Should I publish in a journal that appears on Beall’s list? I have written an article in the field of Information Systems and I would like to publish it in a journal. I downloaded the Scimago journal rank, and decided to publish in a journal called Journal of Theoretical and Applied Information Technology. This journal appears to be in the quartile Q3 of Scimago, but one thing that caught my attention is that they publish three volumes per month. Each accepted submission must pay a cost of 300 USD.

When I was searching for the reputation of this journal, I found that it is listed in the famous or infamous Beall’s list. My questions are:


Why does this journal appear on Scimago if it is a predatory one?
Would it be a good idea to publish in it?
Beall's list is grounds for high suspicion, not a ban.  In the case of this particular journal, it looks like not a very good journal, but not an obvious scam.  Google Scholar finds a number of articles with moderate citations, and on first inspection they don't look like metric gaming, so it looks like it wouldn't be a black mark on one's record.  

Bottom line: probably legit, but if you've done good work isn't there somewhere better than you can publish it?