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1 MDPI | {{doi|10.1989}} · {{doi|10.20944}} · {{doi|10.32545}} · {{doi|10.3390}} · {{doi|10.35995}}
[Beall's publisher list / update]
MDPI is very much hit-and-miss. MDPI on Beall's original list in 2014, but was removed in 2015. The updated list says "Some of their journals have a very poor peer-review; some are fine." Social Sciences could be multiple other journals. Evaluate on a case by case basis (see Q8 in the FAQ).
All 372 MDPI-related entries
20937 15110 1.386
2 Frontiers Media | {{doi|10.3389}} · {{doi|10.4175}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Very much hit-and-miss. See note on Beall's list. Will accept almost anything (80-90% of submissions), and has sacked editors for being too selective. Many journals have impact factors and are listed on DOAJ, and Frontiers Media remains part of COPE and OASPA. Evaluate on a case by case basis (see Q8 in the FAQ).
All 234 Frontiers Media-related entries
14280 10088 1.416
3 Hijacked journal
[Beall's hijacked list · Beall's hijacked list / update · Beall's journal list · Bohannon's list of hijacked journals]
Hijacked journals are legitimate academic journals with imposters pretending to be the legitimate publication. These citations are likely not problematic, but it is good to check that the real journal is being cited.
All 213 Hijacked journal-related entries
6433 5232 1.230
4 Hindawi (publisher) | {{doi|10.1100}} · {{doi|10.1155}} · {{doi|10.3814}} · {{doi|10.4061}} · {{doi|10.5402}} · {{doi|10.6064}} · {{doi|10.7167}} · {{doi|10.7217}}
[Beall's publisher list*]
Listed on Beall's list in 2010, but later removed as a 'borderline case'. In 2023, Hindawi retracted several thousands of articles from paper mills. Wiley estimates that 10-13% of all Hindawi papers are affected, though this may vary from journal to journal. Evaluate on a case by case basis (see Q8 in the FAQ).
All 570 Hindawi (publisher)-related entries
6112 5255 1.163
5 Medknow Publications | {{doi|10.4103}} · {{doi|10.6219}}
[Beall's publisher list* · Beall's journal list / update]
Listed on Beall's list in 2011, but removed in 2012. Several of its journal are listed on the updated list, however.
All 500 Medknow Publications-related entries
5687 4298 1.323
6 Bentham Science Publishers | {{doi|10.2174}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Bentham Open is listed, although Bentham Science Publishers is not.
All 293 Bentham Science Publishers-related entries
3711 2953 1.257
7 Dove Medical Press | {{doi|10.2147}}
[Beall's journal list / update]
Formerly on Beall's original list as 'Dove Press', but several journals are listed on the updated list.
All 150 Dove Medical Press-related entries
2322 1913 1.214
8 Alternative medicine
[Unreliable fields]
All 168 Alternative medicine-related entries
2227 1503 1.482
9 Case report
[Unreliable fields]
Case reports may be perfectly fine citations, however they will usually fail WP:MEDRS as individual cases are considered anecdotal evidence.
All 249 Case report-related entries
1768 1455 1.215
10 Baishideng Publishing Group | {{doi|10.11569}} · {{doi|10.12998}} · {{doi|10.13105}} · {{doi|10.35711}} · {{doi|10.35712}} · {{doi|10.35713}} · {{doi|10.37126}} · {{doi|10.3748}} · {{doi|10.4239}} · {{doi|10.4240}} · {{doi|10.4251}} · {{doi|10.4252}} · {{doi|10.4253}} · {{doi|10.4254}} · {{doi|10.4291}} · {{doi|10.4292}} · {{doi|10.4329}} · {{doi|10.4330}} · {{doi|10.4331}} · {{doi|10.5306}} · {{doi|10.5312}} · {{doi|10.5313}} · {{doi|10.5314}} · {{doi|10.5315}} · {{doi|10.5316}} · {{doi|10.5317}} · {{doi|10.5318}} · {{doi|10.5319}} · {{doi|10.5320}} · {{doi|10.5321}} · {{doi|10.5409}} · {{doi|10.5410}} · {{doi|10.5411}} · {{doi|10.5412}} · {{doi|10.5492}} · {{doi|10.5493}} · {{doi|10.5494}} · {{doi|10.5495}} · {{doi|10.5496}} · {{doi|10.5497}} · {{doi|10.5498}} · {{doi|10.5499}} · {{doi|10.5500}} · {{doi|10.5501}} · {{doi|10.5527}} · {{doi|10.5528}} · {{doi|10.5662}}
[Beall's publisher list]
All 50 Baishideng Publishing Group-related entries
1314 991 1.326
11 Parapsychology
[Unreliable fields]
Several skeptical publications setting out to debunk rather than promote nonsensical claims may be included here.
