The first one is from Common Ground Publishing. It’s not a predatory publisher, but many find it borderline or fishy.
Regarding the second one, Somebody’s making a lot of easy money by renting a conference hall at Harvard University and then using the Harvard name to make it appear the conference is sponsored by the university. I recommend not wasting your money on this. Cambridge is extremely expensive (hotels, food). Find an authentic and specialized conference that matches your field. This has the characteristics of a “scamference.”
Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Real Location of JSciMed Central Revealed by VvM
http://www.domainbigdata.com/jacobspublishers.us
This is one of the email ids domain used by jacobs publications. It says that it has been registered on Jacobs Nixon name.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Marco
Hmmm…if Jeffrey Beall wanted to defame Open Access journals, he would have had something to say about the Journal of Physical Therapy, considering it also is an Open Access journal.
You also have an interesting view of what constitutes “evidence that their board and EiC exist”: a paper where a retraction is mentioned in rather generic language, and where only the title “Editor-in-Chief” is used. You may find that most other journals explicitly mention the name of the EiC who initiated the retraction. Others may note that there is no mention whatsoever of a “board” in that retraction notice.
Maybe there indeed is an EiC and an Editorial Board, but the evidence you have provided so far is seriously lacking in substance.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Francisco
Thank you very much for the clarification.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jake Lee
Academics World is already in your list of possibly predatory publishers, but I’m hoping you can also do an article about the long list of conferences they will be hosting (and have hosted) this year – across the globe, at that. Some of these conferences will be (and have been) held in my country (the Philippines) and I’m afraid that many Filipino researchers who are not aware of the existence of these predatory conferences have fallen prey.
Here’s the link to Academics World’s website:
http://academicsworld.org/
A number of other (possibly predatory) conferences are listed in this link:
https://www.allconferencealert.com/country_event.php?country=Philippines
You will see that just for the month of May, Academics World will be holding eight different conferences in two consecutive days, all in the same venue. The list in the link above also includes conferences by other organizations such as IIER and IASTEM. These organizations are in fact, just different names for Academics World – they all consist of completely identical Technical Committees.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Kumar
Dear Bell,
You’re 100% correct, even Business Perspectives required fee and its so huge. Wondering why people still sending paper to fee required journal :(
Regards,
NK
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Comment on Philippines Journal Charges Two Excessive Fees, Exaggerates IF by DS See
Interestingly, I received complains about this journal back in late Oct 2015 from a faculty member from University of Philippines. I forwarded it to the Thomson Reuters editorial team and got a confirmation that they have already known about the behavior of Asia Life Science and have every intention to remove them from coverage from the Web of Science Core Collection.
While we cannot ensure that journals always remain up to standard, we can react very quickly should concerns like this surfaces. This is only one of the examples of de-selection and the good work of the Thomson Reuters editorial team.
Diu Seng SEE, PhD
Solution Consultant
Thomson Reuters
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Keith Fraser
Hi Jeffrey,
I got an email advertising this journal: http://www.trpubonline.com/about_this_journal.php?jmain=14&jcat=71&journal=ijnent
Its publisher (Thomson and Ryberg) isn’t currently on your list. Do you know anything about them? (I have no intention of publishing anything with them as they have every appearance of being much the same as many publishers on your list.)
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
Keith, No, I've not heard of this publisher before. It appears to be brand new. For example, I am not seeing ISSNs on the journals. It's a fleet launch of over one hundred titles. I will give it a close look. Would it be possible for you to forward the spam you received? <a href="mailto:jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu" rel="nofollow">jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu</a> Thanks.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
This journal has some serious problems, and I’ve added it to my list. It shows evidence of possible article brokering (a “special issue” with a bunch of articles all from one country). It also has a submission fee and a page fee, but it doesn’t state the page fees (having a submission fee is not part of the predatory criteria, but not stating the amount of author fees is a serious deficiency). Thanks.
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by DWeb
high five!
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Comment on OA Publisher Recent Science Launches with 38 Journals by Blanca Vera
How can we sue this people? I published my work in their “international journal of indigenous medicinal plants” and I would like to publish it in other journal. A real one.
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by Andy
Hi Prof Beall; I admit it is becoming quite complicated here. If I manage a journal how do i ensure that for each issue published with averagely 10articles a phrase, sentence or paragraph hasn’t been copied from somewhere???
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by David Stern (@sterndavidi)
There’s software for that.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
I agree with you.
I had not heard of this journal before. It doesn’t look very “American” to me. I’ve analyzed it and added to my list.
Thanks for letting me know about it.
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by Md. Shajedur Rahman Shawon
Reblogged this on <a href="https://epiinside.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/another-article-about-plagiarism-that-contains-plagiarism/" rel="nofollow">Epidemiology Inside</a> and commented:
These predatory journals mainly prey on young researchers from developing countries. Everyone should be careful about these journals and their publishers.
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Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by Jess
Agree – getting heaps from them. Unsure if they are legit or just another SPAM. Would be interested to hear from people who have been to a GTCBio conference
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by herr doktor bimler
Speaking of plagiarism, one predatory journal rips off junk science from another predatory journal:
http://retractionwatch.com/2016/02/16/seralini-paper-on-pesticide-dangers-plagiarized-four-years-later
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by Bravante
Well, it is job and that means work.
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Comment on Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism by lenandlar
Random question – are there non open access journals that fit the predatory label?
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