stop-predatory-journals / stop-predatory-journals.github.io

A listing of predatory academic journals and publishers.
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Use rel="nofollow" in links to bad journals, metrics, etc #81

Open jezcope opened 2 years ago

jezcope commented 2 years ago

I'm not 100% sure on this, but I think the links to predatory sites should include a rel="nofollow" attribute to indicate to search engine crawlers that the link should not be considered an endorsement. Without this, each link we include here will make a small contribution to improving the predatory site's search engine ranking, which is probably not something we want!

For info see e.g. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel#attr-nofollow