{"id":12775,"date":"2021-05-18T11:21:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/?page_id=12775"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T20:42:40","slug":"predatory-publishing-resources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/services\/reference\/predatory-publishing-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"Predatory Publishing Resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the Alumni Medical Library&#8217;s page on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/portals\/faculty-portal\/recognizing-predatory-publishers\/\">Recognizing Predatory Publishers<\/a> and check journals in Cabell&#8217;s database <a href=\"https:\/\/app-cabells-com.ezproxy.bu.edu\/medicine\">Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports.<\/a> You may also find the following sources useful for additional information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/recursed.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/academic-vanity-scams.html\">Academic Vanity Scams<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>[blog post]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/opus.govst.edu\/faculty\/27\/\">Blobaum&#8217;s Checklist for Review of Journal Quality for Submission of Scholarly Manuscripts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.interacademies.org\/project\/predatorypublishing?utm_source=NASEM+News+and+Publications&amp;utm_campaign=04a911c739-NAP_mail_new_2022_03_14&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_96101de015-04a911c739-111273882&amp;goal=0_96101de015-04a911c739-111273882&amp;mc_cid=04a911c739&amp;mc_eid=34e426a017\"><span>Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/beallslist.weebly.com\/uploads\/3\/0\/9\/5\/30958339\/criteria-2015.pdf\">Criteria for Determining Predatory Open Access Publishers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/grants.nih.gov\/grants\/guide\/notice-files\/NOT-OD-18-011.html\">NIH: Statement on Article Publication Resulting from NIH Funded Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"sub\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2014\/01\/08\/anita-jain-predatory-publishing-and-open-access-fees\/\">Predatory publishing and open access fees<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"sub\"><a href=\"http:\/\/qcc.libguides.com\/predatorypublishing\">Predatory Publishing [resource guide]<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"sub\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cacm.acm.org\/magazines\/2012\/7\/151235-predatory-scholarly-publishing\/fulltext\">Predatory Scholarly Publishing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkchecksubmit.org\/\">Think. Check. Submit.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vanity_award\">Wikipedia: Vanity award<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please see the Alumni Medical Library&#8217;s page on Recognizing Predatory Publishers and check journals in Cabell&#8217;s database Journalytics Medicine and Predatory Reports. You may also find the following sources useful for additional information: Academic Vanity Scams\u00a0[blog post] Blobaum&#8217;s Checklist for Review of Journal Quality for Submission of Scholarly Manuscripts Combatting Predatory Academic Journals and Conferences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9631,"featured_media":0,"parent":310,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12775"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15347,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12775\/revisions\/15347"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/medlib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}