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Predatory publishing

Quality:

Predatory publishing - fraudulent business model for scientific publications. Article “Predatory publishing” in English Wikipedia has 81.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 173 references and 21 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Predatory publishing” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 2 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Predatory publishing”, its content was written by 299 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 638 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 406 times in English Wikipedia and cited 588 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #3628 in January 2017
  • Global: #1722 in July 2018

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #22013 in December 2017
  • Global: #48025 in December 2017

There are 15 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Predatory publishing
81.7192
2German (de)
Predatory Publishing
71.1236
3Malay (ms)
Penerbitan pemangsa
62.8325
4Italian (it)
Pubblicazione predatoria
49.0235
5Korean (ko)
약탈적 출판
40.4365
6Slovenian (sl)
Plenilsko založništvo
39.0797
7Thai (th)
สำนักพิมพ์แบบเปิดที่ล่าเหยื่อ
38.5747
8Portuguese (pt)
Publicação predatória
35.2551
9Czech (cs)
Predátorské publikování
30.2205
10Indonesian (id)
Penerbit pemangsa
29.5663
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Predatory publishing" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Predatory publishing
1 479 558
2German (de)
Predatory Publishing
120 539
3Chinese (zh)
掠奪性出版
59 521
4Italian (it)
Pubblicazione predatoria
39 379
5Polish (pl)
Wydawnictwa drapieżne
22 051
6Korean (ko)
약탈적 출판
10 081
7Czech (cs)
Predátorské publikování
5 255
8Indonesian (id)
Penerbit pemangsa
4 851
9Thai (th)
สำนักพิมพ์แบบเปิดที่ล่าเหยื่อ
4 269
10Arabic (ar)
نشر استغلالي
3 906
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Predatory publishing" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Predatory publishing
6 177
2German (de)
Predatory Publishing
798
3Chinese (zh)
掠奪性出版
370
4Italian (it)
Pubblicazione predatoria
205
5Czech (cs)
Predátorské publikování
167
6Korean (ko)
약탈적 출판
150
7Polish (pl)
Wydawnictwa drapieżne
110
8Indonesian (id)
Penerbit pemangsa
109
9Portuguese (pt)
Publicação predatória
35
10Arabic (ar)
نشر استغلالي
26
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Predatory publishing" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Predatory publishing
299
2German (de)
Predatory Publishing
224
3Italian (it)
Pubblicazione predatoria
23
4Persian (fa)
انتشارات متن باز مجرمانه
20
5Polish (pl)
Wydawnictwa drapieżne
18
6Chinese (zh)
掠奪性出版
15
7Czech (cs)
Predátorské publikování
9
8Korean (ko)
약탈적 출판
7
9Arabic (ar)
نشر استغلالي
6
10Indonesian (id)
Penerbit pemangsa
4
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Predatory publishing" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Predatory publishing
2
2Arabic (ar)
نشر استغلالي
0
3Czech (cs)
Predátorské publikování
0
4German (de)
Predatory Publishing
0
5Persian (fa)
انتشارات متن باز مجرمانه
0
6Finnish (fi)
Saalistajajulkaisija
0
7Indonesian (id)
Penerbit pemangsa
0
8Italian (it)
Pubblicazione predatoria
0
9Korean (ko)
약탈적 출판
0
10Malay (ms)
Penerbitan pemangsa
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Predatory publishing" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Predatory publishing
406
2German (de)
Predatory Publishing
46
3Chinese (zh)
掠奪性出版
34
4Polish (pl)
Wydawnictwa drapieżne
21
5Italian (it)
Pubblicazione predatoria
19
6Persian (fa)
انتشارات متن باز مجرمانه
16
7Czech (cs)
Predátorské publikování
14
8Korean (ko)
약탈적 출판
10
9Indonesian (id)
Penerbit pemangsa
8
10Arabic (ar)
نشر استغلالي
5
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
نشر استغلالي
csCzech
Predátorské publikování
deGerman
Predatory Publishing
enEnglish
Predatory publishing
faPersian
انتشارات متن باز مجرمانه
fiFinnish
Saalistajajulkaisija
idIndonesian
Penerbit pemangsa
itItalian
Pubblicazione predatoria
koKorean
약탈적 출판
msMalay
Penerbitan pemangsa
plPolish
Wydawnictwa drapieżne
ptPortuguese
Publicação predatória
slSlovenian
Plenilsko založništvo
thThai
สำนักพิมพ์แบบเปิดที่ล่าเหยื่อ
zhChinese
掠奪性出版

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#22013
12.2017
Global:
#48025
12.2017

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#3628
01.2017
Global:
#1722
07.2018

Local AI rank history

Global AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Predatory publishing from Wikipedia articles about MDPI, Bealls list of predatory open access journals, Jeffrey Beall, Frontiers Media and Google Scholar. Whereas reading the article about Predatory publishing people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Bealls list of predatory open access journals, Cabells Predatory Reports, Directory of Open Access Journals, Jeffrey Beall and List of scholarly publishing stings.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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