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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Would you encourage your academics to publish in this journal? | INSider
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Benno von Bormann, MD
I was invited by OMICS group to contribute for the Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion, either via website or sending the manuscript attached to an Email. I did the latter after a lot of work with the title, ‘Does Preoperative Anemia Deteriorate Patients postoperative Outcome or about the Difficulty of Comprehension.’ After peer review with some minor remarks the manuscript was eventually accepted, and up to that point the whole process was professional. Sending the final file for proof reading they surprisingly added an invoice of an amount of 1,500,- $ for publishing, something I of course denied. In response to my wondering letter they indicated that the conditions for publishing are described in their website. However, submitting the manuscript directly via mail, as offered, I didn’t have this information. Because I will never pay for being published the paper was retracted by me and my co-author. These organizations are money-collectors. Their prey are people who are in desperate need for publication(s) due to rules of their affiliation (uiniversity, company). It’s an industry.
A positive example as yet is the Baishideng Publishing Group. They asked for a case report emphasizing from the beginning that there will be no costs at all.
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by Dave Langers
No value? The fact that you go through the trouble to reply suggests otherwise, Toniva.
That notwithstanding, an argument based on authority alone should have zero value in science, I agree. That is why I am happy to see explanations in close to all of these blog posts why certain publishers are not recommended. Arguments are valuable. Still, anyone is free to weight them differently and disagree.
For instance, I disagree that there is no legitimate need for research promotion. I do agree that an obscure award in a special journal is not helping much. I do not have an opinion about whether the motivation behind that e-mail are sincere: perhaps it is a scam, or perhaps this prize is hoped to become a little cousin to the Nobel prize?
The ability to discuss is probably most valuable.
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by Dave Langers
If your point is that a journal does not have to be a bad journal because it is based in e.g. India, then you are right. If your point is that using country of origin to disqualify journals is discriminatory in individual cases, then you are perhaps still right. But none of that prevents country of origin to be a useful indicator if experience shows that the quality of a journal correlates with the “uncloaked” country of origin. And it does seem to be the case that a lot of variance can be explained by that variable. So perhaps you should not see it as a criterion, but an indicator.
You are welcome to argue that caste and holiday destinations are similar indicators; I don’t see much evidence beyond suggestion.
PS: what is it with all these “thumbs-up for weird posts” here?
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Comment on Misleading Metrics by MK
I believe I have another (via an OMICS journal I was invited to review for): General Impact Factor http://generalimpactfactor.com/
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Comment on Shedding Some Light on the Photon Foundation by Quentin
One more “journal” to add to your list:
Photon Journal of Neurology
Thanks for making us aware of their activities!
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Comment on Shedding Some Light on the Photon Foundation by Jeffrey Beall
Thanks — I do have this publisher (Photon Foundation) included on my list.
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Comment on Misleading Metrics by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you! I had not heard of this one. They are popping up all over the place.
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by The Iron Chemist
This site draws an… unusual crowd. Beall can’t even tell you what the weather is like outside his office without getting scores of thumbs-down. The cynic in me thinks that it’s due to shady publishers and other folks with an investment in shady publishing visiting the site and attempting to do damage control.
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Comment on A Vanity Scholarly Press from Québec by Ruth E. Thaler-Carter
I was just invited to submit articles for publication from the “Edtior” of Canadian Social Science (CSS) (yes, the editor misspells “editor” in her e-mail address!), apparently published by “Canadian Academy of Oriental and Occidental Culture” (yes, “the” is missing from that part of the message).
The sender claims to have read my article in the magazine of the Society of Professional Journalists about freelancer ethics. I couldn’t tell if she wanted to reprint that article or for me to submit other works, but the quality of the English in the message made me unlikely to do either. The fact that she calls me “Professor” is to laugh – or sigh – as well.
I considered offering to let her reprint my article for $500, but was afraid it would get used, and I don’t think I want to be associated with this publication even if I did get paid, which I probably wouldn’t have anyhow. It might have made for some good follow-up conversations, though.
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Comment on Fallout from Questionable Article in OA Pediatrics Journal by Jeff Shrager
So, youtube is now a scholarly publisher? I guess at least it’s open access and doesn’t charge for publication. I’m guessing that it’s peer review process leaves something to be desired.
Why don’t they just publish the rebuttal in another journal?
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by Sudesh Kumar
“What predatory publisher are you associated with?”
I think this is hitting below the belt.
First – what makes you think that I am associated with any journal.
Second – what makes you think I am associated with a “predatory journal”.
Third – Till date I have observed that when anyone criticizes you, you always ask them – “What predatory publisher are you associated with?” – Why is this? Does anyone who criticizes you or your criteria associated with “predatory journal”? Is it not possible that any persons not associated with any journal may have a compelling argument which is not in line with your views?
Last – going by your logic since you write so much against open access – what subscription based journal are you associated with?
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by lisaamartin
LOL! Mr Dr James Watson…educationally unqualifiied…he’s a she! Gracious me.
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by Jeffrey Beall
I am currently not associated with any journal, but I did serve on the editorial board of <em>Cataloging & Classification Quarterly</em> in the past. Are you in Malaysia ? Will you share your website?
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by Liam Mac Liam
The EMBO editorial cited by Sudesh Kumar makes a valid point and supports his argument about location. Jeffrey, your ad-hominem response seems not too different to that of the anonymous contributors here who keep insisting you are shilling for Thomson-Reuters etc
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Comment on Be Careful with Spam from Research Media by Vitaly Citovsky
i agree that they are not doing anything blatantly wrong. but i do think that they misrepresent the impact of their publication and, most importantly, they lie when they suggest that they select the topics/scientists/papers by their high impact.
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by Jeffrey Beall
In the context of the gold open-access model, where scholarly authors pay publishers who accept and publish their manuscripts, transparency is vital. This means that publishers using the gold open access model must be completely transparent to the authors — their customers.
If they hide things like their headquarters location (which for many predatory publishers is an apartment), then it is fair to assume that they are also hiding other information that scholarly publishers conventionally provide.
I will continue to use hiding or lying about headquarters location as a criterion for judging gold OA publishers. If they are hiding their publishing location, they are likely hiding other things as well. Scholarly authors, as paying customers, deserve complete honesty and transparency.
PS: Liam, Kumar has been bullying me for a long time so your “ad-hominem” comment seems out of place. I will not be bullied by him or any other predatory publisher who scream at me because I include them on my list
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by naelil
Dear Mr. Beall
Thanks for this information. Actually Mr. Gorka and my professor have almost same question about International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). My prof’s manuscript has been published since the begining of April. Since it has been published then my university told us that IJMS is kind of predatory journal, even do not have enough reasons of this matter.
So that i’ m join to this website. Would you mind to answer my questions, Mr. beall. Is this journal has good reputation? And does it has an impact factor? According your opinion, is that true IJMS as unpredatory journal and why? how IJMS doing until now espicially for publication? And am I right to submitted manuscript,in IJMS.?
Thank you very much, Mr. Beall for your informarion. It will be very helpful to us.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Can you send me a link to the journal, please? It appears there may be more than one journal with this title.
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Comment on Another Award Scam? The International Research Promotion Council by AlexH
Concerning “bullying”, you could require an institutional email address+confirmation email combo for commenting.
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