaseindex.com. Sir, please check.
Thanks — this appears to be some sort of attempt at creating a new abstracting and indexing service.
I believe I have another (via an OMICS journal I was invited to review for): General Impact Factor http://generalimpactfactor.com/
Thank you! I had not heard of this one. They are popping up all over the place.
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What is status of African journal of biotechnology and journal of medicinal plants research?
Can you supply the links (URLs) please?
The links are http://www.academicjournals.org/AJB; and http://www.academicjournals.org/JMPR for African Journal of Biotechnology and Journal of Medicinal Plants Research
Regards
Adakole Abu
The publisher Academic Journals is included on my list. I would recommend that you avoid these two journals, and indeed all the journals from this publisher, and find a stronger publisher for your work.
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Dear pofessor, please take a look;
it is very suspicious:
American Standards for Journals and Research (ASJR)
at http://www.journal-metrics.com/
I agree. I will have a very close look at this … thing. Thank you for letting me know about it. Much appreciated.
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Another to be added is this http://www.bestjournals.in
Yes, this one was added within the past 24 hours. Thanks.
Can you recommend companies that provide reliable scholraly metrics?
Also could you please clarify the difference between Potential, possible, or probable predatory publishers, for instance a potential or possible would not have same detrimental effects as if confirmed?
Many thanks
I limit my work here to listing the bogus metrics companies. I don’t want to create a list of good ones.
I recommend avoiding all the publishers and journals included on my lists.
And why is that, Jeff? Why is it easy for you to find predatory journals, publishers, and bogus metrics companies but you have no time to provide the list of good ones? This seem to confirm the suspicion that many people in Asia have about your intent.
Thanks Jeffrey. Untill today I was under the impression that IndexCopernicus was a legitimate organization. You make me aware of the fact that provinding misleading metrics is a business that makes money instead of helping anyone out.
The opening line of their website is a good tip off:
“…the IC Journal Master List – contains currently over 13,000 journals from all over the world, including 1200 journals form Poland”
10% are “form Poland”…although I respect work from Poland, if 10% of the world’s most respected journals come from Poland, I’ve been publishing in the wrong country
The IC managed to get a contract to maintain technical side of Polish research assesment exercise. So many Polish publishers consider it a government endorsed & thus respectable index.
@Jane Doe
>The IC managed to get a contract to maintain technical side of
>Polish research assesment exercise. So many Polish
>publishers consider it a government endorsed & thus
>respectable index.
so shame on your govt.
Hi,
Please refer to my extended commentary on IC under https://scholarlyoa.com/2013/11/21/index-copernicus-has-no-value/.
I am a bit puzzled by its inclusion in this list. The only criterion that it meets with certainty is charging for inclusion. Other than that, you could fault it on 3 other criteria at the most, if you interpret them unfavourably, but then again Thomson Reuters 2-year Impact Factor also gets 4 out of 7 on this intepretation (as pointed out above). Any comments, Jeffrey?
Self-correction: it turns out that IC does not normally charge for inclusion, only for expediting the process.
Jeff-
Any thoughts on this one: http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/
I wonder if this violates Thomson Reuter’s copyright? What’s the business model here?
Hi,
please could you look at this website and give us some thoughts about this indexing(?) service?
“Directory of Research Journal Indexing” http://www.drji.org
They have their own metric (DRJI value), though i would be more curious about whether they are a legitimate abstracting/indexing service or just another attempt to find alternatives for journal reputation management.
Yes, actually please see my list of “Misleading Metrics” here: https://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/. There is an increasing number of startup firms like this one that create and sell fake metrics to low quality publishers. This problem is growing.
This is a fake agency http://impactfactorservice.com/home/index
Yes, please see my list of Misleading Metrics (fake impact factor companies), here. Thank you.
