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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Andy
Dear Dr Beall;
Please can you help tell me whether this journal “SM Journal of Food and Nutritional Disorders” is authentic? They have wrote to me requesting i join their Editorial Board.
Best regards
Andy
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
The journal is published by a firm called SM Group Open Access Journals. I have this publisher included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>, so I would recommend that you not accept the invitation.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Deepak
Dear Mr Beall,
What is your opinion on a publishing house called CIBTech? They are solicitng articles for a surgical journal http://www.cibtech.org/cjs.htm. They have other journals as well.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
Not good. I have the Centre For Info Bio Technology (CIBTech) included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
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Comment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, thanks for alerting me to this journal. It’s another one of many standalone journals from a Singapore company that uses a house in Southern California as its headquarters address. I am adding it to my list. I recommend that you find a better electrical engineering journal than this one, and there are many out there. Take care.
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Comment on Champaign, Illinois-Based Open-Access Publisher Launches with 22 Journals by Janet Brown
A colleague just drove to the street address and there is no building nor house!! It is a fake address. Also, we could not get a confirmation of an Academic Publisher at 701 W. Green Street, either. Scam!!
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Josef
Hello Dr. Jeff,
I have two questions:
a. What is the status of your evaluation of North American Business Press (http://www.na-businesspress.com) and their journal.
b. What is your opinion of the conference organized by Allied Academies? http://www.alliedacademies.org
Thank you for your help.
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Comment on OA Publisher Recent Science Launches with 38 Journals by sampath
Sir i want help regrading the recent science publishing research did the publisher is fake are good.Second thing there are no books papers are not there in their sites.please kindly response to it.
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Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Lisa Lozano
i suggest you replace Hoser with Tosser and this could be a generic heads up.
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Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by JanosToth
This publisher is constantly spamming me with its “IMPACT FACTOR 0.837” “Journal”. Please let me place a few backlinks here to provide proper context for this venue:
CIRJAL: http://cirjal.com
Current Issue: http://cirworld.org/journals/index.php/jal/issue/view/445
And of course, publication charges. Only a hundred bucks; it must be a garage sale! http://cirworld.org/journals/index.php/jal/about/submissions#authorFees
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I have not evaluated either of these. North American Business Press is not an open-access publisher, and I generally limit my work to OA. I do receive many inquiries about it, and it is obviously not a top-tier publisher. If you are considering submitting your work to its journals, I would advise you to look for a better publisher. Same advice for Allied Academies. Good luck.
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Comment on OA Publisher Recent Science Launches with 38 Journals by Jeffrey Beall
The publisher Recent Science is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I recommend that you not submit any article manuscripts to its journals.
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Comment on New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by the “Council for Innovative Research,” which is a totally bogus publisher from India.
The individual journal websites do not state the publisher name, to make it more difficult to determine that the publisher, and therefore its journals, are included on my list.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Andy
Many thanks Prof. I was almost tempted to go in for the offer. Luckily you alerted me.
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Comment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by LeiaSunesson
It seems like the MDPI website got back online. So I went there and checked the actual paper to witness pseudo-science and found some more. Overall the paper looks kinda bogus. Altho first of all I don’t think most qualified researchers will take things written under introduction as evidence (unless it’s an extended paper abstract), which is where Fig 1 is. It hasn’t been mentioned that the actual “evidence” is Fig 3 & 4 where the author basically compared the element composition of coal fly ash (published in an Elsevier journal in 2005) to some publicly available data from losangelesskywatch.org and rainwater data from San Diego (presumably collected by the author himself). From there he showed the chemical composition of US samples were highly similar, almost identical to that of European coal fly ash. The rest was the author’s hype-building and over-selling which I strongly dislike.
Assuming the author didn’t fake the data (if he did then it’s an entirely different discussion about the ethics of scientists) his data comparison actually seem suggestive and deserves being brought to public. Altho if I were a responsible editor of some journal I’d send the manuscript back for major revision asking for better data references, subject implication etc. The way the author used small amount of data to make such a broad implication shows definitely signs of flawed scientific practice, but I am not sure that alone fit into the definition of pseudo-science. Furthermore I hope the reason Fig 3 & 4 weren’t previously mentioned in this forum is not a deliberate attempt to make the paper sound more pseudo-science than it already is, especially for those who may never bother to read it.
