RT Journal Article
T1 Journals in Beall’s list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers
A1 Moed, Henk
A1 López Illescas, María Del Carmen
A1 Guerrero-Bote, Vicente
A1 Moya-Anegon, Félix
AB The list of potential, possible or probable predatory scholarly open access (OA) publishers compiled by Jeffrey Beall was examined to determine the effect of their inclusion upon authors, and a possible bias against OA journals. Manually collected data from the publication archives of a sample of 250 journals from Beall publishers reveals a strong tendency towards a decline in their article output during 2012–2020. A comparison of the subset of 506 Beall journals indexed in Scopus with a benchmark set of other OA journals in Scopus with similar characteristics shows that Beall journals reveal as a group a strong decline in citation impact over the years, and reached an impact level far below that of their benchmarks. The Beall list of publishers was found to be heterogeneous in terms of bibliometric indicators but to be clearly differentiated from OA journals not included in the list. The same bibliometric comparison against comparable non-OA journals reveal similar, but less marked, differences in citation and publication growth.
PB Wiley
SN 0953-1513
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99563
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99563
LA eng
NO Moed, H F,  Lopez-Illescas, C,  Guerrero-Bote, V,  Moya-Anegon, F. Journals in Beall’s list perform as a group less well than other open access journals indexed in Scopus but reveal large differences among publishers. Learned Publishing. 2022. Dec 6;35(2):130-39
DS Docta Complutense
RD 13 abr 2025