This journal, the <em>International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security</em>, is on my list. I recommend that she find a better journal for her work.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by Farid
I read Mr Beall’s recent interview and I believe his list has helped slow down part of predatory activities, bringing good awareness among scientific society to prevent from bad OA publishers, hijacked journals, etc. However, I do believe good OA publishers, which are also blacklisted by My Beall are growing rapidly and gaining legitimate credit among scientific society. These days, when we search for an OA publisher, Google brings Mr Beall’s insight about the firm right below the search result and scholars as well as legitimate indexing firms can read those contents and make their own judgements. I think Mr Beall has gathered literally all OA publishers appeared within the last 10 years under a single questionable list and very few have been excluded. Therefore, we may think of it as a bias judgement against all OA publishers. I have seen many cases, where an OA publisher listed on his list has managed to receive ISI and Scopus indexes.
In his interview, he argues that some OA publishers may hide their original places and jumps into conclusion that their services are unreliable. I do believe may scholars may develop an OA firm while they are working for a firm and do not want to lose their jobs because of this reason. I don’t see any reason for disclosing all private information over the cyberspace. In addition, these days, it is easy to gather many people from different parts of the world over the cyberspace and manage a web based OA publishing firm. I agree that bad OA publishers do this because they think about money and nothing else but many good quality OA publishers may do this without harming others. What would be wrong if an OA publisher provides good quality papers and rely on subscription fees, only? In such a case, what difference does it make to register an ISSN in United States and work in Germany? As long as the publisher does not want to carry a misleading name like American Journal of business management, it would be no problem I think.
One question Mr Beall raise to bring OA publishers under question was that there would be no subscription for OA products. On the contrary, I think many national libraries think of having hard copies for good quality OA publishers. The papers, which are easily available on an OA website may become unavailable for various reasons such as closing the operation, facing court law, etc. What if a researcher needs a paper published by such OA firm? I have seen some cases where an OA publisher has managed to receive subscription from some libraries. A simple math helps us reach a good conclusion that it would be possible to waive the author fee and publish good quality OA papers and hope to collect subscription fees. I have heard many US libraries support OA publishers whose journals were indexed by ISI. I hope recent OA publishers who wish to stay on business over the long run would also follow this.
Last week, Mr Beall provided us with good news about Life Science journal. I do believe sooner or later, all bad quality journals listed on well-known indexes will lose their credit from those databases and think about doing quality work or running out of business.
In summary, I believe traditional and newly established OA models promote knowledge and if I were in Mr Beall’s shows, I would reconsider my policy of calling them “Predatory publishers”. Just a few years later, many scientific people may come, read Mr Beall’s bias comments and blame him. If Mr Beal is fighting against fraud, any one in scientific community is supporting him, however if he plans to work in favor of well-established publishers and try to kill OA business model, I am afraid, Mr Beall is in wrong direction.
Farid
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Comment on Appeals by jpyush
Sir, why is IJCSI included in your list of predatory journal starting in 2013 when this journal was not in your list before 2013? I am concerned because I have a few articles published in this journal in 2011 and 2012 but after it appeared in your list I stop submitting my research outputs for publication in this journal because of this negative publicity. Thank you.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Are you referring to the International Journal of Computer Science Issues? If so, I probably didn’t have this journal on my list earlier because I had not learned of it earlier. One major concern with this journal that I have regards its claiming to have an impact factor when it really does not. Its website states, “We are pleased to announce officially our 2011 Impact Factor which is evaluated at 0.242.” In fact, if you read closely, they calculated their own “impact factor” using Google Scholar. It’s not official in any honest sense of the term. I think this is deceptive.
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Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by dzrlib
In fairness to Mr. Beall, please give some specific examples of “good OA publishers, which are also blacklisted …”
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Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you — this is a helpful comment.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
The journal’s publisher, Academic Research Journals, is on my list, so I recommend finding a better journal than this one.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Areen Muhammed
thanks for the reply…
Dear Mr. Beall what about Journal with the title of
“International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research” and ISSN: 2229-5518…
since I published two of my papers, is the one to be Predatory…
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Mr. Muhammed, This journal is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
Therefore, I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this journal. I recommend that you find a better journal for your work. Good luck.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Areen Muhammed
Dear Mr. Beall
the given journal can be found in Global Impact Factor, can you tell me a list for those Journals who are not included in your list, or any website which we can check other than your website?
How do you know that these Journals are in Black list?
Can you give me a website for those Journals who are not Predators? Since I want to publish my works, where should I find?
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I think that the "Global Impact Factor" is a completely bogus metric. No, I do not have a list of all the journals not on my list, sorry. I use <a href="http://wp.me/p280Ch-g5" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">these criteria</a> for determining which publishers and standalone journals belong on the list. I am sorry -- I do not have a list of journals that are not predators.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Areen Muhammed
Thanks for your understanding, but sorry for bothering.. do you think the journal with the title of: International Journal of English Literature and Culture. and ISSN: 2360-7831. is in the Predator list, since I could not find it in your list… http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJELC/Index.htm
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Dickson Mireku
please check these two journals : International journal for Scientific Research and Publication and Journal of Biodiversity and Forestry Management. Are they good?
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
There are too many journals (thousands) for me to examine and list individually. Therefore, I complete my analyses at the publisher level and only list the publishers (There are some journals that are “standalone” or individual journals that are not a part of a publisher’s fleet of journals, so I have a separate list for these). In this case, I do have Academic Research Journals on my list, and I think that researchers should avoid all the journals they publish.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
For the first one, I think you mean the <em>International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications</em>. This is a standalone journal, and it is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I recommend against submitting papers to this journal.
The second one is published by SciTechnol, and imprint of OMICS Publishing Group, and I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal or the others from this publisher.
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Comment on Appeals by Armen Beklaryan
Can you please comment why Academic Publications, Ltd. was included.
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Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Mahmood
What is this journal’s present Impact Factor? Does Scopus in any way linked with Thomson Reuters?
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Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Mahmood
One more thing. Does this ISI Master List also gets updated on July 29
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Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, it’s updated tomorrow.
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Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Jeffrey Beall
As of noon on July 28, 2014, this journal’s impact factor is 0.165.
Scopus is owned by Elsevier. Elsevier and Thomson Reuters are separate companies.
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