No. Professional medical writing and ghostwriting seems to be accepted and prevalent, it is more than just correcting English grammar and typos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_ghostwriter#Prevalence
Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by maximilianhaeussler
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Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Nils
@ maximilianhaeussler: The Wikipedia entry you mention does not seem to support that gostwriting is “accepted and prevalent”. It gives examples of some journals having between 2% and 11% ghostwritten articles, chiefly for research carried out by drug companies. And the entry says at several places that this practice may in certain cases be illegal.
As Jeffrey said, many serious journals are quite explicit on the conditions for submitting a manuscript, and they usually exclude ghostwriting, guest authorship, and similar practices.
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Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Frank Lu
I’d like to respond to Nils from my selfish viewpoint that doing the research is easy for me as I’m a professor who can call on his students. Writing is the hard part since most students think that their job is over. Takes a lot of discipline to write — writer’s block, choice of words, blah, blah. I’m sure many of you have served as reviewers and have witnessed the atrocious papers that have been written, native or non-native practitioners of “scientific English.” Ah, we should all write in Latin.
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Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Nils
Dear Frank,
You make it sound like your students do all the research, and you do all the writing. Perhaps that’s the way it is in your field. I’m glad it’s not as clear-cut in mine. When I cosign a paper with one of my students, both have participated in research and in writing. How else will the students learn to become researchers?
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Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Frank Lu
Hi Nils, Haha…definitely not so simple as I painted it. Writing is a collective, emotional affair. So much pain that finally results in joy. I just think that most scientific types don’t like to write and you are right. We have to train our students to write, and to write well. No copying, no ghostwriting, no doing things that their momma will not be proud of.
Happy New Year and Beatus scriptis
Frank
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Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by herr doktor bimler
<i>Ah, we should all write in Latin.</i>
How about writing in Lorem Ipsum? Occasionally the originators of new predatory journals are so lazy they leave <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-19Lp1oQ3WTU/UIxfJjip4CI/AAAAAAAAJ9Y/Xkc_KGble60/s1600/lorem.JPG" rel="nofollow">the Lorem placeholder text in the website</a>.
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Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
Navin, Thanks for letting me know about this journal. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. I recommend that you not submit any papers to it.
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by herr doktor bimler
Another one for your list — Kasmera
http://www.kasmerajournal.com/index.html
Original indexed here:
http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0075-5222
I received a wave of spam from them in December. Alternating with spam from Jokull, Bothalia, Wulfenia, Ciencia ETV, Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg and Sylwan… adding to the suspicion that those journals at least have all been hijacked by the same people.
In further confirmation, the spam e-mails all include “de-subscribe” links to the same “Arena of Science” junk-publisher website.
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by herr doktor bimler
Ah, I see now that Kasmera is in the list (but currently out of alphabetical order)
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall
I will work on fixing that next year.
(Still 2014 here).
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by mahshid
hello
i have submitted my article to a journal entitled TPLS- Theory and Practice in Language Studies published by Academy publisher, i reviewed your list , i have found some similar name like science Academy publisher. i don’t know know they are related or not? ,
the journal publisher is http://www.academypublication.com/
this journal was indexed in 2014. but it is not now. the scopus has imposed some embargo on this publisher, i don’t know why !!!!!!!!
please help me know whether this publication is fake or not?
Regards
Mahshid
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Comment on Misleading Metrics by JToth
Hi,
please could you look at this website and give us some thoughts about this indexing(?) service?
“Directory of Research Journal Indexing” http://www.drji.org
They have their own metric (DRJI value), though i would be more curious about whether they are a legitimate abstracting/indexing service or just another attempt to find alternatives for journal reputation management.
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Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by KRLemmons
Reblogged this on <a href="http://krlemmons.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/is-this-a-paper-mill/" rel="nofollow">Lifelong Quest</a> and commented:
Let the writer be aware.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Academy Publisher is not on my list.
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Comment on Misleading Metrics by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, actually please see my list of "Misleading Metrics" here: <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/http://" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/</a>. There is an increasing number of startup firms like this one that create and sell fake metrics to low quality publishers. This problem is growing.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by bill
Thank you Jeffrey for maintaining this invaluable service to the various academic communities.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Rocket Scientist
Thank you for this service and best wishes for the new year!
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Sylvain Bernès
The growth rate of predatory publishers over the years is really impressive, and the work done by Jeffrey Beall should be acknowledged. It’s hard work and quite a commitment to maintain such a database including thousands of journals.
However, I still believe that MDPI does not appear to fulfil the criteria for being included in the list. If this is the case, Hindawi should be included too, and even some significant portions of Elsevier.
Best wishes to all for this New Year.
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Comment on Hijacked Journals by herr doktor bimler
Baltica Journal:
Legitimate version here:
The hijacked version is linked to the same crowd as Sylwan and the others (with re-use of articles).
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Comment on The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science by teeba
There are also predetary authors. Why would the names of Scully and Thornhill appear on researches performed by Jordanian authors? Do they qualify as authors? do they know that there names could have been used to mislead editors?
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