Address:
Academia Research
St Michael”s Catholic Church, Sapele, Delta – Registrant Postal Code:331222, Nigeria
Email: OTOMI.EDAFE@GMAIL.COM
Is it not time that open access publishing stops now?
Address:
Academia Research
St Michael”s Catholic Church, Sapele, Delta – Registrant Postal Code:331222, Nigeria
Email: OTOMI.EDAFE@GMAIL.COM
Is it not time that open access publishing stops now?
Do you have any information on the Journal of Advances in Physics ( http://cirjap.com/ojs/index.php/jap/index )? Someone representing it has made a promotional post on a LinkedIn group I belong to and (more significantly) ‘liked’ several posts about incoherent pseudoscience. Thanks.
Dear Jeffrey,
I have submitted manuscript on International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science. Can you tell me about the credibility of this journal, PLease.
I think the real good journals are responsible for what is going on, and let researchers seek for such rotten journals, when I wait 2.5 years to get one of my papers published, I may seek for those predatory journals, when I wait 10 months to get rejected with no obvious reason I seek for those cannibals.
Domain registration:
Otomi Edafe
Academia Research
St Michael’s Catholic Church
Sapele, Delta, 331222, NG
Paper preparation instructions are cut&paste from other sites of questionable virtue, including the automatic assignment of copyright to the journal. Searching on a few distinctive phrases turns up lots and *lots* of journals I’ve never heard of and would probably prefer not to.
Per usual, no hint of any kind of document preservation plan or contingencies when the journal disappears.
It’s published by a predatory publisher called Council for Innovative Research. I strongly recommend that you not submit any papers to it. The publisher is included on my list.
This journal is published by a company called SAP, or Scientific & Academic Publishing. It’s on my list, and I recommend that you withdraw your manuscript and find a better publisher.
Thanks!
I think you can add a new one to your list:
http://www.imprintsonline.org/index.php
Couldn’t help to give a funny example from their publication ethics:
“All the submitted manuscripts should be written in Good English”
followed by
“Before the inclusion of a case details or images or patient images or personal details in the manuscript author must be obtained permission or an approval from the appropriate parties.”
Contact me if you want an e-mail I received to become an Editor.
Thanks
With Best Wishes
Actually, this publisher is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
Thank you for letting me know about it, however.
I have added the International Institute of Engineers to my list of questionable publishers. Thanks for letting me know about it. I recommend against attending their conferences and against submitting papers to their journals.
I have analyzed this journal and added it to my list. I do not recommend submitting your manuscripts here, as this is a minimalist and amateurish-looking journal. I would recommend finding a more professional venue.
Dear Dr. Beall
What about the newly launched http://www.jujournals.net.in/
It seems that the predatory publisher ‘ignited minds’ somehow convinced the university officials to launch university journals through its platform. Please provide your opinion for benefit of authors.
Dear Dr. Jeffrey, your lists of journals is really helpful. Thanks a lot for this compilation.
Mr. Singh: Thanks for letting me know about this new publisher. I do not want to add it to my list at this time. I do see some serious weaknesses. Also, there is a question as to whether the journals actually qualify as open-access journals (and I limit my work to OA journals). One is asked to register to download the actual articles, and by definition open-access does not include content for which registration is required for viewing. There are some sloppy aspects to the operation as well. I was easily able to see some plagiarism in one of the articles, and I also saw that some editorial board members were listed without any affiliations. I need more time to analyze this publisher, and hopefully they will be able to fix the weaknesses that are there now. Thank you. Jeffrey Beall
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Thanks for the wonderful job done.
Absurdly, even “Academia Research”‘s journal titles are ‘adapted from’ another OA publisher, in this case Academic Journals.
Compare the list of journal titles to the lists on this page: http://academicjournals.org/journal
Shameless.