The spread of so-called predatory or parasitic journals poses the greatest threat to Open Access publishing. Several new, unknown publishers and journals send unsolicited e-mails inviting authors to publish a scientific article. These papers have no scientific value, they do not undergo peer review, they probably promise a quick publish for a higher price. Parasitic journals may also be associated with misleading indicators, cf. our separate submenu items (https://lib.semmelweis.hu/content/misleading_indicators__false_impact_factor__20141014).
All journals in the MTMT (Hungarian Science Bibliography) journal database can be searched at: https://www.mtmt.hu/journals by their name, ISSN, eISSN identifiers. At profile of the given journal it is possible to make announcements related to e.g. Open Access, parasite and other topics. At the detailed search Scopus or WoS subject areas, or MTA (HAS) rating types; D1, Q1 values, or IF journals; inland or reviewed types, open access option, and WoS or SJR indexed sources can be search as well.
On the public MTMT interface the so-called Norwegian list is available too at: https://www.mtmt.hu/objectionable_journals, and lists of MTA (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) journals can also be searched separately at: https://support.mtmt.hu/mtalist.
More information:
- Fight Against New Types of Publication Misconduct - Thematic compilation in the "Magyar Tudomány" journal 2024/01: https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/matud202401__11/ (in Hungarian)
- Description of parasitic journals in the MTMT Documents (last updated: 06.12.2013): https://www.mtmt.hu/system/files/parazita_folyoiratok.pdf (in Hungarian)
- About 'predatory' publications on European Science-Media Hub: https://sciencemediahub.eu/2022/05/11/predatory-publications-put-pressure-on-the-integrity-of-scientific-literature/
- 8 possible ways to identify a questionable Open Access publisher / journal: https://www.aje.com/en/education/other-resources/articles/8-ways-identify-questionable-open-access-journal
- The campaign was launched in a website with verification questions to help you choose the right journal: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/
- Verification questions of the 'ThinkCheckSubmit' website in different languages: https://thinkchecksubmit.org/translations/
- Unofficial list of potential parasite journal publishers: https://beallslist.weebly.com/
- Unofficial list of possible parasite journals: https://beallslist.weebly.com/standalone-journals.html
- Other useful information website: https://beallslist.weebly.com/how-to-recognize-predatory-journals.html
- Archived list of possible parasite journal publishers (not updated, last modified: 12.01.2017): https://web.archive.org/web/20170112125427/https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
- Archived list of possible parasitic journals (not updated, last modified: 11.01.2017): http://web.archive.org/web/20170111172309/https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/