I do not think that the Frontiers journals meet the criteria for being classified as predatory. Still, I do receive many inquiries about the publisher, an indication to me that many find it … questionable.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Jeffrey Beall
Does the Super Bowl have more than one champion each year?
Perhaps my phrase ‘sole champion’ is a tautology.
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Jean-Claude Guédon
As someone who has had his share of debates withStevan Harnad (and yet consider him as a good friend), I would certainly not use the word “bully”. Also, the vigour of the debates among OA advocates should not be confused with rifts within the movement. Think of it more as complementary. Finally, if the OA movement were so capapble of affecting the price of Elsevier shares, even positively (for Elsevier), we would be very close to victory.
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Ken Lanfear
Curious. You say this is a clone of a predatory journal publisher. Are the predators starting to prey on each other?
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Nwannewuihe Henry
Pls I am a researcher in Nigeria and would like suggestions on good engineering journals to send my manuscript. Almost fell prey to Ajer. sent two manuscript and got poor reviews and no corrections. i felt something was wrong .
thank God I had not made any payments.
help needed urgently.
thanks
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Jeffrey Beall
I didn’t mean to use the term in that sense. I meant that OMICS has created a new stealth brand that many of the same characteristics as OMICS but it hides the connection between the two. Like one rental car company owns another, except in this case the connection is hidden.
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Jeffrey Beall
Poynder <a href="http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/07/oa-interviews-stevan-harnad.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">reported </a>that Harnad has been portrayed a bully since at least 2007. So please direct your response to Poynder. My use of this term to describe Harnad is nothing new.
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by tekija
The “awards” are described in detail, but are still obscure:
http://medcraveonline.com/scholar-awards
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Frederick Guy
“Poynder reported that Harnad had been portrayed…”, i.e. Beall says Poynder says somebody else says… it’s hard to see anybody taking responsibility here, and it’s a very slight basis for calling somebody a bully in your headline.
You perform an invaluable service with your list (I consult it regularly, usually to steer students away from publishers listed there), but your reaction to legitimate open access advocates often seems over the top.
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Samir Hachani
I think the discussion here is not about Harnad. He is known to be , well, harsh but I think this due to his enthusiasm for open access. On the other hand , when one has reached his height , he can be allowed some , let’s say, freedom…..
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Jean-Claude Guédon
You may not have invented the term, but you certainly echo it, and even amplify it, with no caveats, quotations marks, or whatever, which means that, to a certain degree, you are likely to endorse the term.
Perhaps, for the future, you could consider the following: I declare most publicly that Stevan Harnad is a fine, very intelligent, cultured, refined human being and colleague. His sensitivity to others is quite remarkable. And yes, he defends his ideas most vigorously. You could then quote this to balance the possible ill effects of Richard Poynder’s mentioning (back in 2007!) that some people have used the word “bully” to paint Stevan with a broad brush.
What is more to the point is that Klaus and Stevan each defend one road to open access and essentially one road only. As they defend different roads, the dialogue between them does not work very well, as I can testify, having seen them in the same room in Budapest in 2012 (for BOAI10). But we were all staunch OA advocates in that room, and there were about 20 other people discussing together. Despite obvious divergences, we still managed to draft BOAI10. So, focusing on Stevan and Klaus is taking a very narrow take on the open access movement and offering a caricatural view of the OA advocates.
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by herr doktor bimler (partly rugose)
The look and feel of the MedCrave website matches that of OMICS
– I did not get that sense myself. Despite the peculiar English, MedCrave felt like a more sophisticated scam, trying to edge into the same niche. It was interesting, by the way, that the MedCrave website proudly announces a partnership with “IntBiotechnologies LLC” (which is a guy in Baltimore) and the “Association of Cryobanks” (a company in Ukraine offering to freeze your infant’s cord blood). This does not reflect well on either organisation.
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for this helpful comment.
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by coppenheim
No, it’s not tautology. It’s just plain incorrect.
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Comment on The Open-Access Wars: Bullies Square Off on Library Listserv by Samir Hachani
I think Harnad’s personnality is the basis of all this ” portraying “.As I said before , he is blunt and says things too ” directly” and is adamant about green open access but I do not think he means to be disrespectful or demeaning. It is his way of defending his ideas . .As for the word “bully” , here is the link :
http://poynder.blogspot.com/2007/07/oa-interviews-stevan-harnad.html
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Dan Riley
Clearly, anyone creating a new scam (sorry, I mean “high pseudo-impact”) OA journal would want to copy from the best. MedCrave copying from OMICS just proves the legitimacy of OMICS as a leader in its market segment.
I also eagerly await the follow-on surgery imprint “MedCarve” from the same publishers, which I hear will be closely associated with the prestigious “Association of ByoCranks”.
And, since this is the InterWebs: yes, satire.
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Comment on Bogus New Impact Factor Appears by M N K Khattak
Jeffery Beals is providing wonderful services to the research community. However I don’t know how can such practices be stopped. These dubious journals pointed out by Jeffery Beals publishes articles in 24 hours after submission. Then how can one say that it can be authentic.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Ligia Vieira
All those reasons make a case on how easy it is to publish with you, not that it doesn’t constitute an embarrassing fact…
In any case I would say that if publishing with LAP was that great, expanding the reach of the work to a wider audience, then your books would have the highest number of citations and authors would be going to you instead of you having to chase them down.
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