I think this company has zero credibility. I recommend that you not work with this company.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute” by liza2408
Thanks, Jeffrey. I was worried about Clute when I saw it started charging for expedited reviews. I had published 2 papers with them in 2008-9, and we had to pay per-page costs which I thought odd. But my co-author said that several of her business colleagues pay to publish, and pay much higher fees, and deans approved of the payments. It made sense to me that per-page payments was the way some open access journals stayed alive since they did not get their fees from subscriptions. But then when we submitted a manuscript in 2011, the costs were higher, there were fees to review and for expedited reviews, and reviews consisted purely of grammatical comments. I also learned that business colleagues take Clute cruises and go to other holiday-esque conferences and then papers are automatically published.
I stay away from Clute now, but can’t do anything about the papers I’ve already published with them. I think they used to be more responsible but have caught on to what other vanity presses do to make more money more recently. At least that is what I am telling myself.
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Comment on Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute” by Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)
A devastating post. If Clute is even slightly serious about being a scholarly publisher rather than a vanity press, they must respond – and not just by bashing the author.
We’re waiting…
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Comment on Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute” by Sylvain Bernès
So, the Clute Institute is not so cute.
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Comment on A Magical Combination: Easy Acceptance and an Authentic Impact Factor by M. Alam
To tekija:
I totally disagree with you. You are probably fooled by their charming website and their gigantic (?) volumes of publications. Listen buddy, my friend and I are the victims of this Medwell Journal company. Being fooled by their so-called legitimate look, my friend submitted a research paper, and within 24 hours (trust me) they replied that our research has been accepted by editorial board and they started asking for payment. Once my friend doubted about its legitimacy after such a quick reply, and further searching, we instantly contacted them about the WITHDRAWAL of our research paper. Do you think that publishing a research is that easy?
Those selfish journal authority (who might have pleased you anyhow by their fancy look and incredible IF score), immediately after our WITHDRAWAL request (any author preserve that right), they never even listened to us, never replied to our request, and most importantly, they published our research content in their web-page (recently) and still asking for payment. I do fell that what in the world we are living now? What do you call them? I call them as A Basket Full of Thieves and Blood-suckers” who simply steal valuable intellectual properties for their own benefits.
Our hijacked manuscript: (http://www.medwelljournals.com/abstract/?doi=rjdsci.2013.14.17)
So, we request all others and mostly people like you (tekija) to be aware of them and do the right thing !!! Do not forget that a simple note on blogs can sound much louder, at least in this new internet era. Do not mis-guide people, it is a humble request !!!
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Comment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva
In 2009, the web-site of my publisher was hijacked. I believe that a brief period in which the domain name had expired, unawares to us, allowed for a wily individual or group to step in and take over the company website for as long as two years. I was never able to capture this truly destructive period that would eventually lead to our downfall as scientists moved away, caused by the negative image created on the hijacked web-site, which was full of garbled, nonsensical text. I remember having received dozens of complaints, but we had no legal means, or technical know-how, of how to recover our hijacked site. Yet, we regularly monitored the web address to see how it progressed because it was linking high on Google and Yahoo searches, smothering our good image for as much as two years. By the time deep-rooted damage had been done, in 2011, whoever had hijacked our web-site, apparently decided not to pay any more for the web-site domain name, and we picked this up, and re-scooped back our old domain name. We have paid for the old domain name for two years, linking it automatically to our new domain where we keep a public archive of all of the papers ever published. My name is Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva and I am referring to my defunct Global Science Books, which was an Ltd. in the UK and had to shift to Japan to counter this hijacking.
The old site was:
http://www.globalsciencebooks.com
The new site was:
http://www.globalsciencebooks.info
Please use the way-back machine to get snapshots of our tragedy along the way.
So, I can empathize, from the heart, with DeGruyter and with any other victim of a hijacking. Although, in their cases, the cases are different because a group has used the same journal name, or even visual, on a separate web-page. In our case, the whole domain name and site were hijacked. This and other stories recorded here at Beall’s blog tell tales that are something out of a movie at times, but ultimately, they affect the real lives of real individuals, and that is the real tragedy about the exploitative nature of such hijackers.