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Hi Jeffrey, I be interested in your thoughts about this journal Journal of Skin and Stem Cell, as they are pursuing one of our researchers. Their web site is http://journalssc.com/?page=home . Thanks
Hi, Mary, This appears to be a new (to me) publisher called Kowsar. I need to give it a full analysis, and this could take me up to several days. My first impression is not positive, so please tell you colleague to proceed with extreme caution. If possible, can you forward me the spam email she received? jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu Thanks.
I have also received an invitation from this Journal. Have you find out something else about this journal/publisher?
Thanks Jeff. I will forward the email. I too was not impressed with this publisher. We appreciate your opinions regarding the publisher.
Thanks Mr. Beall.
Where can I find a credible and reputable source of impact factor?
The impact factors are published in a proprietary (costs money) product called Journal Citation Reports. I recommend that you check with your librarian to see if your university has access.
Dear Sir,
Please correct me if I’m wrong. The Directory of Research Journal Indexing (DRJI) was included in your list of misleading metrics last year.But I could not find it anymore in your current list. Did I miss something?
Thanks.
I think so.
This firm only recently started to assign metrics, so I need to evaluate it.
Citefactor’s webpage says “This Account Has Been Suspended”
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Dear Mr Beall,
Asian Journal of Traditional Medicines ISSB 1817-4337
http://www.journal-data.com/journal/asian-journal-of-traditional-medicines.html
it’s not in any predatory list of journals,publishers or misleading and doesn’t even have any impact factor kindly update its status
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Prof, help by providing us list of non – predatory, good and high ranking reputable journals. Thank you for the sanity you have brought to Academic Publishing and Scholarship
Dear Prof. Jeffrey Beall
I wounder on the criteria by which you listed the ISI of Thomson Reuters in the Misleading Metrics List. We know that most of ISI journals are reputed and they only use the ISI database for calculation of the citation of publication. However, some metrics which account the publication and citation of the papers published by predatory publishers are not appearing in this list.
Thanking you
The ISI of Thomson Reuters is not included on my list of misleading metrics. There are several companies whose names are close to the authentic name, a tactic designed to trick people.
Thank you. But what about this “Institute for Science Information (ISI)” in your list.
It’s fake.
dear Beall sir,
have a look at this journal “INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY 1811-7775”
included in journal citation index list Thompson reuters web page in 2014 simultaneously in predator publisher list as well kindly look this journal and give your final word
Right, I think Thomson Reuters is making a mistake if they are conveying any mark of legitimacy to this journal. I recommend that researchers avoid all journals from Science Alert and/or Asian Network for Scientific Information (ANSI).
Can you throw some light on international journal of scientific and engineering research (www.ijser.org), plz?
Because this journal is a black hole, I cannot shine any light on it.
The journal is included on my list of questionable journals here.
Dear Jeffrey Beall!
Are these databases/indexes/archives legit?
http://contemporaryscienceassociation.net/journal/list
Is Contemporary Science Association a serious organization?
http://contemporaryscienceassociation.net/
Because this “Association” does not publish any journals, it is outside the scope of my work. They do link to many legitimate journals, perhaps in an attempt to make themselves look legitimate.
I think this is a very fishy website. Proceed with extreme caution.
Thank you!
Dear Prof. Beall,
What can you say about “The International Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Learning” of Common Ground CG Publisher? http://ijlsmtl.cgpublisher.com/
Is it a predatory journal/publisher? Thanks.
Common Ground, the publisher, is out of scope for my work because it’s not an open-access publisher. However, I receive many inquiries about it, an indication to me that researchers find it questionable.
What about. Scientific journal impact factor SJIF?
The link was dead. I’ve fixed it now. Thanks.
Dr Beall, what about this journal :
E-Health Telecommunication Systems and Networks
ISSN Print: 2167-9517
ISSN Online: 2167-9525
Thanks
This journal is from the Chinese publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing) one of the largest publishers of junk science in the world. All honest researchers should not submit papers to this low-quality, junk publisher.
