You missed the point.
Having a page charge is normal.
Where is the editor-in-chief? Where is the editorial board? Why are they publishing 50-100 short, low-quality papers each month? Who is deciding which papers to accept, which to reject?
Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Keith Fraser
“And keep in mind, most scientific advances are made by going against ‘the consensus’.”
Proponents of pseudoscience love to say things like this, along with buzzwords like “disruptive” and “outside the box”. I direct you to this quote by Carl Sagan:
“But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by L_C
The Finnish term, ‘dosentti’, is the English equivalent of ‘docent’ (as noted in the document you provided) which, in several parts of Europe, generally breaks down into:
Full Prof. > Docent > Assistant Prof.
On Ollia’s LinkedIn page, he describes himself as an Adjunct Associate Professor (emer.), so he supposedly falls into this spectrum. This probably means that, even in lieu of an official position or salary, he could still be entitled, as a dosentti, to lead a research team (PI), lecture, and supervise student projects.
While I’m not certain what the Emeritus system looks like in Finland, it’s possible for a dosentti’s position to be time-limited, hence it’s also associated with the English title of adjunct professor.
Overall, what I’m particularly curious about is whether it’s common practice to be both a dosentti and an Emeritus at the same University given that a dosentti, as a type of adjunct, would not hold the same association with the school as an Emeritus. Perhaps this is par the course in Finland, but it seems odd IMO.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
It's published by "Modern Research Publishers," a publisher included on my list. I recommend that you <strong>not</strong> submit any papers to this journal.
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Ken Lanfear
To me, the most pernicious effect of predatory publishing is to allow pseudo-science to cloak itself in the veneer of respectability. Reporters, politicians, and the public too often can’t tell the real journals from the fake ones. Those who deliberately choose a journal knowing their weak science will not suffer peer review are the worst kind of charlatans.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by K Tada
As J_C says in his comment below, they have a homepage in Japanese showing present HQ members of the society.
http://spts.jpn.com/katsudo/katudou.html
They have 編集委員会(Editorial Committee) and
大重 匡 Prof. Tadasu Ohshige of Univ. Kagoshima seems to be currently served as the chief of the committee. So, he is playing a role og EiC.
His HP is :
http://ris.kuas.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/html/100004836_ja.html
Other committee members mentioned there are aslo active professors, also they do not have informative English HPs.
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赤坂清和 Prof. Kiyokazu Akasaka of Saitama Medeical Univ.
http://www.saitama-med.ac.jp/hoken/study/study_physical/study_p1.html
安藤正志 Prof. Masashi Ando of Hosei Univ.
http://kenkyu-web.i.hosei.ac.jp/Profiles/23/0002268/profile.html
黒澤和生 Prof. Kazuo Kurosawa of iuhw
http://www.iuhw.ac.jp/daigakuin/faculty/health_welfare/rigaku/staff/kurosawa_kazuo.html
藤田博暁 Prof. Hiroaki Fujita of Saitama Medeical Univ.
http://www.saitama-med.ac.jp/hoken/study/study_physical/study_p16.html
However, Since my speciality is so far from Physical Therapy Science, I cannot judge the academic quality of the journal.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
All their papers are published in English, and this information is not available on their main English website or in English anywhere. This is negligent.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by K Tada
I completely agree with you.
I have sent an e-mail alerting this issue to J-Stage.
I also noticed that PMC recently started to share the articles of the journal recently.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/journals/2193/
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Heather Jacobsen
Here’s one that looks suspect to me. They approached me to submit, and I am not even an academic writer! I searched your list for it, but it didn’t come up…
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by John Mashey
MC: let me help this get more precise, as this is a weird pattern not seen in most disciplines and it can seem like fantasyland.
1) Many credible journals publish real peer-reviewed climate science, ranging from the big general ones like Science and Nature, through general geosciences journals like Geophysical Research Letters through climate-specifics like Climaic Change
2) Some papers are written by people who strongly reject the consensus on human impact on climate change, often to the point of rejecting basics of physics like Greenhouse Effect or conservation of energy. However, they almost never actually tr
Most stick to blogs, letters to editors, etc, but some can write papers, although it’s almost mpossible to get them through real peer review, and they almost never bother to attend relevant conferences, like AGU.
What can they do to get their papers published?
a) Slip them through weak editorial processes, especially with a friendly editor. The most famous climate case is Pals – Chris de Freitas & co at Climate Research. That got fixed.
b) Publish them in a journal friendly to anything that rejects mainstream science. The best-known here is UK’s Energy and Environment and Ollila wrote a paper for that, but it’s not open access, so not on Jeff’s list. The challenge here is that it is so well-known as the last resort, so few take it seriously.
c) Publish in one of these predatory journals, which are not so well-known … and can be trumpeted as peer-reviewed wtih a good-sounding name.
d) Sometimes, they go further and just invent their own jounal, for which Pattern Recognition in Physics is a classic.
3) It is not just that emeritus professors do the above, but all too often, people from outside the field decide they can do a lot of math and disprove mainstream science.
