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Any thoughts on this one: http://www.impactfactorsearch.com/
Comment on Misleading Metrics by Rob Lopresti
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Comment on Misleading Metrics: A New List on This Blog by Mik
I’d like to second tekija’s request for an opinion on PubAdvanced.
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Comment on New OA Publisher Aims to Compete with Preprint Servers by lantzelot2014
I just received an email from them. It was addressed to me but giving a different name than mine in the greeting, referring to an article of mine that I never wrote. And none of the provided links work. For fun I googled the title of the article that they claim that I wrote. It does indeed exist on arXiv, but with yet another author name, not even matching the name in the greeting.
Does not seem very serious to me, I’ll spend my time elsewhere.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Roman
“…I know how hard is to collect papers from renowned authors….” Then why do you try so hard to collect papers from “renowned authors”? Would not it be enough to collect papers reporting good science? I know, there is temptation to focus on messenger rather than on message, but this makes science oligarchical and distant from its real purpose.
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Comment on Appeals by Pact Perera
Dear sir, could you please explain me why the “Insight Knowledge” is in this list? Kind regards,
Pact
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Farzad
The way that The scientific world journal is treated by Thomson Reuters is grotesque and suggests some prejudice which may have played a part in their decision. There is no doubt that Hindawi publication has a long way to go to reach the quality and reputation of some other publishers like Elsevier or Springer. However, it can not be denied that Hindawi is a rising new power in the academic community, which to some extent, challenges veteran publishers. We know that the margin profit of Hindawi surpassed that of Elsevier some time ago. I am not interested in putting forward some conspiracy theories and claim that those long-established and influential publishers may try to perniciously impact Hindawi through the tools such as Thomson Reuters, but excuse of self-citation provided by Thomson Reuters for removing The scientific world journal or Abstract and Applied Analysis from their list sounds not only unconvincing but rather flimsy. Ironically, if self-citation is going to establish a criterion for preserving or tarnishing reputation of Thomson Reuters or scientific community , then, many Elsevier or Springer-operated journals must either be dropped from JCR or lose their impact factor.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Rebecca
I just received this:
Dear [my name],
Greetings from the Journal Neurological Research and Therapy: Open Access (NRTOA).
We would like to introduce Aperito Online Publishing which is dedicated to the scientific community. Our motto is to provide the easily accessible research information worldwide.
For this we have chosen the selective scientists who have enormously contributed to the scientific community to have their work published in our Journal. You are requested to send any type of articles (Research; Review; Case Report; Mini Review; Short communication; Opinion; Letter to Editors, etc) to the Journal to increase the visibility of our Journal.
You can submit your article by sending an email to mailto:editor.nrtoa@aperito.org. The article submission date is 26 November 2014. The articles which will be submitted on or before 17 November 2014 will be waived 50% & the articles which will be submitted on or before 22 November 2014 will be provided 25% off over publication fee. The Publication fees are as follows.
Country Type Research/Review Articles Case Reports Mini Review/Letters to Editors Short Communications
High Income $909 $549 $500 $400
Middle Income $729 $459 $400 $300
Low Income $549 $369 $360 $200
Note: If required we can also extend the date of submission as per your convenience.
You are requested to send an email for the confirmation within 48 hrs.
Best Regards
Sophia Elena
Aperito Online Publishing
1999 S. Bascom Avenue,
Suite 700, Campbell, California, 95008
USA
with hyperlink http://aperito.org/Journals/Neurological-Research.php
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Peter Buzzacott
Today I received an invitation to submit to the Journal of Exercise, Sports & Orthopedics. I followed the link and found it is published by Symbiosis. Their vision statement boldly claims:
“Symbiosis” is a visionary Global organization devoted to empower the masses with rich scientific resources and technologically advanced products.”
Curious, I checked and Symbiosis is on your list of predators. So, I looked at their list of journals to see if I recognise any and, oh no, Neurology is listed. I couldn’t believe it, I was sure it had an impact factor of 8 when I reviewed an article for them last year. I clicked on the link and the actual journal page calls it SOJ Neurology. Different journal – that’s a relief.
