57:. Cabells' v1.0 contains 64 criteria, which are organised by subject matter such as “integrity”, “peer review”, and “publication practices”. This v1.0 evaluation list was used for the preparation of the deceptive journal list before it was launched until early 2019, when Cabells launched its new v1.1 criteria version. This v1.1 evaluation checklist features 74 behavioural indicators, which are grouped “according to relative severity and subject matter”. Some of the criteria used by Cabells to tag journals as predatory have been criticized, including, for instance, the indicator “no policies for digital preservation" whose interpretation varies according to subjectivity.
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