Thank you so much Beall for the kind and useful response.
Comment on Appeals by UD
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by OA
They had 2 revisions that they required prior to full acceptance. Namely, delineation of objectives and reformatting of references.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by OA
Also, they requested the payment with via Western Union or transfer to their bank in india.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Bug Spattered Jacket
As the comments on amazon prove, there is no such thing as bad publicity. It was Joseph Stromberg`s article on his experience publishing with LAP that actually got me thinking about doing it myself. After deciding to go through the process I wrote a short write up on my own experience:
http://thewickedacademic.blogspot.ca/2014/09/publishing-with-lap-lambert-academic.html
The fact is, LAP is what it is. As my experience illustrates, a lot of the things folks are complaining about can be allotted to them not reading the fine print. Would I recommend publishing with LAP? I’d recommend that people need to do their homework before publishing with any company and stop blaming everyone else for their own regrets.
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Comment on Sudanese Researcher Falls Victim to Questionable Publisher by LAOcampo
Here in the Philippines, our government shares a large portion of funding to libraries of top leading universities to have access of journal articles from toll-access publishers. Because research funding of universities is very limited, individual researchers or funding agencies don’t have what we call “dissemination grant” (or very limited grant) that could allow researchers to publish their work in OA publishers. Research dissemination is usually done through conferences or publication in toll-access journals. Although the issue of “predatory publishing” has been known by a handful of universities (maybe three to four universities) almost two years ago, this is still not in the limelight of Philippine universities at present.
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by J. Nemade
I think we both thinking in the same direction.
“If I pay you, you have to perform…. measureable way”. The reviewers are/have been performing, following deadlines, but aren’t getting paid. There is no measurable way defined so far, and reviewer community is not the community who can do that. Can we work towards a measurable way ??
“Reviewer of the review”: The idea is very good, however, we don’t have them today as well. We trust that the reviewer was doing his/her job ethically. And we have more than one reviewer so we have statistics to get guided from.
“Volunteers getting paid”: A volunteer by definition is doing their jobs free of cost. Shall / do we have a second layer of system to check if the volunteer has done his/her job correctly ?
In a case where the “volunteer” gets paid, will the job be done in a better way and faster ? I would say: better – very likely, faster – definitely.
Now the fact is all reviewers are volunteers, may be because there is no second option available to them at present.
Can we change it ? More importantly do we want to change it ?
Lastly: “There is no free lunch”. Definitely agreed. However, the reviewers don’t get their share of the lunch they worked for.
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by lida farahmand azar
Please check the URL for a site visit
http://epistemologia-journal.com/
It seems like this site is a fake.
I think it should be on the list of Hijacked journals
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by Harvey Kane
I think you should look up the word volunteer.
On the one hand you complain about cost of a journal and on the on the other you want to increase costs. The again on the one hand you want rapid publication of an article but have no complaint at delay created by another layer of reviewing. I notice you avoid non performance and recovery of a fee or penalty for delay.
BTW I wish your comment regarding reviewers performing in a timely manner were so, it is not!
Why should one volunteer? BTW in many of the examples one can replace the word community with discipline!
#10: It’s good for you.
Volunteering provides physical and mental rewards. It:
Reduces stress: Experts report that when you focus on someone other than yourself, it interrupts usual tension-producing patterns.
Makes you healthier: Moods and emotions, like optimism, joy, and control over one’s fate, strengthen the immune system.
#9: It saves resources.
Volunteering provides valuable community services so more money can be spent on local improvements.
The estimated value of a volunteer’s time is $15.39 per hour.
#8: Volunteers gain professional experience.
You can test out a career.
#7: It brings people together.
As a volunteer you assist in:
Uniting people from diverse backgrounds to work toward a common goal
Building camaraderie and teamwork
#6: It promotes personal growth and self esteem.
Understanding community needs helps foster empathy and self-efficacy.
#5: Volunteering strengthens your community.
As a volunteer you help:
Support families (daycare and eldercare)
Improve schools (tutoring, literacy)
Support youth (mentoring and after-school programs)
Beautify the community (beach and park cleanups)
#4: You learn a lot.
Volunteers learn things like these:
Self: Volunteers discover hidden talents that may change your view on your self worth.
Government: Through working with local non-profit agencies, volunteers learn about the functions and operation of our government.
Community: Volunteers gain knowledge of local resources available to solve community needs.
#3: You get a chance to give back.
People like to support community resources that they use themselves or that benefit people they care about.
#2: Volunteering encourages civic responsibility.
Community service and volunteerism are an investment in our community and the people who live in it.
#1: You make a difference.
