I see that OAJPA switched its logo. Maybe the Football Association of Ireland is a big fan of this blog!
Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Ben Mudrak
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Comment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA by Peter Matthews
Hi… just to clarify. The comment here is in response to this statement in the original post:
“Also, the ISBN reference is wrong; serial publications do not get ISBNs.”
They can and they do.
Of course, I completely share Jeffrey Bealls’ concern about the OAJPA.
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Comment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by PubReader — Obscuring Journal Branding for the Sake of Repository Branding « The Scholarly Kitchen
[...] the case of PMC, people who often do not have a sophisticated awareness of journal branding. It is tripping journalists up. It is also confusing across the board, conferring equivalency where there is [...]
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Comment on Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals by naser
Robin Hood
I was only joking about that part, please disregard that part of my comment. I have never done and will never do such action to any one. Thanks for sharing your advise.
Best
Naser
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Comment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Bob Calin-Jageman
You guys are giving journalists way too much credit. It’s not that they are being fooled by predatory publishers. It’s that they don’t care if the sources is disreputable.
When I contacted the journalist who wrote up the CHE story, he was fully aware the source was predatory. But, he replied, in this case the primary authors had told him there was peer review, so he felt it was fine.
I contacted one of the senior editors at CHE to ask about this. He concurred. He felt that the poor quality of the journal doesn’t reflect on the specific article at all, that this would be spreading guilt by association. He argued that there policy is simply to quote and cite the sources, which they had did in this case. The fact that the journal had no editorial board to conduct the claimed peer review did not impress him. The fact that the authors of the primary paper would no longer respond to emails about it didn’t worry him.
So – journalists aren’t getting tripped up. They just simply don’t have a stake in this fight–a source is a source is a source for them. I think that’s what should change–fooled is fine, but they really shouldn’t knowingly use a predatory journal article as a source.
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Comment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Bob Calin-Jageman
p.s. here is a bit of my correspondence with CHE:
I asked them:
Does the CHE article meet your standards for journalism? Does it violate principles of journalistic norms, such as “don’t cite dubious sources” or “check your sources”? It is *this* issue which I believe deserves comment and response.
I would argue, as I did in the letter, that a journal with no academic process transmits its dubious status to all its articles. Therefore, it is not good journalistic practice to rely on articles from such sources. If CHE agrees, I would urge you to flag, amend, or retract the article for falling below CHE’s standards for quality. If CHE disagrees, I’d like to know why (e.g. perhaps CHE journalists are sufficiently astute to judge the scientific quality of an article regardless of its context).
And CHE editor Lawrence Biemiller replied:
I’m not the final arbiter of our journalistic standards, but my gut feeling—as a 32-year employee of the paper—is that yes, this article meets our standards. It reports accurately on credible research of interest to our readers. The fact that this research was published in a journal of questionable integrity may mean it’s time for a follow-up article on predatory journals, but I don’t myself accept your blanket guilt-by-assocation approach. As our earlier article on such journals noted, legitimate, well-intentioned scholars are being taken in by these journals, but I don’t think that means we have to ignore all their research. I know Dan and his editor, Sara Hebel, have talked over your points and don’t see that this article requires the retraction you sought.
As for not quoting dubious sources, any journalist tries to do that, but it’s a slippery slope. I myself have been having trouble believing anything that has come out of the mouth of the Speaker of the House of Representatives about the fiscal cliff, but I have a number of friends who are equally suspicious—far more suspicious, actually—of anything they believe the president has said about guns. So where does that leave us?
—Lawrence Biemiller
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Steals Code, University’s Name by Frank Lu
Looks like the makings of a thriller.
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Comment on List of Publishers by Leave the Door Ajar « Andrew Richard Schrock
[...] up a major issue that gets overlooked in many discussions in the open culture movement about how predatory journals are voraciously appropriating the term “open access.” By predatory, I mean [...]
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Comment on A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company by John who spends all his spare time writing papers
Hello,
“Science and Engineering Publisher” (which for whatever reason is abbreviated SEI??) invited me for a paper, surprisingly free of charge. I am getting many such invitations, of course I don’t waste my time and name with it, and it surprised me they don’t want money.
