They crave for APCs but the only thing they can offer is a grave for your research. No pun intended, well maybe only a little.
Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by AlexH
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by How to promote an Open Access Book? Part 3: Publisher's brand
[…] There are a lot of scams in publishing nowadays so try to avoid companies that are listed on Jeffrey Beall’s list or those are mentioned on Internet forums as […]
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Comment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for pointing this out. I do have this publisher, the so-called Council for Innovative Research, on my list. This appears to be one of the extra services they offer (in addition to publishing junk science). You pay $20 and get a certificate that says you’re a scientist.
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Comment on Other pages by Paul
Dear Beall,
Thank you for your response. The name of the publisher is Academic Journals (http://academicjournals.org/). Recently, I viewed their site and alot of changes have been made and also submitted some of my research articles to them.
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Comment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Shirley Ainsworth
I am not entirely sure that the Colombian journal Vitae, is a hijacking case. In Latin America it is very common for journals to maintain multiple websites, even within the same university. Which all adds to the general confusion….
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Comment on Counterfeit Impact Factors are Devaluing the Real One by gaudart
The international journal of health geographics, from the BMC group I presume, publish a lot of good paper in its field. In its web page, we can see an IF of 2.2:
http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/
Furthermore, it is written “International Journal of Health Geographics is tracked by Thomson Reuters (ISI) and has an Impact Factor of 2.20.”
http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/about
but this journal is not in the JCR list. How can it be possible?
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Comment on Counterfeit Impact Factors are Devaluing the Real One by Jeffrey Beall
I do see it on the <em>Thomson Reuters Master List</em> <a href="http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Word=geographics" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
Sometimes, searching in TR databases is difficult.
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Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by gaudart
At the time when MDPI was not on Beall’s list, I did review an manuscript fo Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. I did not see specific problem during this review. The article was accepted. I will be more carefull next time.
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Comment on New OA Publisher Aims to Compete with Preprint Servers by Dom
I had one of these emails informing me that my article was now available! I had published it a year earlier in BMC Biology (proper OA, decent impact factor), so I was a little surprised and worried that someone was apparently ‘republishing’ my paper.
I questioned these guys and when pushed they removed my article – its already freely available where I chose to publish it. I would be interested to see how many other harvested articles have, or could be removed on author request.
Although not the arguments I used to have my article removed, the following bothered me:
(1) the article looked as if ScienceOpen had published it (unless you look carefully).
(2) it was then being used as a marketing tool for their publishing activity – mixing, in the same email, “we’ve archived your freely available paper” with “we can publish your next paper (for profit)”.
The slick video where one of them talks about enjoying ‘working with scientists’ made me smile as it does not seem to fit a model where they ‘help themselves’ to work without asking. The first is a two sided concept (collaboration) while the second is very one sided.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Psychology researcher
I came to this website to see about this journal as I am currently reading a paper from the Scientific World Journal (Hindawi). The study seems good, the results legitimate but I was concerned how well it has been edited/reviewed as the standard of English is awful. The authors obviously do not have English as a first language, but it is unusual to see things published that are this poorly written and hard to follow.
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Comment on Researchers Find “Naming Of Allah” Prevents Certain Histological Changes in Slaughtered Broilers by Ajao Hadiyat
Interesting! Why not let others try it and see whether it is reproducible or not. The believe is science is neutral so the bias that science should not be employed to prove a religious truth should be jettisoned.
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Comment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Tomasz Lewandowski (Centre for Open Science ICM UW)
“Chemical and Process Engineering” has also a (legitimate) website here, on an official PAN domain:
http://cpe.czasopisma.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=136
(Polish version)
Please note differences between contact information:
http://processengineering.net/contact-us/ (hijacked)
http://cpe.czasopisma.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=136#kontakt (legitimate)
The postal address in Warsaw is the same in both cases, but the hijacked version provides (expectedly) different email and, notably, a phone number, which is altogether absent in the legitimate website. Note that first two digits after the country code of the phone number are 42, which is code for the city of Lodz (Łódź), not for Warsaw.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I recommend: Do not submit any work to anything published by the Photon Foundation.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Rafat
Dear Jeffrey,
Kindly tell me about the “Journal of Life Sciences (ISSN 1934-7391), USA, David Publishing Company, http://www.davidpublishing.com. However, the name of David Publisher is on your list. But they claimed that they have ISSN number and their impact of 2009 and 2011 as 3.3 and 5.2 respectively. Furthermore, I could not found Impac of 2012 and 2013 through Google. I am confused now. Please tell me about this journal and the company..
Best Regards
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Rafat:
I don’t see on their website where they say their journals have impact factors. Nevertheless, this publisher is on my list, and I strongly recommend that you not submit a paper to any of its journals. I recommend finding a better publisher.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Kevin J. Black, M.D.
That is awesome … considering that they are now published by Nature Publishing Group (more or less).
http://www.nature.com/press_releases/npgfrontiers.html
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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review, Demands EUR 1785 by Chris Cole
Instant gratification at a semi affordable price but good scholarship it is not.
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Comment on Be Careful with Spam from Research Media by Jesse
Just got one today from these guys. Thank you for the warning. To be fair though, buried within the very lengthy email was the information that it’s not a peer-reviewed article, and would cost me about $3000.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I’m very sorry — I don’t have time to properly analyze these journals at this time. I have added to my backlog here: http://wp.me/P280Ch-Ov
There are just too many megajournals such as these appearing. I don’t have time to review them all. I would suggest that, if you find these journals questionable, you seek a higher quality place to publish your work. Thank you.
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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review, Demands EUR 1785 by Aliah
Thank you very much for your tremendouse help to the authors! And do you know any information about Life Science Journal (ISSN: 1097-8135 (Print) / ISSN: 2372-613X (Online); Impact Factor 2012: 0.165) http://www.lifesciencesite.com/? It is also chargeble, and I do not want to have the same situation as with Pencee Journal…Thank you in advance!
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