This is a list of questionable conference organizers. We recommend that ICCA members use it as a
cross-reference, and then decide for themselves whether or not they want to enter into business
arrangements with any of these companies.
All the organizers on this list are denied access into the ICCA Association database and their
respective meetings will not count for our annual statistics reports.
From https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/06/23/proposed-criteria-for-identifying-predatory-
conferences/#more-7641 :
“Any academic with an email spam folder realizes that the problem of predatory conferences
continues to grow at an alarming rate. Predatory conferences are for-profit, low-quality academic
meetings that exploit researchers’ need to share and present their research.
The overall conference experience often suffers at predatory conferences. However, not all
predatory conference organizers are small, fly-by-night operations working out of third world
countries. Predatory conference organizers want to make as much money as possible and there’s
more money to be made by offering a decently organized conference. Therefore a polished
conference experience shouldn’t automatically qualify a conference as legitimate and non-predatory.
A well-run conference allowing low-quality research to get presented alongside that of research from
famous keynote speakers and honest academics in order to maximize revenues remains predatory.”
Key difference between "predatory" and "fraudulent“: if a conference takes your money and no
event is organized, then there is clearly false advertising and grounds for legal action, perhaps even
criminal charges. If a conference takes your money and organizes a horrible, worthless, CV-staining
joke of an event, on the other hand, there is no regulatory body that you can complain to: scientific
quality is considered to be a matter of judgement, and there is no way to easily distinguish between
an honest-but-poor-quality conference and an intentionally predatory conference.
Given the rise in the number of “predatory conferences” and the increasingly sophisticated
organizations selling them, ICCA believes an overview like this, applied with necessary background
knowledge, can be helpful to make informed decisions.
We are using this description in line with some of the expert studies that have been investigating this
phenomenon, and reflecting how these events are viewed in the academic/association community.
See also this article on Wikipedia about “predatory conferences”:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_conference
It's important to note that there do exist good, high-quality "open source" meetings, which draw
content from multiple disciplines, with careful vetting. This type of meeting is not included within the
"predatory" description.
For a list of questionable, scholarly open-access publishers maintained by associate professor Jeffrey
Beall please see: https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Academic Fora
http://academicfora.com/
ACADEMICSWORLD
Academics World
http://academicsworld.org/
ASE
http://www.scienceengineeringacademy.org/asesite/
ASET
http://www.asetrc.org/
AIRCC
http://airccse.org/
ASR
http://www.asr.org/
APCBEES
http://www.cbees.org/events/
ADTEL
http://adtelweb.org/index.php
BIT LIFE
BIT Lifesciences
http://www.bitlifesciences.com/
BOSI EDU
BOSI-EDU.ORG
http://www.bosi-edu.org/
CBEES
http://www.cbees.org/
DIRF
http://www.dirf.org/
ENGII
http://www.engii.org/
FTRA
http://www.ftrai.org/conference.html
GAHSSR
http://gahssr.org/
GPLRA
http://gplra.org/
GRDS
http://www.grdsweb.com/
HEF
http://www.prohef.org/about.php
INSTICC
https://www.insticc.org/
IRED
http://www.theired.org/conference_event.html
theIRES
http://theires.org/
ICSAI
http://icsai.org/
IAFOR
http://iafor.org/
IACT
http://www.iact.net/
IAI
http://ibac-conference.org/ibac/index.html
IASTEM
http://iastem.org/
IARIA
http://www.iaria.org/conferences.html
IADIS
http://www.iadisportal.org/
IAPHLSR
http://iaphlsr.org/
IACSIT
http://www.iacsit.org/conference.htm
IAENG
http://www.iaeng.org/news.html
IASTED
http://www.iasted.org/
IBAC
http://ibac-conference.org/ibac/index.html
IBIMA
http://www.ibima.org/
ICRD
http://theicrd.org/
IEDRC
http://www.iedrc.org/list-32-1.html
INTESDA
http://intesda.org/
IIER
http://theiier.org/
IJCEA
http://www.ijcea.org/
IJMMM
http://www.ijmmm.org/
SGEM
http://www.sgem.org/
ISAET
http://www.isaet.org/gallery.php
ISERD
http://www.iserd.co/
ISER
http://iser.co
MATEC
http://www.matec-conferences.org/
NAUN
http://www.naun.org/
OMICS
OMICS International
http://www.omicsonline.org/ http://www.conferenceseries.com/
PSRC
http://psrcentre.org/gallery.php
RW|RESEARCHWORLD
RW|ResearchWorld
http://researchworld.org/
SERSC
http://www.sersc.org/conferences/cal.php
SCIEI
http://sciei.org/list-32-1.html
SCITEVENTS
http://www.scitevents.com/
SCIRP
http://www.scirp.org/Conference/Index.aspx
SCIHOST
SCIHOST
http://www.scihost.org/
SELECTBIO
https://selectbiosciences.com/conferences.aspx
SDIWC
http://sdiwc.net/
SAISE
https://www.insticc.org/
AICIT
The International Association for Information, Culture, Human and Industry Technology
http://www.aicit.org/about.html
UAC
http://www.universal-conferences.org/
VISCEA
http://viscea.org/
WASET
https://www.waset.org/
http://worldresearchlibrary.org/journal.php
WSEAS
http://www.wseas.org/cms.action?id=87