Here are some of the reasons:
Lack of standard numbers (ISSNs)
The journal pages are garnished with logos from many legitimate organizations
No clue where this is based; they don’t give any location information
I cannot find information about the APC
Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by kharang
Thank you so much for your permission to save it on my blog. I will ensure my mates to know about your splendid job.
Thank you.
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Comment on Appeals by LAOcampo
Thanks for your patience Sir. Greatly appreciated.
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Comment on Appeals by LAOcampo
Dear Sir,
I would just like to take some of your time to look at these journals/publishers and to know your views about them.
1. Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management – a journal published by American Scientific Publishers.
2. Industrial and Systems Engineering Review – no information about the publisher but the website is in Binghamton University domain.
3. Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering – no information about the publishers but is under Hashemite University
4. International Journal of Research in Management, Science and Technology – no information about the publisher.
Many thanks Sir.
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by The Open Access Journal Rant | Darren Goossens
[…] In open access, the author pays the journal. The journal notionally uses the money to ensure good quality refereeing, and to actually publish the work. But the big problem is the direct link between income and number of papers published. There is a big and immediate incentive to publish a lot of papers. Being more selective and trying to build reputation is perhaps a better long-term strategy, but from the author’s point of view it becomes a major exercise to determine whether an open access publisher is worth publishing with or really just a vanity press. Of course, your first point of call must be here, Beall’s List. […]
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Comment on Hindawi’s ISRN Brand Offers to Pay for Articles by The Open Access Journal Rant | Darren Goossens
[…] probably OK but one to watch, have solicited long review articles and offered honorariums of around $1000. This is presumably to lift them above the sloshing sea of lightweight, vanity press OA publishers, […]
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by sustainability person
I’ve read a couple of pieces in MDPI’s journal Sustainability and they are usually as good as some of the less prestigious journals published by Sage, Elsevier or publishers usually recognized as legitimate. I’ve considered sending a manuscript there and checked your site for information.
I find it a little bit usually that 1) you would criticize a digital publisher for not having a fancy building and 2) you call it a “Chinese” publisher when it is located in Switzerland. Granted, it may have a Chinese person in a leadership role but it’s not accurate to call it a “Chinese publisher”. Honestly, that feels like an unfair swipe to de-legitimize the publisher. If a publisher has a fancy building its probably because they are extracting huge fees from university libraries all over the world.
I don’t think I will send a manuscript there but I don’t really find some of your criticisms convincing. It would be better for you to focus on criticisms of the peer review process, the quality of the work, etc. MDPI’s journals are probably about the same quality as some of the lesser publications of the leading publishers, but this blog post is enough to turn me off. Plus, a Chinese guy works for them and their office is shabby. Who wants to publish with that type of company?
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Comment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C Detector is Effective by Bill White
Dear Jeffrey,
One more open access journal, one more!
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/709.full
Of course, for the sake of people in developing countries who cannot pay to access to knowledge!
Only one more open access journal, only one!
Hopefully you will include it in your list, otherwise you are a partial guy.
You know why would you be so?
Because some time ago, 3 months barely, Science was fiercely criticizing the Open Access model with a detracting article written by one of Science loyalist author, Bohannon!
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.summary
Quickly forgot his detraction, Science is on the road of the open access! Isn’t amazing?
Let me tell you a think:
Most, if not all, publishers are stammers and money seekers, including Science, Cell and Nature. These three particular journals have corrupted science and continue to do so. But things will change soon and they will turn off!
How would you explain this shift, unless by Bankrupt? Science is looking for money!
Why Science is doing what it was criticizing only three months ago?
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
What’s your real name? Why don’t you use it here? Will you share your CV?
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by rory robertson (former fattie)
sustainability person,
I agree that we should “focus on criticisms of the peer review process, the quality of the work, etc”.
Please consider the extent of problems in the MDPI’s “Australian Paradox” paper and tell me if the “peer review” process was satisfactory. Here you go.
http://www.australianparadox.com/pdf/quickquizresearch.pdf
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/backgroundbriefing/2014-02-09/5239418
rgds,
rory
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by sustainability person
I don’t really know how that’s relevant. I’m not a “big deal”. I’m just saying that critiquing the fanciness of some publisher’s office doesn’t seem relevant nor does it seem relevant that they have a Chinese person in a leadership role.
It sounds like there are enuf problems with this publisher for it to be avoided without these somewhat hallow critiques.
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Comment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C Detector is Effective by Jeffrey Beall
Bill,
I request that you take back this statement: “Hopefully you will include it in your list, otherwise you are a partial guy.”
