Research data supporting "A Comprehensive, Validated Dataset of Journals from Beall’s List of Potentially Predatory Publishers"

Predatory journals are entities within academia which publish work without high quality peer review, and falsely promise widespread reach, indexing in reputable databases, rapid publication times, low or no article processing charges and aggressive solicitation of legitimate researchers for submission. There is currently no freely available database of individual journal titles which are thought to be potentially predatory. This dataset comprises a list of such journals generated from Beall’s list of potentially predatory publishers. This dataset of 42,896 journals may be used to guide researchers across all fields, but particularly within biomedical academia when considering submission of their work for publication and when evaluating unsolicited email contact from journals. Dataset generated by web scraping of list of publishers from Beall's list of predatory publishers, validated against the National Library of Medicine, Directory of Open Access Journals, Web of Science, Scopus and Embase bibliographic registries.