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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Umair Abdullah

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Athanase

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Respected Beall

I read your information very interesting. Could you please tell me about the status of
– Journal of Renewable Agriculture
– Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary
– Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies
– International Research Journal of Horticulture

Some of them seem to be located in USA but it seems it is not true.

Thanks a lot

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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I refer you to the lists associated with my website.

Comment on About the Author by Peer-Reviewed Journals Called to Defend Themselves | Changing World of Science & Communications

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[…] Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Denver who regularly identifies questionable journals, wonders if the International Journal of Science & Research has been hijacked by a new owner in Scholarly Open Access, […]

Comment on A Curious Case of a Hijacked Journal, or Just a Title Change? by Peer-Reviewed Journals Called to Defend Themselves | Changing World of Science & Communications

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[…] Jeffrey Beall, a librarian at the University of Colorado Denver who regularly identifies questionable journals, wonders if the International Journal of Science & Research has been hijacked by a new owner in Scholarly Open Access, […]

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Athanase

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Dear Beall,

Thanks a lot for your quick answer. The journals were not included on the list,but the publishers were included on the list. By this I am confused how the publisher is on the list but not the journals.

Best regards

Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by pbj

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To be fair, I’ve been asked to review stuff that isn’t vaguely related to my work from well respected traditional journals too. So I don’t think it’s a Frontiers specific issue. I think think it’s a too many papers not enough reviewers issue…


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by bill

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>I am confused how the publisher is on the list but not the journals

Probably because the enormous number of journals appearing each year makes it more practical to give priority to listing publishers.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Joris

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When looking at impact factor, ResearchGate is not a good source. In fact, although I’m on ResearchGate I found already quite some flaws in their system and the information they give.

If you look at the golden standard we use (i.e. the Web of knowledge), there’s no reference to either journal. The impact factors we take into account here, are those reported by Web of Knowledge. If a journal is not mentioned there, it’s not considered a scientific peer-reviewed journal.

Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Yurii

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I suggest forwarding this to Elsevier. Let their lawyers have fun with this publisher.

Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Eng

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when Thomson Reuters update again??

Comment on David Publishing: Flipping Its Model by Mark Speechley

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They’re still at it – Linda Taylor from Journal of Health Science ISSN 2328-7136 emailed me (twice) based on a paper I gave recently.

I replied to her and copied

http://scholarlyoa.com/?s=david+publishing

into my message.

I’m warning students, post-docs and junior faculty every time I identify another one of these junkyards.

Thank you Jeffrey Beall!

Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Jeffrey Beall

Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by P Canning

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My heart will go on….crying….at what open access is doing to the scholarly world.


Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Craig Silverman (@CraigSilverman)

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Interesting, and sad. FYI I did a whois search on the domain sprintjournals.com and it appears to have been registered by someone named Lorenzo Allovisio (or the reverse) back in July:

http://www.whois.com/whois/sprintjournals.com

There is no phone number or email listed for him, but there is an address that seems real:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Vicolo+S.+Gaudenzio,+26826+Secugnago+LO,+Italy/@45.2290549,9.5949,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x478127c9de770723:0x4755c81608296fa6

Also, one other note on this: I looked at a couple of the webpages for their journals, and they do list at least one recent article for each. For example, their veterinary journal lists a paper with authors who appear to be real people, living in Nigeria:

http://sprintjournals.com/SPRJVMAH.html

https://www.linkedin.com/pub/chuka-ezema/34/ba8/574

http://www.researchgate.net/profile/John_Ihedioha/publications

It may not be hard to locate the person behind this effort, or to at least confirm whether the authors listed on the journal sites actually submitted to the journals in question, and who they dealt with.

Why do I care so much? Because I do the same kind of research in the field of journalism. For example:

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/regret-the-error/261703/bear-attack-foiled-by-justin-biebers-music-a-story-too-good-to-check/

Keep up the good work!

Best regards,
Craig

Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Adeel Masood Butt (@adeelbutt88)

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yes you are right Canning. There must be a “check and balance” system for OA…

Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Steve

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Yurii

ELSEVIER team normally watch this blog and take necessary actions so that their fake journals like “Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences” would not confused with new rivals.

Steve

Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Adeel Masood Butt (@adeelbutt88)

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Yes you are right !

My best guess: this is a reboot of the “Academic Journals” because they got scrapped out of the ISI/WoS index, so they are trying to sneak back but they haven’t learn the lesson yet…
If you try to compare the list of journals with those published by academic journals, you will see why I am guessing it like that. They haven’t even bothered to change the names of journals.
It is your gift to the scientific community so Keep up the good work!

Cheers..

Comment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by Rocket Scientist

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Spam is not about content (hence relevance of the message is irrelevant to its spamminess), but about consent.

ScientificSpam.net welcomes Hindawi with open arms and has just listed 196.219.3.148 based on spam seen in our spamtraps. We expect to see more in the future, and list more IP addresses that Hindawi uses to send the spam.

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