Detecting Predatory Health Journals and Publishers through Website

Baharuddin¹ | Heru Santoso Wahito Nugroho² | Bahtiar³

Abstract

Now many predatory health journals and publishers are found throughout the world, which are oriented more financially without regard to the quality of the content and the process of handling articles. “Beall’s List” a personal blog that for ten years had existed as a reference for avoiding predatory publishers and journals has disappeared for no apparent reason, but soon there had been “Stop Predatory Journals” as a replacement website built anonymously by a small group of scientist. Until now this successor website has helped many scientists not to get trapped by predatory journals and publishers.

Keywords: Predatory journals, predatory publishers, fake metrics.

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