I refer you to my lists here:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
Kind regards.
I refer you to my lists here:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
Kind regards.
Dear Khan,
It is still listed in ISI Master Journal List. You can check from the following link;
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=1110-662X
Removal from the Impact factor list is a normal and regular phenomena of ISI to keep the Journals on track. In my view your Journal will regain its impact factor – although not so high – in 2015 or in 2016.
Best of Luck
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
I refer you to the lists associated with my website.
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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
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…
>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.
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.
I suggest forwarding this to Elsevier. Let their lawyers have fun with this publisher.
when Thomson Reuters update again??
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!
June 2015.
My heart will go on….crying….at what open access is doing to the scholarly world.
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:
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:
Keep up the good work!
Best regards,
Craig
yes you are right Canning. There must be a “check and balance” system for OA…
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
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..
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