Dude, this article is spot on. Did you read it? Did you even read those articles published in that journals? Filan Fisteku is translated as John Doe in Albanian, with a difference that Filan Fisteku does not really exist as name. The article of Filan Fisteku and the former rector were jokes. If you can publish jokes in a journal, what does it say about the journal? Developing countries can publish in high ranked journals. Moreover, in high ranked real journals you don’t have to pay for publishing (not in my field of study at least). These crappy journals that are used by “professors” of developing countries require payment!
Comment on University of Pristina Rector under Fire for Publishing in Predatory Journals by Ilir
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jinhai Gao
Why did you sidestep my criticism? Who I am is not important. It is the substance of my criticism that is important. What I can tell you here is that I am a faculty member in an academic institution in the US. If you really want to know my identity and swear not to disclose it to anyone else (because I don’t want to be harassed by guys like yiming). I can let you know by email.
Let me air more complaints about your analysis. First of all, the title of your article is not even correct. MDPI is not a Chinese publisher. Lin Shukun is a Swiss citizen and the company headquarter is located in Basel, Switzerland. Many Silicon Valley companies are founded by Indian immigrants, and many of these companies outsource their operations to India. Would you call these companies Indian companies? KFC is now doing most of its business in China, would you call KFC a Chinese company? The term “made in China” is associated with poor quality and elicits raw emotions in some people’s mind. I suspect that your action of classifying MDPI as a predatory publisher may have some to do with your realization that its founder is a Chinese immigrant.
Your analysis is choke full of speculations with little evidence to back them up. Here are some more examples:
1) Peter Suber serving on an editorial board is an effort to forestall criticism. Evidence? None. It was just your hunch.
2) Because its mission is to earn as much money as possible through article submissions. Where did you find this mission of the company, out of thing air? Let me borrow your tactic, see how you like it: because Jeffery Beall’s mission is to gain as much fame or notoriety as possible through Beall’s list, he went after MDPI…
3) The publisher was mainly set up to exploit the needs of scholars in China. Evidence? Because yiming said so? The Beijing office was set up in 2008, but if you care enough to look through MDPI’s recent publications, you’ll find that only a small percentage of papers is actually from authors within China.
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
Is Jinhai Gao your real name, or are you writing under a pseudonym? Have you published any papers with MDPI? I just searched your name on the MDPI site and found nothing. (Perhaps you use only an initial?) Please answer my question: have you published any papers with MDPI?
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jinhai Gao
I have already answered this question above: “I have never published or reviewed a paper in its journals, not on any of its editorial boards.” Looks like you didn’t quite read my comments. Let me add more information: I have published plenty of papers. I have no relationship with MDPI. I do not know Lin in person. My interest in this case comes from 1) I have been a long-time follower of your list; 2) I am familiar with the Fang Shimin and Yiming’s work.
Of course I use Jinhai Gao as my pseudonym, for the reason I explained in my previous response.
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
Okay, so you are using a fake name. What other false things have you said?
I stand by this: the fact that you have never published in MDPI’s journals is very telling.
I understand Lin is calling in favors and asking his friends to defend his business, and I commend you on your loyalty.
It appears that all the scholars who are defending Lin have never published in any of his journals. Those closest to him, his friends that are defending him, don’t want to publish their work in his journals.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jan Szczepanski
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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by Lin
Yes. Very sad to see this kind on “cheating” happen.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Jan, I had not heard of this new publisher. It launched with about 20 broad journals. For a good laugh, read its ‘management team’ page. I’ve added it to my list. Thanks for letting me know about it.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jan Szczepanski
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This one is more sad than funny.
I have added this one to my list also. Thank you for letting me know about it.
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by ash kanash
Jeff, what are the differences between Hindawi and MDPI that prompted you to remove the former and add the latter to the list?
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
Cool, a trick question from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Clouseau" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Inspector Clouseau</a>! What is your real name? Why are you afraid to reveal it? How many papers have you published in Shukun Lin's website? Zero? Excellent -- that's exactly what I recommend.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by a bogus publisher called the
- Center for Promoting Ideas
. This publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you not publish in any of its journals. The title sounds okay, but I think most legitimate journals would say “social sciences.”
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jay
I think the smart way to answer Ash Kanash’s question is to keep with patience and explain directly the difference of journal quality between Hindawa and MDPI.
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
Disagree. Tolstoy said: “Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” I will update this to “Successful publishers are all alike; every predatory publisher is predatory in its own way.”
I do not compare publishers to each other; this is a waste of time. If you want to do this, feel free, and report back what you find.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
That looks like it is not an open-access publisher.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
Peter, I recommend reading Richard Poynder’s interview with Ashry Aly, the owner of Ashdin. It’s available here: http://poynder.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-oa-interviews-ashry-aly-of-ashdin.html You’ll see how he used a fake name to increase MSS submissions, and much more. After the interview was done, he also created and published fake quotes and attributed them to OA leaders, quotes that trashed my work. If you are looking for a publisher run by an honest and ethical team, Ashdin is not the one.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Can you send me the link, please?
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Comment on Iceland Professor in Hot Water for Publishing in Predatory Journals by Kasper
There were some reports of Prof. Guðlaugsson also here in the Netherlands. I hope he learns out of this leassons. A man of his reputation should not fall in such traps..
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by HQ
The MDPI address does point to the bakery in Google Maps street view. The actual MDPI office next the door is not better looking at all, with two trash bags near the entrance.
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