All 31 Parapsychology-related entries
1295 861 1.504
12 Pseudo-scholarship
[Unreliable fields]
All 98 Pseudo-scholarship-related entries
1083 912 1.188
13 Current Science
[Beall's journal list / update] 		1072 902 1.188
14 Tabloid journalism
[Unreliable fields]
All 31 Tabloid journalism-related entries
1054 557 1.892
15 Conspiracy theory
[Unreliable fields]
All 56 Conspiracy theory-related entries
896 790 1.134
16 AME Publishing Company | {{doi|10.21037}}
[Beall's publisher list]
All 58 AME Publishing Company-related entries
652 536 1.216
17 ResearchGate | {{doi|10.13140}}
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#ResearchGate.
All 179 ResearchGate-related entries
620 558 1.111
18 Impact Journals (New York State, USA) | {{doi|10.18632}}
[Beall's publisher list] 		602 489 1.231
19 Cureus | {{doi|10.7759}}
[—]
Uses crowd-sourced "post-publication peer-review". 		586 530 1.106
20 Forbes
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Forbes.com contributors, staff is reliable, contributors are not. 		506 449 1.127
21 Propaganda
[Unreliable fields]
All 118 Propaganda-related entries
490 406 1.207
22 Rolling Stone
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Rolling Stone; good for culture news reporting; unreliable for politically/societally sensitive reporting; Culture Council articles unreliable. 		486 448 1.085
23 F1000 (publisher) | {{doi|10.12688}} · {{doi|10.12703}} · {{doi|10.3410}} · {{doi|10.4089}} · {{doi|10.7490}}
[See [1]]
All 22 F1000 (publisher)-related entries
481 410 1.173
24 Oncotarget
[Beall's journal list] 		417 363 1.149
25 Race and intelligence controversy
[Unreliable fields] 		402 190 2.116
26 Blog hosting services
[WP:SPSLIST]
See WP:BLOGS.
All 178 Blog hosting services-related entries
376 329 1.143
27 Frontiers in Bioscience | {{doi|10.2741}}
[Beall's publisher list] 		355 334 1.063
28 Chiropractic
[Unreliable fields]
All 28 Chiropractic-related entries
289 145 1.993
29 Daily Star (United Kingdom)
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Daily Star. 		281 155 1.813
30 Unpublished
[—]
May simply be in need of being updated to the published version. Otherwise, these probably fail WP:V.
All 165 Unpublished-related entries
268 239 1.121
31 Medwell Journals | {{doi|10.3923}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Veterinary Research is most likely the one published by BioMed Central, rather than Medwell. Social Sciences could be multiple other journals.
All 9 Medwell Journals-related entries
257 220 1.168
32 Quadrant (magazine)
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Quadrant. 		232 152 1.526
33 HuffPost
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#HuffPost contributors, staff is debatable, contributors/editorial partners are not reliable.
All 14 HuffPost-related entries
219 206 1.063
34 Canadian Center of Science and Education | {{doi|10.5539}}
[Beall's publisher list]
All 30 Canadian Center of Science and Education-related entries
213 201 1.060
35 e-Century Publishing Corporation
[Beall's publisher list]
All 19 e-Century Publishing Corporation-related entries
212 199 1.065
36 Journal of Management
[Lying about DOAJ]
Not the Southern Management Association journal 		211 165 1.279
37 Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks
[WP:CIRCULAR / WP:MIRROR]
Many entries are listed for mirroring small excerpts only.
