A blog today in The BMJ provides further commentary on predatory journals. The blog provides a good overview of how to recognise predatory journals, and provides a variety of tips. The key takeaways from the blog are:

• Predatory journals are not cooperative with attempts to “retract”
• It can be hard to distinguish legitimate and non-legitimate journals
• Some journals have developed “acceptable journals lists”
• We should assume that a journal is predatory until evidence is found to the contrary
• Everyone needs to be more accountable