Presence of alleged predatory journals in bibliographic databases: Analysis of Beall´s list

Authors

  • Marta Somoza-Fernández El profesional de la información
  • Josep-Manuel Rodrí­guez-Gairí­n
  • Cristóbal Urbano

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2016.sep.03

Keywords:

Predatory journals, Beall´s list, MIAR, Bibliographic databases, Open access, Journal evaluation.

Abstract

The presence of journals considered predatory are analysed in various bibliographic databases and in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). Of the list produced by Jeffrey Beall of possible or probable predatory open access academic journals, 944 of those are reviewed, cross-referencing their ISSN with the Information Matrix for the Analysis of Journals (MIAR) developed at the University of Barcelona. It is then determined whether these journals appear in citation indexes such as Web of Science or Scopus, in multidisciplinary databases, in specialised databases or in the DOAJ directory. The study concludes that there is no significant widespread presence of predatory journals in bibliographic databases, although some such as Emerging Sources Citation Index, Veterinary Science Database or DOAJ show somewhat higher values than expected, and so should be monitored and revised in the future by database producers or by Beall´s list.

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Published

2016-10-11

How to Cite

Somoza-Fernández, M., Rodrí­guez-Gairí­n, J.-M., & Urbano, C. (2016). Presence of alleged predatory journals in bibliographic databases: Analysis of Beall´s list. Profesional De La información, 25(5), 730–737. https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2016.sep.03

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 5 (2016)

Section

Research articles

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