"Scientists are subject to scams, just as much as anyone else. Predatory journals take advantage of authors who submit papers and readers who access these papers; predatory conferences exploit speakers and attendees. But an innovative tool called Aletheia-Probe (named after the Greek word for truth) offers a simple way to check the ratings of journals and conferences, so users can better assess which ones to trust."
"Andreas Florath, a cloud-computing architect at German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, who is based in Raeren, Belgium, created Aletheia-Probe while he was helping his colleagues to write a review paper on energy management. He needed to evaluate more than 350 papers. "I will not do this manually," he recalls thinking. Like any good software developer, his laziness prompted hard work, and he built Aletheia-Probe to automate this process."
Predatory journals and conferences exploit authors, readers, speakers and attendees by offering poor peer review, disappearing publications, or empty events. Existing resources such as the Directory of Open Access Journals, Predatory Journals lists, and CrossRef provide partial or inconsistent information across sources. Aletheia-Probe gathers data from about a dozen databases and applies an algorithm to integrate ratings and indicators to produce a unified assessment. The tool was developed to automate large-scale evaluation of papers and is available for download from GitHub to run via text-based command-line interfaces like macOS Terminal or MobaXterm on Windows.
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