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Sustainability Marketing & Sustainable Businesses: Predatory Journals

This lib guide provides compilation of various resources in the areas issues related to business and sustainability.

What is a predatory journal?

“Predatory journals and publishers are entities that prioritize self-interest at the expense of scholarship and are characterized by false or misleading information, deviation from best editorial and publication practices, a lack of transparency, and/or the use of aggressive and indiscriminate practices.”

Consensus definition (Grudniewicz, Moher, Cobey, et al, 2019)

Cabell's Predatory Reports

The Cabell’s Predatory Reports covers approximately 16000 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 is not limited to open access journals, as it includes journals published by the large publishing companies.

Cabells' Predatory Journal Criteria

Cabell's Video:

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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