“…Most research concerning predatory journals and publishing has been conducted by utilizing the list proposed and developed by Beall's (2012Beall's ( , 2017 who in fact coined the term of "predatory journals" in the literature. By using Beall's (2017) black list, they conducted analyses on the journal metrics and information gathered about the authors publishing in these journals (Akça & Akbulut, 2018;Demir, 2018;Shen & Björk, 2015;Xia et al, 2015). In addition to the interpretations concerning the rates and statistics of predatory publishing, most of these studies above also attempted to predict and comment on the reasons of the researchers for publishing in these journals (Akça & Akbulut, 2018;Demir, 2018;Oermann et al, 2016;Xia et al, 2015).…”