Comments for Scholarly Open Access

The blog post is my presentation of the evidence. The publisher had a deceased man listed as the EiC of one of its journals for two years. The fees charged by the other publishers have nothing to do with this case, and charging a lower fee does not justify incompetence. One of the commenters also found a plagiarized article in the journal.

Are you the owner of this company? Are you from Romania? I request that you immediately close the business. It’s a total joke, and you know it.

Bio Med Central publication fee: “Authors from more than 90 low-income countries receive automatic waivers on submission and do not have to pay article-processing charges.” http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/apcfaq/developingcountries

Concerning Hidawi is “indexed” in Beall’s list. Indeed it’s a predatory publisher, but has some “professionalism” in publishing; it has launched a seductive operation http://retractionwatch.com/2015/07/08/30-papers-flagged-because-editors-may-have-subverted-the-peer-review-process-with-fake-accounts/#more-30028 trying to be a legitimate publisher by announcing retraction of papers.

SCIEPUB is simply a bogus publisher; there is no peer review at all. MUST BE AVOIDED even if publication fee = 10 $.

Respected sir,
This is a list of Indian Journals. Which might help you to increase the numbers of journals in your list.
http://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=journals_list&type=alpha#journal

This journal's publisher, the Indian Society for Education and Environment & Informatics, is already included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Thanks for checking.

Looking at some of the other papers in their March 2015 issue, it looks distinctly as if all of them were created using SciGen. I wonder if the journal owners created some fake papers to pad out the first issue?

I received this email:

From: ARJ EDITOR [mailto:arj_editorial@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2015 11:10 AM
To: Beall, Jeffrey
Subject: request and Criticism

Dear Dr.Jeffrey Beall

In http://scholarlyoa.com you said about “Applied Research Journal” as fallow:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/07/09/iranian-oa-journal-accepts-and-publishes-a-scigen-paper/?replytocom=319291#respond

After your comment about our journal, articles in March issue eliminated.

It is Better that before publicly commenting about the your journals, you connect with journals firstly.

Thanks
Hossein Farahani, editor in chief

Death is not the end! An editorship awaits.

Looks like they read my comment – they removed everything from that issue, not just the known SciGen one.

And they didn’t follow the COPE retraction guidelines either.

Wonder if the other “authors” in the March issue received their money back after the issue was eliminated.

And not so much as a ‘thank you’.

I’ll have a look later to see if their remaining papers contain plagiarism.

For a while I was receiving spam e-mail from “Global Journal of Human Social Science” soliciting contributions from a dead author —
http://eusa-riddled.blogspot.com/2014/06/insert-joke-about-googols-dead-souls.html
— so a dead editor makes perfect sense.

hey thank for your information. could you please inform to me accounting or finance journals which are free from predatory lists which can publish at low cost or free.

Late to the party but i note that they say they are holding a conference in Sydney in September. I may just pop down to the venue and try to get some info.

A reverse image search of a number of their “conference participants” photographs points back to other university pages including Caltech

Oh dear, oh dear. <a href="http://arjournal.org/files/2015/06/ARJ-V.1n.4.192-196.pdf" rel="nofollow">A Review Of Effects Of Aflatoxins In Aquaculture</a> appears to be copy pasted from numerous sources. Google any sentence and you'll find a source. Just one example the passage "In animals the toxin is processed through a number of competing pathways. The differences in susceptibility to aflatoxin across species and between persons depend largely on the fraction of the dose that is directed into the various possible pathways, with harmful “biological” exposure being the result of activation to the epoxide and the reaction of the epoxide with proteins and DNA. There is also evidence that the fractions that follow the different possible pathways are influenced by dosage, perhaps because of the saturation of the most chemically competitive processes. Susceptibility to aflatoxin is greatest in the young, and there are very significant differences between species, persons of the same species (according to their differing abilities to detoxify aflatoxin by biochemical processes), and the sexes (according to the concentrations of testosterone). The toxicity of aflatoxin also varies according to many nutritional factors, and recovery from protein malnutrition is delayed by exposure to aflatoxin" is taken word for word from <a href="http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/80/5/1106.full" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I wonder if this paper will be 'eliminated'?

Sorry, I only publish the lists of questionable publishers and journals.

It looked to me like all the papers in that issue were made on SciGen – possibly someone decided to have some fun when the journal was announced.

Dear all
Can anyone tell me about IJCAx? It’s unpaid, doesnt claim any money, but asks for 40 USD if one wants hard copy of the publishing.
Kindly revert.
Thank you.