Predatory Publishing Resources

Please see the Alumni Medical Library’s page on Recognizing Predatory Publishers, as well as the following sources for additional information:

• Academics and scientists: Beware of predatory journal publishers (Federal Trade Commission)
• Academic Vanity Scams [blog post]
• Blobaum’s Checklist for Review of Journal Quality for Submission of Scholarly Manuscripts
• Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences
• Criteria for Determining Predatory Open Access Publishers
• NIH: Statement on Article Publication Resulting from NIH Funded Research
• NIH: Continuing Steps to Ensuring Credibility of NIH Research: Selecting Journals with Credible Practices
• Predatory publishing and open access fees
• Predatory Publishing [resource guide]
• Predatory Scholarly Publishing
• Stop Predatory Journals: List of Predatory Journals
• Stop Predatory Journals: List of Predatory Publishers
• Think. Check. Submit.
• Vanity and predatory publishing (PDF)
• Wikipedia: Vanity award