Research Guides: Predatory Publishing: Evaluation Tools

Think.Check.Submit.

ThinkCheckSubmit offers a checklist for researchers to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.

This short video (1:58) explains what to do.

Recommended Practices to Ensure Conference Content Quality
Developed by ASCE, Elsevier, IEEE and the IET, these guidelines aim to help maintain "an equitable balance of the interests of all participants in ensuring high quality, scholarly conference proceedings content."
Misleading Metrics
A list of questionable companies claiming to provide valid scholarly metrics at the researcher, article, or journal level.
Think.Check.Attend. checklist
Think. Check. Attend is an initiative that aims to guide and assist researchers and scholars to judge the legitimacy and academic credentials of conferences in order to help them decide whether to attend.

Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (Infographics from the University of West Indies)

How to Choose a Journal: Scientific and Practical Considerations
Chapter from the book: Babor, T et al. 2017. Publishing Addiction Science: A Guide for the Perplexed.
102 Things Journal Publishers Do
Focusing on Value — 102 Things Journal Publishers Do (2018 Update) by Kenneth Anderson
96 Things Publishers Do
Blog post by Kent Anderson (revised several times) with a list to show how publishers add value.
Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing
16 principles of transparency from the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.

From University of Manitoba Libraries (1:42)

Identifying Predatory or Pseudo-Journals
A document from the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) aiming " to provide guidance to help editors, researchers, funders, academic institutions and other stakeholders distinguish predatory journals from legitimate journals."
Journal Quality List
Compiled Dr. Anne-Wil Harzing, creator of the Publish or Perish (PoP) software, this is a collation of journal rankings from a variety of sources.
Positive and Negative Indicators of OA Journals
A listing of Open Access Journal Quality Indicators, developed by the Grand Valley State University Libraries.