User:JzG/Predatory

Some of the characteristics of predatory open-access publishing include:
 * Unheard-of publishers with dozens of journals in unrelated areas
 * Groups of journals with very similar or overlapping scope
 * Journals with absurdly broad subject areas
 * Journals with few published articles per issue, or few published issues
 * No journal impact factor
 * Use of fake "impact factors"
 * Not in ISI JCR
 * Not in DOAJ
 * Absent from standard indexes (e.g. medical journals not indexed in PubMed)
 * Cited in hoax publication tests
 * Listed by Jeffrey Beall
 * No DOI number
 * Spammed by WP:SPAs, especially where usernames match author names
 * Online reports of spam solicitation for papers