Dozens of Scientific Journals Offered Her a Job. But She Didn't Exist | Time.com

"Pisanski and her colleagues selected 360 journals to approach in their study. Of these, 120 each came from two legitimate directories of science publications: The Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). The final 120 came from a less formal directory known as "Beall's list," a compendium of suspect journals compiled by Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado."