Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers by mikebehm

I appreciate Jeffrey making his criteria available on the blog. Each discipline, scholar, department, college, etc. will need to develop their own criteria and guidance for judging the worth of an individual journal and publisher; this blog is tremendously valuable for helping individuals engage in a productive discussion to make their own decisions. Each of Jeffrey’s points would not be taken individually as an indicator that a journal or publisher is of low quality. He is simply pointing out characteristics that he has documented in his own research of predatory and low-quality journals/publishers. The list should be viewed collectively when evaluating publication outlets. The criteria he provides should make individuals pause and think about ethics and quality in their own discipline. This blog does just that for me and is so very important – thank you.