[…] not ring a bell so I checked Beal’s list, and yes the journal and publisher are mentioned in this article on the list. Just a quick glance, also the comments, should make most scholars think twice to publish in here, […]
Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by Predatory journals | Christian Bokhove
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Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Predatory journals | Christian Bokhove
[…] scholar really got into problems because of this. Some other examples: this article, CIR world also features on Beal’s list (Council for Innovative Research, again a name which raises suspicion by […]
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Sanaji
Hello Prof. Jeffrey,
Thanks for your list, Prof. What about the two journals:
a) Journal of Advanced in Information Technology/JAIT (http://www.jait.us/), and
b) International Journal of Innovation, Management and Technology /IJIMT (http://www.ijimt.org/).
Are they questionable journal or published by predatory publisher? Thanks
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Comment on Global Advanced Research Journals? None of the Above by jibosoroyal
Please, help me with some information on university based or reputable journals -Social Sciences/Political science. Thanks for the good information you’re letting out.
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Comment on Iceland Professor in Hot Water for Publishing in Predatory Journals by Predatory journals | Christian Bokhove
[…] published this article in a journal, which is also on Beal’s list. It is poignant that an Icelandic scholar really got into problems because of this. Some other examples: this article, CIR world also features on Beal’s list […]
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Comment on Global Advanced Research Journals? None of the Above by Jeffrey Beall
Sorry, I do not compile that information.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Neither of the two journals is on my list at this time. Both are bottom-tier, and while a researcher might get academic credit for publishing his or her work in these two journals, the work will essentially be hidden.
Ownership for both publications is unclear. There are hundreds of OA journals like these based in Singapore. The journals have little or no impact on research and exist only for the owners to make money from researchers needing easy publishing. If a researcher is happy with mediocre, these two journals are perfect.
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Comment on Publisher “Galore Knowledge Publication” Launches with One Journal by Weekend reads: What really happened in that lab?; best excuses for falsifying data and rejecting grants - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch
[…] publisher and journals’ editorial team don’t take any responsibility regarding plagiarism and any other issues raised out of any article.” Well OK then, says Jeffrey […]
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Comment on Global Advanced Research Journals? None of the Above by Amarmeriche
Thanks for your useful comments.
2 complete days of 4 were to visit Amsterdam from 9 to 9 and the next day Bruges à Ghent. And IJAS journal does not look like a Chemistry journal.
Nobody understands nothing and there was only one question … Only by the chairman. I think it is for promoting euro-américan business, too.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Possibly, but you would probably have to consult a lawyer.
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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Antonio Dias Figueiredo
It is certainly a point the OA community should take – making the OA production visible beyond the vague neighborhoods of conventional search mechanisms! Favela is the Brazilian word for the settlements of jerry-built shacks which lie on the outskirts of some big Brazilian cities, growing as somewhat unstructured but very organic and sociologically rich communities. Maybe the visibility we miss in SciELO could develop from this sociological richness.
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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
I actually think the name <em>SciELO </em>is a play on the Spanish word <em>cielo </em>(sky / heaven).
Even with the addition of Thompson Reuters' SciELO Citation Index, few in North America have ever heard of SciELO or the journals it aggregates. Simply being open-access is not sufficient.
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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
When I do a Google search for <em>Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz</em>, the first link that appears is not to SciELO but to the journal's homepage on the memorias.ioc.fiocruz.br website. I believe the journal's success is <strong>not </strong>due to SciELO but to the quality of the journal itself and its own website. Why did you fail to mention the journal's true homepage? Your comment may mislead some.
I have found SciELO's computer servers to be slow, and the journals' native homepages are often easier to use and access than the SciELO pages.
I only mentioned the Brazilian government initiative to demonstrate that people in Brazil itself are frustrated with the invisibility of SciELO, and not to comment on the country's anti-competitive, protectionist economic policies.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
It looks to me like it is a website that re-publishes papers presented at WASET conferences. WASET is on my list.
I recommend that you not submit anything to this website.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I do not list all the journals on my journal list. With a few exceptions, I only list “standalone” journals there, journals that do not have any publisher.
IAP is not an academy; it is just another easy-acceptance open-access publisher. It is based in Asia but pretends to be based in California, a common strategy.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for alerting me to this new publisher. I have analyzed it and determined that it meets the criteria for inclusion on the list, so I have added it to the list.
Thank you again.
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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Hooman Momen
I entirely agree with you that the key ingredient to a journal’s success is its quality and contents and not the platform it is published on. However I just did a search in Google on the Memorias do Instituo Oswaldo Cruz and the first site to come up was in fact the SciELO site. May be it depends from where you access Google. The main point however is that SciELO does not just provide a website but a range of services to Brazilian journals s well as journals from other countries. These include providing content in the right formats to enable indexing in PubMed and obtaining DOIs, a multilingual content platform and user interface, access and citation metrics, XML mark up and workflows and links from journal contents to other databases. All of which help to improve journal visibility. SciELo also helps to develop national capacity in scientific editing and publishing.
Several journals that were using SciELO have been enticed by commercial publishers to move to their proprietary platforms. A cursory examination would indicate that this has not improved their citation metrics but it would be interesting to make a proper evaluation. Additionally nearly sixty South African journals use the SciELO platform after searching and choosing the best publishing platform for their needs.
Giving visibility to science produced in developing and emerging countries is a complex problem. I believe that SciELO can certainly be improved as a publishing platform but by likening, one of the most successful project to address this problem, to a favela does a tremendous disservice to scholarly publishing.
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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for your comment, and please understand that my use of this metaphor follows up on the use of the phrase “publications ghetto” used in August, 2014 by a professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln to describe institutional repositories. No one that I know of was offended by this use of the term. No one attacked her personally for using it.
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Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
And 27 OA journals are on the AOSIS platform as well.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>, so I would recommend that you find a better one for your work.
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