For fun I looked at their “Support Us” page, which starts with:
“Academic Institutions are welcome to support Symbiosis Open Access by offering monetary support.”
I’ll bet they are – ha ha
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Roddy MacLeod
The other journal mentioned: European Academic Research, is included in DOAJ http://doaj.org/toc/9a760cff4fbb4791b63b53bd2d0004bd which is supposed to have a sturdy selection policy nowadays.
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Samir Sharma
The editor of this journal makes use of different loose Groups in Facebook to post free advertisements and attract potential authors, who are, in turn, eager to earn credits for Promotion. The editor shamelessly attracts the authors (many of them are not so innocent and are themselves academic thugs and compulsive plagiarists) on this point that her ‘International’ journal will give them more number/credits. The situation is very serious now.
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Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by Oh No!
I have literally just paid for flights etc to go to 2 of their conferences on the other side of the world! Then I came across this today. Can’t believe how silly I have been. Luckily I’m combining it with a family holiday and can reschedual stuff. But the question remains, as a Early Career researcher, should I take the opportunity to speak at an international conference and go to the conferences or not?
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Leslie
“Academic thugs and compulsive plagiarists”! Love this!
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by ali mohammed
Dear Beeal
Would you please inform me if this conference is a prediatory. WRICET2014 (WORLD RESEARCH AND INNOVATION ON ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY)
MOHAMMED
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Saima Bashir
How about Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology A & B
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Koushik Pal
Please check this http://www.drji.org/listOfEditors.aspx
A band of robbers!
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Okuntade Tope Femi
I want to get a point clarified. Are all the journals on your list “predatory” I kindly need your assessment on “Journal of multidisciplinary engineering, science and technology(JMEST) because i recently submit a manucript to them.
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Jeffrey Beall
I generally limit my work to open-access journals and publishers.
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Dave Langers
Just a quick question, Ali Mohammed: If /you/ don’t know the meeting, and if you don’t know /anyone/ that knows the meeting, then why would you be wanting to go there…?
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Comment on Shabby Indian Management Megajournal Reveals Its Peer Review Process by IJMRR - not!
Mourade, your comment indicates that maybe more than ever before in publishing history, we are seeing a widening gap in wealth, in intellect and in common sense. And those that lack these three also appear to be accumulating on the opposite extreme, in massive numbers never before witnessed. There are hundreds of free journals of quality, although not open access. Why would you select, for example, IJMRR? Because they would publish your eloquence for a few hundred rupees?
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Not Romanian, or Indian
I’ll bet Mr. Mohammed, like millions from developing countries, particularly in the Middle East and the Indian sub-continent, are getting money to travel to “international” meetings. So, they don’t really care where it is, what’s it’s about, or who runs it. As long as it says indexed in XYZ, and maybe some phony claims about ISI, or Scopus – like a zillion spam/scam e-mails I get each week, particularly from China – then their idiotic research institutes are responsible for proliferating this fraud. If the money source were to dry up, then these equally idiotic scientists who abuse the system would also wither away into insignificance. The fact that their universities are built up of technocrats who don’t know the difference between a cream bun and a marshmallow, but who are willing to dish out funding to support pseudo-academic trips to pseudo-academic meetings – like those organized by Omics – proves that the rot in science and publishing is actually being instigated by a higher level than scientists. Cut all funding to OA publishing and let’s see how quickly Beall’s list of “predators” will shrink. I suggest not only adding pressure into the thin-walled skulls of individuals like Mohammed, but also of clearing the management that run Mohammed’s institute. Like weeds, pseudo-researchers and their pseudo-institutes need to be cut off at the roots. The voices of discontent have been too soft for too long, and look at how deep the mess has become, with no end in sight to the level or complexity of the fraud that affects us all. Only severe public shaming and criminal prosecution can save us now.
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