gr7ffo / check-bib-for-predatory

check-bib-for-predatory - Double-check your bibliography (BibTeX, bib) for predatory publishers and journals

check-bib-for-predatory

Double-check your bibliography (BibTeX, bib) for predatory publishers and journals

Why?

In order to ensure that no articles from predatory journals or publishers are cited, the tool compares the well-known predatory journals and publishers with your bibliography (BibTeX file). The titles in your bib file are compared with the well-known titles of the predatory journals based on cosine similarity score.

Getting Started

Dependencies

• Miniconda or Anaconda

Requirements

• Install 'predatory' environment from environment.yml

# Install 'predatory' environment from environment.yml 
$ conda env create -n predatory -f environment.yml

Minimal example

# Activate 'predatory' environment
$ conda activate predatory
$ python check-bib.py bib-file-to-be-checked.bib
[...]

# Refresh the local predatory journal cache before checking (! local cache will be overwritten)
$ python check-bib.py bib-file-to-be-checked.bib --refresh
[...]

Sources for predatory journals and publishers used

• https://predatoryjournals.com/journals/
• https://predatoryjournals.com/hijacked/
• https://predatoryjournals.com/publishers/
• https://beallslist.weebly.com/
• https://beallslist.weebly.com/standalone-journals.html

Planned enhancements:

• CSV files in https://github.com/stop-predatory-journals/stop-predatory-journals.github.io/tree/master/_data (instead of crawling)

Feel free to extend it.

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license - see the LICENSE file for details.