I am asking that question because I have checked journals that are in the Bell's list of predatory journal and check the journal whether it follows the international standard. I checked the originality of the journal such as ISSN number if it is genuine or not, then whether the journal's indexing are genuine or not by opening the website of the indexing services if they are listed there or not. I found that many journals that are listed in Bell's list are found to be credible.
I also compared the content of the research published in the journal with the journals that are not listed in Bell's list. I found that there are no much different.
I also checked if the journal goes through review or not by observing how they review my paper, if there is feedback or not. I found that they are doing their job.
That is the reason why I am not sure with Bell's list of predatory journals.
1) Bell's list must be updated, use instead DOAJ as a quality indexing (free of charge) service for OA Scholarly publishing
1.1) from https://blog.doaj.org/2019/08/05/myth-busting-doaj-indexes-predatory-journals/
DOAJ has developed rigorous checks to ensure a very high level of quality of every journal in its index.
One of the most effective checks, which delivered considerable changes in the geographic distribution of journals in the database, is insisting that a journal is listed in the country that its business activities are carried out.
Compared to other indexes that are often cited in research on scholarly publishing and open access, it is safe to say that DOAJ is probably the cleanest and most reliable, especially in the context of questionable publishing. To back up that statement, DOAJ is carrying out its research, comparing some well-known indexes. More details on that will be published here very soon.
2) ISSN attribution isn't a quality standard for scholarly publishing.
3) your (or mine..) content comparison isn't a quality index ( i.e. a predatory or pseudo scientific journal could contain a paper copy of a true academic journal )
4) articles published in predatory journals are also submitted by genuine scientists : the real problem is the container, not (only) the contents
5) predatory journals and vanity press are an open question in the academic enviroment, especially for the OA movement: they use some practices like paying APCs to defraud the authors .
Hi.,
Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is an academic publisher of presumably peer-reviewed open-access electronic journals, conference proceedings, and scientific anthologies of questionable quality. Although it has an address in southern California, in reality it is a "Chinese operation".
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Of course YES, so it is important to follow trusted and indexed journals..
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