by aplefMQ » Fri Nov 06, 2015 8:53 am
Hi Mike
While Beall's list is indeed useful at uncovering particularly bad practice, it should not be viewed as the "be-all" and end all.
Similarly, with any other blacklist, whitelist, retraction list and journal quality list, these are more useful when they are used as one of many indicator's. The same could be said for publication metrics too (e.g. Citations, RCI, SNIP, SJR, etc.).