by Jeffrey Beall, January 3, 2017. Each year at this time I formally announce my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the publisher list is now very large, and because I now publish four, continuously-updated lists, the annual releases do not include the actual lists but instead include statistical and explanatory data about the lists and links to them.
Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers: This year, 2017, marks the seventh annual release or announcement of this list, which is also continuously updated. The list this year includes 1155 publishers, an increase of 232 over 2016. There are now over one thousand predatory open-access publishers.
Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals: This year, 2017, marks the fifth annual release of this list, which is also continuously updated. The list this year includes 1294 journals, an increase of 412 over 2016. This is the first year that the number of standalone journals is higher than the number of publishers.
Misleading metrics and Hijacked journals: The Misleading metrics list includes companies that “calculate” and publish counterfeit impact factors (or some similar measure) to publishers, metrics the publishers then use in their websites and spam email to trick scholars into thinking their journals have legitimate impact factors.
The Hijacked journals list includes journals for which someone has created a counterfeit website, stealing the journal’s identity and soliciting articles submissions using the author-pays model (gold open-access).
Here are links to current edition of each list:
Acknowledgement: I am very grateful for all the help, support, suggestions, and advice I have received over the past year. I especially thank those who have forwarded information — such as spam emails — to me, emails providing information about new and questionable journals and publishers, and emails that share the sender’s analysis of the journal or publisher in question. □
Now MDPI is removed. Would you kindly explain why….
It was removed in October 2015 after they appealed, and the board recommended removal. The borderline cases present the biggest challenges.
Dear Jeffrey,
You continue to do outstanding work and make major contributions to science and academic publishing.
Best regards for 2017,
Steve
Steven N. Blair
Professor (Retired)
Departments of Exercise Science and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Arnold School of Public Health
921 Assembly Street, Room 225
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803 777 0567
Thank you so much for the work you do, Jeffrey.
Best wishes, Sue Norton
On 3 January 2017 at 16:01, Scholarly Open Access wrote:
> Jeffrey Beall posted: ” by Jeffrey Beall, January 3, 2017. Each year at > this time I formally announce my updated list of predatory publishers. > Because the publisher list is now very large, and because I now publish > four, continuously-updated lists, the annual releases do not” >
Dear Dr. Jeffrey Beall and colleagues every where in the world.
Happy new year to you all.
It is pleasure to see the excellent work of Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2017. However, it is sad to see the expansion of this unethical practice. It is our sole responsibility to stand against it at all fronts.
Best wishes and regards,
Ramze A. Elzahrany
Professor of Human Geography
Umm Al-Qura University
Makkah, Saudi Arabia
Frightening numbers.
I fear the day where my name appears without my knowledge one one of these sites/pdfs either as author, editor, reviewer or whatever…
Thanks Jeff for your service. It is definitely needed to keep an eye on these guys. You are doing a great job!
Mr Hobbs
If Jeffrey Beall did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Don Gregory
Distinguished Professor
Physics Department
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, Alabama
Is this one okay? http://www.prohef.org/
In my opinion, no.
What about Lambert (https://www.lap-publishing.com/)?
Please see here.
Mark Allen Group (www.markallengroup.com) has a group of about 65 journals but not listed in your compilation. I wonder if its a predatory journal.
This publisher is out of scope for my work.
Jeffrey Beall is like Michael Jordan. Slam dunk—ing on predatory publishers. You are nailing this, sir! keep up and God bless!
Little bit on my favorite publisher, OATEXT, they are planning to expand in Hyderabad itself.
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Many thanks for this. Much appreciated!
Jim Hartley