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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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The <em>Asian Journal of Chemistry</em> is included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. The <em>Indonesian Journal of Chemistry</em> is not on my list.

Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by aveollila

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It was interesting to read your opinions about the “climate denier” as I have been called sometimes. I have had a five years nomination as dosentti ending in Janauray 2013. Dosentti is recommended to translate as “Adjunct Associate Professor” and according to the Finnish practice I can use wording Emeritus after my title. Some people have doubted that I am a Civil Engineer but I used to be a process and an automation engineer. Now you can say that I have no idea about climatology. Just one example. Kiehl and Trenberth have used US Standard Atmosphere 76 in calculating the portion of CO2 in the GH phenomenon. How it is possible that this choice went through the strict review process? And even now the result of this study 26 % is the most referred number. It is totally wrong because of the totally wrong atmosphere composition.
I have calculated the effects of GH gases using the spectral analysis, which is the only method to do it. I do not deny the warming effects of GH gases but there two simple reasons, why AGW theory is wrong in numbers. There is no positive water feedback, which anybody can see just by looking at the RH trends since 1948. It reduces the CO2 effect by 50 %. According to my studies, the equation of Myhre et al. (RF=5.35*ln(CO2/280)) is calculated in the fixed RH conditions as one researcher SHI specifies in his article and he has found the same results as Myhre et al. Based on these calculations, in the present warming of 0.85 C, the portion of CO2 is about 0.25 C.
I have one paper, where I have combined the competing theories (The Sun theory and the space dust (Astronomical Harmonic Climate Model)). The correlation between the observed temperature and these models is very high indeed and much better than the AGQ theory. Let us wait 5…10 years and we are much wiser.
I am ready to send my latest paper for review, if the paper of Soden et al. will go through the same process.

Comment on I’m Following a Fringe Science Paper on F1000Research by anaisnin

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Dear dr Beall, what is your recent opinion about the journal American International Journal of Contemporary Research ?
Thank you,
Best
Åsa Fyrberg

Comment on I’m Following a Fringe Science Paper on F1000Research by Jeffrey Beall

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It’s a very dangerous journal. It’s not from America — it’s really from Bangladesh. Please do not send them any papers.

Comment on I’m Following a Fringe Science Paper on F1000Research by anaisnin

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Thank you so much for this!
Best regards
Åsa Fyrberg

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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I added this publisher to my list recently and continue to be concerned. I would advise prospective authors to seriously consider finding a better venue for their work. Allied has expanded from business journals and is now publishing a bunch of medical journals despite the firm’s lack of experience in medical publishing. They are also soliciting other journals (using spam), offering to buy them. Something fishy is going on with Allied Academies.

Comment on Mysterious Turkish Thales Academic Publisher Promises “Fast” Publication in 20 Days by wkdawson

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“In the new system, publishing in Turkish journals and being cited six times in Turkish journals (there is way to determine these citations) are the new requirements.”

So if you are an intelligent post doc in Turkey, then be sure to slice your work into small pieces of sausage, send them to these journals and get all your pals and buddies to cite you.

Of course, the assumption (on the part of the bureaucrats who wrote the rules) is that an academic would value his or her intellectual integrity and that such work would be the sure product of genuine scholarly research. However, there is little doubt that gaming the system happens enough of the time that it is easy to become cynical.


Comment on Five Ways to Defeat Automated Plagiarism Detection by Brauulio Dantas

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Plagiarism is plagiarism, full stop. It is unethical. It is a crime in most countries and legal senses. Not having time, being under pressure are just poor excuses to do the wrong thing. Would you prefer buying your diploma or paying someone to write your paper since you do not have time? Academics is not like that… You will eventually get caught and loose your title and compromise your entire career and the one of your adviser, too.

Comment on Mysterious Turkish Thales Academic Publisher Promises “Fast” Publication in 20 Days by Vijay Raghavan

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Wow! They are coming up with new tricks all the time and stay one jump ahead of the rest of us. The predatory journals industry is hale and hearty. Once I thought they were operating surreptitiously, but we see that they are getting bolder. Time was when you could catch a disgraceful publisher or journal by the bad English used, but here too, they have become sophisticated.

Perhaps we can call them the terrorists of publishing.

Comment on Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science by John Mashey

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See comments by <a href="https://quantpalaeo.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/the-peer-review-of-ollila-2016/" rel="nofollow">Richard Telford</a>, including <a href="https://quantpalaeo.wordpress.com/2016/03/08/the-peer-review-of-ollila-2016/#comment-3463" rel="nofollow">this one</a>: "Peer review helps improve papers and gives them some credibility, and prevents the manifestly wrong papers from being published. ... The best you can hope for is that your paper is ignored, as you and the editors ignored the first reviewer. The paper is dreadful, it should never have been submitted, let alone published. ... (more)"

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by David King

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The implications of publishing in a predatory journal should be explored in terms of its effect on the career of the person publishing an article they have written, in such a journal. Listing such a publication in a job application to a college or university would indicate either extremely poor judgement, or willing participation in the scam. Either way, a ‘kiss of death’ for the aspiring academic.

