It would be great if journals published their articles as structured data. Then readers could compute a Crank Index, or do other automated citation analysis an

It would be great if journals published their articles as structured data. Then readers could compute a Crank Index, or do other automated citation analysis and filtering (e.g., flag excessive self-citations), using independently developed software. We shouldn't need to wait for journals to live up to their responsibility to innovate and improve their quality control. As for a list of unambiguously bad papers, we do have Retraction Watch: https://retractionwatch.com/ https://retractionwatch.com/. It's mainly a retraction tracker, but there is also associated community effort to proactively identify research misconduct.