Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers : Nature News & Comment

"Researchers on social media have been split by the decision of academic librarian Jeffrey Beall to add the Frontiers journals to his ‘blacklist’ of 'questionable publishers'.  His website Scholarly Open Access maintains a list of journals that may be 'predatory publishers' — a term Beall coined to cover publications that charge scientists fees to publish research papers, but that do not offer standard publishing services such as peer review or that make misleading claims about their journals on issues such as impact factors or indexing.  Critics spoke out against Beall’s blacklisting of Frontiers, maintaining that the open-access publisher is legitimate and reputable and does offer proper peer review ..."