April 16, 2021
To all researchers
Dean, the Research Promotion Division
Commencement of trial use of Cabells Predatory Reports, a searchable database of information on predatory academic journals
The recent development of open access publication of research results has been accompanied by serious problems with predatory journals, which publish papers in open access journals without sufficient peer review and/or demand exorbitant publication fees.
If a researcher, without careful consideration, contributes to a predatory journal or publishes with a predatory publisher in order to increase the number of his/her publications, not only might he/she be exploited in terms of unjustifiably high publication fees: he/she might also adversely lower the evaluation of his/her research performance — in some cases, even affecting the credibility of the research activities of Waseda University.
As a supplementary means of preventing postings to predatory journals, we have signed a contract for the use of Predatory Reports (Cabell Publishing Co.), a database of predatory journals, for a period ending at the end of AY 2021. We will use the service on a trial basis until the end of AY 2021, and will decide whether or not to continue the contract in AY 2022 and thereafter, based on the status of usage in AY 2021. →We have decided to extend the usage contract until the end of AY 2025. 【Updated on February. 19, 2025】
You can use Predatory Reports via the following URL in the Waseda E-Resource Portal, to confirm aspects such as the submission destination of your paper. This database is also available to Waseda students, so please inform the graduate students under your supervision, as appropriate.
- Waseda E-Resource Portal＿Predatory Reports: Guide
https://waseda-jp.libguides.com/LGaz49307786/en
[Notes]
– Eligibility: Available to those who use the University Library service.
– Cabells Predatory Reports can be used via the campus network (IP address authentication). If you want to use it via an off-campus network, please check the following site.
https://www.waseda.jp/library/en/search_find/off-campus-access/
– Please be sure to note the following before using the database.
- There is no complete list of predatory journals, so please consider the information in this database as supplementary information.
- Please note that even if a journal is listed in this database, it may not actually be a predatory journal.
- Please be careful to note that some predatory journals are not listed in this database.
- For countermeasures against predatory journals, please also check on-campus alerts at the URL below.
◆Attention: caution regarding paper publication with predatory journals/publishers (March 29, 2019)
