Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Any day now. It is late this year.

So, u mean that this list is of 2013?

It's more complicated than that. Please see <a href="http://www.infodocket.com/2014/06/10/research-analytics-thomson-reuters-will-roll-journal-citation-reports-and-essential-science-indicators-into-nextgen-incites/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

Dickson Mireku
we are very grateful to you

I just received an email from them, looks like their price has gone up to $3120 for a 3 pg article. They make a great effort in their email to sound like they are legitimate. let me know if you want a copy of the email.

not until I see a series of multi-center clinical trials of sufficient statistical power to reach a favorable conclusion. Until then…. I call their BS

Well, it is _possible_ that they didn’t know the journal is predatory or they had too many bad experiences with very bad reviewers.

However, one thing that stuck out to me was that they seem to emphasise that they are “led by Professor Marco Ruggiero MD, a molecular biologist and fully qualified medical doctor”. I’ve noticed that certain types of cranks have a habit of attaching the “Dr”, “Professor”, “MD” credential as a prefix (or suffix) to their name.

It seems like most people who have seriously learned anything in graduate school probably would not chose to advertise their credentials to other people, as they would probably be keenly aware of how little they know, which is vastly more than what they do know.

Furthermore, a really good piece of innovative science probably doesn’t come in the form of an 8 page paper.

So, even if given the authors were right, I don’t think they are going about it the right way to show they are right.

This is not a questionable journal; it is fine, I think.

Full Details about DRUNPP SARAJEVO- Bosnia and Herzegovina

Journals which has been published by the DRUNPP of Sarajevo are:

1. TTEM – Technics Technologies Education Managemen (NEW NUMBER DOWNLOAD – Volume 9 / Number 1) – Impact Factor 0.414 (ISI Journal Citation Reports 2012) NEW

2. HealthMED (NEW NUMBER DOWNLOAD – Volume 8 / Number 6) – Universal Impact Factor: Impact Factor is 1.0312 (UIF 2012)

3. International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health (IJCRIMPH)

4. International Journal of Pharmacy Teaching & Practices (IJPTP)

5. Balkan Journal of Health Science (BJHS)

6. Review of Global Medicine and Healthcare Research

To solidify the case, I think it would be important to list, other than the double address, the exact full list of problems with this publisher and its journals that led it to be listed as a predatory journal. If these aspects are not fully and clearly shown, then the basis of classification as a “predatory” journal may be flawed, and the journal would simply just be another OA journal, like any other.

Marco Ruggiero is certainly no stranger to controversy or cranks, especially HIV/AIDS “skeptics”. But I’m not at all clear on what Jeffrey thinks the “bio-medical sciences community” can do about it.

Jeffrey- the Imprints website certainly looks more legit than it did when you posted this initially. It is still clear to me that this is total scam and hopefully will not take off, but look at some of the editors–there are some real scientists with credibility there. Must have been promised a lot of money or else this set of journals is trying to become a real thing

I wonder if they all know that they are listed as members of the editorial boards here.

There is an excellent interview with Jeffrey Beall in the August/September issue of Research Information … that gives the basis for a ‘predatory’ classification … and it is clearly NOT flawed. see: http://content.yudu.com/A2z1pz/RIAUGSEPT14/resources/4.htm

Please note that IDOSI is NOT based, managed or even operated from Iran. They based in UAE & managed by some people from Pakistan. Just see their contact address. Give your information in an evidence based way.

Do you believe everything you read on the internet?

The web-site you provide only indicates an opinion piece by Jeffrey Beall. There is absolutely no quantification of this “predatory” classification. My query pertains specifically to the publisher of this apparently flawed paper, Science Publications. The public needs to know a detailed list of what exactly is wrong with this publisher that would make it “predatory”.

Dear Mr. Liebman,
Thanks a lot. I searched google, and indeed I did not find any bad opninion about Terrapinn. Now I can be sure, if next time they send me an invitation.

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My sister was asked by her lecturer to pay $100 to publish her project on international journal of computer science and information security. ijcsis
the website address is https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
can you please confirm that this site is genuine .

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