No need to apologize. I basically agree with you. Google scholar is more popularly marketed, however, while PubMed’s intended audience is better able to separate the junk from the authentic work.
Comment on The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Anatoli
Amazing thing is that all editors in chief are from USA…. We frequently blame scholars from developing countries for publishing and patronizing low quality questionable journals.. What about more than 100 editors in chief from USA listed on omics website…. What is the motive?? Is it naivety, corruption, status, carelessness, benefits? Being a scholar if I know about omics, they are supposed to be more knowledgeable and up to date.
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Anatoli
Thanx, you answered my question before I posted my second comment… what about authors who publish and pay $2000 per article? Are they naive or ill informed or scared or desperate or generally dishonest? Some publisher can forcefully publish my paper, that I can understand but how can someone force me to pay $2000 when we reside in separate countries?
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Comment on Other pages by Nazir Hawi
Hi, which criteria did the International Journal of Computer Applications fail to meet?
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Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
The journal claims it has an impact factor when it doesn’t.
The journal also says, “Call for Paper – January 2015 Edition IJCA solicits original research papers for the January 2015 Edition. Last date of manuscript submission is December 20,” so you can submit your paper on December 20th and be published in January. Finally, the journal also falsely claims to be based here: Foundation of Computer Science, 244 5th Avenue, # 1526, New York, NY 10001, USA. It’s basically a scholarly vanity press.
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Jeffrey Beall
Each case is unique. OMICS pressures people to pay in many ways, including phone calls, lies about not being able to take back DOIs, etc. This publisher has hurt a lot of people.
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Jeffrey Beall
Probably some of them don’t even realize that they are the editors-in-chief. For the ones that did indeed volunteer to serve, you have to ask them.
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Comment on The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science by Lis
SPIE Conferences and ELSEVIER Journals publish from time to time junk, anti-science, articles. Elsevier also publishes fake medical journals.
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Prollo
I like the Germanflag on the OMICS group website – see conferences by country on the left… but wait, shouldn’t this flag have a pink stripe somewhere?
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Anatoli
Why are there so few reader comments when you post a about omics
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Comment on Mysterious Publisher Launches with 44 Journals by Neil Hepburn
Doing some digging with whois produces the following info about the site admin for aijssnet.com
Registrant Email:
Registry Admin ID:
Admin Name: Md. Mamin Ullah
Admin Organization: Western Education
Admin Street: 5/Ka, 2nd Floor, PC Culture, Ring Road Shamoli, Dhaka-1207
Admin City: Dhaka
Admin State/Province: Dhaka
Admin Postal Code: 1207
Admin Country: BD
Admin Phone: +88.01778964703
The site admin’s reported email is a hotmail address. hmmmm
While it is possible that the firm has outsourced its web administration tasks, I do find the location of the reported admin interesting (and suspicious.)
I checked an number of their other domains and all point to the same person. Also, I did a geolocate on the site’s IP address and it points to a hosting service in Lansing, Michigan. Hmmm, Park Avenue, Dhaka, and Lansing, this outfit truly is international!
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Comment on Appeals by Prof. Dr. Suresh Kumar
Journal of Research and Education in Indian Medicine – international Quarterly
ISSN 0970-7700
http://www.jreim.com is not listed
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Baba Saraki
Hi Prof Beall, may I know the best criteria to search for a good Journal for paper publication?. I saw in your previous list (2012) that MDPI publisher was amongst the predatory publishers, but for the 2014, the publishers name was removed. How do you got to place them in your list, and other things you observe that make them not to be in the list as the for 2014 list.
Likewise, It seems Journal of Cancer Science & Therapy, one of the OMICS groups journal is indexed in SCOPUS, INDEX COPERNICUS, EBSCO, and http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=19700175828&tip=sid&exact=no. but it is not indexed in ISI web of knowledge. My question is how can someone know this is the correct journal to be publish in?. As I do see many scientists/research often ask is the journal index in SCOPUS. or MEDLINE?. That was the first questions that normally came to their mind, if it’s indexed in, then they will submit their manuscript there.
Thank you for your response Sir Beall.
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Jeffrey Beall
To find good journals, I suggest that you
a. Read widely in your field
b. Ask professors or senior colleagues which are the best journals in your field
b. Consult with a librarian at your university
MDPI was added to my list earlier this year; it was not on before.
Regarding OMICS, the advice is easy, do not publish in any journal published by OMICS Group, even if it is indexed in Scopus.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
This looks like a fine journal to me.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by nazanin
Dear Jeffrey Beall, i am a medical student and i will be so glad that you help me: i have published an article in interdisciplinary toxicology journal last year, and it was indexed in pubmed, unfortunately recenly i found papers published in 2014 volume (includng mine) of this journal are no longer in pubmed and no isi . besides, the journal does not even reply our emails! please please tell me what i can do?
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Comment on Be Careful with Spam from Research Media by Ulrich
I had an call from these folks last week saying that they had over 120,000 readers and wanted to highlight my work. When I asked the caller for more information she told me they contact them electronically. Do you think this means more spam?
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by David Hopkins
Folks, read the reality of indexing here:
http://www.acme-journal.org/vol6/AEC.pdf
Just observe that any particular journal is publishing good research, indexing doesn’t matter.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Jeffrey Beall
I am sorry that this has happened.
In practical terms, there is probably little you can do. If you were successful in withdrawing the paper from the first journal, few if any editors of high quality journals would likely be interested in accepting a paper that was previously published in a low quality journal.
Perhaps the best thing to do is to use this as a learning experience and write a new and better paper and submit it to a top quality journal. Good luck.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by How to Write a Compelling Science Paper: Selecting an Effective Target Journal (Part III) | Onboard Editing
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