Sir,
I would like your comment on these journals as they didn’t appeared in your list of fake journals:
An international Sholarly Research Journal
http://srjis.com/
and
international Journal of Multidimension Research
http://ijmr.net.in/
The first journal you list is published by a firm called “Scholarly Research Journal’s.” I have this publisher included on my list of publishers and recommend you not submit any papers to it.
Same situation for the second one — it’s publisher, International Journals of Multi Dimensional Research, is also on my list. Please always determine the publisher and look for the publisher on the publisher list here.
Thanks sir. But i could see there are papers of professors and associate professors in them. A tricky situation, indeed.
Dear Prof. Jeffrey Beall
What is your comments on the Institute for Science Information metric that has the closest name to the ISI of Thomson Reuters and its web address is “http://isithomsonreuters.org/journal”
Thanking you
That is a deceitful and bogus organization. I have it included in my list of fake metrics companies here. I recommend that researchers avoid all journals that have impact factors given by this fake company.
Dear Prof. Jeffry Beall,
What are your comments on Asian Journal of Neurosciences published by Hindawi? http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ajn/ai/. I have not been able to trace it among the predatory journals / able to find the IF for this journal. Kindly advise.
Dr. Das
That’s correct — the publisher Hindawi is not on my list.
Dear Prof. Jeffrey Beall
What are your comments on International Journal of Social Sciences published by GRDS Publishing? http://grdspublishing.org/PEOPLE/people.html. I have not been able to trace it among the predatory journals / able to find the IF for this journal. Kindly advise.
Ferdinal Asmin
It’s on the list now, so thank you for bringing it to my attention.
The journals do not have impact factors.
Thanks again.
Dear Jeffrey,
What are your comments on “Orbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry”. I am intending sending a manuscript to the journal. The journal homepage is http://www.orbi tal .ufms.br
This journal is not on my list at this time. It has some weaknesses. It uses a fake impact factor, yet it explains that the metric is not the authentic one. So, I would individually recommend that you find a stronger and better managed journal for your work.
Hi Prof. Beall. I am completely confused and worried regarding where to publish, given your list of predatory journals. Could you pls, as a personal favour, send me a list of credible online journals in business and management. You may pls send it to my e-mail if it is against your policy to publicly publish it. Thanks in earnest anticipation. Best wishes. Emmanuel.
I’m sorry; I limit my work to identifying low-quality and predatory journals and publishers and do not compile any list of credible online journals. I recommend you speak to senior colleagues in your field and at your institution, an also read widely in your field to familiarize yourself with the top journals. Good luck.
Hi Prof. Beall. What are your comments on Contemporary Sociological Global Review, the home page is http://www.csgr.syllabapress.us/index.html
Thank you very much.
Something is wrong here. The journal prominently claims to have an impact factor of 3.59, yet I cannot find it included in Journal Citation Reports, the database that lists the (authentic) impact factors. I will investigate.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Thank you very much for taking the time to review this journal. I have also noticed that they claim the journal is indexed under one the misleading metrics you have in your list, the Scientific Indexing Services. Some other of the indexes they list are more like social/academic networks. http://www.csgr.syllabapress.us/info/abstracting_indexing.html
Thanks. I have added this journal to my list. I strongly recommend that researchers not submit papers to it.
Is your criteria of assessment similar especially for upcoming journals in developing countries? Do we have lower standards based on level of research?
The criteria I use are here [PDF]. The standards are the same regardless of region.
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Research Journal Impact Factor (RJIF)
http://www.rjifactor.com
Please check this out.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention. It is a new, fake impact factor company. I have added it to my list.
Thanks again.
http://www.biotechjournals.com
International journal of biology research
Please comment regarding predator / not predator status of above journal.
This journal is published by a firm called Research Journals. It’s URL is: http://www.researchjournalz.com/
I have this publisher included on my list and recommend that researchers avoid publishing in its many journals.