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Comment on Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science by Tomasz Lewandowski
You forgot to mention that records in Google Scholar are ranked by number of citations each paper gets. Junk science is rarely cited, you know.
Of course, it is possible to game citation counter – all you have to do is “publish” on your webiste anything that *looks* like a scholarly paper and include citations you need, repeat the procedure few times and there you have it – a junk paper with tones of citations.
BUT all the citations are for the viewer to see – any junk with junky citations are there to be recognized.
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Comment on Open-Access Physics Journal Accommodates Authors Blacklisted from arXiv by Lee Rudolph
Goodness gracious. El Naschie turns out to have been the editor in chief of <i>Chaos, Solitons and Fractals</i> way back in 1998, when Volume 9, Issues 4 and 5, were devoted to <i>Knot Theory and Its Applications: Expository Articles on Current Research</i> and guest- edited by C. Adams. I'd never bothered to look at that journal before today, but had always wondered why two French friends of mine (a sometime collaborator of mine, and a doctoral student of his whose thesis was based on other work of mine) had published a (very nice) survey of (mostly) my work there, given that knot theory generally (and certainly my work and theirs) has very little to do with chaos, solitons, <i>or</i> fractals. (I would have said that there was no relation at all, but one of the articles, <i>Chaotic knots and wild dynamics</i>, by Robert W. Ghrist, reminds me that indeed there is, and an interesting one, at that. Ghrist is a serious mathematical heavyweight.)
Now I see that El Naschie (according to his editorial) had apparently come across Adams's excellent textbook on knot theory, and decided to invite Adams to put together a special issue. The articles all are serious and by 25 serious mathematicians, almost all of whom I've heard of (and most of whom I know, including one who likes to remind me whenever we run into each other that he was my last teaching assistant before I ended up in the hell of No-Teaching-Assistant-Land from which I finally retired).
So at least (probably, at most) once, El Naschie's egregious inventiveness had good results. (But I'm betting that, to the extent the articles in that issue have been read, it's been in the versions on the ArXiv.)
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Comment on Open-Access Physics Journal Accommodates Authors Blacklisted from arXiv by Weekend reads: Former vice chancellor sent to jail for plagiarism; peer reviewers getting tired at Retraction Watch
[…] no problem:” Progress in Physics is perfectly happy to publish authors who have been banned from arXiv, says Jeffrey […]
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Comment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Morsels For The Mind – 28/11/2014 › Six Incredible Things Before Breakfast
[…] GMOYFEL A pointed response to those bogus manuscript requests. Nice. (Hat tip to Chris Gunter for providing the link.) […]
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Felipe G. Nievinski
So good when your native language happens to be the lingua franca in science, right.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by MMIC
What is worth of “EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing”, its impact factor is 0.662, have only online version; they are demanding me US$ 1700 for publication. plzz help me to decide if it is fake or true journal. Thanks
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Comment on Appeals by zewdu
I went through the criteria for the inclusion of journals in your list.why IJIMS put under your list?
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Comment on Open-Access Medical Publisher Has Contradictory Journal by zewdu
WHY SPG included in yor list
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Comment on Open-Access Medical Publisher Has Contradictory Journal by Jeffrey Beall
Can you send a link, please? I am not sure which one you are referring to.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
The <em>International Journal for Ion Mobility Spectrometr</em>y (IJIMS) is not on my list.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Jeffrey Beall
It is not a fake journal. I think it is a pretty good journal.
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Comment on Appeals by zewdu
I need the status of International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies (IJIMS) status in detail.
Thanks,
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I think it's a counterfeit journal that uses a bogus impact factor and makes false claims about where it's indexed. It has a broad scope so it can attract as many papers as possible and earn as much money as it can. I think this journal exists chiefly for authors needing a quick and easy acceptance of their papers. I recommend that serious researchers not submit their work to the <em>International Journal of Interdisciplinary and Multidisciplinary Studies</em> (IJIMS).
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Comment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Following Up and Following Down: November 2014 Edition | Wickersham's Conscience
[…] submission was accepted for publication by the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology, damning both […]
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