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Hi Jeffrey,

Here’s another candidate for your list: http://www.mathewsopenaccess.com/journals.html

The address is a PO Box in New Jersey, but who knows where they’re actually based. They sent a spammy looking email asking me to submit an article to their HIV/AIDS journal, with a “discounted” APC of $201.

Thanks for putting some of these scammers out of business. Keep up the good work!

What’s d criteria for the list?? What is dis word predatory means? Why only open access publishers comes under ur list??

Astonishing numbers! These predators corrupt the whole idea of scientific credibility. How is an ordinary person supposed to tell the real scientists from the phonies? Thank you, Jeff, for all your work in highlighting this problem!

The criteria are <a href="https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria-2015.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. A definition of predatory is <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/predatory" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. With a few exceptions, I choose to limit the lists to OA journals and publishers.

Thanks — I had not heard of this publisher before. Your observations were helpful. I have analyzed the publisher and added it to my list. It clearly meets the criteria.

Thank you for this wonderful service. Your lists are an invaluable resource. I’m using them in the process of reviewing applications for Fulbright post-doc scholarships to USA. It will not surprise you to learn that applicants’ achievements are a lot less impressive when checked against your lists.

If you copy-paste impact factor for God’s sake as you admit.. then what other things do you copy-paste?

Happy New Year Prof Beall;
1. Please help assess me this “Journal of Clinical Studies & Medical Case Reports” . They don’t even seem to have a website.
2. Why do most of these predatory journals have their addresses in the US? I thought that since they are doing unethical business out of the law, they will easily be tracked by the powerful American justice system. I might be naive!!! Sorry for taking you from a different angle.
Andy

Dear Dr Bealls,

What is your opinion about Dove Medical Press? Thank you.

Thamron

Dear Dr Beall, I appreciate your professional services. I would suggest other professionals and institutions very much concerned for blooming predatory should contribute to alleviate the problems.

Dear Prof. Bealls,

I would like to know the problem of the Journal “Thammasat Internanation Journal of Science and Technology “. Why are they in your list?

Jackman

I cannot evaluate an open-access journal that does not have a website.
Many people in countries outside the U.S. get more credit for publishing in “international” journals. So, frequently, predatory publishers use business incorporation centers or virtual office companies to make it appear they are based in — or have offices in — the U.S. or another Western country. This strategy may help increase the number of article submissions they receive. So, it’s all about money.

It’s a highly profitable, borderline, open-access publisher. If you submit a paper to them, it’s more likely than not, in my view, that the paper will be quickly accepted and published, but the pay-to-publish fee may be high.

Hurmmm, do you mean borderline predatory? Actually, i have submitted my manuscript there, now still in review though. This is distressing. By the way tqvm for the quick reply Dr Beall.

600 € for a peer review and a pdf file? Fair price, no body get paid for peer reviewing, a pdf can be created in 20 minutes, so 600 € for 20 minutes work? I am afraid this a money making machine. When Springer took over BMC, it seems it went from non-profit too high profit organization, designed to make money.

Please have a look at <a href="http://retractionwatch.com/2015/02/09/refreshing-honesty-journal-asks-authors-help-game-impact-factor/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this blog post</a> in <em>Retraction Watch</em>.

It is <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">there </a>now! Thank you for bringing it to my attention. It is an amateurish and unprofessional publisher. The publisher's name — Science Publications — matches the name of another publisher already on the list.

Given the relatively few ‘Beall’s List’ journals in Web of Science, the OMICS listing seems very odd.

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