Comment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Jeffrey Beall
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I haven’t analyzed this conference. All I can say is proceed with caution.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Pa
Vara Prasad from Austin Group changed his profile info (removed “Austin Publication”) from his google+ account. Mahendra and Siva removed their facebook pages. https://plus.google.com/+VaraPrasaddivili/about,
https://www.facebook.com/mahi.ch.505, https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004228216478 This supports that they are the perpetrator behind Austin and SM Group. Dr. Inamura did excelent job. Kudos!
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Mike Smith
I did see your earlier comments on what seems to be a related publication International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications(IJISA)?
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by a Hong Kong-based firm called MECS Publisher. I’ve analyzed it before, but I didn’t add it to my list. I reported plagiarism to them once, and they quickly deleted the article that contained it.
So, it’s a bottom-tier publisher but it’s not a predatory publisher.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Anthony
Respected Sir, you are doing a very great job! Thank you for your work aimed at checkmating predatory publishers. You listed Research Online Publishing (RonPub).
But one of its journals — http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojwt/publication-fees — Open Journal of Web Technologies (OJWT) — DOES NOT charge publication fees for authors from low-income countries and I quote “All articles of OJWT are fully open access and online available to readers FREE OF CHARGE”. Most of their claims look simple and not exaggerated.
Would such a seemingly genuine journal be classified as predatory? why?
Note: I’m referring only to the Open Journal of Web Technologies and not its publisher Research Online Publishing (RonPub).
Thank you so much for your time.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Comment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Lynn
Thank you for writing this. I just received a disgusting SPAM from the the Frontiers group yesterday and was appalled. I read the very interesting previous discussions on this group. I always had a good impression of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment and now I find that is because it apparently has nothing to do with all these other Frontiers journals and is published by ESA. It seems in a way Frontiers has done what many fake journals do–taken someone else’s title. They even have one called Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. What is the Nature group thinking?
Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by JJH
Hi, I do realize that. I thought some of the editors might be listed against their will or knowledge. I didn’t have contact info for the one I mentioned or I’d have emailed him myself.
Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
Ana,
No, I don’t see anything ethnocentric. I was merely stating a fact, and I stand by it. Research in SciELO journals is largely hidden from most of the world despite being open access. Screaming at me will not change this fact.
Have a nice evening.
Jeffrey
Comment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by John Mashey
Comment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Nils
One of the comments in the above link points to this interesting blog post: http://rabett.blogspot.fr/2014/04/amway-science.html describing how Frontiers uses a multilevel marketing scheme.
That they use such a scheme appears to be confirmed by this example of the appalling kind of spam emails they send (to many authors, no doubt):
“Dear Dr. (X),
Here at Frontiers, we have pioneered the use of article-level metrics, which allows us to keep an eye on the “rising star” articles — even those of other publishers. We noticed that your Article (Article) in (Journal) has already received (N) citations, which underscores the wide-ranging and growing interest for this work.
From our experience, articles with a strong track record provide excellent concepts for new Frontiers Research Topics. With this message, we invite you to consider whether a Research Topic, which is a collection of peer-reviewed articles around a well-defined theme, might be the way to spotlight the recent advances in your community.
(…)
“
Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Ana C. A. Rodrigues
Dear Jeffrey,
The reason you might think I am screaming (which I am not) is the same many scholars believe your post was offensive and heedless: the signs/words we both use might have different cultural meanings. I do not believe the message you intended to send was actually sent.
If your warning is that SciELO journals are hidden from most of the world, scholars should indeed consider this criticism and work to improve it – rather than abandon it.
SciELO, as well as some commercial publisher platforms, contributes significantly to promote published research. Many North American scholars might have never heard of it, but all Brazilian scholars, and many, many Latin American scholars have. It plays an important role in scientific promotion – and education! (you must ponder that we have different social, economic and institutional realities – please look at a bigger picture here, or you might blur the true fact that the research needs to be exposed in different directions – outside, but keeping itself exposed inside).
I sincerely suggest that you publish a new post, cleaning up those issues that I (and others) honestly mentioned. I stand by my argument that there are concepts and premises in your text not quite correct – again, no sarcasm or screaming here. If you consider it, you might go back on track and provoke discussion on issues that really matter: how to improve the quality of publisher platforms, how to raise access to the quality research made in the “periphery”, how to avoid not legitimate publishers.
Have a nice evening, too.
Ana
Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Anita
Jeffrey sir, thank you for the blogs. The SM Group (http://smjournals.com/), the partner company of Austin “Predatory” Group is already down. There website does not exist anymore. Other section of your blog has following info on Austin:
Austin Publishing Group (http://austinpublishinggroup.org/) has multiple website and registrars. All of them should know the predatory nature of website. One can send complaint at following:
For website:
austinpublishinggroup.com and austinpublishinggroup.org, send compliant to their domain registrar CrazyDomains at help@crazydomains.com and cc to domains@crazydomains.com
and customercare@crazydomains.com
For website: austinpublishinggroup.info and austinpublishinggroup.net, send complaint to the domain registrar GoDaddy at abuse@godaddy.com
For website austinpublishinggroup.us, send complaint to the domain registrar Network Solutions at abuse@networksolutions.com
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by P
Jeffrey sir, your blog is so active and the comments are eye opener. Thanks! Should I retract my papers from predatory publishers OMICS (http://www.omicsonline.org/) and Austin Publishing Group (http://austinpublishinggroup.org/)? I called Austin Publishers, nobody picks up the call. They are just fooling us. Papers were published last year. Thank you for the feedback.
Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
They will probably charge you to retract them.
Retracting them may not be worth the trouble.
I agree that they are fooling us.
Good luck.
Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Jeffrey Beall
Another disappearing predatory publisher, disappearing with all the published papers and all the money that people paid them to publish there.
Sometimes they come back after they pay the internet domain name fee.
Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
The fact is, the blog posts on the SciELO website attacking me were written or co-written by a European man who wants the Brazilians to be mad at me. The Brazilians are not sufficiently thinking for themselves. Instead, they are taking orders from a single European, a multi-millionaire who is filled with hate and who is using the Brazilians to attack me. He’s probably laughing at you right now.
The fact is, hundreds, if not thousands, of Brazilian researchers have published in top journals published by the top publishers. They understand my message. They are thinking independently and not merely repeating dogma as you are, in a patronizing way.
Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Jeffrey Beall
Favelas themselves are disappointing.
Comment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by celvesta
Yes, “Favelas themselves are disappointing.” but here we talk about a publishing SCIELO to which you’ve applied the term Favela. The term used by you “Favela”, is disappointing.
Maybe some of your statements about SCIELO are true, but you can not speak of ethics in publishing, as long as you use such words. Such metaphors are not used.