Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Dear Prof

I would like to know the standing of International association of Engineering and Management Education India (IAEME). Thank you Prof

I have the International Association for Engineering and Management Education (IAEME) included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/

I recommend that you find a better quality publisher to submit your work to.

I have the International Organization of Scientific Research included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I find this to be a low quality and questionable publisher, and I recommend that you NOT submit your work to this publisher's journals.

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Is Common Ground publishing predatory?

BY EMAIL – I get bombarded at the rate of at least one a day – I have never submitted to solicitations (except for one to the Nature group for THEIR highlights), and intend NEVER to – HOWEVER I AM KEEN TO CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR LIST for the benefit of others, as I have seen many succumb to email solicitations. I always check to see if the soliciting journals/ groups are on your list JUST TO ADD THEM TO YOUR LISTS, in case they haven’t.

Dear Jeffery,
This is no end to the nonsense! Thank you for your great work.
Steve

Steven N. Blair
Professor
Departments of Exercise Science and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Arnold School of Public Health
921 Assembly Street, Room 225
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
803 777 0567

The title makes it sounds like the journal publishes research *about* the British.

Can not imagine.thanks and feeling sad

The Indian Government is responsible for such money-making initiatives at the cost of quality with its unnecessary emphasis on ‘publications’ in scholarly journals with IF etc just for promotion. The Congress Govt. wasted crores of rupees on bad publishing and research schemes known as MRPs. MRPs are being exploited by intellectuals for just earning money and submitting some bogus research works which no standard scholarly journal will publish. Hope Narendra modi’s Govt. takes some hard and harsh measures against such malpractices and punish the bogus scholars. All these are giving India a bad name. It all started with imitating the American system of promoting quality in higher education and promotion. But the Indian policy-makers should have thought that India lacks the infrastructure and resources to follow such system. Even it could have developed its own system based on the ground realities in higher education. Soon scholars from other countries will start looking upon the Indians with doubtful eyes. The govt. must do something, for predatory publishers are not ashamed of malpractices even if their wrong-doings are found all over the internet. We have a bad name for ‘agent’ in India–Dalal (a kind of crook), and the Indian predatory editors are nothing better than that. Perhaps they consider themselves Dalals of scholarly business.

Another noticeable trend is that many scholars who studies in premier Indian institutions are not much against this. The reason is: at the time of doing PhD they are indirectly inspired by their supervisors to incorporate bits of research works, sometimes entire paragraphs.Naturally they are loving the system of easy publication without peer-review and with fake impact factors. What a condition!

Let me tell you a story: a professor of a university told a prospective college teacher aspiring for PhD. He gave a kind of formula (very scientific!): take this book (written many years ago) and prepare a summary and them rewrite it and expand it into thesis. Just change the title of the topic and chapters. Really, a Super-visor!

This one is a fun one. I just have to publish some undone research in here!

Integrated British? Perhaps launched to celebrate Scotland choosing to stay in the union!

That first issue kicks off with a Case Report of “DIPROSOPIC PARAPAGUS”, i.e. two-facedness in a foetus. Sadly, there was nothing in the text to link that to hypocrisy in British politics or culture.

As a citizen of the Commonwealth, I can offer two possible answers to this puzzle. Both are long shots.
1. The authors have a limited understanding of English but use the adjective “British” without a noun because they know the colloquial expression “I wish you the best of British.” Left unsaid but understood in this expression is the word “luck.” It means to wish someone luck, in a way that implies he or she will need it.
2. They are familiar with the “full English,” which is a large breakfast with eggs and sausages.
I have to go with (3) which is that they are stupid, illiterate, and on the hunt for fast money.

yes Sir, the pressing question is that if u disapprove of these conferences, then please verify if in fact they are not ISI indexed and impact factor publications as they claim?