LibGuides: Predatory Publishing: Checklists

Databases to Find Quality Journals

Journal Citation Reports (Needs Subscription)
In addition to providing Impact Factors of journals, JCR allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from approximately 12,000 scholarly and technical journals and conference proceedings.
WorldCat
A composite catalog of library collections that enables users to search for books, journals, archival materials, dissertations, government publications, maps, music, musical scores, videos, and other resources
MEDLINE
Search the Catalog of the National Library of Medicine for "currentlyindexed" to retrieve a list of journals currently indexed in MEDLINE, the premier source for bibliographic and abstract coverage of biomedical literature.
JournalGuide
A free tool that helps researchers to evaluate scholarly journals. In addition to searching by journal name, category or publisher, authors can use the title and abstract of a paper to discover journals that have already published articles on similar topics.
JANE (Journal/Author Name Estimator)
A free tool to find the most appropriate journal for your topic.
Journal Reviewer
An independent site that aggregates information users provide about their experience with academic journals' review processes so that others can be as informed as possible as they consider journal submissions.

Directory of Open Access Journals

The Directory of Open Access Journals is a white list of reputable publishers, aiming to maintain a list of reputable open access publishers.

Launched in 2003 at Lund University, Sweden, with 300 open access journals, DOAJ today contains about 9000 open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.

List of journals falsely claiming to be indexed by DOAJ
A blog from DOAJ: "The following journals say, or have said in the past, that they are indexed in DOAJ but they are NOT. In some cases, they carry our logo without our permission".
DOAJ: Journals added and removed
A spreadsheet of journals removed from DOAJ for various reasons.

Metrics and Conferences

Recommended Practices to Ensure Conference Content Quality
Developed by ASCE, Elsevier, IEEE and the IET, these guidelines aim to help maintain "an equitable balance of the interests of all participants in ensuring high quality, scholarly conference proceedings content."
Misleading Metrics
A list of questionable companies claiming to provide valid scholarly metrics at the researcher, article, or journal level.
Think.Check.Attend. checklist
Think. Check. Attend is an initiative that aims to guide and assist researchers and scholars to judge the legitimacy and academic credentials of conferences in order to help them decide whether to attend.

Lists of Predatory Publishers and Journals

BEALL'S LIST OF PREDATORY JOURNALS AND PUBLISHERS
This is an archived version of the Beall's list - a list of potential predatory publishers created by a librarian Jeffrey Beall. We will only update links and add notes to this list. A list of new predatory publishers is available below the original one.
Flaky Academic Journals
Flaky Academic Conferences
Created and maintained by Penn State Law Professor, David H. Kaye. The criteria for inclusion on his lists are "unsolicited email (spam), indications of shady practices or possible incompetence in the subject areas, and reports on other websites."