What is APS Impact Factor? I have seen this on European American Journals. http://www.eajournals.org/journals/international-journal-of-developing-and-emerging-economies-ijdee/
i would like to know the following journal is predatory or not
ISSN 0970-938X
Biomedical Research
An International Journal of Medical Sciences
This journal is now published by “Allied Academies,” which is on my list. I recommend that you not send any papers to the journals from this publisher.
Can you please comment on Otolaryngology:Open Access
an OMICS publication
I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to any OMICS journal.
Thank you for your time
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Hallo again prof. Beall’s..Im from Indonesia. Can you please comment on IJSBAR :Open Access an GSSRR publication. is this good ?? many of my friends wrote there
No, I have the Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers (GSSRR) included on my list. This applies to all the journals they publish. I think your friends made a mistake.
Hello Prof. Beall, how do you grade the Journal of Crop Improvement by Taylor and Francis? Waiting your reply.
The publisher Taylor & Francis is not on my list at this time.
Dear J. Beall!
Today I have receive an email from the new research metric company. It seems to be a misleading metrics company. Please, check it!
The message body is below:
________________________________________
Root Society for Indexing and Impact Factor Service (rootindexing.com) is a society to provide indexing to all types of online and offline journals to get international visibility of research and also provide impact factor (RIF-Root Impact Factor) to the journal to decide journal visibility in the world of research.
Aims and Scope :
· Its Purpose is to increase visibility of indexed journal to International and national level Researcher.
· To get more audience using Social media popularity.
https://web.facebook.com/rootindexing
http://rootindexing.blogspot.com
https://plus.google.com/110707503052812740015/
https://twitter.com/rootindexing
· To provide a better platform to new and emerging publishers, researchers and readers.
· All Categories of Scientific and Scholarly Journals can be indexed in Root Society for Indexing and Impact Factor Service (rootindexing.com).
Index Your Journal for Free Now…!!!!!!
Ignore if you have already indexed your journal.
——
Editor
Root Society for Indexing and Impact Factor Service
http://www.rootindexing.com
editor@rootindexing.com, rootindexing@gmail.com
_________________________________________
Thank you for your brilliance work!
Yury I. Philippov, MD
Endocrinology Research Centre (Moscow)
Yury, thank you! I agree, this is a newly-discovered fake impact factor company. Thank you very much for sharing this with me. I have added it to my list.
Hi, This journal tries to confuse authors by listing a new criteria (Thomson Reuters ID), which is just a researcher ID (not indexing). Also, I believe the journal is not in your list. We have received a couple of spoofed emails from this journal using a Fake conference system (Easychair.com rather than Easychair.org). The email was a carbon copy of my own email which I sent to accepted authors in the conference (except with the name of this journal added) http://www.astesj.com/about-journal/indexing/
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Dear Sir,
I Thank you for your painstaking work and saving people’s hard work. I wished to have checked “Pharmacie Globale” ‘s so called, “””International Journal of Comprehensive Pharmacy””” at this url: http://pharmacie-globale.info/
regards,
MUDGAL
I hadn’t heard of this journal before. It has many problems, including the use of a fake metric. One issue I examined, had 3 out of seven articles with one person as a co-author on each, an indication that the journal is essentially a vanity press. I have added the journal to my list. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Hi thank you sir for your liste it helped me a lot please can you help me I am searching for a journal that does not take much time to answer and I found that fee journals can be the solution because I have to finich my work ( Phd student) so can you recomend any good journals paied or not in engeeniring biomedicals science with a short time to response Thank you and keep the good work
Dear Jeffrey Beall
Please, check these sources to be placed in your list:
http://www.turkegitimindeksi.com/AboutUs.aspx
http://ajcatalog.com/ajc-index.html
And, please, tell me do you think that services on URL https://www.journalguide.com/ is compleately legal to be used?
Thank you !
Both of these these websites seem suspicious to me.