All 20 Wikipedia:Mirrors and forks-related entries
194 181 1.072
38 Aging (journal)
[Beall's journal list] 		168 128 1.312
39 Science Publishing Group | {{doi|10.11648}}
[Beall's publisher list · Beall's publisher list / update]
Social Sciences could be multiple other journals. Several of SPG journals are named either identically or are very similar to other publications, e.g. International Journal of Data Science and Analysis vs International Journal of Data Science and Analytics and may thus have similar ISO 4 abbreviations. It was founded in 2012, so references prior to 2012 are unlikely to be of this publisher.
All 13 Science Publishing Group-related entries
166 152 1.092
40 Medical Hypotheses
[See [2]]
Purposefully not peer-reviewed. 		162 132 1.227
41 Psychology Today
[Quackwatch's list] 		151 131 1.153
42 Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine
[Quackwatch's list] 		136 113 1.204
43 Superseded theories in science
[Unreliable fields]
All 25 Superseded theories in science-related entries
132 117 1.128
44 Marquis Who's Who
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Marquis Who's Who.
All 17 Marquis Who's Who-related entries
127 111 1.144
45 Symbiosis (publisher) | {{doi|10.15226}}
[Beall's publisher list] 		120 110 1.091
46 Genetics and Molecular Research | {{doi|10.4238}}
[Beall's journal list] 		118 107 1.103
47 American Scientific Publishers | {{doi|10.1166}}
[Beall's publisher list]
All 22 American Scientific Publishers-related entries
102 90 1.133
48 Diva Enterprises | {{doi|10.5958}}
[UGC]
Several of their journal fail UGC criteria. Those that pass are listed here. Those from listed as UGC Group 1 are probably fine. UGC Group II could be fine, depending on the database. Those without UGC recognition are very likely not fine. Those unmentioned are definitely not fine.
All 43 Diva Enterprises-related entries
101 95 1.063
49 International Journal of Nanomedicine
[Beall's journal list / update] 		101 72 1.403
50 Munis Entomology & Zoology
[Beall's journal list] 		100 87 1.149
51 Spectrum (magazine)
[Quackwatch's list] 		97 83 1.169
52 OMICS Publishing Group | {{doi|10.11131}} · {{doi|10.12715}} · {{doi|10.14303}} · {{doi|10.15412}} · {{doi|10.21767}} · {{doi|10.24105}} · {{doi|10.36648}} · {{doi|10.37532}} · {{doi|10.4066}} · {{doi|10.4172}} · {{doi|10.47128}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Vegetos is published by Springer Nature since 2019.
All 18 OMICS Publishing Group-related entries
94 87 1.080
53 Project Innovation
[Beall's publisher list]
These journals were acquired by Project Innovations at some point, but were well-established before that. Project Innovations also switched owners at several points, the most recent being 2004. Unclear when problems with publisher started. 		91 85 1.071
54 Creationism
[Unreliable fields]
All 17 Creationism-related entries
83 54 1.537
55 Daily Express
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Daily Express. 		76 68 1.118
56 Pharmacognosy Reviews
[Beall's journal list / update] 		62 57 1.088
57 Pulsus Group | {{doi|10.19144}} · {{doi|10.21282}} · {{doi|10.4066}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Purchased by OMICS Publishing Group in 2016. The Journal of Agriculture is likely an older, non-Pulsus journal.
All 17 Pulsus Group-related entries
59 58 1.017
58 Alternative Medicine Review
[Quackwatch's list] 		57 52 1.096
59 IGI Global | {{doi|10.4018}}
[[3] · [4]]
IGI Global is mostly criticized for it's book-publishing practices. Criticism is mostly silent on its journals, several of which have impact factors.
All 40 IGI Global-related entries
53 52 1.019
60 African Journal of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicines
[Beall's journal list] 		52 51 1.020
61 Nucleus
[Lying about DOAJ]
Make sure it's ISSN 1982-2278, there are many other publications with the same/similar name. 		50 44 1.136
62 Homeopathy
[Unreliable fields]
All 8 Homeopathy-related entries
49 27 1.815
63 Scientific Research Publishing | {{doi|10.4236}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Chinese Medicine likely refers to the BioMed Central journal. Comput. Chem. likely refers to Computer & Chemistry.
