Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Jeffrey Beall

February 6, 2013, 8:17 am

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Because I want to help people by advising that they avoid this ridiculous publisher.

My guess is that they (Trade Science) are trying to fill up their journals with content and then they will switch to an author-pays model.

I have examples of spam email from Trade Science that say.

“Maximum publication time 15 days”

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“Acceptance or rejection of submitted manuscript will be informed within 7 days limit to corresponding author.”

I recommend that people avoid this publisher. It is very suspicious and possibly a big scam.

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February 6, 2013, 10:49 pm

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Well, Scopus is perhaps controversial from this aspect, but they do have a (not-so-light) screening process. Even if we accept that inclusion in Scopus is not a measure of quality can we say the same about ISI? (i forgot the link to WJoG in my previous post; http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=D&mode=print&Page=18 ) Perhaps “predatory” designate a bad policy, but a predatory journal can also have a somewhat high impact and scientific merit. If researchers submit quality articles to predatory journals and these articles become cited and discussed in the scientific community, than the journal is seen as legit, regardless of its predatory policy.

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February 7, 2013, 1:25 am

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February 7, 2013, 8:21 am

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Thank you for the great post. I also got an email from “David Rain” and started browsing their website. Some things just didn’t look right. None of their publications had ISSNs, no editorial boards, no names of editors, editor in chiefs… This is definitely some smart scammer trying to make some extra bucks. There should be more expose like yours, so people don’t actually fall victim to these criminals.

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February 7, 2013, 10:09 am

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#3 – personally saw it.

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February 7, 2013, 10:09 am

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Nothing beats eyes and gut instinct. Automated software can only do so much. If the file cannot be processed by software, just reject it. No need for an explanation. If your eyes see some bad things, reject it. Again, no need for an explanation. We are here to protect the integrity of the journal and the entire peer review system, not to serve the wishes of disingenuous writers.

Some of these guys will holler like crazy, even threatening to sue or curse that they will not submit an article to the journal again, but they ALL go out in a whimper. Honestly, we don’t need to have them in journals that we volunteer our time to serve.

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February 7, 2013, 10:13 am

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Thanks for this heads-up.

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February 7, 2013, 10:25 am

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Yet another good reason for legit journals to favor submissions in LaTeX.

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February 7, 2013, 10:37 am

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Some interesting additional reading material can be found in the ACM plagiarism <a href="http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism_policy" rel="nofollow">policy</a> and in particular <a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1053291.1053293" rel="nofollow">this article</a> by Collberg & Kobourov in the Communications of the ACM (April 2005). The article, aimed at computer science, provides three anecdotes and a comprehensive classification of different levels of (self-)plagarism. It also discusses some (anonymous) comments from collegues.

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February 7, 2013, 10:51 am

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[...] “Increasingly, unethical authors and predatory publishers are learning new tricks to make it more difficult to detect plagiarism in their writings and published articles. Here are five methods they are using to defeat automated plagiarism detection programs …” (more) [...]

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February 7, 2013, 11:01 am

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all of these tricks also make the text inaccessible to people using screenreaders.

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February 7, 2013, 4:17 pm

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Under privacy statement, you find the following “please contact KnowledgesPublisher at info@faratechdp.com.”
If you look for faratechdp.com it takes you to some news (I am not sure as I cannot read the language. Maybe somebody here speaks Persian (or excuse my ignorance, the language) to enlighten us

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February 7, 2013, 4:19 pm

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I am not sure if I follow what hoicsi is saying

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February 7, 2013, 8:39 pm

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Thank you so much. Dishonest people never stop finding ways to cheat.

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February 8, 2013, 12:05 am

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So you say it is impossible to review an article in 14 days? Why? An expert should be able to do that if he/she is conversant with the field and the article is properly constructed and edited before submission. Do you want to get rid if competition that can provide a better service? Afraid of losing your advertising income? How are Open Access publishers supposed to fund their operations? It does not necesarrily mean that the product is no good if somebody paid $100 to get it published instead of the publisher charging thousands or millions to distribute the information that they got for free!

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February 8, 2013, 7:10 am

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@hoicsi, wasn’t “World Journal of Gastroenterology” caught gaming JRC (self citation)? It is possible to cheat the citation.

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February 8, 2013, 8:18 am

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Dear Mr Beall,
I do not agree to avoid Trade Science, as until now, they do not charge authors. Even if it is as you have supposed, that they will switch to author-pay model, I think authors can take advantage of the free of charge period. However, when your supposition has become a reality, i.e. they begin to charge author, then I agree with you, to avoid them.

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February 8, 2013, 10:04 am

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true. but that was some 10 years ago. In 2008, WJoG was restored to JCR and received a new IF.

Schmuck: I’m 1.) saying that good articles will get recognized even if they appear in predatory journals, and the predator may benefit from that recognition 2.) wondering if the rigor of a journal selection process may be an assurence of the quality of the articles published in a given journal, REGARDLESS of the predatory or non-predatory nature of that very same journal.

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February 9, 2013, 8:12 am

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Dear Mr Beall,
I have once submitted to the journal of US China medical Science, and it is not true that they do not review the articles, as my article was peer reviewed and I was asked to revise the artcle.

The comments are reasonably sound, and in my opinions, the suggestions improved my article.

So, I think that it is not fair to give a judgement, when you do not know exactly what happens.

Indeed they charge 400 USD, but I think it is reasonable, as they sent me the print issue that contains my article.

Further, some articles in open access journal may be of no value, but we as scientist can critically review each article that we will cite. Using valuable open access articles that pass our critical review is an advantage for us, as we do not have to pay.

Therefore, I will not avoid open access publisher, even that they are predatory. We can judge their articles, whether the articles are valuable to be cited or not. If it is valuable, why not?

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February 9, 2013, 8:41 am

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Dear Mr. Beall,
I forgot to mention that the journal is under David Publishing