Jeffrey Beall

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Jeffrey Beall is affiliated with the following schools: Oklahoma State University–Stillwater, Harvard University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Colorado, University of Colorado Denver, California State University, Northridge

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According to Wikipedia, Jeffrey Beall is an American librarian and library scientist, best known for drawing attention to "predatory open access publishing", a term he coined, and for creating what is now widely known as Beall's list, a list of potentially predatory open-access publishers. He is a critic of the open access publishing movement and particularly how predatory publishers use the open access concept, and is especially known for his blog Scholarly Open Access. He has also written on this topic in The Charleston Advisor, in Nature, in Learned Publishing, and elsewhere.

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Predatory publishers are corrupting open access (2012) (577)
What I learned from predatory publishers (2017) (149)
Medical Publishing Triage – Chronicling Predatory Open Access Publishers (2013) (102)
“Predatory” Open-Access Scholarly Publishers (2010) (98)
Predatory journals: Ban predators from the scientific record. (2016) (96)
Predatory publishing is just one of the consequences of gold open access (2013) (95)
Dangerous Predatory Publishers Threaten Medical Research (2016) (92)
Best practices for scholarly authors in the age of predatory journals. (2016) (78)
The Weaknesses of Full-Text Searching. (2008) (77)
The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access (2013) (75)
Spurious alternative impact factors: The scale of the problem from an academic perspective (2015) (59)
Metadata and Data Quality Problems in the Digital Library (2005) (55)
Essential Information about Predatory Publishers and Journals (2016) (50)
Predatory journals and the breakdown of research cultures (2015) (43)
Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers (2010) (29)
Debasing the Currency of Science: The Growing Menace of Predatory Open Access Journals (2016) (25)
Predatory Journals Threaten the Quality of Published Medical Research (2017) (24)
The Effectiveness of Copy Cataloging at Eliminating Typographical Errors in Shared Bibliographic Records (2004) (23)
Medical publishing and the threat of predatory journals (2016) (22)
Measuring Typographical Errors' Impact on Retrieval in Bibliographic Databases (2007) (21)
Developing an Interactive Illustration: Using Java and the Web to Make It Worthwhile (1999) (20)
Free Books: Loading Brief MARC Records for Open-Access Books in an Academic Library Catalog (2009) (19)
Dublin Core: An Obituary (2004) (17)
Unethical Practices in Scholarly, Open-Access Publishing (2013) (17)
Avoiding the Peril of Publishing Qualitative Scholarship in Predatory Journals. (2013) (17)
Predatory journals exploit structural weaknesses in scholarly publishing (2018) (17)
The impact of vendor records on cataloging and access in academic libraries (2000) (16)
Predatory Publishers and Opportunities for Scholarly Societies (2012) (16)
Pharmacy research and predatory journals: Authors beware. (2016) (15)
Advice for Plagiarism Whistleblowers (2014) (14)
Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers (2012) (13)
Five Predatory Mega-Journals: A Review (2013) (13)
Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals (2018) (12)
The "Metric" System: Yet More Chaos in Scholarly Publishing. (2015) (12)
Geographical research and the problem of variant place names in digitized books and other full-text resources (2010) (11)
Predatory Journals, Peer Review, and Education Research. (2017) (10)
Measuring the Extent of the Synonym Problem in Full-Text Searching (2008) (10)
Unintended Consequences: The Rise of Predatory Publishers and the Future of Scholarly Publishing (2014) (10)
Predatory Publishers Threaten to Erode Scholarly Communication (2013) (10)
OPEN ACCESS, RESEARCH COMMUNITIES, AND A DEFENSE AGAINST PREDATORY JOURNALS (2021) (10)
How Google Uses Metadata to Improve Search Results (2010) (9)
The Death of Metadata (2006) (8)
Internet Scientific Publications (2011) (8)
Ethnic groups and Library of Congress subject headings (2006) (8)
The Proportion of NUC Pre-56 Titles Represented in OCLC WorldCat (2005) (8)
Internet Resources in Rare Diseases (2001) (8)
Cataloging world wide web sites consisting mainly of links (1997) (8)
Metadata for Name Disambiguation and Collocation (2010) (6)
Academic Library Databases and the Problem of Word-Sense Ambiguity (2011) (6)
Predatory publishers: Implications for pharmacy practice and practitioners (2017) (5)
Some Reservations about FRBR (2006) (5)
God of the gaps: a neglected reply to God’s stone problem (2017) (5)
Describing the Foreign Language Skills of Catalogers in Academic Libraries (1992) (5)
Scholarly open-access publishing and the problem of predatory publishers (4)
Scholarly Open‐Access Publishing (2019) (4)
Measuring duplicate metadata records in library databases (2010) (4)
Using OCLC Connexion to find typographical errors in authority records (2004) (4)
Next-Generation Library Catalogs and the Problem of Slow Response Time (2010) (4)
Discrete Criteria for Selecting and Comparing Metadata Schemes (2013) (4)
RePAIR consensus guidelines: Responsibilities of Publishers, Agencies, Institutions, and Researchers in protecting the integrity of the research record (2018) (3)
Indexing Form and Genre Terms in a Large Academic Library OPAC: The Harvard Experience (2000) (3)
Behind the Spam: A “Spectral Analysis” of Predatory Publishers (2015) (3)
Corrupt and Questionable Practices in the Scholarly Publishing Industry (2014) (3)
Response to “Beyond Beall’s List” (2015) (3)
Cataloguing names the old-fashioned way. (2009) (2)
The value of alphabetically-sorted browse displays in information discovery (2007) (2)
Publishers' Errors Make Catalogers [sic]: An Analysis of the Error Indicators [sic] and [i.e.] in Cataloging (2001) (2)
Internet Scientific Publications [electronic resource review] (2011) (1)
Abbreviations, Full Spellings, and Searchers’ Preferences (2011) (1)
How successful is copy cataloging at catching and fixing typographical errors in records imported from bibliographic utilities (2003) (1)
Repurposing MARC Data: Some Pitfalls (2007) (1)
Dublin Core is still dead (2014) (1)
The Future of Scholarly Communication, edited by Deborah Shorley and Michael Jubb (review) (2014) (1)
Open Access Week 2013: Protect your Patrons from Predatory Publishers (2013) (1)
Considering presenting a paper at a scholarly conference? Choose carefully (2015) (1)
Humanities Research, Book Digitization, and the Problem of Linguistic Change (2011) (1)
Metadata Schemes Points of Comparison © 2006 (2006) (1)
Metadata Schemes Points of Comparison (2006) (0)
Catalog or Catalogue?: Examining a Library Dilemma (2004) (0)
3 "Principles of transparency" to help authors assess journal credibility (2014) (0)
Introduction: Bibliographic Database Quality (2008) (0)
A defense of materialism against attacks based on qualia (1998) (0)
Guaranteed hits: How to make your library’s Web site stand out in Web search engines (2019) (0)
How the scientific journal came of age in the nineteenth century (2018) (0)
Book reviews (2004) (0)
Science Communication and the Threat of Predatory Publishers (2013) (0)
Let's review everything (2010) (0)
Lazerow Fellowship recipients research copy cataloging and electronic resources management systems (2003) (0)
Table of Contents. (2015) (0)
OCLC: A Review (2008) (0)
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION (2008) (0)
Scholarly Communication, Open Access, and South America (2016) (0)
Next-Generation LibraryCatalogs and the Problem ofSlow Response Time (2010) (0)
Brochures/Reviews/Reports (2017) (0)
10 Ways to Improve Data Quality (2005) (0)

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