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The paper provides a critical review of predatory journals phenomenon affecting the field of scholarly communication in the Open Access era. It gives an analytical account of the debates, the research carried and methodologies and discusses the multidimensionality of definition of predatory journals and of the new market of lists of "legitimate" and "illegitimate" journals. The article identifies the main ethical and scientific issues that predatory journals raise in the Open Access publishing era and reports on the contexts that lead researchers (young and senior) to publish in these outlets. By linking predatory journals to the field of scholarly communication, the article highlights the main issues and establishes them as research subjects. The article concludes with research avenues that contribute to the analysis of mutation in digital scholarly communication., L'article présente un état de l'art critique du phénomène des revues prédatrices qui touche le champ de la communication scientifique et en fait une de ses actualités les plus médiatisées. Il rend compte des débats en cours, des recherches menées et de leurs méthodologies. L'article discute la définition de la revue prédatrice et propose une analyse du nouveau marché de listes de revues « légitimes » et « illégitimes ». Il identifie les principaux enjeux éthiques et scientifiques que les revues prédatrices font peser sur la publication en Libre Accès et rend compte des contextes qui conduisent des chercheurs (jeunes et seniors) à y publier. En rattachant les revues prédatrices au champ de la communication scientifique, l'article en pointe les principales problématiques et les érige en objet de recherche. L'article conclut sur des pistes de recherches contribuant à l'analyse des mutations de la communication scientifique numérique. Abstract: The paper provides a critical review of predatory journals phenomenon affecting the field of scholarly communication in the Open Access era. It gives an analytical account of the debates, the research carried and methodologies and discusses the multidimensionality of definition of predatory journals and of the new market of lists of "legitimate" and "illegitimate" journals. The article identifies the main ethical and scientific issues that predatory journals raise in the Open Access publishing era and reports on the contexts that lead researchers (young and senior) to publish in these outlets. By linking predatory journals to the field of scholarly communication, the article highlights the main issues and establishes them as research subjects. The article concludes with research avenues that contribute to the analysis of mutation in digital scholarly communication.