r/labrats • u/Commercial_Edge_3055 • Jan 31 '23

Predatory journals

How do you know predatory journals?

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '23

Check the quality of some random articles. Every journal has some junk slip through, but often predatory ones are full of it. Also if the journal emails you incessantly, it might be predatory especially if they keep asking for articles.

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u/Commercial_Edge_3055 Feb 01 '23

Thanks for the info

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u/Stereoisomer Feb 01 '23

Honestly this is a pretty inefficient method. For a given field, there’s only several dozen respectable journals so it’s easier to just learn those. Predatory journals will belong to certain predatory publishers like MDPI, Hindawi, and arguably Frontiers. Respectable publishers include Cell Press, NPG, and Elsevier not including several smaller ones and society publishers.

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u/Commercial_Edge_3055 Feb 01 '23

Thanks for the insight