Predatory Journals: The Threat to Credibility of Open Access Publishing

B T Sampath Kumar; Deva raj; P Paramashivaiah

B T Sampath Kumar Professor, Dept of Library and Information Science Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, INDIA
Deva raj Librarian, Kalpataru First Grade Science College Tipaturu, Tumakuru Dist, Karnataka, INDIA
P Paramashivaiah Professor, Dept of Commerce Tumkur University, Tumakuru, Karnataka, INDIA

Abstract

The present study examines the publication trends in predatory journals listed in Beallâ€™s list of â€˜predatory journals website (https://beallslist.net). 1310 journals were downloaded from Beallâ€™s list of predatory journal websites and saved in a separate Excel file. The extracted data has been analyzed based on different parameters such as the name of the journals, year of establishment, publisher name, country, subject, processing fees and editorial board. It is found that most of the predatory journals are published in Asia (30.38%). Surprisingly, most predatory journals are published in Medical Science (10.83%) and Engineering (11.37%). It is also noticed that most of the websites of predatory journals' website URLs are dead links (31.52%). Further, it is found that most of the predatory journals have not mentioned the publisherâ€™s name on the website.

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