Sir,
M extremely upset, as I have submit them my complete thesis. How I can get out of this trouble? Please, any recommendations?
Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Noor
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by Dee
This is the first one of your articles that I’ve read that focused on what these journals are doing as far as promoting professors, etc. I would like to add my 2 rupees, if you don’t mind.
Where you say,
“In this case, researchers are using the quick, easy, and cheap publishing MCSER offers to get their quota of published articles in “impact factor journals” for tenure and promotion. It’s a breakdown of the academic system.
Academic promotions in many places are no longer based on merit.”
the implication of a break down is that a program of merit existed.
I would describe it differently. It seems to me that, in places where these are flourishing (and you know my experience is India), academia has never really existed in its modern form in the past. (Yes, there were foreign run systems and, yes, their “breakdown” affects the rest of us, but I’m talking about their system internally that allows these practices to flourish.) The attempt in these regions has been to build such a system quickly without proper understanding or resources. It is almost as if such publishers have seen the system from the outside but do not understand its foundations.
One good example is the idea that
“many universities are unaware of the bogus impact factor companies, or they choose to pretend they’re real.”
The alternative is that they do not understand what an impact factor is to begin with. In my experience, this alternative is common.
I have presented, for example, in a well-reputed university in front of hundreds of young academics who knew absolutely that they needed an impact factor but were completely surprised to learn what such a number would actually measure.
I will say this again. You bringing these journals to international attention is the best way to help, not only individual scholars as you do, but, ultimately, the journals and universities, as they are forced to recognize that academic publishing is not something they can continue to do only with their own standards in the isolation of their own systems.
Always a fan,
Dee
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by Jeffrey Beall
I observe that your comments are always self-referential, and you always talk about how you are helping save the ignorant from themselves, you the hero and teacher. The fact is, the people in South Asia can and do understand the impact factor just as well as people in any other region. There are numerous journals published in India that are not on my lists and that publish excellent science and that adhere to international standards. Let’s replace the paternalism with high expectations.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall
Send them an email and say “I would like to withdraw my submission.”
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by herr doktor bimler
<i>Family Reunification in Albania: A Comparative Study in the Context of Albanian Integration in the EU / Erjona Canaj, Arjan Vasjari, Darjel Sina</i>
The first author of this paper has <a href="http://www.academia.edu/6126699/Family_Reunification_in_Albania_A_Comparative_Study_in_the_Context_of_Albanian_Integration_in_the_EU" rel="nofollow">uploaded a copy to Academia.edu</a>, but omitting the prolific third author. Perhaps the first two authors realised that by signing on Dr Darjel Sina they became eligible for the bulk discount.
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by Pink Pallino
Strange enough there is no Via Fonte Bandusia 18 in Rome (the beneficiary address in bank account 1, Via means Street in italian)! The only Fonte Bandusia is a hotel “Albergo Fonte Bandusia”, Via Fonte Vecchia, 00026 Licenza Roma which is in the surroundings of Rome.
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by herr doktor bimler
IAccording to the MJSS webpage, it's "published by MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational research". The letterhead on PDFs of its publications are more ambitious, however, and claim that it's "Published by MCSER-CEMAS-Sapienza University of Rome".
Now the Sapienza University di Roma does exist, and provides the Roman address (Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5) being used by MCSER (although the Sapienza website <b>knows nothing of MCSER</b>). And CEMAS is a research centre within the university (Centro di ricerca "Cooperazione con l'Eurasia, il Mediterraneo e l'Africa sub.sahariana"). But Googling for the combination ""CEMAS-sapienza university" only leads to publications from our Albanian grifter.
As far as I can see, a certain Dottore Andrea Carteny (with a Sapienza affiliation) had the role of MJSS editor-in-chief for its first few issues. Meanwhile a Prof. Antonello Biagini -- also of Sapienza -- was the Executive Director of the whole MCSER outfit. <a href="http://www.mcser.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1&Itemid=53" rel="nofollow">Both have vanished from the MCSER and MJSS websites</a>* (a different person from Georgia is now the Ed-in-chief) but MJSS is hanging onto the purported connection with a real university anyway, and continuing to claim their physical street location.
Is it possible that MCSER and MJSS started out legitimately but succumbed to a journal hijacking or take-over? Do the people listed on the Editorial Board know that they are listed?
* The current version, anyway. <a href="http://www.mcser.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2:about-us&catid=1:general" rel="nofollow">An older version still retains them</a>.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Noor
Sir
As you said, they are not a scholarly publisher and extremely dangerous as well. So do think, just telling them to withdraw submission ll be enough and they will not use my work as illegal? They asked for fee: about 5,000 US dollars.
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Comment on Be Careful with Spam from Research Media by Jordi
I recieved the same mail too, and I almost bit it … thank you for the piece of advice!
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Springer
Dear Jeffrey
I would like to submit my paper to one of Hindawi journals. Kindly advise.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Hindawi is not on my list.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by chudamani
Dear jeffrey,
I have submitted manuscript on journal of animal science advances by Global researchers journal and open journal of animal science by scientific publishing group ….. are they fake or genuine journals
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by SAMUELA SILAS
I thought they were rightly genuine in their approach in publishing my book. I requested for their support to publish and to-date they no longer willing to communicate back after receiving a copy.
Will they continue to publish or i just continue to publish with another publisher regardless of their action?.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Can you send the link, please? I am not sure exactly which journal you are talking about.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall
It depends on whether you transferred ownership of copyright.
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by Jeffrey Beall
Thanks — I’ll have a look as soon as I can.
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Comment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by Richard Musser
I have published two papers with MDPI. In my case the journal “Insects” before I had seen this list. I had colleagues with good experience with MDPI Insects and thought it was “Western European” Journal thus legit. While this list has now given me anxious pause to look at other sources to publish, so will look at other Journals. I did not submit there out of desperation, and my experience still suggest that MDPI Insects is legit. I have published in Journals including Nature, and just wanted a basic good Journal for this work, that I am proud of doing. Also I had looked up predatory Journals before and they always looked less professional with minor typos wanting extort lots of money. While MDPI fees seemed reasonable and the final online pubs from Insects appeared very professional, as good as any journal that I have published. See for yourself: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/insects
Regardless my experience was a competent review by experts that understood molecular biology. It also required two cycles of corrections and never felt like a give me, but required real corrections. The review and acceptance seemed no different to me that any other journal I have published that are of modest Impact factor. However, as mentioned this list has caused me to look else where to protect my reputation, despite my complete assertion that I went through a review equivalent to any journal I have published with so far.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Jacobs Publishers is on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Thanks.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, I am a little backlogged right now but will get to it as soon as I can. Thanks.
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