Comments for Scholarly Open Access

I have this publisher on my list and recommend that you not submit any papers to any of its 27 journals. The only thing “American” about this publisher is its name.

Thanks, that’s what I thought. Their journals are either awaiting ISSN numbers or still in their first volume.

Will Global Science and Technology Forum be put back on your list?

Last time I looked, it’s technically not eligible for the list, for it does not meet the definition of ‘open access’ because it requires registration to access the content.

Could you elaborate how attorney could hlp Sir

If there’s been a theft of intellectual property, the attorney could initiate an action.

Another publisher for the consideration: http://www.ikpress.org/

please jeff, i need your comments and reservation on this journal; on this journal; JCBSC

As it stands, this comment is useless from several points of view: you should reveal both your identity and the specific journal. Otherwise, how can one trust you? By assuming you are right and trustful, how somebody could avoid the error of making submissions to the wrong journal if you do not disclose it? Moreover, from your words it seems that two referees were assigned to this manuscript: indeed, you invoked a third reviewer. What was the report of the second referee?

This is new. I am not sure that it will be an open-access publisher. I will monitor it and don’t have any opinion on it at this time. Thank you.

This time, I will comment on the journal Universe, to be launched in the next days and my experience with it so far. When I was appointed as Editor-in-Chief (I will not receive a penny for that…), the board already counted several renown scientists in the field, apart from, perhaps, an individual. Some other people joined after having been personally invited by myself, and, hopefully, more will follow. So far, people at the Editorial Staff of Universe were competent, serious and proactive. Suffice it to say that, when I pointed out that a member of the board should have been removed because of her/his modest standing in the field as per her/his publication record and metrics, after some days she/he was actually removed from the Editorial Board: indeed, now you will not find her/him. Moreover, when she/he submitted a manuscript to the journal, it was rejected without external review under my advice. Other manuscripts are currently under review by two-three competent referees (I know them, of course..)

I think you are referring to the <em><a href="http://www.jcbsc.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Journal of Chemical, Biological and Physical Sciences</a></em>. I have this journal included on my list <a href="http://wp.me/P280Ch-J" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and I recommend that researchers not submit papers to it.

You can check that yourself. Quick Scopus search for word “WSEAS” in jornal/conference title shows 17 WSEAS journals in database, with 2 of them discontinued. Numbers of conference proceedings articles [ year(articles)]: 2011(1457), 2012(93), 2013(89). No results for 2014 yet. The drop between 2011 and 2012 is probably saying something, but maybe I just have to try to search some other way, like search for specific articles or titles.

Bravo! The DHET (South Africa) has removed the Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences from its list of accredited journals based on Jeffrey Beall’s blog. I submitted an article to this journal in August 2014 and got a response a week later saying that my article had been approved for publication (with no comments from reviewers) and an invoice for US$200 – I just laughed. Many academics in South Africa have published in this journal (one has nine articles in this journal), surely they must have realised that something was wrong. Well done Jeffrey, keep up the good work.

Thank you Jeffrey for your remarkable cooperation.
As first time publisher I am trying to deal with http://www.primejournalconsultants.com/
Can you help configuring their credibility !!
Thank you

I emailed the editor of the journal about the above paper. The reply is given below. Apparently I got a forwarded message which was originally sent to Tom Whipple. The language of the reply leaves a lot to be desired.

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Dear Whipple, Tom

My email ID is hack but i am recover my mail ID. I am not accept this paper.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Sudesh Kumar wrote:

Dear Editor,

Please look at this blog: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/11/20/bogus-journal-accepts-profanity-laced-anti-spam-paper/

This blog post will give a very negative impression for your journal for many years to come.

I want to know did this really happen? Was the paper in question accepted by you?

Please do respond to my email.

With regards
Dr. Kumar
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(original emails available on request)

This is my catch on MDPI.
Because there were so many cluster in MDPI, it is difficult to generalize.
Some clusters have good quality. They were indexed by good databases (PubMed, Scopus, Thompson,).
Some clusters are not even reach 1000 or more publications (still new and maybe the reviewers expertise too).

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this is great, the editor does not even speak english.

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