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The cynical answer is that in borderline cases it's impossible to be certain what is peer-reviewed without a lot of investigation. Fraudulent journals claim to be performing peer review, and it's har …

According to this Scholarly Open Access blog entry, the Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra: The Business and Economics Research Journal pays US$2500 for each paper published and also pays US$500 for each pee …

Asking for publishing charges per se is not necessarily a bad sign. It is almost unheard of in some fields, but perfectly normal in others. A good indicator of bad quality and scammy journals is bei …

That means that IJACSA will not try to stop you from publishing your work elsewhere. (They'd have little reason to do so, as they are not profiting from it.) It is common for open-access journals to …

Open Access (OA) is not necessarily free for authors (but free for readers). OA concerns free access to the publication. Many OA journals charge for submitting a manuscript, see for example HESS which …

http://www.sigir.org/sigirlist/ ECOOP info list http://web.satd.uma.es/mailman/listinfo/ecoop-info Beware of conferences which do this just for money and not for disseminating knowledge: http://scholarlyoa.com …

You've already identified part of the problem: Deceased individuals like Paul Samuelson and Ilya Prigogine should not be listed as "editors" of a normal journal. The editor-in-chief of the journal s …

The editorial board is one way that many journals (both predatory and not) try two establish themselves. I cannot find an in depth analysis by Beall of editorial boards but, in a comment to this blog …

I'm not in the U.K., but in my part of the world, it's common (one might say usual) for computer science PhD students to be paid. Is the determination of whether a PhD student is paid related to wheth …

This question concerns assessing the quality of papers outside one's field. The question seems to be more leaning towards the quality of journals outside of one's field. Here's a brief list of po …

One approach is to filter by journal. The so-called 'American Journal of Engineering Research' (article 1) The 'Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center' (AIRCC, publisher of the 'Internatio …

I wouldn't say this is normal. That said, it need not raise a red flag or suggest that this would be a predatory conference or something you must stay away from. It doesn't inspire confidence, but it …

Here is a well-known list of predatory journals. As DCTLib says, you probably shouldn't publicize publications to any of these. For any others, go ahead! A less reputable journal paper is better than …

What resources are available for reporting unethical practices or misbehavior by publishers? I'm aware of Beall's list, are there other efforts to objectively identify publishers with low standards or …

The reasons these journals are called predatory is because they prey on unwary researchers looking for places to publish their work, tricking them into publishing with them rather than in legitimate p …