Standalone Potential Predatory Journals

Standalone journal archive

Standalone Predatory Journals List: Search and Verify Journal Names

Use this searchable archive when a journal appears to operate independently or when no clear publisher can be identified. A match is a starting point for verification, not a final verdict.

Reviewed by the Beallslists.com editorial desk · Evidence checked: · Review cycle: 2026

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How to use this list

A standalone listing should prompt a careful check of the journal itself: the ISSN record, ownership, editorial board, peer-review policy, publication fee page, indexing records, and recent articles. Do not rely only on a logo or an invitation email.

Be especially careful when a title looks similar to a long-established journal, when the domain is new or inconsistent, or when the journal promises acceptance within a few days. Those are not proof of misconduct by themselves, but they are reasons to slow down.

Historical archive versus current evidence

This page preserves a historical list associated with Beall’s work and later archive maintenance. Scholarly publishing changes over time. Where a title has changed ownership or current evidence conflicts with an older listing, researchers should give weight to verifiable, dated evidence rather than assuming that an archived entry describes the journal forever.

Before you use the standalone list

A standalone journal can be harder to evaluate because the publisher identity may be unclear, the journal may have changed domains, or the title may resemble an established publication. Search the exact journal name, acronym and domain, then confirm the ISSN and ownership independently.

If you find a match

  • Confirm that the listed title is the same journal you are evaluating.
  • Compare the ISSN, publisher and official domain.
  • Check current indexing in official databases.
  • Review editorial-board identities, peer-review policy and recent articles.
  • Read APC, withdrawal, refund, copyright and licensing terms.

If you do not find a match

Absence from this archive does not prove that a journal is trustworthy. New journals appear, titles change and no public list is complete. Continue with the journal evaluation checklist and official indexing checks.

Potential standalone journals

Potential predatory scholarly open-access journals

​Instructions: simply enter the journal’s name or its URL in the search box above. If the journal has a publisher that was assessed to be predatory, then it is included on the Publishers list.

Original list

Go to update

This is an archived version of the Beall’s list - a list of potential predatory journals created by a librarian Jeffrey Beall. We will only update links and add notes to this list.

Last updated January 9, 2017

Update

Here we include journals that were not originally on the Beall’s list, but may be predatory.

Last updated December 8, 2021

Original description

This is a list of questionable, scholarly open-access standalone journals. For journals published by a publisher, please look for the publisher on the list of publishers, here. This list is only for single, standalone journals.
We recommend that scholars read the available reviews, assessments and descriptions provided here, and then decide for themselves whether they want to submit articles, serve as editors or on editorial boards. In a few cases, non-open access journals whose practices match those of predatory journals have been added to the list. The criteria for determining predatory journals are here.
We hope that tenure and promotion committees can also decide for themselves how importantly or not to rate articles published in these journals in the context of their own institutional standards and/or geo-cultural locus. We emphasize that journals change in their business and editorial practices over time. This list is kept up-to-date to the best extent possible but may not reflect sudden, unreported, or unknown enhancements.

Useful external references

These links are included because they are practical, public starting points for researchers. They should be used alongside local institutional policies and the current evidence for a specific journal or publisher.

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