{"id":214,"date":"2025-02-05T13:56:18","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T04:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nit-oawp.accloud.jp\/en\/?page_id=214"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T04:56:18","slug":"predatory-journal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/openaccess\/predatory-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning about Predatory Journals!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As academic journals move toward open access, there has been an increase in poor-quality journals (known as predatory journals) that publish papers without proper peer review while demanding high publication fees. Publishing in these journals, even unintentionally, carries significant risks:<\/p>\n<div class=\"box04 mx-3\">\n<ul class=\"list\">\n\t<li>Papers not being properly evaluated, damaging the credibility of both the author and their affiliated research institution<\/li>\n\t<li>Disputes over unfair and excessive publication fees<\/li>\n\t<li>Difficulty withdrawing submissions and potentially being unable to resubmit to other legitimate journals<\/li>\n\t<li>Risk of papers becoming inaccessible due to unstable access guarantees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mt-4\">Therefore, careful evaluation is essential when selecting open access journals for paper submission.<\/p>\n\n<p>The following methods can help you assess journal legitimacy:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Check whether journals are included in academic literature databases and whether publishers participate in industry organizations<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"list\">\n\t<li>Inclusion in academic literature databases with established criteria:\n\t<p class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scopus (Elsevier)<\/a><\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n\t<li>Inclusion in directories of open access journals that meet certain criteria:\n\t<p class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doaj.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)<\/a><\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n\t<li>Membership in non-profit organizations for academic publication standards:\n\t<p class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/publicationethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)<\/a><\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n\t<li>Membership in associations of open access publishers:\n\t<p class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.oaspa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Access Scholarly Publishers\u2019 Association (OASPA)<\/a><\/p>\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<h2>Confirm using checklists<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"linklist\">\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkchecksubmit.org\/journals\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThink. Check. Submit.\u201d Checklist<\/a><\/li>\n\t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/beallslist.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beall\u2019s List (Original and updated lists)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"box04 mt-5\">\n\t<p class=\"box-title\">Please be equally careful about predatory conferences!<\/p>\n\t<p>Like predatory journals, there are numerous predatory conferences that charge registration fees without providing proper academic review.<br>\n\t\tA checklist has been published, so please make use of it:<\/p>\n\t<p class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thinkcheckattend.org\/check\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThink. Check. Attend.\u201d Checklist<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As academic journals move toward open access, there has been an increase in poor-quality journals (known as pr...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":11,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-214","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/214\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oa.web.nitech.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}