{"id":14150,"date":"2019-11-08T06:33:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T06:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2019-11-08T06:33:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T06:33:45","slug":"how-to-recognize-a-predatory-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/11\/how-to-recognize-a-predatory-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"How to recognize a predatory journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of\u00a0 information out there, how to recognize a predatory journal (PJ), so there is no need to build an own list here. Just see the warning signs at <a href=\"https:\/\/instr.iastate.libguides.com\/predatory\/id\">instr.iastate.libguides.com\/predatory\/id<\/a> or the 25 crits at <a href=\"https:\/\/tressacademic.com\/identify-predatory-journals\/\">tressacademic.com\/identify-predatory-journals<\/a>. PJs are big problem now, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/08\/how-to-get-a-fake-study-into-pubmed\/\">they already entered Pubmed<\/a> and even reputed journals can become a PJ over time. As a basic reference I would use the (outdated) <a href=\"https:\/\/beallslist.weebly.com\/\">Beall\u2019s list<\/a> and cross check with Thomson Reuters ISI listing. PJs do not behave like a normal journal &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org\/2016\/02\/01\/guest-post-kent-anderson-updated-96-things-publishers-do-2016-edition\/\">see also the 96 things publishers usually do<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 05.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of\u00a0 information out there, how to recognize a predatory journal (PJ), so there is no need to build an own list here. Just see the warning signs at instr.iastate.libguides.com\/predatory\/id or the 25 crits at tressacademic.com\/identify-predatory-journals. PJs are big problem now, as they already entered Pubmed and even reputed journals can become &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2019\/11\/how-to-recognize-a-predatory-journal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to recognize a predatory journal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[248,3162],"class_list":["post-14150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-journal","tag-predatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14151,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions\/14151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}