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Avoid "Predatory" Publishers & Conferences

What are predatory journals or predatory practices?	How to identify predatory journals in a search: Precautions for Nurses (Nursing 2022)
Blobaum's Checklist for Review of Journal Quality for Submission of Scholarly Manuscripts	Journals that Follow ICMJE Recommendations
Guidelines for Evaluating a Journal / Publisher	Publons Journal Search
THINK - CHECK - SUBMIT - Avoid Predatory Publishers	Beall's Criteria for Evaluating Open Access Journals (Site is no longer active)
THINK - CHECK - ATTEND : Avoid Predatory Conferences	Predatory Journals: What They Are and How to Avoid Them

Four Scientific Journals Accept Fake Study About "Midi-Chlorians" From Star Wars	How predatory journals leak into PubMed
Illegitimate journals scam even senior scientists	Open-access index delists thousands of journals
Predatory journals recruit fake editor