Most younger professors are building publication records in their own fields … but a tiny fraction of emeritus (or long-tenurd older profs) profs decide it is their mission to disprove human effects on climate change. For example on this 308-person petition that Ollila signed, at least 148 are retired/emeritus.
For instance, another signer, cited by Ollila is:
“HARDE, Hermann, Professor of Physics (emeritus) at Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany, specialized in laser physics, spectroscopy and gas sensors, former Vice President of the University”
He published
H. Harde, “Advanced two-layer climate model for the assessment of global warming by CO2,” Open Journal of Atmospheric and Climate Change, vol. 1, 2014, pp. 1-50.
That’s
http://www.scipublish.com/journals/ACC/
Scientific Online is on Jeffrey’s Publisher list.
Mocked by knowledgeable guy (“Eli Rabett”, I see him at AGU meetings), alhought I give Harde credit for submitting to EGU.
http://rabett.blogspot.com/2011/03/toy-model.html
http://rabett.blogspot.com/search?q=harde
Ollila also references:another signer:
KAUPPINEN, Jyrki, PhD in Physics, University of Oulu, Finland, Professor of Physics (emeritus), University of Turku, Finland, research activities : IRspectroscopy, interferometry, gas ensors, and climate change (FINLAND).
J. Kauppinen, J. T. Heinonenand P. J. Malmi,”Influence of clouds on the global mean temperature,” International Review of Physics, vol. 5 2011, pp. 260-270.
Well:
http://www.praiseworthyprize.org/jsm/?journal=irephy
http://www.praiseworthyprize.com/
Here are the journals:
http://www.praiseworthyprize.org/jsm/
I think Jeffrey removed this from the list, but in general, a physics journal that covers a vast range of topics (but hardly eer climate, from a quick scan) is *not* a credible venue.
SO, just offhand, in a few minutes, there were 3 emeritus profs publishing in dubious journals. (Some used E&E as well.)
*Most* retired profs either keep doing good work in their field (like Bill Ruddiman) or move to another field, learn it and contribute (Burt Richter).
But some…
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Greg
Please, have a look: TANG [HUMANITAS MEDICINE] http://www.e-tang.org
[Very wide scope, did not find info about fees, alternative medicine.]
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by GDWilliams
You say “most scientific advances are made by going against ‘the consensus”
Hardly! 99.9% of scientific advances are made by scientists who build on the science of previous scientists, all of whom work(ed) within a set of guidelines known as “the scientific mehod” – otherwise known as “doing good science.”. Only on the rarest of occasions does a scientist make a significant leap forward using nothing but his own intellect to gain insight into the true nature of the universe.
However, this notion of going *against* science (which is what you are doing when you advocate going against the consensus *as a working policy or procedural method*) is very popular with young-earth creationists, anti-evolutionists, and 911 “Toofers”. . Which one, pray tell, are you?
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
Correct. Please see my explanation <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/2015/11/19/be-careful-using-ncbi-databases-as-journal-whitelists/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
It’s not removed. There are two lists.
The removal of MDPI was announced in a Tweet and with an update in a blog post.
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Sam
Is this one okay? World wide Journal of Multidisciplinary Research and Development. I can’t find it in the stand-alone list. Thanks.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by K Tada
1. Having page charge is normal (as you noted). 2. They have an editorial committee consisting of academic professionals. (Of course, they should have English page about this information.) 3. Publishing 50-75 articles a month at ¥ 20,000 per page does not seem to such predatorial compared with the journal mdpi’s Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health which published 150 articles in last January with 1600CHF per article, for example. So, I think the journal should be removed from your list.
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Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
When “factory” journals such as this one are exposed, it is not uncommon for them to lose their impact factors. It is very obvious that this journal is just a factory where people pay a high price to get a short article published in an impact factor journal. I think it’s just a matter of time before others, including indexing agencies, realize what’s really going on with this journal and remove it from the indexes. Therefore, I want to alert potential authors (the honest ones) to the risks they are incurring when submitting papers to this journal.
I agree that MDPI is just another factory publisher, but I was obliged to remove it because the appeals board recommended it.
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by John Mashey
GDWIlliams:
Don’t waste your time.
https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/3974340
https://twitter.com/pinroot
He retweets Steve Milloy … ie. happy to support somebody who got paid by tobacco companies to help them stay in business, which they do only by addicting them during adolescent brain development. Shame half the regular users will die eventually.
In my experience, while it is theoretically possible to recover from severe Dunning-Kruger affliction,it I have never seen it happen. Sadly, I have never seen it be anything but a waste of time to try to engage, so straight to mental KILLFILE (I pine for the USENET days).
Google: site:https://scholarlyoa.com pinroot
gets only this hit. So, perhaps pinroot read this regularly, but perhaps saw it mentioned elsewhere or uses a Google Alert to pop into any blog that mentions global warming ,for example.
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Jeffrey Beall
Borderline. Not a candidate for my list at this time.
Thanks.
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Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by Jeffrey Beall
In my opinion, no. It is not okay. It is now on the list (the very last entry). I recommend you find a stronger journal than this one.
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