This appears to be a near-copy of Murat Tumay’s post above, down to the use of “ceitism”, which I assume is a misspelling of “criticism”. Similarly, it mentions making/having “new friends” just like Theeranat Suwanaruang and sirinthorn. I’m inclined to suspect sockpuppetry and/or astroturfing.
Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by Keith Fraser
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by Keith Fraser
A lot of them use similar words and phrases, including spelling/grammar errors. Sockpuppetry? Astroturfing by crowdsourcing past guests and getting them to copy/paste standard support messages?
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Comment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Healthcare Update Satellite – 07-13-2015 | WhiteCoat's Call Room
[…] Then again, there is a problem with “predatory journals” that will accept scholarly articles from just about anyone … for a fee. In one case last year, two journals accepted a paper about Fuzzy Homogeneous Configurations written by Maggie Simpson and Edna Krabappel. In another, two computer scientists submitted a 10 page paper reminiscent of “The Shining” that repeatedly wrote “Get me off your Fucking Mailing List”. Instead of taking the hint, one journal accepted it for publication and submitted an invoice for $15…. […]
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Você já ouviu falar em periódicos predatórios? | Blog da BC
[…] predatórios é mantida por Jeffrey Beall, bibliotecário da Universidade do Colorado, no blog Scholarly Open Access. A PUBLICAÇÃO DE ARTIGOS FALSOS Para expor as fragilidades da revisão por pares em […]
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by romie
Sir,
Would you please let us know your perception regarding Scholar Publications, (http://www.scholarpublications.in/).
Thank You
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by Mehmet Akkurt
I am thinking that the same thing is going on with people who are trying to make people believe GAN conferences do not exist. Also, grammar mistakes might be simply due to commenters being international and English being their second language. Particularly in my case, you are free to check my LinkedIn or Academia account to see GAN conference being listed in my CV, and I even got reimbursed for it. :) Btw, Keith Fraser, i appreciate you using your name rather than a nickname, because It is hard for me to not be suspicious of people commenting on here with the fear of revealing their real name.
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by Vakhtang Charaia
I have participated at Hong-Kong conference this year! Everything is real and with very high academic level!
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by Mehmet Akkurt
Hello Keith Fraser, I am glad you at least accepted the fact that these conferences exist, because the initial ceitism (Critism) was started around these conferences being fake. In my case, I did not even know this blog existed and was contacted by someone from the organization team and was made aware of it. However, I, as a independent and conscious human being, and a academician decided to raise my voice with my own will. It would be disrespectful to believe that academics who attended these conferences will be commenting out of their free will.
Also, i see the following patterns in the comments coming from people who are on the opposite side of the discussion:
1. These individuals have not attended any GAN conferences,
2. These individuals keep talking about solicitation via email
3. These individuals have nothing to say about the conference as they have not attended, and keep focusing on the comments made by attendees.
4. These people tend to be rude to the point where they mock attendees.
and so on.
If i were to take someone’s opinion regarding anything, I would want them to be acquainted with the subject matter. Therefore, comments from the individuals who have not attended the conferences has no validity for me.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
I had not heard of this publisher before. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. It is quite easy to find instances of plagiarism among the published articles. I recommend that researchers not submit any papers to this publisher’s three journals. Thank you for drawing my attention to it.
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Comment on Appeals by Greg
Thanks!
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Comment on Another Taiwan-Based Mega-Scholarly Conference Organizer Emerges by Frank Lu
The “best paper” award is particularly insidious since academic bean counters do not know (a) it is the best and (b) it is presented in a mediocre conference. Some folks amass a lot of “best” papers that only breeds cynicism in the rest of us.
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Comment on Another Taiwan-Based Mega-Scholarly Conference Organizer Emerges by Keith Fraser
Getting my comment in before (based on past experience) a bunch of mysteriously similar comments are made saying “I went to a conference run by this company in [City X] and it was the most amazing experience of my life!” (insert identical spelling mistakes into each comment). :-P
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by mariuccia
Well, I attended the 2014 conference in Dubai and I found it interesting. The level of the speeches was good and, most of all, these events are an opportunity to get to know people you’r supposed to share experiences with. So why not?
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Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by Paschal Kyoore
I appreciate all the comments, which I chanced upon today and read. You have saved me. I got my article accepted by the Foreign Languages Journal. No editing whatsoever recommended. I was advised to make my payment to Sultana in Bangladesh. I did not like the idea but was told that they did not have any other means of receiving the payment. I sent my money by MoneyGram, and waited forever to hear an acknowledgement of receipt from them. The editor, Ullah, took three weeks to reply to my first e-mail and ignored the more recent ones. I began to believe I was a victim of some scam. I called MoneyGram to get my refund but they said they would not refund me all my money. I kept calling and eventually explained that I suspected scam. That is how I was able to get all my refund, including the fee I paid to send the money to Bangladesh. I will advise members of my department to stay away from this journal. We received a number of e-mails inviting us to submit articles to the journal.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by suliyanto
Dear Jeffrey Beall
I will publish on the International Journal of Business Research, is this journal predatory?
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by skeptiverse
just realised i left this on the wrong post:
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
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, this journal is published by the so-called “International Academy of Business & Economics.” I have this publisher included on my list and recommend that you find a stronger journal for your work.
Good luck.
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Comment on Another Taiwan-Based Mega-Scholarly Conference Organizer Emerges by Derek
I gather from looking at the cv’s of colleagues that running such conferences and giving out best paper awards is a sideline for several predatory publishers on the list. The Clute Institute seems to generates a lot of best paper awards for people attending their conferences.
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Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by Humanities Editor
It’s always worth checking the e-mail address that a ‘call for papers’ spam e-mail from this type of publisher come from. I received a spam call for ARIPD’s ‘Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology’ overnight. What immediately tipped me off that it was likely bogus (and had me coming here just to confirm that) was that while the e-mail was ostensibly signed by Dr. Jing Lei of SUNY Oswego (a real staff member in that department), and superficially looked more convincing than most variants of this type of spam, it was sent from an unrelated e-mail address in the Philippines.
I edit a (reputable, I hope) peer-reviewed archaeology journal myself, and when I commission papers, I always send the e-mail directly, not via an e-mail address in the developing world (and my journal is well enough known in our particular corner of the discipline that I never have to spam for new submissions anyway).
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by MC
The illegitimate business practices of the organizers? The fact that these “conferences” clearly do not attract the top people in their field?
Not good enough reasons?
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