{"id":96,"date":"2017-11-08T13:55:47","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T18:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/?page_id=96"},"modified":"2018-07-30T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T18:11:07","slug":"cabells-criteria-forevaluating-a-suspected-journal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/research-integrity\/cabells-criteria-forevaluating-a-suspected-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabells criteria for evaluating a suspected journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/guides.lib.odu.edu\/c.php?g=741559&amp;p=5311571\">Criteria<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Integrity<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>The same article appears in more than one journal.<\/li>\n<li>Hijacked journal (defined as a fraudulent website created to look like a legitimate academic journal for the purpose of offering academics the opportunity to rapidly publish their research for a fee).<\/li>\n<li>Information received from the journal does not match the journal&#8217;s website.<\/li>\n<li>The journal or publisher claims to be a non-profit when it is actually a for-profit company.<\/li>\n<li>The publisher hides or obscures relationships with for-profit partner companies.<\/li>\n<li>The owner\/Editor of the journal or publisher falsely claims academic positions or qualifications.<\/li>\n<li>The journal is associated with a conference that has been identified as predatory.<\/li>\n<li>The journal gives a fake ISSN.<\/li>\n<li>Insufficient resources are spent on preventing and eliminating author misconduct (that may result in repeated cases of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, image manipulation, etc.).<\/li>\n<li>The name of the journal references a country or demographic that does not relate to the content or origin of the journal.<\/li>\n<li>The journal uses language that suggests that it is industry leading, but is in fact a new journal.<\/li>\n<li>The title of the journal is copied or so similar to that of a legitimate journal that it could cause confusion between the two.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Peer Review<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>No editor or editorial board listed on the journal&#8217;s website at all.<\/li>\n<li>Editors do not actually exist or are deceased.<\/li>\n<li>The journal includes scholars on an editorial board without their knowledge or permission.<\/li>\n<li>The founder of the publishing company is the editor of all of the journals published by said company.<\/li>\n<li>Evident data showing that the editor\/review board members do not possess academic expertise to reasonably qualify them to be publication gatekeepers in the journal&#8217;s field.<\/li>\n<li>Have board members who are prominent researchers but exempt them from any contribution to the journal except the use of their names and\/or photographs.<\/li>\n<li>Gender bias in the editorial board.<\/li>\n<li>Little geographical diversity of board members and claim to be international.<\/li>\n<li>Inadequate peer review (i.e., a single reader reviews submissions; peer reviewers read papers outside their field of study; etc.).<\/li>\n<li>The journal&#8217;s website does not have a clearly stated peer review policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Website<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>The website does not identify a physical address for the publisher or gives a fake address.<\/li>\n<li>The journal or publisher uses a virtual office or other proxy business as its physical address.<\/li>\n<li>The website does not identify a physical editorial address for the journal.<\/li>\n<li>Dead links.<\/li>\n<li>Poor grammar and\/or spelling.<\/li>\n<li>No way to contact the journal\/only has web-form.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Publication Practices<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>The journal publishes papers that are not academic at all, e.g. essays by laypeople or obvious pseudo-science.<\/li>\n<li>No articles are published or the archives are missing issues and\/or articles.<\/li>\n<li>Falsely claims indexing in well-known databases (especially SCOPUS, DOAJ, JCR, and Cabell&#8217;s).<\/li>\n<li>Falsely claims universities or other organizations as partners or sponsors.<\/li>\n<li>Machine-generated or other &#8220;sting&#8221; abstracts or papers are accepted.<\/li>\n<li>No copyediting.<\/li>\n<li>The publisher displays prominent statements that promise rapid publication and\/or unusually quick peer review (less than 4 weeks).<\/li>\n<li>Little geographical diversity of authors and the journal claims to be International.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly titled articles published by same author in more than one journal.<\/li>\n<li>The Editor publishes research in his own journal.<\/li>\n<li>Authors are published several times in the same journal and\/or issue.<\/li>\n<li>The journal purposefully publishes controversial articles in the interest of boosting citation count.<\/li>\n<li>The journal publishes papers presented at conferences without additional peer review.<\/li>\n<li>The name of the publisher suggests that it is a society, academy, etc. when it is only a publisher and offers no real benefits to members.<\/li>\n<li>The name of the publisher suggests that it is a society, academy, etc. when it is only a solitary proprietary operation and does not meet the definition of the term used or implied non-profit mission.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Indexing &amp; Metrics<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>The journal uses misleading metrics (i.e., metrics with the words \u201cimpact factor\u201d that are not the Thomson Reuters Impact Factor).<\/li>\n<li>The publisher or its journals are not listed in standard periodical directories or are not widely catalogued in library databases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Fees<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>The publisher or journal&#8217;s website seems too focused on the payment of fees.<\/li>\n<li>The journal offers options for researchers to prepay article processing charges (APCs) for future articles.<\/li>\n<li>The journal states there is an APC or other fee but does not give information on the amount.<\/li>\n<li>The journal or publisher offers membership to receive discounts on APCs but does not give information on how to become a member and\/or on the membership fees.<\/li>\n<li>The author must pay APC or publication fee before submitting the article (specifically calls the fee a publication fee, not a submission fee).<\/li>\n<li>The journal does not indicate that there are any fees associated with publication, review, submission, etc. but the author is charged a fee after submitting a manuscript.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Access &amp; Copyright<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>States the journal is completely open access but not all articles are openly available.<\/li>\n<li>No way to access articles (no information on open access or how to subscribe).<\/li>\n<li>No policies for digital preservation.<\/li>\n<li>The journal has a poorly written copyright policy and\/or transfer form that does not actually transfer copyright.<\/li>\n<li>The journal publishes not in accordance with their copyright or does not operate under a copyright license.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><em>Business Practices<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li>Emails from journals received by researchers who are clearly not in the field the journal covers.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple emails received from a journal in a short amount of time.<\/li>\n<li>Emails received from a journal do not include the option to unsubscribe to future emails.<\/li>\n<li>The journal has been asked to quit sending emails and has not stopped.<\/li>\n<li>No subscribers \/ nobody uses the journal.<\/li>\n<li>The journal or publisher operates in a Western country chiefly for the purpose of functioning as a vanity press for scholars in a developing country.<\/li>\n<li>The journal&#8217;s website does not allow web crawlers.<\/li>\n<li>The journal copyproofs and locks PDFs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Criteria Integrity The same article appears in more than one journal. 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