Beall, may i ask you about asian social science journal? Is it predatory journal.
Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by jauhari
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Comment on OA Publisher Disappears from Internet, Goes Out of Business by C'est moi!
Following almost one month of relentless contacts (including painful conflicts) to over 100 individuals related with this publisher and journal, including traceable authors, individuals within the Iranian Ministry of Education, CABI, DOAJ, Jeffrey Beall and others, I am pleased to inform readers that, most likely under pressure by the Islamic Republic of Iran, which hosts the online journal, that all content from 2010-2013 is back online. But who is actually hosing it? Not only does this case demonstrate the real on-the-ground negative effects that a supposedly academic open access publisher poses to the security of digital information, but also shows how volatile the world of open access publishing is. Finally, there is only one set of victims here: scientists.
There is now massive urgency in formally capturing all information from that web-site. For example, I have now personally taken screen shots and copies of ALL the web-pages, as proof just in case there is another “disappearing” incident in the future. I have screened the contents of all the journal volumes and I estimate that between 93 and 98% of the authorship is from Iran, with very few authors from India, Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia and Nigeria. Also, all PDF files need to desperately be downloaded and archived, also just in case the publisher “fades away” in the future. I have asked DOAJ to consider this, but to balance archiving for historical needs vs archiving for academic needs will become a very important issue to consider moving forward by these indexing / abstracting companies like CABI.
Most importantly, post-publication peer review is seriously and urgently required. For example, one will notice 8 papers by one pair of Iranian researchers (Neda Ozhan and Maryam Hajibabaei) that have ample errors, even basic ones (e.g., in the titles). These papers were published recently in the September issue of Volume 4, 2013 [1]. VictorQuest referred to itself as an academic publisher, claiming “The International Journal of Agronomy and Plant Production (IJAPP) (ISSN 2051-1914) is an open access journal that publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles, in English, in all areas of agronomy and Plant production including actual problems of modern agriculture incl. crop and animal science, genetics, economics, technical aspects, agriculture and environmental relations and etc. in the temperate regions of the world. All articles published in IJAPP will be peer-reviewed.” [2]
Why does CABI (and Elsevier) archive papers by what is clearly a very problematic publisher / journal [3]? IJAPP claims to employ high publishing ethics (i.e., COPE ethics [4]) when its parent company is involve din questionable academic practices. Clicking on the COPE link leads from the IJAPP / VictorQuest web-site to another unidentifiable publisher that publishes a journal “Scientific Research and Review Journal (SRRJ)”. Does COPE agree being used by this and other publishers in this way? If yes, then why, especially since VictorQuest and IJAPP are not COPE members [5]? Even if it wanted to, could COPE launch a complaint with VictorQuest Publications to disassociate itself with COPE, given the fact that VictorQuest Ltd. is now a dissolved UK company?
I am personally of the opinion that the literature that is rapidly proliferating in these “types” of journals pose a serious risk to the academic integrity of the scientific literature, as much as high-profile cases in top-level IF journals, simply because these papers are increasingly creeping into the literature, by being referenced in more and more truly mainstream academic journals. Finally, isn’t it odd why one cannot access the content of the first two issues of Volume 5, in 2014 [6]?
In closing, I should add that Jeffrey Beall covered this case well on his blog today.
[1] http://www.ijappjournal.com/2013-4-9/
[2] http://www.ijappjournal.com/about-the-journal/
[3] http://www.ijappjournal.com/abstracted-indexed-in/
[4] http://www.ijappjournal.com/publisher/ (If you click on the COPE link, it leads to an unrelated IJAGCS.com PDF document)
[5] http://publicationethics.org/members
[6] http://www.ijappjournal.com/2014-2/
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Comment on An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal by C'est moi!
This sounds like a mutiny in addition to a mass-resignation. Why would the final survivor that works for a commercial company MIR International Inc. be supporting unscholarly behavior, and still be proud to call himself the editor-in-chief? Is this, or is this not, a conflict of interest? Or is it a convenient power and financial investment by SCIRP in Dr. Anatole? I was a little confused about the link with China. Is SCIRP a Chinese-based company? If yes, then this makes the influx of Chinese into the predatory OA waters an interesting topic worth investigating in more depth. For example, the Swiss-Sino MDPI is no stranger to academic issues of concern.
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Comment on OA Publisher Launches with over 350 New Journals by John
This place is a joke. Based on prior work in team robotics, I just got an invitation to be on the editorial board of the “journal of coaching and team management”. “your role would be to periodically review journal articles in the subject area of your expertise, but solely at your personal discretion and convenience. You can participate as little or as much as you want to, and you would never be “required” to do a review or anything else.” It appears they’re just trolling for academics willing to lend their names and credentials to this with no work attached, without regard for anything other than a keyword search.
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Comment on Other pages by Han Dexter
Is Asian EFL Journal (http://asian-efl-journal.com/) legit?
