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February 23, 2015, 7:53 pm

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Thank you for this helpful response. The business practices you name are indeed questionable. Yet its peer review evidently has rigor, it’s in DOAJ, APC is very low compared to the biggies, article typesetting and presentation is good, and I can get my article in PubMed or Ebsco. Since I’m paying my own APC, frankly, $3,000 or so to BMC or PlosOne seems a lot more predatory to me than $100 to ScienceDomain.

It also seems to me, just as maybe a philosophical point, that all the practices that concern you are consistent with the “virtual” presence of an essentially web-based enterprise.

But I am in no way advocating for any change in your assignment of this publisher, given the concerns you have clearly stated. You have every right to your own opinion, and from what I can see you are doing a lot of good by being so strict. Perhaps it is fair to say that ScienceDomain appears to be improving, but has not (yet?) attained sufficient quality or business transparency to be removed from your list.

Thank you again. I appreciate the information very much.

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by lakman

February 23, 2015, 8:49 pm

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is it safe to publish in Austin Journal of Anatomy??
thank you

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

February 24, 2015, 3:25 am

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No. I would recommend that you find a better journal from a better publisher.

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February 24, 2015, 7:04 pm

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Oh no, open access publishers are making money! That is unacceptable! If the guest-editor wants it, people want to publish their articles in it, and all the guidelines are followed regarding the peer-review process etc., then what is fundamentally wrong with this? This is really nitpicking if you ask me.

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Comment on Other pages by Dickson

February 25, 2015, 12:19 am

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Dear Jeffrey,
Thanks for good work you are doing.
Among the following three journals, which ones are predator
1. Livestock for rural development
2. international journal of current research and review
3. international of livestock research

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

February 25, 2015, 12:33 am

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may be it (lower case ‘s’) makes the difference from the ORIGINAL journal!!!!! @ Wim Crusio

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Comment on Need Help Finding a Good Journal for Your Next Paper? Try These Resources by Trapti

February 25, 2015, 2:18 am

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Thanks for the list. Also there are a few more mentioned below :-

1. http;//ijact.in

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Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by Clem Jackson

February 25, 2015, 2:29 am

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I can appreciate the comments and opinions above in this blog. The one point I have not seen mentioned is the effect any cure of any disease would have on the vast profit drug companies make.How are we sure the comments on this blog are genuine and not based on vested interest. Lets look at the cancer research uk discussion on this drug GCmaf and the interesting point is that they claim to be so passionate about wanting to cure cancer but not once do they offer to run a complete trial on Gcmaf, which would of course eliminate all doubt and conjecture. Why do they and other drug companies adopt the same attitude. I believe the reason is simply, money and wealth. If a cure for cancer was discovered the drug companies would lose billions and cancer research would be broke over night. The main aim of the drug companies is to treat people not cure them. I would like to tell you a story of a very capable Dr who worked for a laboratory working on cancer cures funded by cancer research uk. This chap and his wife stayed at my band b each year. The last year he stayed with us he was depressed and confused. He told me he had discovered a cure for a certain type of cancer but could not get funding to go to clinical trials. Make of it what you will but I would imagine that cancer research is a vastly wealthy company and where money is concerned morals often float out the window.
So lets lobby all these sceptical bodies to do an open clinical trial on the claims surrounding GCmaf. That is of course you do not believe they have already done it and are using there attacks to discredit the inventors of such a cure.
With regards to the original question on whether you would take an unlicenced drug the answer is simple. If you are facing a death sentence and the NHS can do no more for you, you will try anything.
Regards
Clem

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February 25, 2015, 3:49 am

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This link is for a journal entitled <em>An International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Technology</em> (COMPUSOFT), and it is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thank you.

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February 25, 2015, 4:22 am

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Note that all the impact factors listed here are fake. For more information on fake metrics, please see <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. So, Chelsea, thank you for this confirmation that Higher Education Forum is collaborating with predatory publishers who use fake metrics to trick and harm honest scholars. I stand by my advice that researchers in Asia should avoid the many "vacation-conferences" sponsored by Higher Education Forum. Researchers should prefer honest conferences organized by authentic scholarly societies. Researchers should avoid submitting their work to all the predatory journals that are associated with the questionable travel agency called Higher Education Forum.

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Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall

February 25, 2015, 4:29 am

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Regarding number 1, I cannot find this journal. Please send a link. Regarding number 2, this is a questionable journal, and I advise you to avoid it. Regarding number 3, the International Journal of Livestock Research, I have not analyzed this one. It appears to be published by a firm with a strange name, <a href="http://www.ijmanager.org/index.php/index/index" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">ijManager - Online Journal Management</a>. I will try to examine this more closely.

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Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by Mrs J Salazar

February 25, 2015, 4:32 am

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I think the above has a very valid point – why would any of these pharmaceutical companies want to find a cure for cancer ?? Its like manna from heaven – endless money – endless drugs, endless uncertainty for the patient, endless fear and endless dependence and the list goes on……why doesn’t the Cancer Research UK do trials, they have the money. I am waiting for an answer from someone who can tell me why…………………………………….

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Comment on Two More Predatory Publishers by alexcase

February 25, 2015, 4:50 am

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First noticed it when the editor, Chris Benavot, tried to befriend me on LinkedIn. Told him that his LinkedIn profile didn’t really seem to fill me with confidence, so he updated it. Unfortunately, the updated one still seems to suggest that he did a PhD, did nothing for about four years, and is now editor of an academic journal…

I noticed there were a few Iranians involved, but that does tend to be the case genuinely in English teaching related academic writing, for some reason, so that wouldn’t necessarily add to any suspicions. It also seemed rather cheap for a rip-off at 70 dollars a paper, which is why I posted it as a question here rather than something I’d made my mind up about.

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Comment on Two More Predatory Publishers by alexcase

February 25, 2015, 12:13 pm

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Reply from the publisher to my giving him a link to here

“Dear Alex,
First of all, if you are suspicious with our journal, you can contact the ISSN center (http://www.issn.org/) and ask them about the validity of the ISSN number, the website and the editor-in-Chief.
Also, the hijacked or fake journals sited in the provided link by you ask for publication fees to publish a paper but I’m using my privilege to publish free papers.

Regards,
Chris”

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February 25, 2015, 12:40 pm

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“all the guidelines are followed regarding the peer-review process”

This is the important bit. As discussed in many other entries on this blog, many open-access journals don’t use proper peer review. In the more egregious cases, this is blindingly obvious from the illiterately written papers and junk science they publish.

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Comment on So-Called “Special” Issues of Journals: Big Money for Gold OA Publishers by Alex SL

February 25, 2015, 1:04 pm

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What a coincidence – just fifteen minutes ago I found such an e-mail from Hindawi in my inbox. Title: Invitation to guest edit a special issue for computational and mathematical methods in medicine. Apart from me knowing about Hindawi there is another little problem: I am a botanist.

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