[4] When Beall created his list, he was employed as a librarian and associate professor[5] at the University of Colorado Denver.
In that same year, Beall was awarded tenure by the University of Colorado Denver and promoted to associate professor.
He has published a number of analyses of predatory OA journals, such as one of Bentham Open in The Charleston Advisor in 2009.
"[16] Since 2008, he has maintained a well-known and regularly updated list of what he states are "potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers".
[22] Beall coined the term "predatory meetings" for a new activity of OMICS and others in organizing scientific conferences claiming editorial boards and organizing committees with prominent academics who have not agreed to participate, with high fees for attendance, and with poor reviewing standards for acceptance.
"[23] He also recommends, "in the strongest terms possible, that all scholars from all countries avoid doing business in any way with the OMICS Group.
[26] The publication, entitled Who's Afraid of Peer Review?, concluded that Beall is "good at spotting publishers with poor quality control".
sting operation, observed that "Beall is falsely accusing nearly one in five as being a 'potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open access publisher' on appearances alone.
Being mislabeled as a 'potential, possible, or probable predatory publisher' by circumstantial evidence alone is like the sheriff of a Wild West town throwing a cowboy into jail just 'cuz he's a little funny lookin.'
"[30] City University of New York librarians Monica Berger and Jill Cirasella said his views are biased against open-access journals from less economically developed countries.
Berger and Cirasella argued that "imperfect English or a predominantly non-Western editorial board does not make a journal predatory".
[36] The company later denied any connection of the closure with its project; its vice president of business development declared that Beall "was forced to shut down blog due to threats and politics".
"[41] After the website was taken down, medical researcher Roger Pierson of the University of Saskatchewan said, "To see Beall's work disappear would be an absolute disaster," adding, "From an academic perspective, this represents the absence of an extremely important resource.
"[42] Subsequently, an anonymous person created an archive of Jeffrey Beall's work on lists of predatory publishers and journals.
[44] In May 2013, OMICS Publishing Group, which had also been included on Beall's list of predatory open access publishers,[23] issued a warning to Beall in a poorly-written letter[45] stating that they intended to sue him, and were seeking $1 billion in damages[46][47] under section 66A of India's Information Technology Act, 2000.
[52][53] The complaint was the first against an academic publisher[54] and alleged that the defendants had been "deceiving academics and researchers about the nature of its publications and hiding publication fees ranging from hundreds to thousands of dollars",[55] holding manuscripts hostage by seeking fees to allow them to be withdrawn,[50][54] and promoting predatory conferences;[51][52] Inside Higher Education reports that Beall has published examples of these sorts of activities by OMICS, and he has previously said of the organization: "If anything is predatory, it's that publisher.
It also requires that the defendants clearly and conspicuously disclose all costs associated with submitting or publishing articles in their journals.