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Greetings friends. We continue with the criteria of associate professorship. There are many questions on this subject, especially about predatory journals. Since it is very vague and a question mark, there are people who write to me a lot, especially on this subject. How will we know if it is a predatory magazine, that is, a predatory magazine? I could not get this in my mind, they say, it is normal because there is a blurry statement made by the interuniversity board. You can make or break every magazine from this fuzzy explanation, so very simply. Well, now I want to talk a little bit about this subject. There is no list of these journals at the beginning of the questions we receive, how can we reach them? Is happening. Unfortunately, there is no such list. Even YÖK, who came up with this, can't stand behind it because it prepared a list and said it officially. It leaves you in the hands of the referees. In other words, if the referees want, you can accept an open access journal as a predator because it gets better money. No one will say anything about it. However, it is a wrong application. Because all journals that receive money in the description given by YÖK fall into this category. Let's leave the explanation of YÖK and YÖK and let's look at what really predatory journals are and how we can find them. Friends, first of all, quality magazines, that is, magazines with high impact factor, well-known magazines, do not spend a lot of money on advertising. If a magazine advertises too much, you can start to approach suspiciously if you see ads from google ads, instagram, here and there when you write the magazine. Predators are common features of magazines and they spend a lot of money on advertising. While advertising, they generally state that they evaluate quickly and give quick results. They say such things as it will be obvious a week after you submit your article whether it will be accepted or not. It has a fitra, that is, a nature. Now 3-5 referees will read it and they cannot decide it in 3-5 days. This is one of the features of predatory journals and predatory journals. I just want to emphasize this again. As YÖK says, not every journal that receives money is a predatory predatory journal. Open access journals are not predatory journals. Some magazines charge printing fees or may charge some fees. It is quite wrong to consider all of these as predatory journals. If it is indexed like SCI, the probability of being a predator will decrease. It may be written on the web page of the journal that the research is included in the index. Be sure to go to the website and confirm this. Because do not trust too much what is written on the web page. Because predator magazines are now lying, predatory magazines may also play some tricks on their web pages. For example, they extract the h index. When there is an impact factor, that is why you write h index, write the magazine h index there and show it as if the journal is qualified, then it makes it look like it is included in the index. Well, if it is included in the index, then it should also be on the Web of Science page and I will add the link to the Web of Science page in the description section below, press there and write the name of the journal. If you see the name of the magazine there, you can call it a reliable magazine. These predatory magazines usually try to attract people by making such misleading statements. Therefore, you should never trust the information given by the magazine. Always confirm. Be sure to research the information given by that journal from different sources. At this point, if you have caught a shortcoming of the magazine, it would be more beneficial to remove that magazine directly from our agenda. Because there is a doubt. You do not want to submit your article that you have been dealing with for so many years to a dubious journal. As a result, there may be a situation such as not getting any points. Please be careful about this. Other than that, as I said, predatory journals create an air of high impact. If a journal has an impact factor, friends are definitely indexed in Web Of Science. Check if the journal has an impact factor or not. There is no index. If it says it's an h index or something else, don't look at them. If these exist, there is already a question mark there. If there is an impact factor, it shows that it is listed in the web of science series, which gives confidence. Therefore, it will always be a question mark in our minds which are predatory magazines and which ones are not their aims. Considering such criteria, I think you will have a much higher chance of eliminating patchy magazines. You may have questions on this subject, there may be corners that you are not satisfied with, please write as a comment in such cases, let's discuss together, try to clarify together, I wish you a good day.