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Predatory publishing is the practice of publishers/journals charging fees to publish scientific articles, yet not providing the services that would normally be expected of a scientific journal. This...
In 2010, Jeffrey Beall established a blog which listed what he believed were predatory journals and publishers. Beall’s List became the “go to” place for anybody who wished to know whether the...
An ISSN is a way to uniquely identify a serial, which includes scientific journals. This article gives you all you need to know about ISSNs.
We expect scientific publishers to follow certain standards. This is especially important in order to maintain the integrity of the scientific archive. In this article, we touch upon three elements...
In this article we put a spotlight on, Beall, J. 2009. Bentham Open. The Charleston Advisor 11(1) 29-32. This paper was the first paper by Jeffrey Beall to discuss predatory publishing. In the paper,...
We suggest that you stop tying to identify predatory journals. Instead, spend time finding legitimate journals and, if you are not sure, just move on. The world is not short of journals that you can...