Every person counts!
https://students.ucsd.edu/student-life/involvement/community/reasons.html
As a reviewer one is volunteering their talents and knowledge for the betterment of the discipline.
The reviewer does get paid but in non tangibles. David Crotty provided a list, I suggest you look it up. It is in Scholarly Kitchen.
Lastly, if one is agreeing to review to make a buck I would urge that person get a part time job in menial labor, there is more to be made.
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Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by Spam journals, spam conferences | Arnold Zwicky's Blog
[…] list has an especially entertaining entry on the first of these, […]
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Comment on Another OA Publisher Launches with 96 New Journals by Marco
It appears to me that this journal falsely claims to be indexed by Scopus. I could not find any references to it when searching Scopus (both for the journal and a randomly selected paper). Interestingly, it uses the same abbreviation as the International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Int J Pharm).
They also claim an “impact factor” of 2.142 in 2013, which would place it in midfield in the area of pharmaceutics. Unsurprisingly, it does not feature in the JCR.
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall
Lida,
I think you are, sadly, correct. I have added this to my list of hijacked journals. That page is <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thank you for sharing this information.
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by J. Nemade
Hi
I have made my points. The readers can note them.
We can go on and on forever discussing.
My summary about everything above is:
1. Why a reviewer shall be paid ?
a. A reviewer is a highly qualified, experienced, skilled and trained person in a specific field.
b. He/She is being asked to do a job in most cases (not other way round).
c. He/She is spending his/her time for an activity.
d. His/Her activity is part of a profit making system.
e. So he/she deserves a fair share of the money.
2. There are definite advantages of having paid reviewers (quality, response time, etc.)
3. For the point 1 above, there is no system/guideline in place. This could easily be worked out.
4. You wish that the reviewers do the review free of charge.
5. For this you
a. have n number of analogies,
b. have references (BTW Google is full of such from both the sides),
c. point at systemic issues (which can easily be solved),
d. indulge in vocabulary (leaving the main discussion point apart),
e. etc.
6. You discuss only why reviewing be done free.
7. You have no arguments why reviewing be not paid (other than my point 5 above).
8. You do not even wish to look at the benefits of paying reviewers as you are getting them free historically.
9. You are operating in only ‘justification’ (of existing system) mode and unable to see beyond.
One fine day you will notice one enthusiastic beginner publisher starts paying the reviewers and all rest will have to follow, else they will have to close down for the want of reviewers.
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by J. Nemade
(End of transmissions from my side, at least for a month)
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Comment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by manuel De la Sen
The statement
“It has done away with the position of editor-in-chief. Staffers in Cairo make accept/reject decisions based on reviewers’ comments (with the exception of issues with guest editors)”
in the last paragraph is not exact.
Journals have no Editor-in-Chief while they have a set of Editors to handle the regular submissions . Editors handle the papers assigned to them and choose the referees to start the refereeing process before taking the editorial decision upon reception of the referees´ reports. Also, the assigned editor can reject directly assigned papers , by justified reasons that he /she has to point out, before starting the standard refereeing process.
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Harvey Kane
There is nothing new about APCs and the complaints expressed regarding them were expressed by faculty in wealthy nations only some 50 years ago!
At that time there were page charges and they were considered onerous. In response journal publishers either dropped page charges or they were negligible and increased subscription rates.
As for APC charges now to quote Al Jolson: “You ain’t seen nothin yet!”
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Jeffrey Beall
Harvey, APCs and page charges are different things, in my opinion. Page charges generally are made by tight-budgeted, non-profit scholarly societies. Most of the APCs I see eminate from greedy publishers wanting to exploit their customers (the authors) as much as they can get away with.
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by ashok
Dear Jedi I think you are vary free person I think you have no famali plz work don’t east your time
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Comment on Backlog by Il Mistero dell’auto ad acqua – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it
[…] Il covo contiene un solo ignorante e credulone, l’IMT è il suo sito, l’indirizzo quello di una casa privata e l’altro autore insegna gestione dei cantieri a Leeds. L’articolo, un copia-incolla delle illusioni di Alain Co, del quale Hermano Tobia sparge in italiano le bufale, è uscito su una rivista ‘chiappacitrulli. […]
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by kheops
Dear Jeffrey
Does the presence of a waiver policy for APC make an OA publisher credible?
Thanks
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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Jon
Catherine Davis from the Journal of Aquaculture and Marine Biology of the MedCrave Group asked to join my Linkedin network. I did not know her, nor did I recognize the journal, and her profile address said she is from the Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area, so I thought maybe this was a local journal just getting started. Less than 24 hours after approving her on Linkedin, she solicited me to become an honorary editor of the journal. That is when I started researching the journal and publisher and found this blog post. Now I know better. Thanks.
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