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Formerly known as Cabell's Blacklist, this database identifies deceptive and fraudulent journals. Specialists identify and analyze over 65 behavioral indicators to flag potentially exploitative or dishonest operations. Each entry provides information on how to identify the journal in the real world as well as a comprehensive report of each behavioral indicator that was uncovered in the journal’s evaluation.

Formerly known as Cabell's Whitelist, Journalytics is a curated database of scholarly journals that guides researchers, publishers, librarians, academics, and administrators to the publications they need. This database provides complete contact and publication information, multiple quality metrics, submission experience data, and peer review indicators.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is a collection of open access journals.

Provides Journal Impact Factors for a systematic, objective means to critically evaluate journals.

Directory of academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world.

Evaluate and compare journals using citation data in areas of science, technology, and social sciences.

The Journal Impact Factor (JIF) gives a measure of the frequency that the average article in a journal has been cited in a particular year. This metric is updated once a year.

Formerly known as Cabell's Whitelist, Journalytics is an independent, curated database of scholarly journals that guides researchers, publishers, librarians, academics, and administrators to the publications they need. Journalytics provides complete contact and publication information, multiple quality metrics, submission experience data, and peer review indicators.

In addition to the journals database, contextual metrics such as the Cabell's Classification Index©, the Difficulty of Acceptance©, and the Institutional Publishing Activity© are powerful tools designed to help researchers search, filter and compare journals when making decisions about publication and to assist administrators in evaluating publication records. Explanations of the Journal Metrics can be found at http://www2.cabells.com.dax.lib.unf.edu/metrics

Additionally, there is a searchable database of deceptive and predatory academic journals.