Some of the characteristics of predatory open-access publishing include:
- Unheard-of publishers with dozens of journals in unrelated areas
- Groups of journals with very similar or overlapping scope
- Journals with absurdly broad subject areas
- Journals with few published articles per issue, or few published issues
- No journal impact factor
- Use of fake "impact factors"
- Not in ISI JCR
- Not in DOAJ
- Absent from standard indexes (e.g. medical journals not indexed in PubMed)
- Cited in hoax publication tests
- Listed by Jeffrey Beall
- No DOI number
- Spammed by WP:SPAs, especially where usernames match author names
- Online reports of spam solicitation for papers
Further reading
- Ebrahimzadeh, MH (April 2016). "Validated Measures of Publication Quality: Guide for Novice Researchers to Choose an Appropriate Journal for Paper Submission". The Archives of Bone and Joint Surgery. 4 (2): 94–6. PMC 4852052. PMID 27200383.
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