Predatory publishing, also write-only publishing[1][2] or deceptive publishing,[3] is an exploitative academic publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors while only superficially checking articles for quality and legitimacy, and without providing editorial and publishing services that legitimate academic journals provide, whether open access or not. The rejection rate of predatory journals is low, but seldom zero.
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Actors seeking to maintain the scholarly ecosystem have sought to minimize the influence of predatory publishing through the use blacklists such as Beall's List and Cabell's blacklist, as well as through whitelists such as the Directory of Open Access Journals.
