They are using tricks and playing games to get money from you. Make sure you save copies of the emails you sent them asking to withdraw the article. They will continue to use your paper as a “hostage.” Keep telling them that you insist on withdrawing the article.
Comment on OMICS Group Aims to Trick Researchers with Copycat Journal Titles by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Other pages by Pat
Dear Mr Beall,
Have you previously evaluated the “International Journal for Psychotherapists, Counselors and Psychiatrists” http://www.ispcp-trcp.org/journal.html ?
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Comment on Bogus “Center” Provides Quick, Easy, and Cheap Publishing by Peterson
I think these opinions are rather personal. For the fact that we have our papers published in top journals do not mean we should discredit new starters in the publishing field.
To be indexed by Scopus requires some time and close monitoring for some time, particularly, years. I have just researched about MJSS and MCSER. Out of MCSER’s 3 journals, only MJSS passed Scopus test to be indexed. Therefore, I think its unfair to retain MJSS in your list of questionable journals if the journal has passed through Scopus screening process.
For example, if scopus revokes their index on some top journals, you wont be quick to include the names of those top journals in your list of questionable journals. Its similar to retaining a new journal’s name in the list after the journal has been indexed by scopus.
What I am saying is this: if a publisher intentionally submit its journals to ‘scopus’ and to ‘cope’ i think it shows that they are signaling something – that they have an intent to be reputable and to publish quality papers. Most top journals before they became reputable once had these issues too and had to go throught the same process. We need to permit new entrants into the field.
Yes, we need to guide new researchers!
However, if there are some evidence that a journal/publisher has submitted its journal to scopus and cope for close screening, monitoring and investigation, i think that journal is showing some commitment to contributing quality research to academia.
It is good that you tried to speak to the publishers and you did not get a satisfactory answer. MCSER publisher may have refused to supply information to you because they feel you are not in a position to make them more reputable compared to Scopus or COPE, Thomas Reuters, etc. So, I am not surprised that you retained the names of these journals simply because you made personal investigations and they refused to provide you with such information.
We need to understand that journals are like companies and thus they have policies and may not consent to provide information to you for some reasons, particularly, over phone calls and emails. If you visit their office, they can speak to you better.
Sometimes, we need to put ourselves in the position of these publishers.
I am not sponsored to speak for MJSS.
I am just giving a neutral view point to allow new publishers to grow in the elite academic publishing market.
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Comment on OMICS Group Aims to Trick Researchers with Copycat Journal Titles by Sandy Page-Cook
Alex, we had a recent problem like this with an author. Luckily she had kept all the emails so there was a chain of requests for OMICS to withdraw. OMICS did withdraw the paper after I, the publisher sent a couple of emails. Maybe you could try this if you have a reputable target journal in mind?
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Samir Hachani
Simply because so many scatterbrained people send articles or what seems to be article for them. That’s really publish AND perish.
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Mr Hobbes
March is only 6 days old…the “current issue” (March 2015) of IJSR already lists 141 articles (6 March 15, 7:26:17 GMT), which already equals the number of articles published in the February issue.
Unbelievable. Either they have such a long backlog of articles what would mean that they really receive dozens to hundreds of poor submissions to their journals every day. This will bring up the question who is writing all these articles?
Or do they have a large “staff” of writers producing these junk science papers to attract a few paying customers?
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Loudspeaker Noble
See our articles..We are scarce in getting high quality articles.while these global journals a plenty.What is the reeason
http://www.biotechnologicalresearch-journal.com/
As the author of this blog had said journal looks not professionally good.But see our papers and say about their professional excellence.
We are not getting that much papers as GLOBAL Journals
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Jeffrey Beall
Why did you start a new and broad-scoped biotechnology journal? There are already scores of such journals, and yours doesn’t even have an ISSN.
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Loudspeaker Noble
Sure Beall .we admit we dont have issn now.We will get in a couple of month and will index it in all reputed indexings.that is future only.but we will trying for that.
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Loudspeaker Noble
Why elsievier and springer still producing broad spectrum biotech journals ?
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Jeffrey Beall
Are you sure the reputed indexings will include your journal? You promise?
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Jeffrey Beall
Because people want to publish with them. The have ISSNs, their journals are included in the top indexes, their journals are distributed widely, and they add value through copyediting and other means.
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Anatoli
If they are publishing 500 articles a month that means they get at least 500 submissions a month which is 6000 a year… Some of the good, really good publishers do not get so many submissions,, and some of the bad ones also do not get such numbers,,, I am sure even OMICS does not get such numbers,,, then how is it possible for this publisher to get such numbers…. Any one can solve this mystery???
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Samir Hachani
” Sure Beall .we admit we dont have issn now.We will get in a couple of month and will index it in all reputed indexings.that is future only.but we will trying for that ” And I thought my English was poor .
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Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Plagiarism: Copy Paste Thesaurus - People's News Now
[…] a regular reader of Jeffrey Bealls invaluable Scholarly OA blog. Earlier this week Beall blogged about a dubious-looking new predatory journal called International Journal Online of Humanities […]
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Mr Hobbes
I have no idea about the majority. I just quickly checked for the only two articles with non-indian sounding author-names (one German, one Spanish) in the current issues of IJSR and IJAR.
In the article from Spain all Figures (total: 14) were skipped by the publisher (but not the Figure captions), which reduces the article’s main text to roughly less than 1 (short) page of text. :-)
http://theglobaljournals.com/ijsr/file.php?val=March_2015_1425387447__31.pdf
In the article from Germany, reproduction of tables and figures is poor (unreadable). This might be not the fault of the authors but why then submitting there? In the publication list of the senior author are at least one other publication in a Clute Institute Journal…
http://www.theglobaljournals.com/ijar/file.php?val=March_2015_1425360598__58.pdf
Might be a positive feedback system for some countries? Your boss publishes there (to keep his position?). You publish there (to keep your position?). Back to the beginning. But this is fully speculative.
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Comment on Large New OA Publisher Launches with 85 Journals by Jeffrey Beall
I had not heard of this publisher before.
I have now analyzed it. I found it met the criteria, so I have added it to my list. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I recommend that you not submit your work to either of its two journals.
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Julius Jillbert @ Gravatars
Thanks Jeff, another good sharing for us. Keep on your good work, mate!
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Julius Jillbert @ Gravatars
Excuse me, I just sharing my experience. From what I know, the procedure to get an ISSN is tricky for some of us who are new to this and have limited time apart from their teaching or research duty to get this ISSN “quickly.” I am not promising anything and I do not wish someone to contact me on how to get it. I am writing this because I respect the people behind ISSN that I understand got limited time to process all the ISSN application and I also respect those who wish to get ISSN in their journal, etc. to My advice on this matter, is that one need to try to know knowing how to follow up the procedure (aka know the rules), and be patient. Stick to the rules. That’s all. Cheers
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Fureshiki
If I see that a new (max 2-3 years old) OA journal publish issues in which the overwhelming majority of authors have an african, indian or arabic sounding name, I tend to not take them seriously and even have the prejudice of instantly seeing them as scam/predatory journals. And I’m not alone with this in my department. Predatory journals are actually solidifying the monopoly of big established commercial publishers like Elsevier and Springer with rapidly discrediting open access journals and OA publishing in general; making very hard to start any new, independent and not commercial interest-driven scholarly journals.
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