 how to identify predatory journals. Number one is the publication fee. It may not be too high so that they can slowly collect money from the authors. Second one is the scope of the journal. Usually these journals will have wide, multiple and unrelated subjects as their scope of journal. There will not be any verifiable address or phone number. When we look at the quality of the publication, it will be very poor with no editing concerns on ethics, plagiarism check, putting guidelines, fake information will be displayed regarding the experts in the editorial committee. And there will not be any peer review process. Then these journals will be contacting the authors with repeated mails and calls. And if you look at their website, it will be poorly maintained. And there will not be any ISSN and the DOI will not be present. Other important false credentials will be on the impact factor and indexing. What will be the consequences? Articles will disappear from their website and it won't appear in the searches. And hence it will be least cited. And after some time these journals will not maintain their websites and they will run off. So it is duty of every researcher by not becoming a prey to these predatory journals.