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Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by Kees Stigter

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Gregory,

a paper published at the very end of 2013 is not cited in papers published in the first half of 2015 or earlier. If a paper is downloaded more than 600 times in that period, citations will definitely follow. So your unkind reaction does not hold.

It is my point that unknowingly that time of the journal’s reputation, publication has led to considerable dissemination. See also other comments.

Kees


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

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It is not a perfectly legitimate publisher, in my opinion.
Here be dragons, over the horizon.

Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by Jeffrey Beall

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I am sorry; I only list low-quality and questionable journals. I do not publish any whitelists.

Comment on Hijacked Journals by سایتی جهت جستجوی مجلات جعلی

Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by Grégory

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So, I encourage you to continue publishing your work with them. Like I said, I am sure you will get the academic credit you deserve.

Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by Manf

Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by harry hab

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Could hijacking of another low-quality journal be more attractive because the victim has fewer legal resources to defend itself, or might be less likely to care? To a predator, any given title is just one scam in an operation of hundreds.

Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by lorenzoiorio2014

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As far as my own field is concerned (general relativity, gravitation, astronomy and astrophysics), NASA/ADS returns the following current situation for some papers published in Galaxies (please note that the citations displayed by Galaxies itself are fewer than the following ones):

L. Iorio, Galaxies 2013, 1(1), 6-30, citations: 13

L. Iorio, Galaxies, vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 192-209, 2013, citations: 6

L. Iorio, Galaxies, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 259-262, 2014, citations: 4

L. Iorio, Galaxies, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 13-21, 2014, citations: 4

Altamirano, N. et al., Galaxies, vol. 2, issue 1, pp. 89-159, 2014, citations: 53

Capozziello, S., Galaxies, vol. 1, issue 3, pp. 216-260, 2013, citations: 8

Harko, T. et al., Galaxies, vol. 2, issue 4, pp. 496-519, 2014, citations: 4

And so on….


Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by Keith Fraser

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Yo dawg, we heard you like predatory journals, so here’s a predatory journal preying on a predatory journal so you can prey while you prey.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, it’s on the list, so I recommend that you not submit any articles.

Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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This case is now included on my list.

Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by Weekend reads: Duplication rampant in cancer research?; meet the data detective; journals behaving badly - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch

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[…] “Why on earth would anyone hijack a predatory or low quality journal?” Jeffrey Beall is perplexed. […]

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Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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I don’t know for sure. I am not able to confirm it is a hijacking.
Do you have any solid evidence that it is a case of hijacking?

Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by Henry

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Mr Beall has collected nearly 800 OA publishers and I believe the remaining OA publishers are fewer than your fingers. The idea is to stay away from OA publishers and submit your work on well-known publishers, only.


Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by Marco

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At the very least because it is not an Open Access Publisher. It is also associated to a professional organization, so it is unlikely to be predatory (which does not mean it is high quality, of course).

Comment on Another Strange New OA Publisher with a Strange Name by Marco

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Thank you; at least in part the right thing to do. Now, if only you could answer the two questions about the plagiarized sections that came from sources published after the original submission (two whole paragraphs – please don’t tell me a reviewer suggested it) and after the supposed acceptance of the final manuscript (two sentences). Also, who did the plagiarism (you previously accused the first author) and if indeed the first author, what intellectual contribution did you yourself provide, considering that only two sentences were original and the rest of the differences some small textual changes?

Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by Manf

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Tekija,

The point is not that, as there may be some good papers lost in the so many journals from this publisher. The problem is the huge amount of low quality papers usually published in these journals.

As a reader, I read several articles published in “Molecules” and “International Journal of Molecular Science” (the two flagship journals from this publisher). And each time, I wonder how these papers could have been published without anyone noticing that they were so flawed and out of the journal’s scope. I found an author who has published more than a dozen of articles in the journal “Molecules”, spanning a period of three years (4 articles related to plant physiology per year in the same journal). The similarity between these articles is so flagrant. One has the impression that the author only recycles old results and texts, not to mention their pseudoscience nature and their inappropriateness for the journal’s scope.

Comment on Predatory Journal is Hijacked by John Mashey

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3 hour acceptance is pretty amazing, but I’d guess somebody could do better. The Journal of Scientific Exploration includes many papers on PSI … so perhaps, at some point, they can send you a note accepting your paper before you write it. :-)

Comment on Guest Editing a Special Issue with MDPI: Evidences of Questionable Actions by the Publisher by solihu

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MDPI has a journal by ISPRS, an international body for photogrammetry and remote sensing which is now listed in ISI index. Are all the papers published by this ISPRS supported journal unworthy of publication? For me, I am a bit undecided. Do I publish in journals supported by recognized body and patronized by renowned scholars despite being listed by Beall?

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