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SBL: Business and Management: Predatory Journals

This guide is to provide access to relevant business resources

What is a predatory journal?

“Publishers that exists for the sole purpose of profit, not the dissemination of high quality research findings and furtherance of knowledge” (Berger & Cirasella, 2015)
 
“Unethical pay-to-publish journals that masquerade as serious, legitimate scholarly periodicals but in reality are mostly financial scams” (McLeod et al, 2016)

Resources

A Blacklist is a list of journals, publishers, companies or entities that are regarded as unacceptable or untrustworthy and to be avoided or distrusted. A black list seeks out information about journals and publishers that are engaging in deceptive and fraudulent practices. The purpose of a low quality journal or predatory blacklist is to identify journal scam operations, in order to alert potential authors about unscrupulous and unethical publishing operations.

List name

Blacklists in the public domain

Beall’s list

DOAJ delisted journals

Scopus discontinued sources

Malaysia list

Beall's list of vanity publishers

Subscription based blacklists

Cabells
 

 

A Whitelist is a list of journals, publishers, companies or entities that are considered to be acceptable or trustworthy. 

Cabell's Journal Blacklist

The Cabell’s Journalytics Academic covers approximately 12000 titles, significantly expanding the resources offered to scholars to manage the predatory journal threat. Cabell’s identifies questionable journals based on 65 behavioural indicators. Cabell’s Blacklist is not limited to open access journals, as it includes journals published by the large publishing companies.

 

 

References:

Anderson, R. (2019). Cabell’s Predatory Journal Blacklist: An Updated Review. The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved from https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2019/05/01/cabells-predatory-journal-blacklist-an-updated-review/

Bisaccio, M. (2018). Cabells’ Journal Whitelist and Blacklist: Intelligent data for informed journal evaluations. Learned Publishing, (March). http://doi.org/10.1002/leap.1164

Da Silver, J.A.T (2023). Cabells' Predatory Reports criteria: Assessment and proposed revisions. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 49(1), 102659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.acalib.2022.102659

Dony, C et. al (2020) How reliable and useful is Cabell's Blacklist ? A data-driven analysis. Libr Quarterly, 30, 1-38.

Hoffecker, L. (2018). Resource review. Cabells Scholarly Analytics. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 106(2), 270–272. http://doi.org/dx.doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2017.120

Strielkowski, W. (2018). Predatory Publishing: What Are the Alternatives to Beall’s List? The American Journal of Medicine, 131(4), 333–334. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.10.054