Comments for Scholarly Open Access

The Scopus website has a coverage list that is freely available. None of these journals or their publishers is currently included on any of my lists. Good luck.

I just received a call for papers from the “International Research journal of Education and Innovation.” Everything I can see about it from their amazingly improbable wide range of coverage to their rhetoric suggests it should be on the list, but I don’t see it.

I agree. I have analyzed this journal and added it to my standalone journal list. Thanks for the tip.

…do you know what Jeffrey’s list of journals is for?

Dear Sir,

I have 5 publications with Recent Science Journal (Mathematical Sciences) but the baffling thing is that when I google my work it does not appear any where online (google scholar doesnt pick it). It is not open access and i can access it through a pin on their database.

1. My questions is it a credible Journal. I was charge 157dollars for each paper. It was once listed by Jeffrey Bell as a predatory Journal.

2.If it is a predatory Journal,can I republish the article elsewhere (more credible journal)

Elvis (Ghana)

Recent Science is a predatory publisher, and all researchers should not submit papers to any of its journals. It is possible the publisher has left instructions with Google so that Google does not crawl (or index) its content. Please see this Wikipedia article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">robots exclusion standard</a> for an explanation. In most cases, if your article is already published in a journal, you cannot publish it in another journal. Most journals require that each submission be a new, original, and previously unpublished work.

Open Journal Systems is a predatory publisher favorite.

For what it’s worth, OJS is also used by plenty of non-predatory publishers, across many different areas/fields, so in of itself, use of this software does not mean anything and should not be a cause for any concern. Hell, I’d rather see a new journal use OJS than try to build a custom website from scratch!

Good point, mkoulikov – OJS has been abused by predators but has also been a valuable platform for small but important specialist journals starting out in various fields I am aware of.

Actually, there is no mention of a publication fee. I think it is free!

Jeffery dusnt suggest journals..But if u have any journal in mind and ask him, he will say if that particular journal is safe to publish or not!!

That is really funny. I will follow the recommendations.

Please see the criteria <a href="https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria-2015.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a> [PDF].

Respected Sir
I am receiving lots of spam email from many so called International journal, i will be very help full if you can clarify about the authenticity of few like: International journal of Current Research/International journal of innovation science and research/ijiri/ijirr/ijramr/ijcrls

Please have a look at my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. If the journal is included on the list, I recommend that you NOT send any papers to it.

The IACUE page <a href="http://www.iacue.org/crp.html" rel="nofollow">"Committee on Recognition"</a> appears to be closely based on some <a href="http://www.chea.org/recognition/Recognition1998.asp" rel="nofollow">text from 1998</a> from another organization the CHEA.

Also: the ISI's "strange claims" are based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Scientific_Information" rel="nofollow">the Wikipedia page for the real ISI</a>, with the relevant names changed (the real ISI was founded in 1960 by Eugene Garfield. Arthur S. Parr appears to be invented.)

These guys are not fooling anyone. Sentences like this one, at the end of the “about us” section [1], make the scam obvious:

“ISI is co-operating with the ISII web of knowledge platform at the same phase.”

Any investigation about such sites is a waste of time.

[1] http://www.isi-database.org/au.php

I know a business model for this, you can charge a newly created journal for an annual membership fee to be included in “SCI” on their web site, then that new journal can claim itself as “SCI indexed” then charge authors for publication fee, and poor authors can apply research funding from whatever tax payers’ hard earned money to pay their publication fee, and get their degrees or promoted to chair professors. This is actually a quite profitable model.

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