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The Right Place to Publish: Considerations in Choosing a Journal or Publisher

Resources for assessing journals

Think. Check. Submit.
How to Assess a Journal (How not to Publish in an Undesirable Journal) | CARL-ABRC
Potential predatory and legitimate biomedical journals: Can you tell the difference? A cross-sectional comparison
Research article. The authors identify thirteen characteristics of predatory journals based on analysis of their sample.
Selecting a quality publisher | Royal Society of New Zealand
Predatory publishers | Scholarly Communication | University of Ottawa
The Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker
Hijacked journals mimic legitimate journals by adopting their titles, ISSNs, and other metadata. The Hijacked Journal Checker by Retraction Watch is a continually-updated list of such journals.

Example of email soliciting submissions...

Journal website...

Website for a Pulsus journal - Pulsus was a legitimate Canadian journal publisher bought out by a deceptive publisher in 2016...

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