This article aims at analyzing the impact of predatory publishing in ophthalmology, criteria to identify a legitimate journal, red flags of a predatory journal, sources, and checkpoints available before publishing scientific work in a standard ophthalmology journal. A retrospective review was performed and a list of suspected Ophthalmology predatory journals was extracted through four major so-called blacklists: Beall's, Cabell's, Manca's, and Strinzel's list. This list of journals was then cross-referenced with the UGC CARE and vetted whitelist of vision science journals to remove the legitimate journals. Moreover, as all the predatory journals are supposed to be open access, all possible types of open-access journals on the Scimago webpage were also searched. A gross estimate in terms of publication cost was searched for, and a list of authentic links to find out a legitimate journal was prepared. Additionally, the methodology by which these predatory journals penetrate legitimate indexes such as PubMed was also evaluated. A total of 51 ophthalmology predatory journals were enlisted. Thirty-eight out of 124 Ophthalmology journals listed on Scimago were open access, and the cost of publishing in predatory journals ranged from USD50-500, which is substantially lower than that in legitimate journals (USD 50-3000). A total of 13 open-access platforms exist, with 10 characteristic red flags to identify a predatory journal. These journals have penetrated legitimate indexes such as PubMed by similar-sounding names to the legitimate journals and have published articles with external funding, which needs indexing. Predatory publishing impacts the quality of research in every field, including Ophthalmology, and must be discouraged.

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避免早期眼科医生的掠夺性出版。

本文旨在分析掠夺性出版对眼科学的影响、识别合法期刊的标准、掠夺性期刊的危险信号、来源和在标准眼科学期刊上发表科学工作之前可用的检查点。进行了回顾性审查，并通过四个主要的所谓黑名单提取了疑似眼科掠夺性期刊的名单：Beall's、Cabell's、Manca's 和 Strinzel's list。该期刊列表随后与 UGC CARE 交叉引用，并审查了视觉科学期刊的白名单以删除合法期刊。此外，由于所有掠夺性期刊都应该是开放获取的，因此还搜索了 Scimago 网页上所有可能类型的开放获取期刊。搜索了出版成本方面的粗略估计，并准备了一份真实链接列表，以找出合法期刊。此外，还评估了这些掠夺性期刊渗透合法索引（如 PubMed）的方法。共收录 51 种眼科掠夺性期刊。Scimago 列出的 124 种眼科期刊中有 38 种是开放获取的，在掠夺性期刊上发表的成本在 50-500 美元之间，大大低于合法期刊（50-3000 美元）。共有 13 个开放获取平台，有 10 个特征危险信号来识别掠夺性期刊。这些期刊以与合法期刊相似的名称进入了 PubMed 等合法索引，并在外部资助下发表了需要索引的文章。