I, for one, nominate Dr Beall to be the editor-ad-inifinitum of this new organization and pledge my immediate and eternal allegiance. We will allow him to access all and any resources he needs to carry out his job of policing the world’s academics, universities, and research organizations. The first order of business will be to mobilize a force of well-armed library paramilitary force to ensure Beall’s rule are enforced. We will build a maximum security correctional institution outside Denver, Co, for all of Beall’s prisoners, and we will not stop until absolutely every IP address, domain name, and printing press is under our control so that we may monitor every activity related to the dissemination of information.
Comment on Iranian OA Journal Accepts and Publishes a SCIgen Paper by MC
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Fatma
I am very upset, I have spent years working on my Ph.D. and one of my examiners actually recommended LAP and I trusted her judgement. I am afraid I have just registered with them this morning, I uploaded a picture but haven’t written a blurb or a summary of the book yet. I also haven’t done the formatting requirements that they specify yet. Once I read the blog, I emailed the two people who communicated with me saying that I wanted to withdraw my submission for the time being. Can anyone tell me if this was a wise move? is it better for me at this point to continue with them even if it means no royalties? I mean would this situation be a bit better than having them publish it anyway? Can they publish it without my name on it? Is there anything else that I can mention in an email that would absolve me from the agreement? I remember having ‘ticked’ a box, but it seemed to me then that it was part of the account registration process and not the agreement signing itself, since I hadn’t downloaded the their .pdfs yet.
HELP!
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Comment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by Mehmet Akkurt
Well, Ms/Mr. MC, I do not know why you would take my comment one sided as it does sound pretty neutral to me. In my humble opinion, the validity of any anonymous comments is questionable whether it is (in you words) pro-GAN or not.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Fatma
What worries me also now is that they have my SSN!
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by GIlbert Michaud
Hi Jeffrey,
What is your take on the following journals:
International Journal of Public Policy: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijpp#moredesc
International Journal of Renewable Energy Research: http://www.ijrer.org/ijrer/index.php/ijrer/index
I understand they might not be the highest quality publications, but are they ‘predatory’ via your standards? Your insight is appreciated.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
Hi, Gilbert. First, regarding the <em>International Journal of Public Policy</em>, this journal is published by a subscription publisher called Inderscience. Because it's a subscription publisher, I have not analyzed it. I can tell you that I do receive many inquiries about Inderscience, an indication that people find it ... questionable. Looking at <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225915058" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">WorldCat</a>, I see that only 25 libraries worldwide subscribe to this journal, so if you publish your work there, it will essentially be hidden from most of humanity.
Regarding the <em>International Journal of Renewable Energy Research</em>, I analyzed this journal in May, 2015 but did not add it to my list. It's borderline, and I generally do not add borderline journals to my list, erring on the side of caution. If a friend asked me about this journal, I would recommend that he find a better one for his work; there are many better ones in this particular field. Good luck.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Halkan
Dear Jeffrey Bell,
Without realizing these predators list, I published in one of the listed journal (ISSR). Now, is there a possibility to publish this paper on the right ones (not listed )? If So, how? Need your help
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Halkan
To make specific my question, is there a possibility the send my published paper back to the genuine ones? Also, how about the evaluation would look like by different universities/ employees if I would apply let me say for PhD having the list of publication on my CV (published on those blacklist journals)? So, what should be the solution to get back my paper and re-publish?
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
It is very difficult to withdraw a paper from one journal and successfully publish it in another one, and it is usually more trouble than it is worth. Use it as a learning experience, write a new and better paper, and submit it to a stronger journal.
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Comment on When a Journal Goes Bad: the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering by Jeffrey Beall
Ken, only a fool would ask a predatory journal its acceptance rate and then take the data at face value. Same for the submitted / accepted dates. I stand by my analysis of this journal.
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Comment on European Journals Added to List by Jeffrey Beall
I think that the European Scientific Journal is a bad choice, to be honest.
The conference is also a bad choice.
I suspect that they will charge you a registration fee for the conference and an author fee for the journal.
I recommend that you find a better journal and a better conference.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Fatima (from Nigeria)
Dear Sir, I will like to know the status of Journal of New Media and Mass Communication, published by International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE). It’s website is http://www.iiste.org. I will like to know if it is a predatory journal. Thanks
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Comment on When a Journal Goes Bad: the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering by Marcos Pedlowski
Reblogged this on <a href="http://blogdopedlowski.com/2015/07/17/when-a-journal-goes-bad-the-electronic-journal-of-geotechnical-engineering/" rel="nofollow">Blog do Pedlowski</a>.
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Comment on When a Journal Goes Bad: the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering by tekija
The first advisory board member
Nilmar C. O. Janbu
Legendary Professor Emeritus, Department of Geotechnical Engineering
Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway
Is indeed a legend now as he died in 2013.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Marriam
Dear Jeffrey Beall
Please tell me what is the repute of the following Elsevier journals:
(1) Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
(2) Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
(3) European Journal of Combinatorics
(4) Discrete mathematics
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Abdul Razaq
Dear Jeffrey Beall
Is it fair to judge the quality of journal through Thomson Reuters Impact Factor, Need a comprehensive answer. Thanks
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Jeffrey Beall
The impact factor is not supposed to be a measure of quality, but many use it for that anyway.
There are a few journals with impact factors that are on my list. In my opinion, these journals are low quality.
Some use the impact factor to create a whitelist of journals.
If you use the impact factor to measure the impact/quality of journals in one specific field, then that might be a fair use of the metric.
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Comment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again by Jeffrey Beall
I am sorry, I have not analyzed these journals. I generally limit my analyses to open-access titles.
I have never seen any negative evidence about these journals that I can remember.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this journal or any journal published by IISTE. I recommend that you find a better publisher. Good luck.
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Comment on Appeals by raju
Please sir kindly review this publisher.
http://www.praiseworthyprize.org/
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