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Comment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Robin Hood

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Guido, if the scientific community does not begin to punish frauds, how on earth do you honestly expect justice to be delivered to science? I disagree with you. The authors are clear frauds. Both the original publisher and the subsequently conned publisher (Springer) should remove the paper as PUNISHMENT. Has anyone asked COPE (Committee on PUblishing Ethics) for advice or assistance? IF so, please post their response on this blog.


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Comment on List of Publishers by On Bogus Journals « Achilleas Kostoulas

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[...] may wish to consult a very useful list of publishers who appear to engage in dubious publication practices, compiled by Jeffrey Beal, a [...]

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Robin Hood

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Leanne, some friendly advice. Publish your story so that it serves as a historical document for posterity and also to warn others to take care. The only way to advance our cause against fraud is through publishing. So, make your case, present all the evidence, and publish it. Once published, it will be a historical document forever that no-one can ever deny. This is my new approach in 2013 since who of us has money and resources to take these crooks to court? Moreover, how do we take a fraud to court that sits 10,000 km away? The only way is by publically and formally exposing their fraud through a more formal medium than a blog, for posterity. Hope to see your story in OA soon.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Robin Hood

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Leonard, I have an idea. Why don’t YOU take care of being responsible for contacting Google and aksing them about their responsibilities towards academic quality. That would serve the community of academics and scientists best. Then, when you have something productive to say, please come back to the blog and share your moral victories with us. If each of us plays our part and each of us tackles the fraudsters and those who support the fraudsters, then maybe something effective can be achieved. If you assume that Jeff, who I assume does not wear a large red, blue and yellow “S” on his shirt, is responsible for taking care of all of these things, I am afraid he might go bald quickly.I am not suggesting that Google is supporting fraud, but if they are allowing plagiarised texts, and fraudulently produced pseudo-academic papers to be published, then surely we should hold Google accountable for supporting fraud (to a limited degree). The same principle would apply to editors-in-chief, editors and authors who support or publish or pay such predatory publishers. The bottom line: we should all play our part in fighting the crime, using Jeff’s blog as the launch pad. Wouldn’t you say that this ia a fair and logical way of trying to deal with the problem, especially accross transnational borders?

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by rleonhard

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Robin Hood, you’ve completely misunderstood my comment and question. I was asking the author Beall (and anyone else who cared to respond politely) how he dealt with this issue as a librarian with students doing research using Google Scholar. Are librarians comfortable with students using Google Scholar knowing that these publications are frequent results in searches? Do they inform their students about the possible fraudulent articles and journals and the risks of using Google Scholar? And what are their tactics in addressing this specific topic with students? I was not asking anyone to do work for me or to take on Google. In my experience as a librarian, these issues and topics are frequently discussed and shared among colleagues.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Ymir

Comment on Publishing Pseudo-Science by Todd W. Carter

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Is it mostly universities in developing countries that consider publication in one of these pay-to-publish journals as legitimate? Please tell me that no U.S. university would award tenure based on articles published in one of these so-called journals!


Comment on Publishing Pseudo-Science by Jeffrey Beall

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It varies by university, not so much by country. Hopefully, tenure committees are gaining awareness of predatory publishers granting credit (or not) accordingly.

Comment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Shawn

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Any type of embargo is not practical. First, there is no standard that you can enact to determine which publication is vanity press. You can define vanity press as “Pay to publish,” but it is very difficult to prove the lack of peer review and/or editorial boards. Second, while there are clear cut examples, the trend is definitely heading toward heavily disguised operations. Even seasoned serials professionals have a hard time figuring these publishers/publications out sometimes. Finally, a real journalist that did his/her homework would have also cited the fact that the publisher is based in China and have been labelled as a vanity press.

I think that’s the proper way to handle these types of situation.

Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Sean

Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Jeffrey Beall

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Excellent catch! Thank you!

Comment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Ogwo

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I agree entirely with Shawn.

Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Enrique Espinosa

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I think that you valuable work merits a big piece like an editorial in some big news paper or even a book. Thanks for all these warnings.

Comment on Two “Institutes” That Want Your Money by Alireza Heidarzadegan

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HI
I WANT TO KNOW CAN I TRUST TO Macrothink Institute TO PUBLISH MY ARTICLES OR NOT?


Comment on Two Predatory Bloopers by eponine

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May I know how legitimate is Inderscience publisher? I read your blog about this publisher having a journal with identical name as another existing journal. In addition, many bogus conferences have their papers published by inderscience publisher.

Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Dr. Arvind Singh

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I don’t know whether this organization is from India or out of India. But it is non- profit organization as it has no any fees for publisher as well as researcher.

It is good work by OAJPA for accelerating the quality of Journals and magazines. The given terms and conditions are also very fine.

If all publisher will follow such terms and conditions, I am sure that all publisher listed in OAJPA will get high rating and impact factor.

All of us should do thanks to OAJPA for such good initiative task …………….

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Open Access Is Not Necessarily Good › Hybrid Publishing Lab

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[...] last year Jeffrey Beal published an update to his list of Predatory Open Access Publishers. The list grew from 23 questionable publishers in 2011 to 225 in 2012.  With his list Beal reminds [...]

Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Open Access Is Not Necessarily Good › Hybrid Publishing Lab

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[...] could these standards be? Beal gives a number of reasons why publishers are included in his black list. Yet, these are tentative criteria that just allow to [...]

Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Robin Hood

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Dear Mr. Singh, the academic community struggles to understand how you were awarded a PhD with such views. The list of publishers are full of fraud (please spend some time on the pages of each) and the list of conditions looks like a 5-year old wrote the rules, full of nonsense and totally unquantifiable. I am wondering if you are linked to OAJPA in any way. If OAJPA is so transparent and “good”, then why do they not display the list of editors and selection board that makes decisions regarding which publishers are included on their list? If you are such a strong defendent of such a sloppily organized web-site full of grammatical errors and unquantifiable parameters, then why don’t you approach them to clarify these issues. Please ask the leader to come forth and explain the selection criteria…

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