All 8 Scientific Research Publishing-related entries
45 38 1.184
64 Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
[Quackwatch's list] 		44 29 1.517
65 International Journal of Computer Applications
[Lying about DOAJ · Beall's publisher list] 		43 42 1.024
66 National Association of Scholars | {{doi|10.51845}}
[Beall's publisher list] 		42 39 1.077
67 Anti-vaccine movement
[Unreliable fields]
See also WP:JCW/PATTERNS#CAM.
All 7 Anti-vaccine movement-related entries
41 32 1.281
68 International Institute for Science, Technology and Education | {{doi|10.7176}}
[Beall's publisher list]
Search for iiste.org 		39 32 1.219
69 Bioinformation | {{doi|10.6026}}
[Beall's journal list] 		38 36 1.056
70 Genes & Cancer
[Beall's journal list] 		37 32 1.156
71 Journal of Physical Therapy Science
[Beall's journal list] 		37 28 1.321
72 Alchemy
[Unreliable fields]
All 9 Alchemy-related entries
36 33 1.091
73 Journal of Environmental Biology
[Beall's journal list] 		35 33 1.061
74 Bridges (magazine)
[Quackwatch's list] 		35 28 1.250
75 Genocide denial
[Unreliable fields] 		35 14 2.500
76 Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies
[Beall's journal list] 		34 31 1.097
77 Vegetarian Times
[Quackwatch's list] 		34 31 1.097
78 Amphibian & Reptile Conservation
[Beall's journal list / update] 		33 32 1.031
79 Who's Who (UK)
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Who's Who (UK). 		33 32 1.031
80 Journal of Psychology and Theology
[Beall's journal list] 		33 27 1.222
81 African Research Review
[Beall's publisher list] 		31 28 1.107
82 Science Publications | {{doi|10.3844}}
[Beall's publisher list]
All 10 Science Publications-related entries
30 30 1.000
83 Authorea | {{doi|10.15200}} · {{doi|10.22541}}
[—]
Preprints 		30 25 1.200
84 Alternative & Complementary Therapies
[Quackwatch's list] 		28 28 1.000
85 Astrology
[Unreliable fields]
All 8 Astrology-related entries
27 22 1.227
86 HIV/AIDS denialism
[Unreliable fields] 		27 19 1.421
87 European Journal of Social Sciences
[Beall's journal list]
Possibly hijacked. The journal published by Librairie Droz, hosted on Open Edition is legitimate. The one published by Social Sciences Research Platform is listed by Beall. 		25 24 1.042
88 InTech Open Access Publisher | {{doi|10.5772}}
[Beall's publisher list]
All 23 InTech Open Access Publisher-related entries
25 24 1.042
89 Serials Publications
[Beall's publisher list]
Man in India dates from well before Serials Publications came about. Date of acquisition unclear. 		25 23 1.087
90 International Business Times
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#International Business Times. 		25 22 1.136
91 International Journal of Mathematics
[Lying about DOAJ]
Refers to the IAEME journal, not the World Scientific one 		25 22 1.136
92 Journal of Cosmology | {{doi|10.37720}}
[Beall's journal list] 		25 16 1.562
93 FamilySearch
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#FamilySearch. 		25 14 1.786
94 Interdisciplinary Toxicology
[Beall's journal list] 		24 23 1.043
95 Medium (website)
[WP:RSP § Generally unreliable]
See WP:RSP#Medium. 		24 23 1.043
96 Wikipedia
[WP:CIRCULAR / WP:MIRROR]
See WP:RSP#Wikipedia. 		24 20 1.200
97 North American Journal of Medical Sciences | {{doi|10.4297}}
[Beall's journal list / update] 		23 21 1.095
98 International Journal of Pediatrics
[Beall's journal list] 		23 19 1.211
99 Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
[Beall's journal list · Quackwatch's list] 		23 16 1.438
100 Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences
[Beall's journal list] 		22 22 1.000
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