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Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by TR

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SD – A few points to consider:

1. What’s at question here is a predatory publisher exploiting seasoned and new investigators – from everywhere. I’m not sure how the “developing country” argument is relevant.

2. True – publishing isn’t an inborn trait and must be learned. Best practices are pretty easily observable and learned, should one be interested in publishing with integrity.

3. Academics the world over are under pressure to publish. We’re all in the same boat. Publishing in a predatory journal does real harm both to one’s career and to one’s field.


Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Vinoo Cameron

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In Spirit these journals are the right thing. The bottle neck and the garbage retained by places like Princeton and Harvard that view things only according to them. Well sour grapes all you detractors, this publisher is providing open knowledge , not just the one bottled up bya few elite scientific dictators . No wonder science has not moved ints bed for several hundedred years– theydo not know Prime numbers ezxcept the stupid big ones , they have no prime formula , even the value of the Pi is not authenticated, we do not have understanding of the mathematics of space ( the only thing we boast of , is puttingan object in Mars, great. So give this publisher a break

Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Vinoo Cameron

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I just only hope the moderation here is not somehow associated with the elite in science in this country , like Princeton/ Harvard. India is doing what the arrogance here is refusing to. The University in my State for instance, thinks it is the best in the world, when it is not

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Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Vinoo Cameron

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ithi nk one mustle ave ones fearsbe hind . I had published ten papers in journals and they lay there. This journal l is printing a very difficult paper on the configuration of mass and energy and the mathematical definition of the curvature of space .had I tried to publish this work with the elite publishers , I wouldh ave had to eat much of thier one tract hash as they promote” What is the biggest Prime number in the world?. Science be free

Comment on Defining Platinum Open Access by Felipe G. Nievinski

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Good idea of making a list of platinum (no-fee) OA journals. The European Geosciences Union is another good example: .


Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Jeff Shrager

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No. Science be Science. Science is not free. Ideas are free, but ideas aren’t science. Science is the correct empirical testing of ideas. You can’t do it wrong (or not at all) and it still be science. So, no, science is far far from free.

Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by SD

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TR – I absolutely agree with you. There should be no publishing in predatory journals period. There should be no plagiarism period. There should be scientifically valid methodology period.

The assumption that all publishers that appear predatory from the outside are, in fact, publishing only with that motivation is questioned. Sir, you are mistaken that best practices are “easily observable and learned.” When a population has no tradition of this type of knowledge and virtually no instructors who have such a tradition, it is not easy. It will take time and support.

The problem here is that “predatory,” “easy,” and “pressure” are all relative terms. My only contention is that the depth and breadth of the problems faced by academics on this side of the planet is not fully understood by the academics on that side of the planet and their methods for attempting to address those problems cannot be judged, or changed, quite so simply.

Comment on Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies by Furqan Awan

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What about the Impact factor given by SCOPUS? Is it more valuable or less valuable comparing to THOMSON REUTERS?

Comment on Misleading Metrics: A New List on This Blog by Shawn

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I never once argued that it is good or bad. I’m simply pointing out that if you publish something and get cited, it will show up no matter if you like it or not.

Impact factors are nothing more than 1 tool of many tools. The only people that go crazy over it are the ones that over-value it. Most experienced librarians and scholars already understand this.

Comment on Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies by Jeffrey Beall

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Can you give an example of an impact factor assigned by SCOPUS?

Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Vinoo Cameron

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Science is free though, free from bias and other considerations. To some science has become a religion, some thing that promotes bigotry.. Let there be free thought, and let there be bounds on acedemia ( For 50 years they did garectomies and vagotomies for stomach acid, till one little fellow in Australia against the acedemia discovered helicobacter Jejuni, and for last 20 years , not a single such disabiling operation). Science is also one, there is no dicotomy. I did review a manuscript for this publisher written by a mathematician from IRAQ, and I reviewed it free from bias or other contraints, the author it seems was overboard in pleasing just western mathematics . That is not always true. WHAT I ASK CURRENT ACEDEMIA in relation to my published paper, is the precise angle subtended by a hypotenuse of the square root of 5 in the Pythagorian triangulation ( for 90 degrees it is 45 mathematical degrees). Current science is in error, should I not then have the freedom to correct this or do I have chains of acedemia?. Well this publisher( council for innovative research) is publishing my Paper after review( “Fixed points of the mathematical configuration of Mass and energy), or should we be in perpetual worship of the trigonometry of Sir Newton , and the theories of Sir Albert Einstein and be satisfied in getting to mars!!.Thank you for the civil discussion, and what is the subtended angle, any one?, read my paper when it comes out , or not read it , thats freedom.

Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Vinoo Cameron

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I agree wit you , although this is not one sided. There is scientificc and Acedemic Xenophobia. If the status quo was that secure in its standing, then why would they yelp. This publisher has treated me fair, not stolen my money , and understands the steps of science. Why then do they call it predatory???. There are double standards it seems. As long as they go by the legal rules. Why should not authors have the freedom to choose , or do some want to preserve a form of order ( As was slavery protected even by the Acedemia/ science of the day, in fact in the 20.s it was the scientific publishers./ and the acedia who advanced the stupid theory that some races were smarter than others by genetics). Let freedom ring, unless this publisher is truly predatory/criminal.


Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by T-bone steak

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Dr. Cameron, you have quite critical remarks about the “establishment”, and an apparent fierce defense for sloppy quality. Is that the reason why you could only publish your “prime numbers” theories in another of Beall’s predatory publishers, Marsland Press?
http://www.sciencepub.net/nature/ns1102/009_15631ns1102_51_52.pdf
In fact, if your theories were so true, so revolutionary, or so out-of-this-world, then why didn’t you publish them in Science, or Nature, rather than Science and Nature? A close examination of that paper reveals, in fact, a mountain of total garbled garbage. It makes no sense, even in its “primitive expression” (Abstract, line 1). The introduction is stupidly over-simplified, non-sensical and does not even introduce which ttheories in the literature you are challenging. You seem to be attacking the prime number 19, but the whole list of incomprehensive series reminds me more of that song “nineteen”, with the stutteting parts (“nananana-nineteen”) by Paul Hardcastle in 1985. You acknowledge Jesus Christ, which is so absolutely inappropriate for a scientific paper “Jesus Christ, by his grace to me, specially the Teaching of humility and clarity.” and then you thank two highly respected individuals who might not want to be thanked if they were to see the product of your efforts. Your references are TOTAL bogus, cannot be traced anywhere.

In fact, WHO are you Vinoo Cameron? Is this a false alias or pseudonymn? Can we, the scientific community, contact Hope Research, Athens, Wisconsin, USA to verify your existence? In fact, you are listed as a medical doctor MD, but your theeories about prime numbers are most likely the first ever to be expressed by a medical doctor. Your identity and your papers are extremely worrisome, and let’s hope that you are not one of Bohannon’s nonsense papers gone astray…

In fact, while looking about the background of your unreasonable attacks on Beall, I did find a whole web-site blog dedicated to you:
http://americanloons.blogspot.jp/2013/05/554-vinoo-cameron.html
And you were characterized as a ”Christian Physician Mathematician”.

Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by T-bone steak

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Dr. Cameron, with that level of English, it is first hard to understand how you can be considered a native English speaker. And secondly, with that level of English, which Jeff Shrager boldly tried to decipher, it is no wonder that your paper would have been rejected upon submission.

Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by Robert Dettman

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I too published in MDPI (Journal of Developmental Biology) and received a review that in two cycles resulted in a manuscript that I am proud of. I applied for and was accepted as an associate editor of JDB and, so far, have not been asked to handle any manuscripts. I am also an AE at PLoS One and have found their practices to be similar to JDB, however in a much larger scale. I so far do not regret publishing in JDB and may consider doing so in the future.

Comment on One of the World’s Most Prolific Scholars: Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din by Hamid Chohan Historymaker

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i am a very lucky person because i am the student of Dr. Tauseef the great Mathematician as well as a very polite & great person…
May he live long Pakistan need such kind of Person…

Comment on Backlog by wustari

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Dear Mr Beall,

Thank you very much for your important information> I really appreciate it.
From your list above there is one journal called IJSBAR, is there any information regarding this journal yet.

Thank you very much for your kind attention and assutance

Wustari Mangundjaya

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