Predatory Publishing Resources

Please see the Alumni Medical Library’s page on Recognizing Predatory Publishers and check journals in Cabell’s database Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports. You may also find the following sources useful 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
• Think. Check. Submit.
• Vanity and predatory publishing (PDF)
• Wikipedia: Vanity award