1.0Open Economics Guide of the ZBWhttps://openeconomics.zbw.eu/en/osguidehttps://openeconomics.zbw.eu/en/author/osguide/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="LRqU67OWcN"><a href="https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/en/knowledgebase/predatory-publishing-and-preventing-it/">Predatory Publishing and Preventing it</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/en/knowledgebase/predatory-publishing-and-preventing-it/embed/#?secret=LRqU67OWcN" width="600" height="338" title="“Predatory Publishing and Preventing it” — Open Economics Guide of the ZBW" data-secret="LRqU67OWcN" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> [vc_row el_class="oeg-kbentry"][vc_column width="2/5" el_class="oeg-kbentry-sidebar-box"][vc_widget_sidebar sidebar_id="knowledgebasesidebaropenaccessen" el_class="oeg-kbentry-sidebar"][/vc_column][vc_column width="3/5" el_class="oeg-kbentry-content-box"][vc_column_text el_class="oeg-kbentry-content-title"] [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css="" el_class="oeg-kbentry-content"]Predatory publishing is a fraudulent business model pursued by certain Open Access publishers. They appear to be fully fledged scientific specialist journals. They collect the article processing charges that are customary in the Open Access segment from the authors, but do not carry out any editorial and journalistic services, such as a proper Peer Review, that one would expect from a reputable specialist journal. If you go through the following checklist, you will have the greatest possible certainty that you are not publishing in a predatory journal by mistake: […]https://openeconomics.zbw.eu/wp-content/uploads/1908/04/PredatorJournal-avoid.png20022125