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Comment on New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers by Conspiracist ideation, cont. - Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it

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[…] Per far ancora più contenta Boiron, i clinici di UniBo dovrebbero convincere l'editore della rivista (IF 0,15) in cui si son comprati la peggior eccetera a comprare falsi indici bibliometrici dal fornitore indiano scoperto da Jeffrey Beall. […]


Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Veri

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what about the Pakistan Journal of Social Sciencies/Medwell Journals?

Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by midnightrambler956

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Shely: it means that most people who get this kind of spam have been conditioned to reflexively delete messages from editors with Indian, Chinese, or African names because of the high amount of scams from those places. So a person in India whose real name might be Rajiv Choudhary corresponds with Americans under an English-sounding name.

Of course, this has the knock-on effect of making many people suspicious of legitimate researchers and editors from those places, but I doubt they care very much about that.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

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I recommend that you avoid all journals published by Medwell.

Comment on New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, I recommend that you <strong>not</strong> submit any papers to all of the SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing) journals. It's a very low quality publisher, and in the long term, publishing your work with this journal will hurt you more than help you.

Comment on New Diagnostic Pathology Journal Copies Existing Journal Title by Jeffrey Beall

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I agree. This site aggregates several hijacked journals.

Comment on Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires Copyright Transfer by Jeffrey Beall

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No, I recommend against publishing in the <em>International Journal of Applied Engineering Research</em> (IJAER) and all the other low-quality journals published by Research India Publication (RIP).

Comment on Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires Copyright Transfer by Marylene Eder

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Thank you very much for the response…much appreciated


Comment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals by Karim

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Guys, the website of the so-called AMERICAN Research Institute for Policy Development is hosted in BANGLADESH! That’s the end of the story for me!!

Comment on Appeals by Purnama Alamsyah

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Dear Jeffrey Beall,

Could you please give me your suggestion on the Asian Research Policy (http://www.arpjournal.org/usr/main.do) ? Is it worth publishing in this journal because the journal is not indexed in Scopus and Google Scholar?

Thank you

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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It depends on the person and the field. I generally prefer to recommend which journals to avoid. I don’t make journal recommendations. This journal is not on my list. Good luck.

Comment on New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers by Ravindran

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Dear Dr. Jeffrey, Please let me know about “SCIENCEALERT”. It is included in the list of yours. But some of the journals indexed in ISI and scopus. Please guide me

Comment on New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers by Jeffrey Beall

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Hi, Ravindran. This is an easy one. Scopus and ISI are making a bad mistake by including some of the Sciencealert journals in their indexes. I stand by my recommendation that researchers avoid all Sciencealert journals. Good luck.

Comment on Appeals by Purnama Alamsyah

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Sonny

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Dear Jeffrey,

I just recently received the following email? This person claims to be interested in my research, but never specifies what he means by that. A very generalized letter, probably derived from a list of recent NSF awardees. Is it safe to say that if someone contacts you via email out of the blue for publishing, then they are predatory?

The journal is International Innovations from Research Media, and I did not see either of those names on your list.

Here is the email:

Dear Dr XXXXX

I was hoping to talk with you at some point over the next week. I came across your research and I wanted to speak with you about the possibility of highlighting the broader scope and impact of you work in our research publication, International Innovation.


Comment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by L_C

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On a side note- I was glancing over the original article, “Stratospheric Ozone in the perspectives of Exploratory Data Analysis for Atmospheric Region,” and must ask why there are 5 authors receiving credit for this paper? It is merely a section copied from Muhammad Ayub Khan Yousuf Zai’s (the lead author’s) 2003 thesis: “A Quantitative Study of effects of Ozone Layer Depletion on Marine Organisms with reference to coastal regions of Pakistan.” I read both versions, but absolutely no novel information was added. There were only new typos, such as how the figures in the paper don’t correspond to their references in the text. For example, Fig. 5 is referred to as the Q-Q plot, instead of Fig.3. Further, Fig. 5 even has the exact same spelling error from its previous use as figure 2.1 from the thesis (shown in the Appendix). The word ‘appears’ is written as ‘apperas’ in the figure’s description. Although four more authors were added to this article, only the original typos, as well as new errors, make an appearance, and that’s about it.

The Pakistan Research Repository had an ‘Internal Server Error’ when I last accessed it, so I navigated to the 2003 thesis via the Wayback machine:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080505144147/http://eprints.hec.gov.pk/1384/1/1086.html.htm

The paper is pulled from chapter 2 of the thesis and the figures can be found in the Appendix (chapter 7). If you try to open the PDF’s through the Wayback machine, they will not open. However, you can type in their actual address and they will open if you wish to see them. They can also be found here:
Chap. 2- http://prr.hec.gov.pk/Chapters/1086-2.pdf
Appendix- http://prr.hec.gov.pk/Chapters/1086-7.pdf

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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The spam email is not from a scholarly open-access publisher, so it’s out of scope for my work. It’s from a company that wants to contract with you to showcase your research in their magazine and website. It’s kind of like an advertising agency. They aren’t doing anything illegal (unless spamming is illegal in your jurisdiction). You probably do not need this service, and it’s expensive.

Comment on New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers by MC

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Hahaha! who was so angry by this comment that they needed to interrupt cricket practice and get all their friends to downvote it too? Hilarious

Comment on New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers by MC

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But the name suggests urgency and excellence, and there are no other journals where I can report my discoveries in the exciting field of alert science.

Comment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by D Web

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academic comedy gold

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