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Comment on Open-Access Medical Publisher Has Contradictory Journal by Kathy

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We recently had a manuscript accepted for publication in one of the Scholoxy journals. The payment for publishing was made via PayPal, and the manuscript was never published. I’ve tried about 10 times to contact the person I was dealing with to inquire about the status of the publication, with absolutely no response. Attempts to contact others within Scholoxy have been completely unsuccessful. SCAM is an understatement. The organization operates out of India. Who knows how many others have been cheated this way. There must be something the scientific community can do to shut them down.


Comment on Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin” by Joe Ellison

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Is it possible that this is another hijacking of a legitimate site, rather than an “evil twin” established by the publisher of record?

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by stephanie

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I asked him per email if he was on board. he replied he used to be on board but he gave up. This is an ambiguous answer so I don’t know.

Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Marco

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Bill, I have no idea what it is. As I pointed out, they have published loads of similar articles in a range of journals. One even in a journal that supposedly focuses on cancer biology.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Dr Deepak Batura

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Dear Mr Beall,
What is your opinion on “The Ulutas Medical Journal” and “Ulutas Genetic Research Journal”?
15 days to publication, impact factors and conference linkages. Sounds a familiar narrative…
http://www.ulutasmedicsljournal.com

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall

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This journal is included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I agree with you that this is a familiar narrative. Thanks.

Comment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by OffHours

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As a Russian speaker, I skimmed through one of the volumes available online, there are mostly articles of Russian authors and a few Ukrainian. (Some of the articles are of particular interest, e.g. “MULTI-LAYER BRAIN AND SIMPLIFIED THINKING – SOURCES OF DANGEROUS DEVELOPMENT OF MANKIND”, authored by a Professor from Moscow Agricultural Academy http://eesa-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/176-1851.pdf). I agree with those who have said that this journal caters for the former Soviet Union scientific crowd.

By the way, the Contacts section in Russian has a link to what they claim to be the journal’s registration record (in Polish) http://eesa-journal.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Journal_registration.pdf It apparently reads that “East European Science Association” was added to the register of journals on 10th of August, 2015, with Adam Barczuk as editor. Trying to search for an academic record of this gentleman, I only found his name on various legit Russian and Ukrainian university online resources, where Wschodnioeuropejskie Czasopismo Naukowe invites authors to submit their papers, claiming that the journal “is published in Poland, Russia, Austria, Germany, the Slovak Respublic, Ukraine and the USA. A number of published volumes are sent to national libraries of Poland, Germany, France, the UK and to the libraries of the biggest higher education institutions of the Unitated States of America.” (e.g., http://web.kpi.kharkov.ua/phd/?p=1739)

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Biny

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Dear Beall,

Thank you very much for letting me know about this.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Biny

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Dear Beall,

Please inform me the current status of Dove Medical Press that is sending me to join Peer Reviewer Database. I am in dilemma whether to accept the proposal or not.

Comment on Another Controversial Paper from Frontiers by Klaas van Dijk

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Virginia Barbour, the chair of COPE, states on her biography at http://publicationethics.org/about/council/virginia-barbour that she is a director of WAME (“As well as being Chair of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) she is a Director of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME).”).
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http://www.wame.org/about/wame-executive-board-and-committees lists Jose Florencio F. Lapeña Jr and Chris Zielinski as current (Jan 2016–Dec 2017) directors of WAME. Phaedra E. Cress, Fatema Jawad and Rajeev Kumar are listed as former directors of WAME. I have contacted Margaret Winker, the secretary of WAME, to get insight in this issue. Dr Winker told me: “Dr Barbour was formerly a WAME Director”.
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http://www.wame.org/about/wame-executive-board-and-committees lists Virginia Barbour as one of the members of the ‘Ethics and Policy Committee’ of WAME. Margaret Winker confirmed to me that this information is correct.
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This all implies that Virginia Barbour presents at the moment wrong/outdated information about her current position at WAME for anyone who is reading her biography at http://publicationethics.org/about/council/virginia-barbour
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I am hereby inviting Virginia Barbour to explain to the readers of this blog post why she is presenting wrong/outdated information at her biography at COPE about her current position at WAME and how this is in line with for example the goals of WAME at http://www.wame.org/about
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Comment on New Mega Open-Access Scholarly Journal Publisher by yahya

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hello
Whats IS Impact Factor of this journal ?

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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It’s out of scope for me. It is not an open-access publisher.
I do receive many inquiries about it. It’s clearly a bottom-tier publisher.

Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Jeffrey Beall

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I think it is a weak journal. Pretty much every issue is a “special issue,” and in this case there appears to be an article broker involved. One of the 2015 issues merely re-publishes papers already published in an IEEE conference proceedings. I recommend avoiding this journal, which is now included on my list.

Comment on Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin” by Raul G. Diaz

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Thanks for your great job in listing these rather dodgy sites for emerging scholars most whom have had bad experiences with these expanding business of predatory publishers. To be sincere, I will recommend your webpage for everyone.


Comment on Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin” by Taylor & Francis

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“A wise person once said, “Be wary of any publisher whose name is comprised of two English forenames.””

Nice one, but don’t you dare put us on your list bruv!

Sincerely,
Taylor and Francis

Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by David

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What a bad research you did Jef (same like your many other posts). The society’s website link is there on “About the Publisher”. Here is society link http://spts.jpn.com/. The journal is available on ISI Master List here http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Full=Journal%20of%20Physical%20Therapy%20Science, and PMC here http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/2193/.

Journal has an Impact Factor of 0.392 (2014). So overall the journal is an attractive publishing point for Physical Therapy Science researchers. I wonder that you blame a good journal and didn’t mention a bad journal who is actually using the original journal’s title to deceive researchers and can be found here https://sites.google.com/site/jphysther/editorial-board.

Conclusion: Truly, the research is the work of researchers. So now, you should stop this!

Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall

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I’ve analyzed this journal’s publisher before. It is AME Publishing Company. I think it’s a borderline medical publisher, and there’s not a strong case to be made for adding it to my list, so it’s not on the list.

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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A lot of things. There’s a whole series of standalone journals that all purport to be headquartered in a large house in Rowland Heights, California. In most cases, there are no editorial board members from the journals’ “home country,” the United States, and generally none of the authors are from the U.S. despite the journal nominally being based there. Many of these journals publish issues way in advance (like through October, 2016), because they are just a dumping ground for low quality conference papers. In most all aspects, these journals are fishy, non-transparent, and not a good venue for honest researchers to publish their work. Looking at the “headquarters” in Google maps, one sees a large mansion. Someone is making a lot of easy money.

Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall

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This is a journal that has no EiC or editorial board, and you think it’s an “attractive publishing point” ? That says a lot about you. The impact factor does not make it legitimate, but it does explain the high number of pay-to-publish articles that it has. How many articles have you published in this easy journal? The second journal you mention, while also low quality, does not copy the Japanese journal’s title, so you can’t even get that right.

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