PS I looked up Dr. Marco Gerdol to behold our brave hat tipper and I’m pleasantly surprised to find out that he works with immunology-related subjects in Italy. I’m always happy to see more of our fellow European researchers getting involved in environmental science as a hobby!
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Comment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by herr doktor bimler
There is some marvelous crankery there.
He did arrange to publish his Earth’s-core-is-fission-reactor in the PNAS:
http://www.nuclearplanet.com/pnas-1996.pdf
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Comment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by wkdawson
By now, I am largely under the impression that this depends on the particular journal in MDPI.
As guest editor of Entropy, I was under no pressure to make a positive decision. I rejected about half of them, and most of the others, I demanded major revisions before I agreed to publishing them.
I notice that the name of the editor is listed on this document right here in plain site below the author’s name, affiliation and contact address. Most professional journals depend on the editor to make the final call. So if this is some pet project of the editor, then he (here definitely “he”) is first to be blamed.
I really have no time right now to read the paper as “LeiaSunesson” (above) has raised some points. It is unprofessional to jump on the “internet shame wagon” before you have sat down and read the work yourself carefully and drawn professional conclusions. In particular, it would be good for the editor to be informed and speak for himself.
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Sandy
Further information on AUSTIN PUBLISHERS (http://austinpublishinggroup.org) & SM GROUP (http://smjournals.com) I just received from a professor:
1. Mahendra Reddy Chirra (alias, Mahi Ch)
Position: Owner (Director) of Austin Group Publisher and SM Group Publisher
Fathers Name: Venkateswara Reddy Chirra
Date of Birth: Sep 02, 1982 (32 years old)
Gender: Male
Unique Director Identification Number from Ministry of Corporate Affairs, India (DIN): 06796131
Emails used by Mahendra for website and company registration: mahi.ch999@gmail.com
Companies: Austin Publishers Private Limited (Austin Group) &
SM Medical Technologies Private Limited (or SM Online Publishers)
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/mahi.ch.505
(Mahendra deleted this facebook page on August 09, 2015 after Austin Group Received complaints. This action corroborates that he is the person involved)
2. Siva Parvathi Chirra (alias, Siva Vellaturi)
Position: Owner (Director) of Austin Group Publisher
Fathers Name: Viswanadha Rao Velleturi
Date of Birth: Aug 20, 1985 (29 years old)
Gender: Female
Unique Director Identification Number from Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), India (DIN): 06796135
Companies: Austin Publishers Private Limited (Austin Group)
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004228216478
(Similarly, Siva deleted her facebook page on August 09, 2015 after Austin Group Received complaints)
3. Ari Padmaja
Position: Owner (Director) of SM Group Publisher
Fathers Name: Ari Krishna Rao
Date of Birth: Sep 10, 1966 (49 years old)
Gender: Female
Unique Director Identification Number from Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), India (DIN): 06920654
Emails used by Ari Padmaja for website and company registration: padmaja.austin@gmail.com
Companies: SM Medical Technologies Private Limited (or SM Online Publishers)
Facebook page: No social media profiles found
4. Vara Prasad
Position: Employee at Hyderabad, India working for Austin Group Publishers.
Emails used by Vara Prasad for website and company registration: varaprasad.austin@gmail.com
Google+ Page: https://plus.google.com/+VaraPrasaddivili/about
(Vara modified his Google+ page on August 09, 2015 after Austin Group Received complaints. This indicates his direct involvement)
Sources:
AUSTIN PUBLISHERS DIRECTORS: https://www.zaubacorp.com/company-directors/AUSTIN-PUBLISHERS-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U22130TG2014PTC092925
SM GROUP JOURNALS DIRECTORS: https://www.zaubacorp.com/company-directors/SM-MEDICAL-TECHNOLOGIES-PRIVATE-LIMITED/U93000TG2014PTC095024
Directors’ information can be found by searching the specific DIN numbers at Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA), India website:
http://www.mca.gov.in/DCAPortalWeb/dca/MyMCALogin.do?method=setDefaultProperty&mode=50
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