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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Appeals by Halkan
Dear Jeffrey,
I had published two articles on the so called ISSR journals, which is now in your list. This journal was an online journal. However, recently, my journals cannot be found online and even the webpage of this ISSR-innovative space for scientific research get collapse /not functional. Thus, is there a possibility to claim for or submitting to another strong journal?
Regards,
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
So, yet another open-access publisher has disappeared.
If you submit it to another journal, you should inform the editor or managing editor of the paper’s history, that it was published, that the publisher went under, etc. Be completely transparent to protect yourself from being accused of duplicate submission, especially if, in the unlikely event, the publisher re-appears.
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Comment on “No Author Fee” Open-Access Journal Bills Author for His Accepted Paper by Joro Paveto
The problem with this publisher is that no one will read your paper (except the other participant in some conference- many issues of some of their journals are dedicated to conferences even if it is not always clear).
Otherwise they do not charge any fees and by the way recently my paper submission to one of their journals has been rejected. So there is a peer review, unfortunately the rejection was not well justified but anyway … I also reviewed two papers for indescience- the editor followed my advice. The quality is low but there is a peer review and the reason for the low quality is not predatory practices but the fact that they are unable to publish important papers.
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Comment on Appeals by Alick
Dear Mr. Jeffrey, Thank you for your quick reply. We would like to inform you that the “full text (PDF)” section will be removed from the website by web programmer soon. Website is running not completed yet. Only book reviews, interviews’s PDFs and “abstract, keywords” section will be available, also “high sited articles”… In any case thank you for your attention. Please let me know your thoughts.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
The full text is already removed. I think your journal is very unprofessional. The people who submitted their research papers to your “journal” clearly made a bad mistake, with the content not even available. I will keep the journal on my list as a warning to others to avoid it. Why submit you work to a journal that will accept the submission and then not publish it?
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Comment on Appeals by Alick
OK. Thank you for your attention. Hope any mistakes will be made soon and we hope you will remove the journal’s name from your list after making some corrections.
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Comment on A Totally Bogus Stand-Alone Open-Access Journal by iva
Ijera is faked or not
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Comment on A Totally Bogus Stand-Alone Open-Access Journal by Jeffrey Beall
The <em>International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications</em> (IJERA) is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
(Yes, it is fake).
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Comment on “No Author Fee” Open-Access Journal Bills Author for His Accepted Paper by Phillip Helbig
Looking at the bill, it explicitly says “web color”. Since there is no extra cost involved in this, charging for it seems like a trick, especially if there are no color figures in the paper!
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Comment on Appeals by Phillip Helbig
“Does this implies it is reputable journal?”
If you don’t even know whether it is a reputable journal, why are you even considering publishing in it? Don’t you read it? If not, why should anyone else in your field read it? If you do read it, then you should know whether it is reputable.
If people stopped publishing stuff in journals they don’t even know much about, most of the pay-to-publish market would dry up.
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Comment on Is this 17 Year-Old Korean Ph.D. Student a Plagiarist? by astropf
I’m a researcher in astronomy and was surprised about the fact that this paper was approved in ApJ. This paper is not just copied and pasted from the past work but also contains many easy mistakes in their main results (Section 4) as already suggested in this comment form.
I have never realized this ApJ paper until the AAS announcement of retraction, because authors did not submit this paper to arxiv.org where astronomers checked latest papers and articles. I can guarantee that almost no one does not know him and his work outside of Korea until (or maybe even after) the AAS announcement.
It looks really strange that this nationally advertised teenager did not appeal his work internationally in arxiv. I guess this is simply because it has a copy-detector that can effectively work on this kind of simple copied & pasted stuffs.
Currently, Korean media seems to focus on this prodigy and his ApJ paper, but this issue is more serious and of wider impacts at many levels.
The biggest impact for me is that he succeeded to steal PhD from UST and KASI, which are widely known as a leading institution for astronomy and astrophysics in Korea. He apparently got PhD from UST with this work that was his supervisor’s work in practice. I’m really wondering how this boy justified his contribution to this work and its scientific impact & uniqueness at his defense!
He proved and succeeded to advertise that students can get PhD without their “own” works in Korea. It would considerably damage credits of other conscientious astronomers and students at KASI and UST. If he were graduate student at a foreign university in US, Europe or Japan, he would have been expelled.
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Comment on Is this 17 Year-Old Korean Ph.D. Student a Plagiarist? by Jeffrey Beall
My understanding is that his Ph.D. is scheduled to be awarded in February, 2016. I also understand that he needs a publication in an SCI journal, a requirement for earning the degree. This now seems unlikely. So, we will see if he does actually get awarded the degree or not.
