Predatory publishers are corrupting open access

By J. Beall. Nature, 2012

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Article Processing Charge Hyperinflation and Price Insensitivity: An Open Access Sequel to the Serials Crisis (2019, background): “In addition to potentially biasing the editorial process (Beall, 2012, 2013; de Vrieze, 2018; Haspelmath, 2013), this also places authors in a potential conflict with the public interests (such as government or philanthropic funders) that support them.”
‘Predatory’ open access: a longitudinal study of article volumes and market characteristics (2015, background): “Jeffrey Beall coined the phrase ‘predatory publishers’ to describe publishers of this sort of journal [6].”
Sample Selection in Systematic Literature Reviews of Management Research (2021, background): “However, the selfdeclaration of journals as being “peer-reviewed” may no longer serve as a useful quality criterion because thousands of so-called predatory journals have emerged (Beall, 2012).”
A walk on the wild side: ‘Predatory’ journals and information asymmetries in scientific evaluations (2019, methodology): “Beall’s list has been subject to some controversy. While in the experiment conducted by Bohannon (2013) a fake article was accepted by approximately 82% of the journals in Beall’s list that were targeted, the remaining 18% did reject it, suggesting that maybe some of these journals do not qualify as”