Knowing all horrible stuff, I now may understand and appreciate your reaction Jeaffrey. Good luck >>>> Samy
Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by Samy Oraby
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by AlexH
This will point only to the quality of the articles in question. Journals and publishers create a context in which these articles appears publicly. This context can not be evaluated as if it were an aggregate of articles, other factors, derived mainly from the (past and current) functioning of the publishing company must also be taken into account.
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Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by Bogdan
What about Hindawi Publishing Corporation (http://www.hindawi.com)?
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Clem
As well as the fast peer-review, how can acceptance to publication be so fast when MDPI promise on their website that “production includes professional copyediting and English editing”? Both Molecular Pain and PLoS one do not do any language editing.
“Molecular Pain will not edit submitted manuscripts for style or language; reviewers may advise rejection of a manuscript if it is compromised by grammatical errors.”
“PLOS ONE does not copyedit accepted manuscripts, so the language in submitted articles must be clear, correct, and unambiguous”
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I don’t think this publisher meets the criteria for inclusion on my list.
If you disagree, please let me know why. Thanks.
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by Jeff Shrager
This is great (from their faq): “We are a group of scholars from leading research institutions and universities with a vast experience in academic publishing process. … WE DO NOT PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT OURSELVES ON THIS WEB SITE FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. FOR LEGAL INORMATION OUR SOLICITIORS CAN BE CONTACTED THROUGH E-MAIL PROVIDED ON THIS PAGE AND THEY WILL RESPOND TO ANY ENQUIRIES ON OUR BEHALF.” (upcase emphasis mine). I think that you could actually rate the quality of a journal just by putting their faq into a spell checker and counting the errors. This one has at least three: inormation, seperate, beleive, artice…and those are just the ones I noticed in skimming! (Not to mention grammatical errors!)
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)
“First Avenue” and “Publishers Building (Bldg)” do not appear to exist in Bodmin, which is a small town in Cornwall, England.
The postcode PL31 2JX is however the postcode for Bodmin’s public library http://www.cornwall.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=24079 Libraries often have free wifi and internet-connected PCs.
While searching for publishers with links to Bodmin, I came across “WealthWatch”: http://www.wealthwatch.co.uk/contact-us.html
There are no obvious links to PublishFast and it is likely a coincidence that they share a town, but I leave this possible clue out there for others to follow up on.
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by A. Rezvani
“With PublishFast® Article acceptance rate” If they are ever true why don’t they provide some instances? I am sure everyone one has realized that some publishers such as Oxford journals and Elsevier journals suggest authors to send their papers for improving language of the manuscript but this does not grantee that the paper will be accepted or the editor will contact the editor of the journal as they put down in their website. “Let editors contact editors to find a suitable outlet for your article…”. This is really funny. We all know that this is almost impossible and the editor in chief’s decision will be based on the quality of a paper and they never listen to what others say. Poor those authors who may fall in their trap.
The reasons why they have hide their identities are not “obvious” at all.
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by A. Rezvani
Every single sentence is written without even thinking and knowing the procedure.
“PublishFast® helps academicials [ academicians ?] to jump the queue in academic publishing! PublishFast® is a service which connects authors to journal editors on a fast-track basis. Articles submitted to PublishFast® are forwarded directly and confidentially to the editors of no less than five and up to ten selected journals which are indexed by Science Citation Index (SCI)*, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)*, Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)* or Scopus* as selected by the authors during the article submission process.”
This is unethical and unacceptable. They teach writers how to cheat. submitting an article to 10 journals at the same time seems funny and a big lie. Don’t they have to abide by the journal rules and state that the manuscript is not under review or submitted for publication elsewhere. Then how is multiple submission possible? OMG, who these guys are….
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by Ashley Hastings
Call in the next five minutes and you’ll get this set of steak knives absolutely free!
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by Ken Lanfear
Too bad, because I think there’s a real need for a service that would pre-review manuscripts, help authors choose a suitable journal, and prepare articles with a realistic chance of acceptance. Young scientists in developing nations often don’t seem to have the mentors to help them in these important aspects of getting published. Once a weak article is submitted, journal editors only have time to give limited advice in their rejection letter.
There is one and only one secret to getting articles accepted in top science journals: Good science!
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Comment on Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing by Dr. Arkroyd
Jeffrey, did you look inside? It’s free of charge!
In the box “Target Journals” you are requested to select not any specific journals but rather “the citation index in which you wish your article to be published”.
You are then prompted to provide corresponding author details and an optional cover letter to the editor(s).
Next – this is very important – you will need to tick a box to accept a most hilarious “legal disclaimer” which reads as follows (*** is my highlight):
“Legal Disclaimer: Although we make every effort to find a suitable outlet for your article we can not guarantee that it will be accepted. Submission ***fee is non-refundable and the name of the journals or the editors that we contacted will not be disclosed***. Any named products on this website are copyright © and/or trademarks ™ of their respective companies and are hereby acknowledged. By checking this box you are agreeing to this disclaimer.”
The only thing remaining is to give your credit card details or use the PayPal.
So, they can pocket the money, have a nice time, and later let you know the paper was not accepted, sorry, fee not refundable (we spent it already).
Worse still, they might actually send in your name and with your details your paper to ten journals, making you break their rule of unique submission ten times over.
Or they might make better use of your credit card and identity.
Want to enter such a lucrative business? Their site is run by http://www.submittable.com/ It is only 220 USD per year for 300 submissions per month. And Playboy uses it, too.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Does your computer not allow you to use upper case letters?
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Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by behalbiotech
link to European Journal of Health http://scik.org/index.php/ejh/
it’s publisher http://scik.org/
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Farzana Nipu
please give us the list for trusted one…..
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I have added this publisher to my list.
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Comment on Appeals by LAOcampo
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your prompt response.
Can you give me specific reasons why Novel Science, Inc. a questionable publisher? Many thanks.
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Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by scientist from europe
I’m suspicious of MDPI for a long time. I’ve reviewed a paper for them once and had contact only with a secretary. Not sure if an editor even existed. They have put the paper to peer review but the tone of the secretary from MDPI was as if they really really want the paper published.
In addition, they seem to use a simple word template for their publications, which look quite unprofessional and charge very heavily for their “services” which add zero value to the publications.
How they managed to maintain some journals with a reasonable impact factor is a mystery to me.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by dumcho wangdi
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I am Dumcho Wangdi, a teacher from Bhutan, South Asia. I hope you must have heard of my country. I wish you happy new year on behalf of my country mates.
I have heard of those predator publishers but failed to find the exact list of it. You have done an extraordinary job.
So, can I have your permission to duplicate it into my blog at http://dumchowangdi.blogspot.com/ so that I and my friends who visit my blog can use it for the reference.
Remember the source and your phenomenal work will be always acknowledged.
Please kindly allow me to let thousands of my innocent immature friends realize of your phenomenal work.
Thank you
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, you are welcome to copy the list.
Please send my best regards to all the researchers in Bhutan, and I hope the list helps them avoid publishing in the predatory journals.
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