Jeffrey Beall

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Jeffrey Beall is a scholar working on Information Systems, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and Information Systems and Management. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeffrey Beall has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Information Systems, 13 papers in Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty and 12 papers in Information Systems and Management. Recurrent topics in Jeffrey Beall's work include Library Science and Information Systems (21 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (13 papers) and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources (10 papers). Jeffrey Beall is often cited by papers focused on Library Science and Information Systems (21 papers), scientometrics and bibliometrics research (13 papers) and Library Collection Development and Digital Resources (10 papers). Jeffrey Beall collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Brazil. Jeffrey Beall's co-authors include Fredy R. S. Gutierrez, Diego A. Forero, Karen Kafadar, Sandra E. Shumway, Peter G. Beninger and Mark D. Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jeffrey Beall

70 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jeffrey Beall United States	17	923	594	318	166	157	75	1.8k
Tony Ross‐Hellauer Austria	13	545 0.6×	427 0.7×	233 0.7×	124 0.7×	122 0.8×	68	1.0k
Eti Herman China	23	631 0.7×	344 0.6×	411 1.3×	67 0.4×	97 0.6×	62	1.4k
Philip M. Davis United States	20	740 0.8×	325 0.5×	758 2.4×	66 0.4×	79 0.5×	38	1.6k
Anthony Watkinson United Kingdom	22	636 0.7×	366 0.6×	576 1.8×	69 0.4×	81 0.5×	61	1.6k
Blanca Rodríguez Bravo Spain	17	483 0.5×	237 0.4×	370 1.2×	52 0.3×	70 0.4×	107	1.1k
Emanuel Kulczycki Poland	20	657 0.7×	212 0.4×	190 0.6×	59 0.4×	56 0.4×	92	1.2k
Chérifa Boukacem‐Zeghmouri France	18	427 0.5×	224 0.4×	285 0.9×	55 0.3×	63 0.4×	63	977
Juan Pablo Alperín Canada	17	508 0.6×	286 0.5×	212 0.7×	110 0.7×	39 0.2×	75	1.1k
William H. Walters United States	23	394 0.4×	224 0.4×	543 1.7×	34 0.2×	59 0.4×	75	1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Jeffrey Beall

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeffrey Beall

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All Works

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Beall, Jeffrey, et al.. (2024). I don't think we should "combat" predatory publishers: An interview with Jeffrey Beall. Encontros Bibli Revista Eletrônica de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação. 29. 1–7.

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Beall, Jeffrey, et al.. (2024). Não acho que devamos “combater” editores predatórios: uma entrevista com Jeffrey Beall. Encontros Bibli Revista Eletrônica de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação. 29. 1 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2017). What I learned from predatory publishers. Biochemia Medica. 27(2). 273–278. 166 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey & Karen Kafadar. (2013). The Effectiveness of Copy Cataloging at Eliminating Typographical Errors in Shared Bibliographic Records. Library Resources and Technical Services. 48(2). 92–101. 6 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2013). Avoiding the Peril of Publishing Qualitative Scholarship in Predatory Journals.. 8(1). 1–12. 12 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2013). Five Predatory Mega-Journals: A Review. The Charleston Advisor. 14(4). 20–25. 10 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2013). Medical Publishing Triage - Chronicling Predatory Open Access Publishers. Annals of Medicine and Surgery. 2(2). 47–49. 83 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2013). The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 11(2). 589–597. 54 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2013). The Open-Access Movement is Not Really about Open Access. tripleC Communication Capitalism & Critique Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society. 11(2). 589–597. 12 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2013). Predatory Publishers Threaten to Erode Scholarly Communication. E-LIS Repository (University of Naples Federico II). 5 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2012). Five Scholarly Open Access Publishers. The Charleston Advisor. 13(4). 5–10. 8 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2011). Internet Scientific Publications. The Charleston Advisor. 12(4). 39–41. 8 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2011). Abbreviations, Full Spellings, and Searchers’ Preferences. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 49(6). 443–456. 1 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2010). Update: Predatory Open-Access Scholarly Publishers. The Charleston Advisor. 12(1). 50–50. 38 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2010). Metadata for Name Disambiguation and Collocation. Future Internet. 2(1). 1–15. 5 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey, et al.. (2008). Library 2.0 and the Problem of Hate Speech. Insecta mundi. 2 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2006). The Death of Metadata. The Serials Librarian. 51(2). 55–74. 6 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2005). Metadata and Data Quality Problems in the Digital Library. Texas Digital Library (University of Texas). 6(3). 1. 28 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2001). Internet Resources in Rare Diseases. 5(4). 11–17. 5 indexed citations

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Beall, Jeffrey. (2001). Publishers' Errors Make Catalogers [sic]: An Analysis of the Error Indicators[sic]and[i.e.]in Cataloging. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly. 32(3). 87–107. 1 indexed citations

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