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Comment on OMICS Group Aims to Trick Researchers with Copycat Journal Titles by Alex SL

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And for the struggling academic, who really *needs* a quality publication, how hard is it to fool yourself into believing that your big break has arrived?

Well yes, that is how I interpret the business model: predatory journals leech money off the people who aren’t able to get into real journals, fooling them into thinking that this will help their career. I have seen several CVs like that. But they wouldn’t fool me, because I know the journals in my field, and because the names of the predatory ones usually give them away (American Journal of Botany = serious, American Research Journal of Botany = alarm bells). A bit of googling does the rest.

Surely it isn’t too much to ask to be careful about where one submits a paper, and to be careful when examining somebody’s CV? Isn’t that what doing one’s job properly means?


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

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Dear colleagues,
A week ago I sent ARPID’s “International Journal for Linguistics and Literature”, my paper which I slaved over for several months. They didn’t acknowledge they have received my paper nor did they respond to my follow-up email. Nothing!! So I started googling them only to find you guys warning against this sham of ARPID. I am very disappointed. If you can help people like me, and advise on what to do, and how to save such waisted time and effort. Many thanks to all of you.

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

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I recommend that you not publish any papers with this publisher. If you agree, I would advise you to email them and tell them that you want to withdraw your paper.

Comment on Young Assistant Professor Helps Promote Questionable Conferences, Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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No.
I recommend that you avoid all the journals published by Austin Publishing Group. Please find a better publisher.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Lakew

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Thank you for all your struggle to safe us. after I lost 4 of my articles I got this website and learnt that our of 13 published articles of mine 4 are already taken to predatory journals. still they are nagging now and then. How we stop their request? Again, is it legal to inquire repeatedly to a researcher after replied “NO”? Is there any legal ground to get compensation for our lost efforts?
Thank you

Comment on Strange New OA Publisher Launches with 42 Journals by Right-Wing Brain Surgeons: The Case of Surgical Neurology International | Nagg

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[…] post is an expansion of a comment I left on Jeffrey Beall’s Scholarly Open Access […]

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by ashish

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Hi Jeff,

Hi i i belong to India.Could you please tell me if “International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering” is good place to submit article I googled and couldn’t find much information on these journals.

I would appreciate your input and advice.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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No, it is not a good place to submit your work. I have this journal included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This journal has a fake impact factor. Please find a better journal.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by ashish

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hi jeff,

sorry to say i have submitted day before i asked u about “International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering”….
What i can do now..

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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One option is to send them an email and tell them you would like to withdraw the article.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Alex

Comment on Open-Access Publisher Sends Extremely Annoying Spam Emails by siebers

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They are still at it. here is the latest invite from them to me, despite having opted out of their emails in the past.

“Greetings from our editorial members.

We are glad to announce the successful launch of “International Journal of Allergy Medications” by ClinMed International Library – an “Evergreen International Journal Archive” established to support and to expose the efforts put forth by clinical researchers and medical practitioners. The mission of ClinMed International Library is to motivate new research concepts and nurture practical solicitation from the research discoveries.

Comment on OMICS Group Aims to Trick Researchers with Copycat Journal Titles by Wim Crusio

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Funny that OMICS can’t even get the capitalization of their journal names right: “Journal of Multiple sclerosis”….

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by marioskyriazisMarios Kyriazis

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I published a ‘Hot Topic’ (9 participating authors) with Bentham Science, in the journal Current Aging Science, here:

http://benthamscience.com/journal/contents.php?journalID=cas&issueID=123116

The topics included contributions from respected academics, and the peer review was rigorous. The publication process was as I would expect, rigorous and detailed, including plagiarism checks and other appropriate details. The papers have been published in PubMed first as ePub ahead of print, and then as normal printed publications. There was an option for the author paying for the paper to remain online as an open access but I did not take it.

Following this, I accepted their invitation to join the editorial board. Although I receive general emails from time to time about publishing open access papers on payment of author’s fees, I personally don’t see this as a problem. I have no other association with them and don’t know the owner of the publication.

Comment on Strange New OA Publisher Launches with 42 Journals by Weekend reads: Why some scientists lie, the state of academic integrity in Iran, Nature goes double-blind - Retraction Watch

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[…] strange new publisher has debuted with 42 new journals, reports Jeffrey Beall, and a commenter notes that the publisher’s site plagiarized from […]


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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Very good.
Bentham Science, a subscription publisher, is not on my list.
Bentham Open, an open-access publisher, is.

Comment on Other pages by Pat

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Dear Jeffrey,

ScienceDomain International is listed in DOAJ and rejected the Science Journal “sting” article after extensive peer review. Will you please consider removing them from your list and/or advise why they are still on it?

Thank you and best wishes,

Pat

Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall

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How do you know they rejected the article "after extensive peer review"? Where in the article or on the <em>Science </em>website does it mention the "extensive peer review" that ScienceDomain carried out? Or, do you have inside information?

Comment on Other pages by Pat

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Thank you for your question.
The Science article categorizes three levels of journal peer review that the paper received: no peer review, superficial peer review, and substantial peer review. If I’m reading the chart right, the ScienceDomain journal is one of the eight journals (of 98) that rejected the article based on “substantial peer review”. Substantial peer review is characterized in the article as “substantial review that identified the paper’s flaws”. Please see the graphic at the bottom of page 64 of the Science article, at

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60.full.pdf

The underlying data for all the journals is archived at

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6154/60/suppl/DC1

ScienceDomain is at line 41.

In addition, the archived emails at the same page indicate that the ScienceDomain journal sent the article out to a third reviewer, which indicates a more extensive review than is typical. This is why I referred to “extensive peer review”.

I would like to add that I have no connection whatever with ScienceDomain. Impressed with their good result in the Science study, I am considering submitting an article to one of their journals, and wondered why they are on your list. Or perhaps their inclusion should be reviewed?

Thank you,

Pat

Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall

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Thank you for your helpful reply. I published a comparative review that included this publisher in 2012; an OA version is here. I understand that that review is dated.
Its US address is really the address of a virtual office company: http://statofficesolutions.com/ This is misleading.
It uses geographical terms like “American” and “British” in its journal titles despite having no real connection to those places. This is misleading.
It always runs “special discounts” on its APCs, so the site is really about slick marketing to potential authors.
It claims its journals are indexed in services that are not abstracting and indexing services.

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