Transparency and corrections
Listing, correction and appeal policy
This site is an educational archive and research-integrity resource. A listing is a warning signal for further verification; it is not a court finding and should not be used without checking current evidence.
Maintained by the Beallslists.com editorial review team · Last reviewed: June 19, 2026
Evidence used for review
Useful evidence includes current journal websites, archived pages, ISSN records, indexing database records, editorial-board confirmations, solicitation emails, APC pages, publisher ownership records, correction or retraction notices, and documented policy changes.
Correction and removal requests
Publishers, journals, editors, authors, librarians, and readers may send corrections. The strongest requests are specific: they identify the page, the entry, the claimed error, and the evidence that supports a change. General objections without documentation are difficult to evaluate fairly.
What may justify an update
- The publisher has changed ownership or ended questionable practices.
- Indexing, ISSN, peer-review, fee, or editorial-board information has been corrected and can be independently verified.
- A journal title was confused with another title or a hijacked website.
- The public record now contradicts the archived information.
Fair-use approach to listings
The goal is to help researchers make careful decisions. Listings should be treated as prompts to verify current publishing practice, not as permission to harass editors, authors, or staff. When evidence changes, the public record should change with it.
What this policy is trying to avoid
Two mistakes are possible: leaving outdated information online after a journal has genuinely corrected problems, or removing a warning too quickly because a publisher objects without evidence. This policy tries to avoid both by requiring documentation.
Evidence should be current, specific, and independently checkable. A statement such as “we are indexed” is weaker than a direct link to an official database record. A statement such as “our editors are real” is weaker than institutional pages or confirmations showing that the listed editors actually serve on the journal.
How corrections may appear
Depending on the evidence, an entry may be corrected, clarified, redirected to a related title, marked for review, or removed. Historical changelog notes may remain when they are useful for understanding why a change was made.