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Predatory Journals: How to Avoid

Resources to Identify Trusted Publishers & Journals

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Tools available to help you identify trustworthy publishers and journals are listed below.

Think.Check.Submit
simple checklist researchers can use to assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.
Journal Evaluation Tool
a scoring sheet that anyone can use to determine the credibility of a journal
Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison. Shamseer, et al., BMC Medicine 15:28 (2017).
Combating Predatory Academic Journals & Conferences
IAP Report
Beware of Predatory Journals

If a journal is indexed (ie. included in the journal list) of:

PubMed (MEDLINE) or
CINAHL (nursing & allied health literature)
or DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
and/or JCR (Journal Citation Reports

it is a good indicator that the journal is not predatory.

Search DOAJ by journal title or ISSN
Search JCR by journal title or ISSN
Search PubMed indexed journals
Search CINAHL Publications (click Publications tab at top left on CINAHL home page)

Articles on Predatory Journals

Predatory Journals — What Can We Do to Protect Their Prey?
NEJM, Jan 2025

Last Updated: Feb 17, 2025 9:51 AM
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