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Choosing a Journal for Publication of an Article: List of Suspicious Journals and Publishers

This guide features information resources useful for identifying major journals in all fields and details about them for those wanting to identify key journals or find publication details for known journal titles.

Possible Predatory Scholarly Open Access Journals

These lists do not necessarily represent the opinion of Yale University librarians; they are merely information that may be useful to authors looking for a journal to publish in. 

"Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers" from Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing

"Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals" from Scholarly Open Access: Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing

Beall's List of Suspicious Journal and Publishers (updated)

 

 

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