What publishers should we take a look at? – Predatory Journals and Conferences

In a previous article we reflected on the publishers that we have looked at. We noted that the way we have approached this analysis could be (significantly) improved. With that in mind, we suggested that we should be more methodical in the way that we collect data for publishers and journals.

We wrote about the type of data we would collect in this article. We also said that we would suggest a list of publishers that might be worthy of investigation. This is the purpose this this article, to let you know the publishers that we plan to investigate.

Suggested Publishers

This is a proposed list of publishers that we plan to take a look at. All of them have been mentioned on our Twitter account or via email.

It really only touches the surface of the publishers that have been mentioned, but we have to start somewhere.

We should note that we are not suggesting that any of the publishers above are predatory. We need to look at them first before arriving at that conclusion (or not).

Maintaining a list of publishers

The ten publishers listed above are just our initial suggestions and, if we do not get other suggestions, we will work thorough this list, as well as revisiting the publishers that we looked at previously (see this article).

We would be really interested in hearing your suggestions so that we can look at the publishers that you are particularly interested in.

We would also be interested in publishers that publish a lot of journals as if we can establish this publisher as a predatory publisher it highlights a greater number of journals that should be avoided or, more optimistically, it provides more journals that scholars can submit to.

If we can get suggestions from the scholarly community, it not only enables us to investigate the publishers that you are interested in, but it also means that we have a continual supply of publishers that we can take a look at.

How else can you help?

We would welcome comments on this article (in fact any article) via our Twitter accounts.

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You can email us as admin@predatory-publishing.com. We don’t monitor that account on a daily basis, but we do read everything that is sent, even if we do not respond.

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