Validate your conference
Welcome to the Predatory Conference Checker, your reliable tool for identifying credible academic conferences. Our platform helps academics and professionals avoid predatory events, ensuring the integrity of their research and participation. Enter your conference details for a quick and informed legitimacy assessment.
EVENT DISCOVERY SOURCE
The first thing to consider when evaluating a conference is where and how it is promoted – and more importantly, how did you learn about it?
How did you hear about the event?
Keep in mind...
If you or a colleague received an unsolicited email from a contact you do not know (ie not an email from a listserv or membership organisation you are registered with) this is a huge red flag and sign of a potentially predatory event.
If you receive one of these emails and do not know the organisation or sender or cannot verify the existence of the organisation or individual sender, then this is concerning. Equally, if the organisation or individual sender are not actively producing research in the subject field of the event, or if the subject field of the event is not directly linked with your own research field, this is also a point of concern. Finally, be wary if there is a reference to a random (possibly unrelated) article you have published – as often predators find potential victims by collecting the contact details for corresponding authors from all recently published issues.
So if you receive one of these emails, consider the following:
- Can you identify and verify the sender, and are they actively producing research in your subject area?
- Is the event relevant to their subject area and your own?
- Is there is a clear and convincing rationale for you to be contacted?
- Whether the email accurately highlights the relevance of the event to your field of study
- Is the email tone overly flattering?