Praise Worthy Prize (a very strange name for a publisher that purports to be scholarly) used to be on my list. They converted their publishing model from gold open-access to subscription and asked me to remove them from the list, and I did. Yes, it is likely they did this to escape the listing.
I would personally recommend to anyone who asks me to avoid this publisher.
Sir,
There is a publishing house called, Asian Business Consortium (http://www.abcjournals.net/). Would you please check and let us know, whether we can submit our research paper there?
Thank You.
I have received an invitation by a certain Ricky Benson to act as ‘honourable speaker’ at the OMICS conference on Quantum Physics to be held in London in 2016. I have done some research, found this webpage and then I have responded declining their invitation and sending a link to this webpage. Thank you very much for your invaluable help!
Thank you for alerting me to this publisher. It is a predatory publisher, and I have added it to my list. I strongly recommend that you do not submit any papers to its journals. I have listed it under the name ABC Journals. Thank you again.
What your opinion about PLOS ONE?
The journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering published by Hindawi succeeded to publish well over 2000 papers in just one year most of them from China. Just because a journal publishes thousands of papers from one country does not mean it is low quality.
But it means something is wrong. Strong journals show diversity in the geographic locations of their published authors. If researchers from entire continents are essentially avoiding a journal, it’s fair to ask why.
“In other words, when a hiring committee examines a junior scientist’s CV, a publication in a traditional journal carries with it the weight associated with the journal’s reputation for selectivity, rigor, novelty, and yes, likely impact. On the surface, a publication in an open-access journal only imparts ‘not scientifically flawed.'”
Agrawal, A. A. (2014). Four more reasons to be skeptical of open-access publishing. Trends in Plant Science, 19(3), 133. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.tplants.2014.01.005
Sir, I have two papers in this journal and without any cost. They sent me invoice for both papers but I requested them to publish our paper without fee. They accepted our request. They took approximately 3 months to publish my papers. I sent my paper in this journal as this is an old journal in this area and most of editorial board member are well recognized in geotechnical engineering. They have their papers in this journal as well.
Right, and I see your affiliation is listed as “former undergraduate student.”
Thanks Nadia for this useful information which confirm Hindawi as a professional predatory publisher. Just in one journal > 2000 clients from China. Mr. Ahmed Hindawi (Boss) is a successful businessman; clever when he launch a seductive operation (retraction of +/- 30 papers) the equivalent of a corporation launching charitable campaign!
To get rid of 30 “poor” clients in order to gain “trust” and others thousands clients …
Preventing this corruption in the golden OA, the bill should be paid directly by the research grant agency to the publisher. Imagine if Hindawi present the bill of >2000 articles to Chinese funding agencies, no doubt the agencies will ask for review process and hire reviewers for more scrutiny!
Here’s interesting article:
http://splice-bio.com/publish-or-perish-why-scientists-fabricate-and-falsify-research/
“Publish or Perish” – Why Scientists Fabricate and Falsify Research:
“…databases listing the retractions and lists of PREDATORY JOURNALS will promote awareness against fraud and will be a reminder of what is the basic purpose of our research: to discover new and exciting things that will improve our quality of life.…”
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Jeff,
I have been following this discussion with keen interest and it proves very fruitful indeed.
But, I am just worried that these predatory journals and publishers seem to be thriving still. Just wondering if our discussions should end just by listing them , without any further action?
I suggest we must find a much stronger method of blacklisting them, or any other way of rendering them completely useless, unless they change and adapt to globally desired standards.
Check this http://www.krepublishers.com/KRE-New-J/index.html
(journal of social sciences, journal of human ecology etc).
I find it very strange that one author can publish over 6 articles in just one issue. It really tells much about its questionable credibility.
I have a feeling we need to do more than just listing them. Otherwise, academia will become worthless, especially in SA where I have evidently seen just too many of shoddy papers being processed quickly just for money making ends.
I’m open to suggestions.
We must respect freedom of the press.
Thank you.
Yes sir you are right that work was conducted in my undergraduate project work. Second one was a small portion of my post graduate work. I don’t know their review policy. I submitted my work in this journal as it is indexed in scopus and many big people have their paper in this journal. Initially, I thought to publish my work in a good conference as my supervisor was not correcting my manuscript. latter I submitted my work in this journal. Without their support it was impossible for me submit my work in any good journal due to my poor English. A major portion of my postgraduate work is still unpublished as my supervisor is not correcting my manuscript. but now I am looking for some average journal to publish my work. Your work is great sir. It helps us to avoid our work to be published in some fake and predatory journal. Now i will inform all my friend to avoid this journal. Thank you sir!
I do not have any option to get corrected my manuscript. I have been left with one option to publish my work in any average or low standard journal as supervisor is not correcting my paper. I had sent my manuscript on 20 January, 2013. Do you any solution for my problem??
Keep working, and don’t give up.
Some author here has 9 articles in one issue of March, and 5 articles in Jan/Feb.
This is utter self-embarrassment, to say the least.
How a serious academic , a PhD holder for that matter, settle for such mediocrity remain mystery to me!
@mashele
Agreed. Here’s my 2 cents:
1) NEVER reply a mail sent by predatory publishers. Even if you only want to comment about how spam is annoying, just ignore it, and include the spamming account in your mail blacklist.
2) NEVER cite a paper published in a journal you consider as predatory. Take a while to check if a better reference is available.
3) If you review a paper quoting an article published in a dubious journal, politely ask the authors to search for a more robust reference.
I know, these are obvious recommendations, but it’s a first step.
I can see the point of the proposed boycott. But to what extent do good editors exert proper control over content? Someone I know and respect is editor of one of their five year old journals, its fees are around US$300 (not excessive and around the limit for what I would ever pay), and I am more than confident in his work. If he is overseeing the review process I would have no trouble submitting to that journal, which is getting some citations too. If he is overturned by the staff in China, that would be bad.
