I’m wondering when someone will start to combine MLM with predatory publishing. You know, be an EIC and get a share from APC’s payed by authors you lured to publish with us, after 10 you will get Gold status, after 100 here comes the Diamond etc.
Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Offers Financial Incentives to Authors and Editors by AlexH
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Comment on Research by Gustavo Souza
Dear Mr. Beall,
I would like a clarification about the European Scientific Journal (ESJ) from the European Scientific Institute (http://www.eujournal.org/index.php/esj).
Look, I realize that some people have spoken presently that the ESJ is a predatory journal.
However, there are two years I have been Reviewer of papers for the ESJ and I know a professor colleague who also is reviewer of this Journal.
Also, I had one paper accepted at ESJ and I did not know about the publication fee. I communicated to the editor that I could not pay the publication fee, and the Editor published the article even thus.
So I would like to know your opinion about this Journal.
Kind regards,
Gustavo Souza
Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by mohdrohani
Hello,
I am just doubtful about this website and journal: http: http://www.oalib.com/journal is it okay to send our paper to this journal? it charges USD99 for the first 10 pages and the remaining pages will be charged USD 30/page.
I need your feedback on this.
thank you.
best regards Rohani
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by J Welsh
I have two questions:
First – as you say that journal publishers and journals change their business and editorial practices over time. When you have included a journal or a publisher in your list; when do you reassess it to see if it has changed its practices to become better?
Second – From 2012 till date, are there any journals you have removed from your list for any reason including because they changed their business practices?
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by Jeffrey Beall
That journal is not on my list at this time. I personally would not publish in that journal, and I would recommend to my friends that they not publish there. I think it is meant to copy other mega-journals set up by other publishers. It’s more like a posting service than a journal.
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by Jeffrey Beall
I removed Praise Worthy Prize and IAMURE recently because they both reported to me that they had changed their publishing model to toll-access. There have been others in the past year but can’t recall them all right now. Generally when publishers change their model to TA, they email me, and I verify this and remove them.
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Offers Financial Incentives to Authors and Editors by Dan Riley
There’s also a long tradition of “best paper” awards (mostly for conferences), and there’s the occasional prize too. I’d have to say that offering a financial reward is pretty widely accepted.
There is the problem that the “Rewards” are apparently only mentioned in spam, and there’s no explanation of the standards or who does the selection. That lack of transparency makes it ripe for the sort of cronyism exhibited so plainly in the editor-in-chief “rights”.
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by J Welsh
Ok, I apologize for not making my questions clear. I was not asking about publishers changing the publication model from open-access to toll-access.
I wanted to know about the “open access” publishers whom you have removed from your list who are still “open access” and you removed them because they changed their publishing practices from those for which you initially included them in your list.
Basically the ones who are still open access but improved themselves to pass your analysis. I came to know about Hindawi and Versita Open but they were borderline if i remember correctly.
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by Jeffrey Beall
Some I removed recently include these:
AkiNik Publications
Research Online Publishing (RonPub)
Archives of Biological Sciences
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by Alina
Hello, could tell me, please, if Australasian Journal of Educational Technology is fake or original. Thank you.
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by Jeffrey Beall
The <em>Australasian Journal of Educational Technology</em> is a very fine journal. It is not on my list.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Suzzane
Hello Jeffery!
Can you please recommend a journal on electronics and computer science (which is in science citation index list), that can take shorter time to review (say a month).
Please help
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Sorry, I cannot.
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Comment on OMICS Publishing Group’s Abuse of Researchers: More Evidence by Paul Jenkins
One important rule: When a journal is not immediately clear about the fact that there is a fee (and how much!) this is suspect! Almost certain you’re dealing here with a predatory journal.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by tht
Great post.
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Comment on Misleading Metrics by Paul Jenkins
Thanks Jeffrey. Untill today I was under the impression that IndexCopernicus was a legitimate organization. You make me aware of the fact that provinding misleading metrics is a business that makes money instead of helping anyone out.
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by bill
Jeffrey,
I was pleased to see your description of The Australasian Journal of Educational Technology as a very fine journal. Given that most of our discussion here is focussed (understandably) on the ugly end of the OA spectrum, it is important to remind ourselves that there are also examples at the other end of the scale (I’ve found the DOAJ list of journals useful myself in locating legitimate OA publication outlets although I wouldn’t say it’s 100% reliable in that respect).
I wasn’t familiar with AJET but having been active in this field in the past, I note that the current issue has papers by some scholars I know and respect; likewise the editorial board.
The editorial in the current issue (V. 30, 3) may be of interest to readers here as it describes and compares metrics from Thomson Routers Journal Citation Reports, Google Scholar Metrics and Scopus Journal Analyser:
http://ascilite.org.au/ajet/submission/index.php/AJET/article/view/2029
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Dr D B NIKUMBH
thank you Jeff….SIR
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Comment on Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind by P Canning
Hi,
open access publishing has enabled each and every moron on this earth to become a publisher and cheat authors of their money. Is it possible to pass a law banning open access publishing, considering a fraud it is and how it gives opportunities to people to defraud others?
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Offers Financial Incentives to Authors and Editors by Weekend reads: Publish a paper, get $10,000!; Lancet editor Horton under fire | Retraction Watch
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