Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea
Many are excited about innovative measures that purport to quantify scholarly impact at a more granular level. Called article-level metrics or...
Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers
Today I am publishing a list of the criteria I use for determining predatory open-access publishers. The document is available...
Did A Romanian Researcher Successfully Game Google Scholar to Raise his Citation Count?
The Google Scholar profile for Ştefan Vlăduţescu at Romania’s University of Craiova indicates that his publications have been cited 1,709 times. However,...
Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid
I receive many emails from all over the world complaining about LAP Lambert Academic Publishing GmbH & Co. KG. (This publisher...
OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings”
By Jeffrey Beall and Richard Levine
Previous blog posts have described and documented examples of OMICS Group’s unethical practices, including sending personal invitations...
Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers
UPDATE 2015-11-13: MDPI has been removed from the list following a successful appeal.
Updated 2014-02-27
I have added the Chinese publisher MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital...
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016
By Jeffrey Beall, January 5, 2016. Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers....
Misleading Metrics
This is a list of questionable companies that purport to provide valid scholarly metrics at the researcher, article, or journal...
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015
By Jeffrey Beall, January 2, 2015 Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers. Because...
New publisher: Scientific & Academic Publishing
One of the most recent additions to my list of questionable publishers is Scientific & Academic Publishing. This publisher claims to be...
