If Usman Opeyemi Lateef is in fact the same person who is at the Tai Solarin University of Education, COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, Nigeria (http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Usman_Lateef_Opeyemi2), then can we safely say that one of the reasons why predatory publishers will succeed, and flourish, is because of bad supervisory and/or educational infrastucture at his research institute?
Comment on New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals by Is this journal OK?
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Chris
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Comment on Index Copernicus Has No Value by Wykaz czasopism punktowanych i drapieżni wydawcy | Warsztat badacza – Emanuel Kulczycki
[…] Oczywiście taki sposób stygmatyzowania wydawców może być odbierany przez środowisko naukowe jako coś dobrego lub złego (pojawia się wiele głosów, że Jeffrey Beall zachowuje się jak ostatni sprawiedliwy, który rozlicza świat ze zła). Beall stara się sygnalizować o wszelkich inicjatywach, które urągają – jego zdaniem – podstawowym standardom dobrych obyczajów w nauce. Na warsztat bierze nie tylko wydawców i czasopisma, ale również firmy oceniające periodyki (w zeszłym roku napisał artykuł, który może interesować polskiego czytelnika, pt. Index Copernicus Has No Value). […]
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Comment on New Apparent Case of Serial Plagiarism Uncovered by Md Amran Gazi
If a journal is listed as predatory then how they got indexing from pumbed or PMC like BIOINFORMATION??
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Comment on New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals by M. de Jong
Thank you for sharing all this information on your website! Wouldn’t it a good idea to add some sort of a white list to your website, i.e., with publishers that are legit? We all know Springer, Elsevier etc are ok, but there must be quite a number of smaller publishers that are fine as well?! I assume there are a number of publishers or journals that you wouldn’t put on your ‘black list’, but are not 100% trustworthy either? Or would you say that the fact that a journal is listed in, for instance pubmed, reassuring enough?
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Comment on Index Copernicus Has No Value by Agnieszka
The values actually sometimes GO down:
http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/Kardiologia+po+Dyplomie,p3981,3.html
http://journals.indexcopernicus.com/Pneumonologia+i+Alergologia+Polska,p936,3.html
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Comment on Index Copernicus Has No Value by Maciej
Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has its own list of “trusted” and “recommended” journals. And its also full of predatory jouarnals. Thats why Poland is lagging behind in terms of scientific research.
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Comment on Index Copernicus Has No Value by Aachenac
As a Pole, I do have an insight into the workings of IC by browsing their webpage and reading many related blog posts in Polish:
The reason the ICVs go only up, is simple: A significant part of the current ICV’s is something called “transfer constant”. What it means is, a journal gets extra points if it has been previously evaluated by IC. As this is an infinite loop, no wonder one gets only more and more points there.
Important part of the ICV is being indexed by T-R (especially being admitted an IF). This of course skews the ranking, as the IF itself is only measured based on the citation in the journals indexed by T-R, so by no means does it reflect true value of a journal (which, in turn, is NO proxy whatsoever for a value of a given paper).
We experienced a rather unpleasant spam late 2013/early 2014 from IC. They offered “hastened evaluation” of your journal, if you pay them some $150. If you add the fact, that their ranking serves as base for Polish perverted system for points value for publications (updated yearly; no sign the 2014 is to be issued yet, which means, Polish scientists have no means to know how good they publish in the eyes of Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education until even full year post factum), the situation is dire. Or rather, it has been dire for years now.
The IC is far from being perfect; the IC evaluation system based on it has one inadvertant disadvantage: a journal only needs to fulfill the FORMAL criteria to be evaluated. There are no means to actually check how these work in any given case, as the IC is based on the content (questionnaire) DECLARED by the editorial board. The formal criteria include things like international editorial board, abstracts in English, native-speaker copy edits, regularity of print, publication of reviewers’ list at least once a year… (https://pbn.nauka.gov.pl/help/pl/journals-and-journal-questionnaires/how-to-submit-the-journal-questionnaire-in-2013), again, all being DECLARED by the journal. Funny thing is, no lay person may submit a recommendation for evaluation, no scientist may do this, not even members of the Evaluation Committee themselves may do this. Only the journal/representatives are permitted to submit their journals for evaluation, regardless how good a journal we are talking about (again, a valid point only if your journal has no IF yet). The Evaluation Committee has no ground in law to punish/remove from the list for wrongly declared values if the formal criteria are met, so this is paradise for predatory publishers. Forget citations, forget open access, forget responsible publishing. THIS IS POLAND.
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Comment on New Apparent Case of Serial Plagiarism Uncovered by Jeffrey Beall
PMC made a mistake.
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Comment on New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals by Azerefegne
I came across “Journal of Advances in Agriculture” with impact factor of.0.823. The publisher is “Council For Innovative Research” (http://cirworld.org/36j) which publishes 36 journals and 16 of them are with “impact factors”. However, I couldn’t find them in the Thomson Reuters list. The publisher claims that the impact factors are “calculated with process of IF calculation procedure of CIR”. Is this acceptable? Colleagues of mine published articles having “Global Impact Factor” and I am not sure if this impact factor is internationally accepted. Are there other measurements which are accepted besides Thomson Reuters?
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Comment on New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals by Jeffrey Beall
I don’t have the time to do this, and besides, there are already several whitelists that are in use, such as JournalGuide, Journal Citation Reports, etc.
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Comment on New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals by Jeffrey Beall
No, this is not acceptable.
This is a predatory publisher that is completely dishonest in about every way possible.
Thomson Reuters, in its product <em>Journal Citation Reports</em>, is the only legitimate source of the impact factor. There are additional legitimate scholarly metrics as well, such as the <em>h</em>-index.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Carlos Duque
I’m agree after a more detailed analysis. But still I found a few cases of true scientists, in your experience in this topic, do you think that they are there voluntarily or the publisher is just using their names?
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Given that this publisher misrepresents the truth in just about every way imaginable, I would not be surprised if the names were added to the editorial boards without the knowledge/permission of the persons listed.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Jeffrey Beall
I’m sorry; I only list the predatory journals. Perhaps one of these free resources will help you find a good venue for your work:
Edanz Journal Selector = http://www.edanzediting.com/journal_selector
Elsevier Journal Finder = http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/
Good luck.
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Comment on New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals by M. de Jong
I figured as much, that would probably be quite a task indeed, thank you for your answer!
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Comment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by "Get Me Off Your F***ing Mailing List" - Even Spammers Don't Read Their Spam | Email management, storage and security for business email admins
[…] the paper in response to repeated conference invitations, and it’s been in circulation ever since. Now, you might think the profanity-laden paper was a bit excessive, but who knows how many […]
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes. This publisher is included on my list, and I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to its journals.
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Comment on David Publishing: Flipping Its Model by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, also published by David Publishing, which is on my list (I prefer to list the publishers whenever possible, rather than the individual journals).
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall
Lida, Thank you, you have found another one. This is a case of journal hijacking. I have added to my list. Thanks for sharing this information.
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