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What I don’t get is, if an author can get their articles published in ISI-indexed journals, why would they even consider submitting to GRJ?

Thanks Jeffrey for flagging the issue. Manipulating IF is certainly unethical IMHO. I think ISI is going to take this seriously.

Dear Jeffrey,

Thank you very much for your kindly information. I’m wondering that the International journal of physiotherapy and research (IJPR) is in your list?

Dr Beall

I just knew about list organized from your side. Can you tell me the reasons for the inclusion of “Nobel International Journals”

Authors who can and do publish in TR-indexed journals know that articles in predatory journals will hurt them academically in any normal scientific environment.

It is a pretty bad offer btw. One can sell ISI citations on the Chinese academic black market for real money, not for a crappy publishing opportunity that will stain their CV. :(

Dear Asif,
I read the article publish in IJICTT 1st volume “Automated Software Test Data Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence by Arshad Mansoor” and amazed that I have read it before than I search the text and found almost same on site
http://www.ukessays.co.uk
it means journal has no credibility any one publish any thing from net.

Dear Beall kindly check and comment on it.

Well, one reason is that they use the name “Nobel” and try to associate themselves with the Nobel Prizes.

>found almost same on site http://www.ukessays.co.uk
Parts of the paper can also be found in this 2009 publication:

http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJSEIA/vol3_no4_2009/6.pdf

This journal is published by a company called International Journals of Health and Medical Research (IJMHR). I have this publisher included on my list. I recommend that you find a better publisher than this one for your work.

Correct, publishing plagiarized articles does indeed hurt the credibility of a publisher. It is now pretty routine for scholarly publishers to perform plagiarism checking checking before accepting articles for publication.

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Thank you very much.

I checked the whois entry, and it probably contains false information. The address given for the registrar is 15 Shiprow in Aberdeen, which is an Ibis hotel (Centre).

Also funny, my McAfee site advisor warns of the website and identifies it as a potential phishing website.

I thought it was interesting that my invitation to speak was addressed to my first name “Dear Barbara.” That was a clue to me that something was not right

Browsing through the list of indexed journals brings up a lot of the usual suspects, so you could add “use of their services” as one more criterion for rating a publisher as a scam.

Agreed. I hope to re-write the criteria document I use and add this as a new one. It’s not currently listed as a criterion because the fake metrics companies didn’t exist when I last updated the document in 2012.

Good question. I will analyze it.
I think I have looked at it before but didn’t see any OA content there. I do now. Thank you.

It’s fascinating to see a whole sub-economy blooming around fake science. This is the second case of predators praying on predatory publishers that I see on this blog (the first one was the Turkish-based attempt to impersonate the author of this blog and ask ‘US $ 5000 to remove their journals names from http://scholarlyoa.com/‘).

Maybe it’s a deliberate sting operation to trick fake publishers and they intend to donate the revenues to legitimate research.

Thanks, I will be interested to learn what is different about Clute’s operation and Mondal’s operation such that Clute’s publications are not currently listed on Cabell’s but Mondal’s are still listed. $50 per page (minimum of $400) to publish in a journal that has only limited distribution? Thanks again.

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