Interesting article exploring the reasons why Beall's List of predatory journals was shut down. The answer, in a nutshell: publishers began complaining to the University of Colorado at Denver, where beall works as a tenured professor, and the university, which had originally defended Beall, change tack and launched an investigation into academic misconduct. Beall, meanwhile, works in "a small cubicle similar to a student's study carrel." Nice. The list, meanwhile, has resurfaced in Europe at a new site.
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