From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 09:40:57 -0500 Let me ask Kevin, in return, how useful he thinks student evaluations of teachers are, as at the "Rate Your Professors" site where professors are, among other things, rated for their "hotness." I suspect such a forum for complaining about journal practices would be as useful, or as useless, as student evaluations are--i.e., a very mixed bag. As noted in my comment to the Chronicle piece, much better was the journal reviewing that the Times Higher Education Supplement used to do (and maybe still does). That kind of reviewing would surely expose predatory journals in a more definitive way than Beall's list does. Sandy Thatcher