At least the network is clearly documented.
[whois.afrinic.net]
inetnum: 196.219.3.128 – 196.219.3.159
netname: Hindawi-Publishing
descr: Hindawi-Publishing-Corporation
country: EG
Comment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by Rocket Scientist
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Suleiman Danladi
Sir thank you for your help, please i want to send my paper for publication but i want to send it to good and standard please can you recommend one for me. also i want to know whether these two journals are standards or not Malaysian journal of pharmaceutical science and Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical science.
thank you.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by tegan williams
Dear Sir,
I am trying to publish my work with LAP but there is something strange with their agreement system, and I will get back to you to explain my observation because they do not appear to be open with that agreement system
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Neither the <em>Malaysian Journal of Pharmaceutical Science</em> nor the <em>Pakistan Journal of Pharmaceutical Science</em> is on my list. In fact, they both appear to be fine journals.
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Comment on A Magical Combination: Easy Acceptance and an Authentic Impact Factor by Ochado
I ran into someone who accidentally published in a Medwell Journal, and then found out too late what they’re really made of. Is there any advice on how to “unpublish” an article submitted to them? By unpublish, I mean 1. Formally withdraw the article; 2. Legally annul the copyright transfer agreement; and 3. Be able to legally submit the article to peer review at a legitimate journal. A bonus 4. would be to get the $450 submission fee refunded, but I doubt that would happen.
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Comment on David Publishing: Flipping Its Model by Mark Speechley
I think I know who gave me the thumb down – in this morning’s email I received this:
Dear Mark Speechley,
Thank you for letting us know the link you have sent to us. I’m also very sorry to read the negative text on the website. This is the first time we know this link. As you can find out that, the text just doubted our address and our website. In fact, our company has 3 addresses: one is in USA, one is in Honking and one is in Wuhan, China. In the future, we may have more addresses because our authors are from all over the world. I don’t think this is a problem, do you think so? From the end of 2010, our website is under reconstruction and from June 2011.
I also want to explain to you why should we charge. As you know, as an academic journal, its readers are very limited. The subscription fee cannot afford its running. At the same time, there is no sponsor or any advertisement income for our journal. So we have to charge some fees to run our journal. Please understand us and support us. You can find the list of our editorial board members and reviewers on our website. All the papers submitted to our journal will undergo peer reviewing process. We have many reviewers and staff around the world, and then we can finish the reviewing process more quickly than other journals. In other words, our company has been founded nearly 10 years and has published more than 50 journals, you can find them in some famous databases such us EBSCO, CSA, ProQuest, Ulrich, Summon and so on. If there is any problem, are all the authors cheated by us? Of course not. If you find more information, you can know that many academic journals in USA charge submission fee such as Chicago Journals. Maybe because our company is not so famous that some scholars cannot accept it. We will try our best to make our journals better and better and let more people know it. Please don’t doubt it any more. You can read all the past issues of our journals on our website. If you have any problem to access it, you can contact me. We will improve it soon.
Anyway, we hope the warm cooperation between us in future.
Best regards,
Managing Editor
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by a firm called Technical Journals Online. This publisher is included on my list here:http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Therefore, I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal.
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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Farid
I would like to confirm that the people behind this website are more likely the same as the people who setup AcademicJournals.org. Here are my reasons:
1. The site uses the same web design as Academic Journals does.
2. The person who designs the logo must be the same. In fact, I believe the covers of their journals look professional in most cases.
Poor they end up doing such activities. They started publishing some highly cited papers in one of their journals named African Journal of business management and managed to get listed on both Scopus and ISI. However, once they got popular for their indexation, they started accepting virtually everything and eventually got delisted from ISI and Scopus. For a certain period time, Scopus database did not show any trace of African Journal of Business Management. They normally asked for 550$ but in many cases they were ready to give up to 100% discount. I saw some papers, which were plagiarized and could be easily detected but they accepted them without caring about some basic ethics. These kinds of activities have hurt other OA publishers. I hope this blog gives them a signal that it is better for them just to change their greedy behavior and start working with some ethical rules as stated on their website. Building a new website is not a good idea and they need to learn that scientific society helps detect fraud quickly.
Maybe Mr Beall could make some more comments on this.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by alfredachieng
Thanks Jeffrey… You have really enlightened us
What about Croatian Journal of Fisheries?
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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)
Their main page contains text taken from Elsevier's homepage. e.g.
"Provides answers to support critical decisions in chemistry-related research fields" (<a href="http://www.elsevier.com/" rel="nofollow">from here</a>).
Their "bottom bar" ("Industries"... "Evidence") is also the same as Elsevier's except their links don't work.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is not on my list.
May I ask what made you want to ask about this particular journal?
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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier by Marco
When I open the website, my tab says “World Elsivier Journal” (Elsivier, yes, not Elsevier).
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Andy
Many thanks Jeffrey for the advice
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Aliah
Thank you for your post! I’ve never heard about it, and thanks God never tried any of these conferences…So I will more careful about it…
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Jennifer
The WASET has conference venues planned all the way until December 2023. That’s amazing. Is that normal?
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Jeffrey Beall
I think this is an extreme case.
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Jeffrey Beall
I think they actually take place.
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Jeffrey Beall
Alope Rapone: I would love to be able to apply only objective criteria in all cases. Can you list five useful criteria that I can use that apply to new open-access journals and publishers?
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Alope Rapone
Thank you for your reply. Well, I am not an expert like you are, so, please excuse me if I am wrong. Some things a journal must give or do the following:
1. Clearly mention publication charges on website
2. Tell the authors about publication charges when manuscript is submitted
3. Give affiliation of editorial board members
4. Give detail of editorial review and peer review policy
5. Give details about how it checks for plagiarism, duplicate submission etc.
6. Provide articles in PDF, HTML and other formats.
The above are things which I can see for myself and others too can see. Either all this information is there or it is not there. But some things like:
“editor and/or review board members do not possess academic expertise” or
“journals have an insufficient number of board members” or “demonstrates a lack of transparency in publishing operations”
“editorial board is not very impressive”
..are too subjective to be applied by someone like me. For example, how do I decide that the number of board members are insufficient for a journal? and impressive editorial board?
Thanx.
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Tom Spears
I’m a science reporter at a newspaper in Canada. I have approached some of these publishers with an entirely fake paper to see whether they would accept it. Most did. The problem is that they pretend to be ethical. So typically their websites do list an editorial board, an ethics policy and peer review policy and the rest — but none of it is true. All they want is money. In my case their “peer review” accepted a paper that was half geology and half medicine, in alternating pieces, and all of them plagiarized. It made no sense but it passed. And when I wrote back to say by the way it’s plagiarized, that was OK with them. They just wanted money.
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