I have searched on the website and did not find a link. Someone dropped that question but Mr Beall answered something else. Having the list offline is useful especially when discussing with my friends here in China where access is unstable and people are often not aware of these concerns.
Thanks
I am amazed this question never got any attention. Now, I have not downloaded the list, and since a couple of days apparently it was REMOVED from online access.
Hope everyone is happy now.
People interested in an update on predatory journals, following the cessation of Beall's List updates and it's removal, might like to refer to an article in today's Times Higher Education (6 April 2017, pp. 42 & 43), reporting work by Larissa Shamseer and David Moher (link below but access may be restricted to subscribers).
Their study resulted in a list of 13 warning signs:
1. The scope of interest includes non-biomedical subjects alongside biomedical topics, or multiple, wide-ranging and unrelated fields of study are combined
2. The website contains spelling and grammar errors
3, Images are distorted/fuzzy, intended to look like something they are not, or are unauthorised
4.The home page language targets authors rather than readers
5, The Index Copernicus Value is promoted on the website
6. Description of the manuscript handling process is lacking
7. Manuscripts are requested to be submitted via email
8. Rapid publication is promised
9. There is no retraction policy
10. Information on whether and how journal content will be digitally preserved Is absent
11. The article processing/publication charge is very low (eg,
While the original Beall's list web site (scholarly-oa.com) does not host the list anymore anyway, I have recently found a web site https://predatoryjournals.com/ which seems to build on and expand this list (see https://predatoryjournals.com/about/ )
Three sites that say they are maintaining and updating Beall's list of predatory journals are in the RG question below.
https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_versions_of_Bealls_list_to_check_for_Predatory_Publishers
Thanks for the kind suggestions of novel lists available online. They are much easier to download than the originals, so I can have easier references. It is good to know that some colleagues are keeping track of questionable journals after the effort of Beall's.
I have a pdf version containing 37 pages. If anybody personally requests, I can share it.
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