«Predatory journals are threatening the credibility of science. By faking or neglecting peer review, they pollute the scholarly record with fringe or junk science and activist research. I suggest that every publishing stakeholder could contribute to reining in these journals.
Universities and colleges should stop using the quantity of published articles as a measure of academic performance. Researchers and respectable journals should not cite articles from predatory journals, and academic library databases should exclude metadata for such publications. ………»from Jeffrey Beall Nature 534, 326 (16 June 2016)
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016
Predatory journals: Ban predators from the scientific record