Use Think. Check. Submit. It is an easy-to-use tool to help you identify trustworthy publication venues for your research. It provides a simple checklist to help you assess the credentials of a journal or publisher.
Some helpful tips and questions to consider:
"Predatory" publishers present themselves as legitimate but use questionable publishing practices such as:
an inadequate or incomplete peer review process
focusing on collecting article processing charges over quality scholarship
masking the true identity of journal staff and the actual fees required for publication.
Beware - if you fall prey to these tactics and publish in one of these spurious outlets, it is almost impossible to retract your article and could come at great legal, reputational, and financial expense to you.
A valuable resource is the watchdog organization Retraction Watch (RW), which tracks article retractions as "a window into the scientific process." You can subscribe to a weekly newsletter of recent retractions, and also access:
Before accessing their fully searchable database of retracted articles, check the Retraction Watch Database User Guide.