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This is a list of predatory publishers; these sites charge publication fees to authors without checking articles for quality and legitimacy. This list is originally derived from en:Template:Predatory open access source list and was later updated to include URLs from en:Beall's list (online).

Editors are welcomed to update this list accompanied by facts and reasoning in the edit summary.

Template documentation

Use {{CULink}} for source definitions.

Mandatory parameters (must have one of the following):

  • URL (url) that must contain the domain.
    • Example: {{CULink |url=x.com }} ⇒ URL: x.com
      Global SearchGoogle Search
      enwiki zhwikiDomain Whois
    • Example: {{CULink |url=tech.yahoo.com }} ⇒ URL: tech.yahoo.com
      Global SearchGoogle Search
      enwiki zhwikiDomain Whois
    • Example: {{CULink |url=yahoo.com/news }} ⇒ URL: yahoo.com/news
      Global SearchGoogle Search
      enwiki zhwikiDomain Whois
  • URL string (url_str). Can be any part of the URL.

Optional parameters:

  • Author (author).
  • Publisher or publication (pub).
  • Date range (date). Should have one of the comparison operators (=, >, <, >=, <=) plus a date (yyyy or yyyy-MM or yyyy-MM-dd). Comma (,) and semicolon (;) separators are used to represent AND and OR logic, respectively.
  • Exclude (exclude).
    • A space-separated whitelist of URLs or URL Strings.
    • Example: {{CULink |url= filmweb.pl |exclude= filmweb.pl/news filmweb.pl/reviews }} ⇒ URL: filmweb.pl
      Global SearchGoogle Search
      enwiki zhwikiDomain Whois
      , Exclude: filmweb.pl/news, filmweb.pl/reviews

Technical details: The reliability categories are applied in the following order: blacklisted > deprecated > generally unreliable > marginally reliable > multi (varied reliability) > generally reliable. When date range rules are present, they always take precedence. Therefore, we encourage rules to be as specific as ever, and always include date ranges if they are part of the source evaluation.

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Source lists

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See also: Predatory standalone journals

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