Ok, thank you very much.
What do you think about Hindawi Publish Corp? (http://www.hindawi.com/) They are not in your list.
Thanks in advance,
PJS
Comment on Appeals by Pablo J SAEZ
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Cleve Shields
One of my junior colleagues submitted a paper here, without my knowledge, on which I was an author. Of course, they want money. I wrote an email for her to send to them with a link to this page pointing out that she now knows what they are up to and that she no longer wishes to hear from them. .
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Hindawi is NOT on my list, correct. It is not a predatory publisher.
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by Farid
Gordon
ELSEVIER has many well known ISI indexed journals with poor review quality. Expert Systems with Applications is just an example of it. They used to publish 100 papers per month with no peer review insights. The papers were either rejected or accepted and there was no comments. Here are some of the facts on publishing on OA journals
1. Your paper has up to six times more chance to get cited.
2. The scientific society pays less. Note that publishing a paper in non-OA costs well over 5000$ per article and this cost is reduced to 200-1500 depending on OA publisher.
I agree that there are many OA publishers trying to abuse the whole idea but we should keep in our mind that sooner or later, all publishers must switch to OA model and this help world’s scientific society grow faster.
Farid
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by Links vom 17.07.2014 | Offene Wissenschaft
[…] Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples – Drüben im Scholarly Open Access Blog gewährt Jeffrey Beall einen Blick auf drei verschiedene Peer Review Reports aus drei unterschiedlichen Journalen. In den ersten beiden Journalen handelt es sich um reguläre Einreichungen, beim dritten Journal handelt es sich um ein Fake Paper (“Sting”) – bemerkenswert ist dabei das Ergebnis in den Reports die sich allesamt nicht sonderlich unterscheiden. Auch hier also die Frage nach der Ernsthaftigkeit, Sorgfältigkeit und Qualität des Peer Review Prozesses. […]
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by T. Lewandowski
J. Beall said: “The publisher’s goal is to get the paper accepted as quickly as possible and pocket the article processing charges.”
One little “but”: peer review repot number 1 clearly states: “This issue of the journal is completely free of charge”.
I greatly appreciate the work mr. Beall does, but exactly this kind of oversimplifications may get us where mr. P Canning already is.
Great job done this time, though. About time to make peer review more transparent. Be it in OA or in TA journals.
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by T. Lewandowski
Reviewer 1 from the peer review report 1 ticked ‘no’ to option ‘litterature review is adequate’, yet in the narrative part he wrote ‘The paper provides a very thorough review of literatures’ (sic!).
Small thing, but a jolly one.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Mtata Arsla
Hi Beall.. please could help me with the publishers and journals related to music .. the questionable ones. Also could you tell me bout the list of journals that are included on http://jifactor.org/contact_us.php are also of same kind? and what bout the publishers like : IJMCR, Discourse Journals, Novikoff A.V., State Natural History Museum NAS Ukraine.
It’ll be of great help.
Thanks
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by Jeffrey Beall
I take your point. This is a new publisher, and they strategically plan to get the first couple or few issues full of articles, then they use these early issues to attract additional article submissions, and the “free of charge” policy is stopped. Therefore, the initial, free-of-charge policy does support the publishers’ goal of pocketing the money.
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by T. Lewandowski
I agree – this might be their strategy. It is poor a strategy, though; after a bunch of such crappy peer reviews all they’re left with at the end of the day is an issue published for free and a mob of angry researchers never to submit any paper to them again. I wonder if they will fool anyone more than once.
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Comment on Be Careful with Spam from Research Media by radioloveless
I just got the same email. This blog has been really helpful, thanks for sharing. Somehow they got ahold of me through my grant title, it was a pretty convincing email. They didn’t include a cost though for the interview.
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by Ahmad Hassanat
Dear Jeffery
I would like very much to thank you for the great efforts you are making every day. I wonder if you shed the light on the hijacked journals using fake websites, I personally was almost a victim of http://www.Penseejournal.com which i think it has nothing to do with the great french journal La Pensee. what do you think?
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Comment on Peer Review Reports from Questionable Publishers: Three Examples by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, I have started a list of hijacked journals here: http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-journals/ If you learn of any others, please let me know. Thanks, and I am happy you did not get victimized by the fake Pensee.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Haider
Dear Mr. Beall,
I have published a paper in “World Academic Science Journal” (www.wasj.org) in 2010 and it was indexed in Thompson Reuters’ ISI index in 2010 and 2011 (not sure when this has changed but now it is not indexed there). My university otherwise do not let me publish in it, if it was not ISI indexed. And still I am keeping the copy of the Thompson Reuters’ website showing that it was indexed there. Now, I was surprised that it is in your list. The journal is not claiming that it is ISI indexed anymore.
Was it a bad luck for me to publish in a good journal at that time when it was ISI indexed and now I am hesitant to show it in my resume because it has been listed in your list?
I speculate that there are a lot of authors who were fully aware to not publish in an a week journal and chose a reputable index like ISI, but eventually the journal became worse and ended to be in your list.
What is your advice? Should I put the paper in my CV or just delete it from my list of publications, since it may put me in a weeker position in my phd application if they realize that it is in the Beall list, not realizing that it was indeed ISI indexed at 2010 when I published it.
I can email you the pdf file showing that the journal indexed in Thompson Reuters’ website in 2011.
Thanks
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by william
now Austin publishing group says that they registered in usa . We got and invoice stating to pay and before i got Australian account number and now usa account number . I couldn’t estimate this scientific damage done by these publishers.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by baishali
Intellect Journals are moving in academia rapidly. It’s website addresses are quite perplexing. I found these two web addresses – http://www.intellectbooks.com and http://www.intellectjournals.org/index.html ( from the aforementioned list) . Could anybody help me in understanding their quality ?
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Comment on Canadian Sustainable Development Journal Doesn’t Appear Very Developed, or Sustainable by Weekend reads: How to fix “slow,”“unhelpful,” and “generally awful” peer review, where all the PhDs go | Retraction Watch
[…] Canadian sustainable development journal doesn’t appear very developed, or sustainable, says Jeffrey […]
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Jeffrey Beall
I think you should stop worrying so much about ISI and Thomson Reuters and just focus on doing good science and writing the best articles you can and submitting to the best journals that are appropriate for your research. Personally, I include all my works on my CV, including one I that is in a journal whose publisher is on my list. I think it’s a good article, so I am including it on my CV. The quality of the science in your articles is much more important than where they are indexed.
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Comment on New Apparent Case of Serial Plagiarism Uncovered by Masood Siyyari
Hi, this is Masood Siyyari, a colleague and student of Dr Birjandi. To me what you have written here is a libel. You better know the truth first and then name someone publicly. You may contact me via my email or cell number (0912-2932592) , I will explain how Dr Birjandi’s name has appeared in some articles with plagiarism.
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Comment on Swiss Journals by Liam Mac Liam
Looking at a paper in the current Swiss Journal of Research in Business and Social Sciences, I am curious.
http://www.sjrbss.com/SJRBSS-14-1301.pdf
It appears to be a solid, original piece of research with quite a large database, carried out by 3 US-based researchers who also have a business consultancy and quote this publication on their consultancy website: http://www.leadingdimensions.com/?p=1424
If they are sufficiently savvy to be providing consultancy and training services, how come they are not aware which are the good quality journals in their field? Did they really think it is Swiss and that it would enhance their business reputation?
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