• Publishers with a “deliberate intent to deceive”
• Increased with open access journals, ease in publishing platforms, and APC payments
• Researchers are either unaware, or really want to publish somewhere
• Approaches to tracking scope of problem: Blacklists vs Whitelists
  • DOAJ: Journals added and removed
  • Moving away from “blacklists”
    • Difficult to maintain (publishers can decrease or increase in quality over time)

Things to look out for:

• Accepting articles quickly with little or no peer review or quality control
• Notifying academics of article fees only after papers are accepted
• Spam emails to submit articles or serve on editorial boards
• Fake editorial board members
• Mimicking the name or web site style of more established journals
• Making misleading claims about the publishing operation, such as a false location
• Using fake ISSNs or other unique identifier incorrectly
• Citing fake or non-existent impact factors

• UofT’s own Deceptive Publishing Checklist: http://uoft.me/deceptivepublishing
• CARL: http://www.carl-abrc.ca/how-to-assess-a-journal/
• Think. Check. Submit: http://www.thinkchecksubmit.org
• Talk to an advisor or a librarian for more support

*A lot of these criteria can be applied to monograph publishers as well*