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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Erljohn Gomez

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Thanks a lot Sir. This means I should not deal with this publisher right? As they are considered to be predatory?


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Comment on Hijacked Journals by Cristian Simionescu

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what about Research-Technology Management (RTM) from the right column? Is it real or fake?

Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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None of the victim journals in the right column are on my list of predatory journals / publishers. Hijackers prefer to hijack good journals.

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Mohamed.Ali.Elnur

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It.seems.
.to.me..that.this.is.the.age.of.deception-piaracy-hackering.and fraudulence..fantasy….why.these.rubish.encountered.from.the.east.of.the.globe….this.is.a.kind.of.HUMAN.canabilism????

Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by Nathan

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Did anyone notice that their address changed to just being from New York and not the previous address. This is been very disheartening because it has wasted time.

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Anatoli

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Not to worry…. After a few months/ years when the owner realizes that he is not making as much money as he expected…. he will close the journal overnight…. Don’t worry about the authors who published in it because if they were serious authors they would have known better than to choose such journals.

Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Giorgi Kanakava

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Here is a part of my still continuing story with the group’s Arts and Social Sciences journal. They solicited a review of my own published paper, which then has turned into a story carrying on according to the classical scenario displayed on this Web page. I entered bellow their ‘review’ of my submission and my two e-mails, ignored by them as they had ignored my previews e-mails.

“Reviewers’ comments:

Reviewer #1: The paper seems to be OK not great.The paper provides some potentially new insights into the cultural relationships. However, I believe that although the paper starts promising it has some of the minor deficiencies/problems like grammatical errors and few sentences are cripsy”.

Notice that here, there is only one review instead of promised ‘Reviewers’ comments.’

Here is my e-mail:

“Dear Ronald,

I cannot ‘submit a list of changes or a rebuttal against each point which is being raised’ by reviewers, neither can I ‘submit the revised manuscript’ due to the following reasons:
1. there is the only one reviewer’s review not the reviewers’ as you
are writing.
2. the reviewer’s suggestion to revise is due to this comment: ‘[the
article] has some of the minor deficiencies/problems like grammatical errors and few sentences are cripsy.’
2.1.You might agree that if I knew about the grammatical errors, I
would not have made them. So the comment is ambiguous, as the errors are not specified; thus I cannot make a rebuttal against or revise the unknown-to-me grammar errors.
2.2 although I am not aware of the meaning of the term cripsy, a
slang, anyhow, it is impossible for me to make each ‘not cripsy,’
what it could mean (fresh?), sentence into a ‘cripsy’ one. I do not
know what the referee implies, and I, too, have no free time presently to rewrite the paper.
3. I was surprised that the reviewer did not notice an apparent error:
the paper, the review of which is my submission and the title of which is a part of the submission’s title, is not displayed in the
references.

I assess this as a negligent treatment, so my decision is to withdrew
the paper from the process and the journal.

Very soon I got their ‘answer’ that the paper is ‘accepted.’

Here is an extract from my reaction to it.

“I see you have ‘accepted’ the article. But I have requested the withdrawal of the paper from the journal. Are you going to publish the article with the apparent errors like those? No journal that has any self-respect would act like that. Anyhow, you already know that my only answer to you is the article’s withdrawal from the journal. Note too that I would not like to waste my time on publishing all the correspondence, plus the comments on your ‘review,’ in the relevant forums everywhere on the Internet, so do not make me act that way.”

Yet they had withstood my threat as regards ‘to wast my time’ so that their ‘counter-reaction’ was that I got an Author proof & Invoice several days ago. It is interesting that although they were informed where I live–Tbilisi, ( the republic of) Georgia–, according to the proof, I am an American citizen, residing in Tbilisi, (the state of) Georgia: Dr. Giorgi Kankava, An Independent Scholar, Tbilisi, Georgia, USA, Tel: +374 10 23-72-61. Notice too that the tel. number does not belong to me. The conclusion is that they don’t care about anything expect from the invoice.
Could you please inform me about other relevant forums for me to carry out my ‘threat’ farther?


Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by gkankava

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Reblogged this on <a href="https://gkankava.wordpress.com/2015/02/06/the-omics-publishing-groups-empire-is-expanding/" rel="nofollow">gkankava</a>.

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Neuroskeptic (@Neuro_Skeptic)

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This article: http://ijohmn.com/blog/2014/12/10/leaders-produce-teamwork-organizations/

Contains the following strange text:

“Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as almost certainly the most American discoverer of the untimely 20th century. From his productive intelligence came the brightest bulb and the turntable, along with additional than a thousand further untested inventions over a sixty-year vocation. However, he only just worked by yourself.”

It seems that the author has taken another text and replaced words with dictionary synonyms (to fool a plagiarism detector?) Here’s a possible source (seemingly):

“Thomas Edison, for example, is remembered as probably
the greatest American inventor of the early twentieth century. From
his fertile mind came the light bulb and the phonograph, along with more than a thousand other patented inventions over a sixty-year career. But he hardly worked alone.”

early -> untimely
light -> brightest
hardly -> only just

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Nils

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Perhaps the text has been translated back and forth with babelfish? If yes, it would be interesting to know which language(s) was/were involved.

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by nskeptic

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That was my initial thought but the preservation of word order and of common words suggests that it was targeted replacement of key words.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Gaurav

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall

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This is a very fine journal.
It is not a predatory journal, not even close.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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I just learned about this journal’s publisher (Open Science Publications) this week, and I am still in the process of analyzing it. From what I have seen so far, it appears to be just another quickly-set-up, low-quality OA publisher.
If you received a spam email from them, could you please forward it to me? Thanks.


Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by herr doktor bimler

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Is there an International Journal Online of Inhumanities?
Asking for a friend.

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by herr doktor bimler

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(to fool a plagiarism detector?)
I’m surprised the author(s) bothered.

Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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What is the link for the hijacked journal?

Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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I have added this one to my list of hijacked journals <a href="http://wp.me/P280Ch-z1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thank you for sharing this information.

Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Weekend reads: Where to submit your next paper, NIH proposes "emeritus" award, research dollars wasted - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch

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