Why do you have such a mean tone in your comment?
Are you sure you read the Science article completely? The study found serious problems with peer review in about half the journals it studied. It was not a condemnation of open-access, as you hint. In fact, many OA publishers survived the sting successfully. Also many quality OA publishers offer waivers or discounts for authors in developing countries, and I assume this new AAAS journal will do the same, though I haven’t checked.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
1. Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management – a journal published by American Scientific Publishers.
I analyze at the publisher level rather than the individual journal level whenever possible. In this case, the publisher is not on my list.
2. Industrial and Systems Engineering Review – no information about the publisher but the website is in Binghamton University domain.
This journal is not eligible for my list because viewing the content requires the creation of a login and password and signing in. Therefore, the journal does not meet the definition of open-access.
3. Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering – no information about the publishers but is under Hashemite University
This journal does not meet the criteria for listing as a predatory journal.
4. International Journal of Research in Management, Science and Technology – no information about the publisher.
This appears to be a new standalone journal from South Asia. I will add this to my backlog of unanalyzed journals. Because there are so many standalone journals appearing from South Asia, I lack the time to analyze them all.
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Comment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C Detector is Effective by Bill White
Jeff,
Yes I did read the article, and I think it was not peer-reviewed, otherwise it would not be accepted and published as a lot of commentators stated under the article.
Science and Nature publish kid and fiction story but they reject purposeful papers.
Nature and Science are here because of historical context that helped them (they are here since about 200 years ago), and they try to abuse of their positions.
They should be on a list comparable to the yours to invite people to boycott these journals and any other elitist journal.
There is already one indeed:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/09/nobel-winner-boycott-science-journals
Science is now on the open access road.
Is this for the sake of knowledge or money?
They should be ashamed if they have shame in their dictionary vocable, because they follow the example they was criticizing a while before.
They deserve to be added in your list but you will not dare to do it, will you?
Publication is becoming a corrupted industry.
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by sustainability person
I wouldn’t say an entire publisher is “bad” because of 1 paper. By this logic we should consider Duke University press “bad” because it publishes Social Text, the home journal of the infamous Sokal Affair. Obviously, Duke University is a pretty prestigious publisher.
Similarly, an audit of the infamous “gay parenting is bad” article published in Social Science Research revealed a number of problems with peer review. SSR is a well-regarded journal and it published by a “good” publisher, Elsevier. Again, by this logic no one should publish in Elsevier journals anymore.
MDPI is building up enuf of a bad rep online that I wouldn’t publish there. I was only remarking that the articles that I have read seem roughly to be of the same level of quality as articles in similar journals (e.g. low rank or low prestige) published by “legit” companies like Sage or Elsevier.
Honestly, I think the relative monopoly of the big academic publishers will be very hard to break because any missteps by upstart publishers or open-access journals will be taken as evidence of their fundamental illegitimacy. For major publishers problems with peer review, retractions, etc are seen as evidence of a few bad apples while for companies like MDPI these are seen as evidence of a fraudulent enterprise.
Again, I would not send my own work here, but its mostly because of the critiques of the company that I have read online, not because of the quality of their journals. With that being said, I should probably note that I have only read a handful or articles from one of their journals.
Thanks for reading.
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Fake papers are not the real problem in science | Achilleas Kostoulas
[…] hoax papers, which have tried to raise awareness of pseudo-academia, such as spamferences and predatory publishers. Most recently, Science reported on a massive ‘sting’ operation which used computer-generated […]
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Comment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C Detector is Effective by Michael Smithee
Yeah, that’s what the Egyptian military needs to research for a more democratic nation. Mike
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Comment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C Detector is Effective by behalbiotech
beside the money factor, what else is/are the factor(s) that can prove Science/Nature/Cell should be on the list?
do they compromise quality or break any publication rule?
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Arben
Dear Dr. Beall
Are all the journals listed under DOAJ (http://www.doaj.org/) LEGIT ?!
Can I find a journal on this directory and publish my work.
Thank you for your opinion.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
There is some overlap between my list and DOAJ, so, no, not all of the journals listed in DOAJ are legitimate in my opinion. DOAJ has tightened its criteria over the past year, so it’s not as bad as it once was.
Yes, you can find a journal on this directory and publish your work, but do so at your own risk. Check to make sure the journal is not also on my list, and talk to senior colleagues in your field about the quality of the journal you want to publish in. Also, read the journal and become familiar with the quality of the articles in it before submitting.
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