Journalism: Predatory Journals

 Predatory Journals and Conferences

NRF Statement on Predatory Journals & Deceptive Publishers

• The  Directory of Open Access Journals lists  high quality and trusted Open Access journals. If the OA journal is not listed here, please consider it as a possibly questionable journal title
• Getting the low down on predatory publishing by Prof John Measey
•  Check for a predatory journal
• Visit Prof DH Kaye's  Flaky Academic Journals OR Flaky Academic Conferences 
• The extent of South African authored articles in predatory journals by Johann Mouton and Astrid Valentine
• Shamseer's article  identifies 13 evidence-based characteristics by which predatory journals may potentially by distinguished
• Reference this list to check if a chosen open access journal is trusted
• Scopus Discontinued List  (The list of journal titles for which indexing has been discontinued. Click the "discontinued sources from Scopus" xlsx link)
• Cost-benefit Assessment of Congresses, Meetings or Symposia, and Selection Criteria to Determine if They are Predatory
• Research integrity corner: Special issue on predatory journals