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by FabHK 1981 days ago
^ That was the standard blacklist, but I thought it was shut down in 2017?

It's really tricky, because the move to open access publishing (which typically requires that authors pay) is a good thing on one hand, but facilitates these junk journals (and inflates publication count) on the other hand.

There are also Cabell's lists, both of predatory and "quality" journals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beall%27s_List

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabells%27_Predatory_Reports