The primary problem with predatory journals is that the articles published on their platforms do not undergo rigorous peer review. Under the conventional peer-review process, once an author submits a paper to a journal for consideration, the journal will then send it out to other scientists for their review. The reviewers normally ask for revisions. Only when the reviewers agree that the work is of a sufficiently high quality does the science gets published. If the work is insufficient, the paper is rejected. The simplest step is to use the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), rather than the favourite search engine, to find journals or articles. This ‘whitelist’ database only lists reputable open-access journals. Although not all reputable journals are included on the DOAJ, disreputable journals are not.
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