Chemistry: Predatory Journals

This workshop addressed the topic of predatory journals and suggested ways in which faculty and students can identify authentic and quality academic publishing venues for submission of their own research. Especially useful are three documents that you can access from the Handouts & Worksheets box in the lower right corner:
1: Workshop Hands-on Worksheet which is a checklist for evaluating journals
2: Evaluating Publication Quality Handout
3: Red Herrings Handout which is is a guide to understanding predatory journals

This rubric developed by the Loyola Marymount University’s Library focuses on open access journals, but may be applied more broadly to any kind of journal.

An alert from CUNY.

From CUNY.

The largest listing of and access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. Any open access journal not in this directory is questionable.

A writer for the prestigious Science magazine submitted a spoof paper to 304 open access journals. More than half of these journals, even ones not close to dealing with the subject of this spoof, accepted it.

This paper consists only of an obscene phrase repeated 163 times. Yet it was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, but not published only because the author chose not to pay the $150 publication fee. Read more about this at http://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i50/Bogus-Research-EvenBogus-Researcher.html/