Follows are two reliable links regarding the predatory journals and publishers:

https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/

https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/

Dear Sumaia M. Al-Ghuribi , thank you for sharing this information with us.

Best Regards

Good morning

Would you explain to me what is a predatory scholarly open‑access publishers?

I really appreciated it

Best regards

Ingrid García

Dear Mohammed Hadwan ,

The suggested sites by Sumaia M. Al-Ghuribi are indeed good resources for older cases, however I have reasons to believe that they are not well updated. For example:

“TEST Engineering & Management” in list of stand-alone journals

“GIAP journals” in list of publishers

Are mentioned in the Beall’s list and not in the predatoryjournals.com lists. So, the Beall’s list sites you indicated are the best available.

Having said this indeed the list is:

-Not fully up to date. According to the changelog (https://beallslist.net/changelog/ ) the last update was on 13th of June. Some new players being presumably predatory are not included (yet), see for example:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Do_we_have_a_new_predatory_publisher

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Identification_of_yet_another_predatory_publisher

-The list is not flawless since there is also criticism on the inclusion of certain journals and publishers in the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beall%27s_List For example and I quote: “The list's 82% accuracy rate in the Who's Afraid of Peer Review? sting operation led Phil Davis to state that "Beall is falsely accusing nearly one in five as being a 'potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open access publisher' on appearances alone."[15]” [15] Davis, Phil (October 4, 2013). "Open Access "Sting" Reveals Deception, Missed Opportunities". The Scholarly Kitchen.

Personally I think that 20% being wrongfully included is somewhat high, but for example Bentham Open (https://benthamopen.com/ ) and Frontiers (https://www.frontiersin.org/ ) are the best examples of the fact that the Beall’s list is not flawless. These publishers do not belong in the list for sure. Still I use the Beall’s list anytime I come across a for me unknown journal or publisher and let’s say in 9 out of 10 times I have to agree: there is something wrong here and the suspicion of being predatory is most likely true.

So yes, most of the times a great tool in identification of a predatory journal, but one need to keep thinking for yourself and make your own judgement. In order to check whether you are dealing with a predatory journal (or publisher, be aware that quite often not the individual journal but the publisher behind it is mentioned) looking at the Beall’s list is basically the first step. The checking for yourself starts, I recommend the workflow as mentioned in:

Article Identifying Predatory or Pseudo-Journals

Best regards.

PS. See for a report on some aspects of the Beall’s list and how to deal with it:

Method Predatory journals and publishers: a menace to science and s...

The list of hijacked journals (an if possible, even worse phenomenon than predatory) is pretty accurate: https://beallslist.net/hijacked-journals/ and for the more recent not included (yet) ones I keep up my own list:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/New_very_misleading_type_of_scam_Anyone_with_recent_examples

Dear Ingrid Del Valle García Carreño

Good morning,

Predatory publishing, sometimes called write-only publishing[1][2] or deceptive publishing,[3] is an exploitive academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy and without providing the other editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. They are regarded as predatory because scholars are tricked into publishing with them, although some authors may be aware that the journal is poor quality or even fraudulent.[a] New scholars from developing countries are said to be especially at risk of being misled by predatory publishers.[5][6] According to one study, 60% of articles published in predatory journals receive no citations over the five-year period following publication.[7][8]

Beall's List, a report that was regularly updated by Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado until January 2017, set forth criteria for categorizing publications as predatory.[9] Beall took his list offline in January 2017.[10][b] A demand by Frontiers Media to open a misconduct case against Beall, which was launched by his university and later closed with no findings, was one of several reasons Beall may have taken his list offline, but he has not publicly shared his reasoning.[10][11] After the closure, other efforts to identify predatory publishing have sprouted, such as the paywalled Cabell's blacklist, as well as other lists (some based on the original listing by Beall).

for more info. refer to the source at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_publishing#:~:text=Predatory%20publishing%2C%20sometimes%20called%20write,editorial%20and%20publishing%20services%20that

Best Regards

Dear Rob Keller, your answers are comprehensive as usual. As researchers, we have to fight these journals and publishers by creating awareness for the research communities.

Thank you and wish you all the best.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/341482276_Predatory_Journals_A_Literature_Review

Thank you Ammar Anwer for sharing this link with us.