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.
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List name |
List compiled by |
Date |
No of Journals |
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Blacklists in the public domain |
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Individual |
January 2017 |
1294 |
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Organization |
May 2019 |
3229 |
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Organization |
January 2019 |
562 |
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Country |
2018 |
4305 |
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Country |
April 2015 |
108 |
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Country |
February 2019 |
2180 |
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Subscription based blacklists |
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Subscription based |
February 2019 |
11 597 |
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Subscription based |
2019 |
1058 |
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A Whitelist is a list of journals, publishers, companies or entities that are considered to be acceptable or trustworthy.
The Cabell’s International Blacklist 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.
Cabell’s blacklist criteria can be viewed at::
http://www2.cabells.com/blacklist-criteria
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
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