I my self its real true that this is absolutely Country based Publishers. even the worst papers they are accepted in short time.
very very few papers form the other country they are welcoming.
really worst review process.
Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by pooja
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by Think Twice About Using Google Scholar | HMH Library Announcements
[…] recent blog post on Scholarly Open Access titled “Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science”, highlights why clinicians should think twice about using Google Scholar to conduct topic searches. […]
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate Conference by Tom Spears (@TomSpears1)
Here’s our recent news coverage. Sorry, it’s a bit long:
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by Henry Tobias
The downside of technology! As with purchasing or downloading anything, buyer beware!
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Comment on Appeals by Ibrahim Rafiu
I would like Prof. Jeffrey Beall to provide us with the list of Journals that are not predatory.
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by MG
As someone said before this is an interesting blog but I really would like to see some examples. I also noticed that there are a lot of non-academic articles in the subject-specific databases we usually recommend to our students, so it would be interesting to showcase the difference.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jernej Polajnar
I just received an e-mail from Jacobs Publishers asking me to become an editorial board member, built on the same template as those already posted here, this time for a “Jacobs Journal of Agriculture”. Looks like it’s a massive spamming effort, because they didn’t even notice that they addressed me using the name of my (female) co-author on a recent paper.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jernej Polajnar
Also, at least their FAQ section is copy-pasted from Symbiosis Online Publishing, another one from your list.
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)
Scholar would greatly benefit from the ability to order the search results by citations.
At a stroke this would make it easy to filter out 90% of the “junk”.
Implementing this would be very easy for Google so we can only assume that the lack of a citation ranking option is a deliberate choice, perhaps an attempt to avoid the “Matthew Effect” (cited papers get to the top of the ranking and get cited more.)
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Tomasz Grzyb
I’m not sure if you are aware that Council for Innovative Research calculates their own Impact factor – http://cirworld.org/if
In my opinion it’s not only unethical – it should be illegal.
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by researchontherocks
I am a bit confused about the problem the author describes here. Scholar does give you the name of the journal/conference. You might avoid reading the paper if it is not published in so called “reputed” venue. What Google offers is high recall on natural language queries / keywords. It is up to the researcher to filter out the garbage (especially when you define garbage as “non reputed venue”).
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Comment on New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts by Thank you India
Well, well, well, this is an extremely interesting and pertinent revelation. An Indian who is willing to stand up against Indians. And it confirms – by an Indian scientist – what I have claimed just last week: that corruption in science publishing, at least in India, is stemming from both the bottom, and the top. I had also suggested that the only way to fix this problem, at least in India, was by Indians, because the opinions of foreigners are aggressively set aside. I had even made a less-than-subtle suggestion to Mr. Modi to get his act together and reign in fraud emanating from Indian scientists, Indian institutes and Indian pseudo-publishers [1]. A massive amount of damage has already been done by Indian individuals from within India and even by Indians residing abroad, and until this global-scale fraud is urgently addressed at the Government level, the corruption of the literature, of science, and of publishing, is going to get exponentially worse. For a simple reason: those who have already committed any form of fraud, misconduct, or financial abuse, have suffered zero, or mild consequences for their actions. So, they see this as a sign to commit the same level of atrocities against science, without any consequences, moving forward. Unless individuals like Samir Sharma – who must be valiantly applauded for his genuine interest in trying to clean up the mess – are able to instigate change. Change, ethics, and the rule of law in science and publishing, and justice that favors the honest as opposed to the crooks and cheats, can only emerge when there is a grass-roots level of aner, and subsequent change. I have great respect for many Indian scientists, some of whom are close and respected friends, so those who will be quick to call these criticisms vitriolic racist rants, think again. This is about culture, in fact, because India, as one of the core BRICS members, is a key economy forging aggressively forward. And it appears as if pseudo-science and fraudulent publishers form part of that new economic model. Both Indians and non-Indian scientists alike have the responsibility of standing up to this corruption, to this fraud, to this wide-spread dishonesty. It must be mercilessly stamped out, and those who cheat, commit fraud, or otherwise defraud the system, or abuse or predate financially upon the weaknesses of others, must be shamed, and ultimately sent to prison. There can be no middle-path. It’s either beef, or chicken, not both. Samir Sharma, and others who are like-minded, have my fullest support.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Seyi
I will like to commend your effort in tracking down predatory publishers and journals. Please is Journal of Biosystems Engineering a predatory journal. I want to have more information about this journal. I need your help.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Do you mean the <em>Journal of Biosystems Engineering</em> that is published by the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery? No, I do not think this is a predatory journal. If you are referring to a different journal, please send the link. Thanks.
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by Joe
I do research in a US government agency rather than a university. We undergo a professional peer review every 4 years, at which time the review panel may recommend promotion (increase in civil service grade). I’ve served on review panels, and there is much more attention given to quality than quantity. My impression of the academic setting is different: bureaucratic bean counters just tally number of publications and amount of grants received. With this pressure on academicians to increase the number of their published papers, is it really any surprise that shoddy, pay-to-publish journals exist?
Unless there’s a radical change in the way academicians are evaluated by their universities, the shoddy, unethical, borderline criminal activities of “predatory” publishers are going to thrive.
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Comment on New Open-Access Oncology Journal Has Big Ambitions by Mohammad
Hi Jeffrey, check out this website:
http://terapevticheskiiarkhiv.org/
It is hijacked. its been around for at least a year. I sent an email to the actual website but they did not respond. Many are falling victim to it. Please inform people.
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Comment on New Open-Access Oncology Journal Has Big Ambitions by Mohammad
Also, another thing. I have seen some journals that are in the NLM catalog and so, they pretend that they are in pubmed. These scams raises big concerns for me because they get a lot of money of people but dont seem to provide their end of the deal.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by lida farahmand azar
sir,
Is journal
”Trends in Applied Sciences Research” valid?
Can I send my paper?Please guide Me.
http://scialert.net/jindex.php?issn=1819-3579
thank you.
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Comment on New Open-Access Oncology Journal Has Big Ambitions by Jeffrey Beall
I do have this journal included on my <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/hijacked-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Hijacked Journals page</a>. Thanks.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I recommend against submitting papers to all the Science Alert journals, including this one.
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