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Beall's List

Beall's List was a list of predatory open-access publishers that was maintained by University of Colorado Denver librarian Jeffrey Beall on his blog Scholarly Open Access. The list aimed to document open-access publishers who did not perform real peer review, effectively publishing any article as long as the authors pay the article processing charge.…

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Beall's List

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples35
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

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Beall's List

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related to External links · 11
Beall's List → Archived, Beall, European, January, Jeffrey, List, Potential, Predatory Journals, Publishers, Standalone Journals, Updated
related to Successors · 11
Beall's List → Cabell's International, CSIR-Structural Engineering Research Centre, European, January, MDPI, Norwegian Scientific Index, Potential Predatory Journals, Publishers, Since, Since Beall's List, Stop Predatory Journals
related to history · 7
Beall's List → Beall, Beall's, December, He, In, Many, Starting
related to Further reading · 6
Beall's List → Beall's List Affair, Buschman, John, Political Sociology, S2CID, The Library Quarterly

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list beall beall's publishers journals predatory university publishing scholarly open-access journal stated open access publisher published blog work 2017 later

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Beall's Listrelated to External linksBeall0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksJeffrey0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksList0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksPublishers0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksPotential0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksArchived0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksJanuary0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksStandalone Journals0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksUpdated0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksPredatory Journals0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to External linksEuropean0.60section
Beall's Listrelated to Further readingBuschman0.60section

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