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Comment on An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal by Leslie
Anatole is brilliant, no doubt about it, and I am sure applying his scientific chemist brain to DNA and anthropology is not a big leap for him. He has an impressive resume with lots of awards and significant publications. It’s a shame to see him put his good name on this crappy journal. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that money is involved. I never knew Anatole do to anything for free. :-)
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, I recommend that you ask that your paper be withdrawn. Explain the problem to the publisher. Unfortunately, the predatory publishers do not act according to ethical standards, so this may be a difficult situation.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I have not analyzed this journal, so I cannot say anything about it at this time.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I think this is not a strong publisher. It’s on my list, and I would recommend that you find a better one.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
There is a journal with this title published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development. This publisher is on my list, and I recommend against submitting work to all the journals they publish.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
It is not predatory, but it is borderline. However, I don’t add the borderline ones to my list. I would recommend that you try to find a better and stronger publisher than this one if possible.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
When I analyzed it, I found plagiarism in the published articles.
They use a New York and London address but are really based in India.
At one time, the advertised a bogus impact factor. There are many problems with this publisher.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Jeffrey Beall
Do you mean <em>Asian Social Science</em>, published by the Canadian Center of Science and Education? If so, yes. This is a questionable journal (and publisher) and I recommend that you avoid it.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Not sure. I have added this one to my backlog. I am unable to analyze it at this time. What is your opinion of it? How did you hear about it?
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Comment on Hundreds of Articles Disappear as Publisher Changes Model from Open Access to Toll Access by Janos Toth
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Comment on An Editorial Board Mass-Resignation — from an Open-Access Journal by Olukayode Amund
Mass resignation in this context is a mark of integrity on the part of the board members. Many budding academics have wasted their efforts patronizing quack publishers and are in a fix.
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Narad
<blockquote>They are dropping over $1mil to the bottom line! They are rolling in money from just this one journal. I would bet their payroll matches that of for profit concerns.</blockquote>
Define "payroll." I've got the 2012 Form 990 right here. Total publication expenses were $5.8 million, and total publication revenue was $8.1 million. All told, the society came out ahead by $1.8 million on the year. Average for-profit revenue per paper in 2011 was <a href="http://www.nature.com/news/open-access-the-true-cost-of-science-publishing-1.12676" rel="nofollow">$5000</a>. I'm getting $2040 for this portfolio in 2012.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by anj
Dear Jeff,
I very much appreciate your exhaustive database on the list of predatory journals.I am a regular visitor to your site from past 5 months and I am also suggesting others to this site.
I am research scholar from India and am quite confused after publishing my first research article in IJMIE with ISSN 2249-0558.I request you to kindly let me know if this journal is in fake list. I have my second research article ready to submit and looking at the below list of journals. Please share your expertise suggestions..This would be a great help to me and my research study.
1. Indian Journal of Research-ISSN – 2250-1991
2. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research (IJMER) ISSN :2277-7881
3. ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research ISSN : 2231-5780
4. International Journal of Research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ISSN 2320-8724
5. ijmrr.com
Regards,
Anj
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Harvey Kane
I can appreciate your position and in many respects it reflects reality. Unfortunately, finding reliable reviewers is a onerous task. Everyone means well, but it seems things get in the way of completing a task. We will not discuss your particular situation, but in general publishers for profit and not try to get papers processed ASAP.
I would guess that your data was shared way before you began writing your paper. Was it?
I have seen the rapid transmission of findings and then the penning of a paper. The paper is simply a verification of what one has done in a more public venue.
When I started in publishing one used the postal system and the lag time between submission and acceptance and then actual publishing was from 6 to 12 months.
I would hope you would not ignore the imprimatur of a journal. What it does is in many ways make sure your article is read and reviewers concerns addressed thereby making for a better paper.
In short, I do not believe you would publish in one of the journals on Beal’s list simply because it would have it available 2 days after submission! I would hope you would choose your publisher with the same care you choose a course of action for a patient.
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Comment on Scholarly Authors are Increasingly Experiencing APC Fatigue by Harvey Kane
Dr. Bormann:
I have enjoyed our conversation and agree with many of your contentions. I am not too sure the blame for late publication or the publication of “false” information lies with the publisher. The publisher performs the role of issuing information presented to it after review. The publisher has no expertise.
J. Ionaides(?) article is most interesting because it points out that folks find out what is false and thus seems to point out that the system is working. On a most basic understanding of science it is my notion that everything is false and to be challenged until proven not so.
Perhaps the answer lies in there being fewer journals or just publishing methodology journals in which the researcher says I did this, and this is what I found. Then the article is sent to say 6 reviewers who have to replicate what was done and the same findings found and then the paper being published.
I do not think reputable researchers intentionally fudge their data nor are dishonest. In fact, I think the vast majority are honest people who are bent on finding something out.
I think the conflict of interest statements that now have to accompany articles is a giant step in lessening hidden bias. A reader can now read a paper with a sense of skepticism. I am not sure when the first conflict of interest disclosure forms were included in author packets but I think sometime in the late 80s or early 90s.
A researcher has many avenues to disseminate findings. One can use the newspaper, a magazine, the web, journals, TV, radio, etc. Each of these venues have their pitfalls – witness cold fusion and the embryonic stem cell scandal.
For one of the first times the journal is coming under attack because of predatory journal publishers who do not take care nor perform due diligence.
As a lay person, I would prefer a little delay in the pursuit of accuracy.
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