https://jeltsch.org/en/tags/hindawi/Recent content in Hindawi on Michael’s DomainHugoen-usCopyright © 2002 - 2026 Michael Jeltsch.Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:18:18 +0300https://jeltsch.org/en/predatory/Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://jeltsch.org/en/predatory/<p>When I get a manuscript review request, I first look at the journal where the request comes from. More often than not, I do not know the journal&rsquo;s name. After all, perhaps 25000 scientific journals are published on our planet. If the request comes from a predatory journal, I mostly reject it. Sometimes I accept to expose myself to the nonsense deliberately (it&rsquo;s at the same time funny and frustrating). But how do you know whether a journal is predatory or not?The question has been asked a lot over the last few years, e.g. in <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-03759-y" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">this Nature commentary&nbsp; <svg class="svg-inline--fa fas fa-up-right-from-square fa-2xs" fill="currentColor" aria-hidden="true" role="img" viewBox="0 0 512 512" overflow="visible"><use href="#fas-up-right-from-square"></use></svg></a> . In the article, leading experts have come up with a definition. Predatory publishers:</p>