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Comment on The International Journal of Simulation Modelling: A Review by Damien Kuffler
Dear Jeffrey Beall, I greatly appreciate your efforts to expose journals that are predatory and unscrupulous. I am writing to comment about a journal called Regenerative Medicine published by a group called Future Medicine. I was initially invited to be an editor of the journal when it was initiated. rapidly it published some good quality papers and its impact factor started to rise. However, it turned out that this increase was determined to be because of excessive self referencing and it lost its formal impact factor rating. The journal description clearly states that it is both open access and one can select not to be open access and therefore not pay the open access fee, which is $1,800. Since the journal still has a good readership, I recently submitted a review to the journal. The paper was accepted for publication and I reiterated that that I did not want open access because I could not, and would not pay that amount of money for such a journal. Recently when one of the editors wrote to me in association with gallies requiring editing, I was told I was required to pay the $1,800 open access fee. I wrote back appropriately documenting the journals statements about the author selecting how they wanted papers to be published, with or without a fee. They were adamant about me paying the $1,800, which I have absolutely said no to. I am waiting to see what response I get. I think this is completely inappropriate because the journal places pressure on authors by claiming that the paper will be published as open access and attempts to place guild on the author to pressure them to accept paying the fee. Again thank you for the service you are providing all of us who want to assure that published papers are legitimate and we are not being had by predatory or otherwise unscrupulous journal editors. Damien Kuffler, Ph.D. Professor
Damien Kuffler, Ph.D. Professor Institute of Neurobiology Univ. of Puerto Rico 201 Blvd. del Valle San Juan, PR 00901 tel: 787-721-1235
e-mail: dkuffler@hotmail.com
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 16:02:31 +0000 To: dkuffler@hotmail.com
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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by philipmach
What really annoys me about this is that these people make it hard for those of us running legitimate journals and conferences to get noticed and build a following. I guess we need to carry on using dodges like programme committees and editorial boards of people with track records and turning down dodgy papers.
This thing will only really go away when universities and funding agencies around the world stop counting publications and only accept those that have weight as having significance.
I just received an invitation to be an “honourable speaker” at an OMICS bioinformatics conference. I wonder what it takes to be a dishonourable speaker?
The email included this gem: “This conference specifically premeditated with a unifying axiom providing pulpit to widen the imminent scientific creations and to enlighten bioinformatics technologies, clinical research and computational methods. It can also expend the holistic scientific approach by Showcasing the Trends & Challenges of Bioinformatics towards interdisciplinary fields.”
I wonder what language this was in before they dumped it into Google Translate.
I looked at their 2015 equivalent and it was held in Spain and attracted a few people from Europe, a lot from developing countries and almost no one from English-speaking countries. I wonder if these things work by attracting in those whose English is not good enough to spot the dodgy wording of the call for papers.
Aside from that a dead giveaway is no programme committee. Most real conferences rely on their programme committee to lend weight to the call for papers. Without that how do you know an unknown conference is really good?
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Comment on The International Journal of Simulation Modelling: A Review by Juan Camilo Oviedo Lopera
Good Afternoon:
What do you think about this web open access?: https://www.ijntr.org/
Thanks and I stay tuned to your answer.
Ph.D. Juan C. Oviedo Lopera, Mg. I de A. | Docente-Investigador| Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana |
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Comment on The International Journal of Simulation Modelling: A Review by Rocket Scientist, ScientificSpam DNSBL
Future Medicine is one of the Scientific Spammers that Adestra / MessageFocus refuses to ditch. SciSpam DNSBL recommends not dealing with spammers.
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Comment on The International Journal of Simulation Modelling: A Review by Klaas van Dijk
The list with Editorial Board Members of the International Journal of Simulation Modelling mentions ‘Dr. Victor F. Nicola, Twente, Netherlands’. Twente ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twente ) is not the name of a city or a village in The Netherlands.
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Twente University ( https://www.utwente.nl/en/contact/ ) is situated in a city called Enschede. The name of Dr. Nicola is not listed in http://webapps.utwente.nl/telefoongids/en/telgidsservlet
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The researchgate profile of Dr Nicola ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Victor_Nicola ) lists many papers. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/246700529 lists Dr Nicola as “Visiting professor from the University of Twente, Nederlands”. This paper is dated ‘May 26, 2004’. A conference paper of Dr Nicola (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221143276 ) refers to a symposium held in the US in May 1983.
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Comment on The International Journal of Simulation Modelling: A Review by Jeffrey Beall
I think it's a predatory publisher. It prominently displays an impact factor, but it is fake. I have this journal included on my <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">list</a>. Please do not submit any papers to this journal.
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Comment on Appeals by Halkan
Dear Phillip,
How do you know, whether reputable or not?y
On reading where can you find concerning reputability of journal?
I could see indexing, with a lot about ISSR.
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