Q: Are the professors on the editorial board serious academics, or fakes?
Here’s the mail:
Dear ,
I hope this email finds you fine. We searched a good paper of yours
Published at
Titled:
I’m here writing to cordially invite you to submit or recommend new papers to the Electrical Engineering Research (EER), an open access journal. For more about the Aims& Scope or other information, pls visit: http://www.seipub.org/EER/
All accepted papers are/have:
※ Open Access: You’ll have full access to all the articles published online and be able to download them without any subscription fees.
※ Rapid Publication: Manuscripts are peer-reviewed rapidly and accepted papers are immediately published online.
※ Indexing Service: All accepted papers will be sent to be indexed by any third parties.
※ Reference Service: All published papers will be delivered to researchers for potential reference by email.
Your paper will be published with no charge if accepted. If you have an interest, pls submit your paper online: http://www.seipub.org/EER/OnlineSubmission.aspx
Submission Deadline is: Feb. 28. 2013
Any question, pls feel free to contact us: eer@seipub.org
EER Editorial Board Office
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Steals Code, University’s Name by Potkin
i have an important quiz;
is “Management Science Letters” a fake journal? (or about its publisher which called GROWINGSCIENCE)
they publish 4 journals, but MSL (Management Science Letters) is suspicious more than others.
Can you help me?
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Comment on A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company by Jeffrey Beall
It’s not uncommon for publishers to grant fee waivers on newly-launched journals. Tha appears to be the case here, as this journal is brand new and has no articles yet.
Then they use these good articles to attract articles from others, and the later articles are not as good because they do a lax peer review, or none at all.
Regarding the editorial board for this journal, there are seven members. There are a lot of OA electrical engineering journals. I can’t comment on the ed board members credentials, but I note the lack of any from the US.
My advice: avoid this publisher — find a better one.
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Steals Code, University’s Name by Jeffrey Beall
The publisher Growing Science is on my list of predatory publishers, and I recommend against submitting papers to any of its journals.
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Steals Code, University’s Name by Peter Matthews
There is an element of the fantastic in all of these discoveries that Jeff is making. It’s a bit like being in a house of ghosts, where the ghosts simply divide and multiple the more we attack them. Some of the ghosts, like this one, are really outrageous, and we do have to watch them, just in case there is something more real underneath. Other ghosts may come and go before we can really see them clearly. I think Hollywood might be knocking on Jeff’s door any time soon… Frank’s thriller comment should be taken seriously.
:-)
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Comment on Predatory Publisher Steals Code, University’s Name by Nils
Lernaean Hydra would be even more appropriate than ghosts ;)
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Amana Birahi
Truly said here. Buddha was born in Nepal not in India. The world knows about it. On the basis of power Inadia is claiming buddha as born india. It’s very funny. Be in reality not in fancy.
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Comment on Fraud Alert: Bogus Article Acceptance Letters by D. R.
I do not believe that any decent scholar is stupid enough to be fooled by a scam, whether e-banking, credit card, or other scam. One that would be fooled by this does not deserve to have a PhD.
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Comment on Fraud Alert: Bogus Article Acceptance Letters by Charles J Greenberg (@openbiomed)
D.R., What is a “decent scholar”? You know it when you see it? Many excellent writers cannot balance a checkbook. There is a widespread problem of fraud, identity theft, and confidence schemes, and anyone with considerable intellect cannot be faulted for a shortcoming that was exploited. The person that changes their own car oil is just as susceptible to auto mechanic fraud as the neophyte. Confidence fraud needs your confidence.
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Comment on Fraud Alert: Bogus Article Acceptance Letters by Claudia HollandClaudia
I had to laugh at Jeff’s point that these perpetrators are not limiting their scams to legitimate, reputable OA publishers. Nothing like scamming the scammers!
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Comment on OMICS Publishing Launches New Brand with 53 Journal Titles by OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” « Scholarly Open Access
[...] be aware that OMICS has established a separate brand called SciTechnol that operates much the same as OMICS. OMICS may be experimenting with additional web brands [...]
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Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by dianabuja
I’ve just received 2 emails from “SJP” requesting that I send ‘original research paper…’ I’ve just forwarded a copy to your email.
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