There is no review system in the predatory journals. Only advantage is very quick publication at the expense of hefty processing fees.

As there is no review system, there is scope of improvement. So why run after such journals?

Thanks to Dr. Subir Bandyopadhyay for your valuable contributions. Much appreciated.

Dear check the authenticity of the journal on the scopus database and consider the list of predatory journals by the NUC.

Journal listed by Scopus are confirmed quality journals because of the review processes leading to their publications butmost journals (not all) considered predatory are low rating journals because of lack of review, processing and editing issues. That does not mean all considered "bad"are bad of all "good" are good.

Dr. Segun Michael Abegunde and Dr. Emmanuel Ifeanyi Obeagu thanks for your contributions. My question is if there is any relationship between Scopus index Journal and Beall's List of predatory Journals. There some journals that are indexed in Scopus and also listed in Beall's List of predatory Journals. Why are they so?

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It is true that many predatory journals are indexed in Scopus as well as web of science under the category SCIE and ESCI. Those who accepted the application for indexing are responsible for this academic crime and degradation. New and forthcoming journals should have been reviewed periodically to continue indexing. It is better to publish in SCI journals which do not charge mandatory article processing fee in the disguise of open access.

I would rather to publish in free and Scopus indexed journal so the risk of publishing in fake journals will be minimized.

Thanks for your contribution Dr. Ayad Khudhair Al-Nadawi

Much appreciated for your insightful contributions, Dr. Isaac Dinaharan

Your contributions are most useful, Many thanks Dr Carine Temegne Nono and Dr. Ahmadi Murjani .

Generally, a journal in the Scopus list is not included in the second list.

Thanks to Dr. Qasim M. Shakir . But there some Journals that are indexed in Scopus at the same time listed as predatory journals. That is my argument, why should that so?

Omolayo M. Ikumapayi I am not doctor yet. But thank you.

Thank you so much for this question. Depending upon my experience, some journals indexed in Scopus are still commercial, that means they do not make any revision to submitted papers and only interested on getting money. So, the quality of papers in these type of journals is very poor, which made Beall to put them in his List as predatory Journals. I advice researchers to be careful from the publication in these journals which have weak scientific reputation .

Thanks to Dr. Mohsin Talib Mohammed for your valuable contributions

Why do we have to believe in Beall? He has no authority to judge whether a journal is a predator or not

In fact, there are many papers indexed on Scopus that are predatory. The common denominator for these kinds of a journal is that they will either publish without any review or give you very shady comments and also will ask you for a publication fee. Please stay away from these journals.

Do not compare the two. Just avoid those included in Beall's List of predatory Journals.

No connection between them... For me, Beall's list needs to be updated every six months. Further, any SCOPUS journal MUST not be in this confusing list. However, Beall's list includes some scopus journals.