Neither is within the scope of my work. They both appear to be some sore of crude index.
The second one is probably not illegal, but it may be unethical.
I recommend you avoid these sites. Thank you.
Dear Jeffrey Beall
You are simply giving wrong information to authors. I totally disagree your statement
Dear Jeffery Beall!
I have found a kind of predatory service for publishers, I think. It is not a Predatory publisher or journal and not a predatory metric, but fake indexation and citation service. It is look like a DOI-linking service but it is not a DOI. I do not know where it should be publish, but it we must do something to fight against such initiative.
Here is a URL of this service: http://www.u-o-i.org/
Maybe it is time to create a new list with predatory services for publishers and authors ? (I receive a lot of spam with offers to publish my articles in SCOPUS- and WoS-cited journals with guaranties after payment and minimum selected criteria. Some of my colleagues believe in this services, unfortunately.).
Thank you !
Dear Beall,
Thank you for the good work.
As an editor of a Journal on your predatory list for instance, what best can be done to get off the list and avoid been tagged as predatory?
I strongly believe my publisher has a good intent. Do you have any guide or laid down criteria to be met?
I look forward to reading from you soon.
Regards
Please find the criteria here.
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[…] In what has become known as Beall’s List of predatory publishers, Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Aurora Library, meticulously conducted background checks on academic journals and publishers and compiled a list of journals with questionable backgrounds that academics must avoid at all cost. Beall identified three (3) categories of these journals—predatory publishers, predatory standalone journals, and hijacked journals—and their misleading metric companies. For predatory journals, Beall identified the “single title” journals and the “fleet journals” and provided the criteria for the determination of these journals (Please follow the link to these publishers: https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria-2015.pdf). By way of example, the International Institute of Science, Technology and Research (IISTE) is an example of a fleet publisher, with multi-title journal names. International Center for Business Research fits the criteria for a “single title” journal. The criteria for determining predatory standalone journals are also derived from the criteria for the predatory publishers. For the hijacked journals, just as the name implies, the crooks will create a counterfeit of a legitimate scholarly journal and then go on to solicit for manuscripts. In tandem with this development, misleading metrics companies have also emerged, purporting to provide valid scholarly metrics to measure the impact of these journals and articles (Please follow the link to these companies here https://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/). […]
I came across another open access predatory journal. Sending you the link http://vegetosindia.org/Vegetos/latestJournal.html. Please add this journal to your list of predatory journal.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pandisamy_Ragavan/publication/299044314_Species_Composition_and_Distribution_of_Sea_grasses_of_The_Andaman_and_Nicobar_Islands/links/5783531908ae69ab882874a9.pdf
This is the recently published article in the journal, VegatosIndia.
I cannot open the files that contain the journal issues, so I cannot analyze this journal right now.
A new one for you!
http://sifactor.org/
Dear jeffrey Beall
How can i add my article on ur journal
Could you please check these too?
Index Scientific Journals (ISJ)
http://www.isj.sjournals.net/index.php (www.sjournals.net )
Academic Resource Index (ResearchBib)
http://journalseeker.researchbib.com ( http://www.researchbib.com )
Open Academic Journals Index
http://oaji.net
Thanks. The last one is on my list of misleading metrics already. I have added the first one to the list after receiving this information. I don’t want to add the second one at this time. But thanks very much for sharing this information.
Dear Prof Jeffrey,
Can the following databases be included in a journal as an indexing services?
academia.edu
TechRepublic
Science Library Index
ResearchGate
OPACplus
CiteFactor
I am looking forward your clarification.
Thank you.
These are either low-quality services or services that are not really academic indexes.
Hello Beall,
Hello friends,
I don’t understand why Scopus continu to index predatory journals
eg. Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine and others
I would like to know whether the following journal is predatory or not
PunarnaV, An International peer reviewed ayurved journal
ISSN : 2348-1846
Yes, in my opinion, it’s a predatory journal.