Comment on The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research” by George

Comment on Mysterious Turkish Thales Academic Publisher Promises “Fast” Publication in 20 Days by L_C

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Hmm… Well, it could be Farsakoğlu, but I’m also suspicious of Dincer. First, he is the only Editor-in-Chief (JTSER) with a photo, a google scholar link, and a handy link to his personal website, http://www.furkandincer.com. He is also an editor of many SAPUB and IISTE journal crossover titles. Second, check out the landing page for http://www.thalespublisher.com. There are five text filled rectangles with a small bolt in each corner. One appears towards the upper right of the screen and reads “5 Years of JOURNALS.” The other four are found lined-up horizontally midway down the page. Next, peruse the landing page of furkandincer.com. In the upper right of the screen, you’ll notice a very familiar little rectangle reading “Homepage.” It’s also interesting that thalespublisher.com and furkandincer.com use the same security to mask their site registration. Finally, Dincer is typically listed as the main Icnase16 conference contact and is responsible for the creation of icnase16.com. Icnase16.com is registered to Furkan Dincer at Kilis 7 Aralik University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. The email address given is dincermuhendislik@gmail.com, which is the contact email he lists at the bottom of furkandincer.com:

http://educationalevent.com/show-event.php?id=6329

http://www.whoismind.com/whois/icnase16.com.html

It was also fascinating to learn about IISTE’s journal migration feature. It certainly was a somewhat clever idea to integrate the older IISTE journals with their Thales Publishing platform that is perhaps only a year old in order to gain that 5 year seal (I really did enjoy reading your post how Turkish academic promotions are determined). Hosting a journal through both your own site and a mixed outside platform is definitely different. If there was a way to be even less certain about to whom your $ and publications will be sent, this may be it. For instance, IISTE has a NY address, a NY P.O. Box, and a UK address (however questionable these may be). However, if you chose submit an article to their Advances in Life Science and Technology journal, your $ will be sent to a bank account in Hong Kong belonging to Eduvantage International Limited:

http://scicomm.scimagdev.org/data/journals/350/3/Publication_Package_Instruction.pdf

Regarding SAPUB, they have a CA address & their business is registered in CA (entity # C3378170) to a Chicago address: 6050 W Eastwood Ave #201 Chicago, IL 60630. This address has been used multiple times for several different businesses. I’m uncertain how these businesses are connected, however the vast majority appear to be Chinese in origin and are registered in the US through Albany, NY. At least one company at this address has been taken to court and SAPUB themselves are currently FTB (Franchise Tax Board) suspended, presumably for for failure to meet tax requirements. If you submit a paper to their…well currently it’s called Research in Cancer and Tumor, but the full name is given in other places as the International Journal of Cancer and Tumor and, on a payment slip of theirs, they mistakenly referred to it as the International Journal of Tumor Therapy (all of the links for each of these titles though took me to the same webpage). If you submit a paper to this journal, the $ will be transferred to a Liao Wei in Hong Kong (the exact same bank as for IISTE).

http://scicomm.scimagdev.org/data/journals/98/11/payment%20information103400011.pdf

Here is a short review of a paper that was sent to this journal. I’ll let this quote speak for itself: “This paper is not scientifically sound (see#6 above). The paper is acceptable for publication”

http://scicomm.scimagdev.org/data/journals/98/7/IJTT-103400011(review%20%20result).pdf

Comment on Mysterious Turkish Thales Academic Publisher Promises “Fast” Publication in 20 Days by J_C

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Thalespublisher.com has changed a few features in the past several hours. Certain journal links and graphics are mysteriously being removed (they may be returned later after edits?) Notably, the two SAPUB journals JAMES and JAMSS are currently removed along with JTSER. I suspect someone is a fan of Scholarlyoa. No worries though- there’s always an archived copy of the site’s landing page with the original journal list (although the graphics are a tad different since this is couple of months old):

https://web.archive.org/web/20160112190326/http://www.thalespublisher.com/


Comment on The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research” by herr doktor bimler

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Ha! the Liverpool Hope e-address has copied over from paper #4 in the ‘issue’.
Someone should warn Dr Tigar that she has been fooled into accepting a less-than-ideal vehicle for her work.

Comment on Appeals by kulinez

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Dr. Beal,

even if a journal has ISSN, it can be a fake journal?

Regards
Bima

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

Comment on Research by Sohaib

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Sir,
Can we assume that, all research/academic conferences organized by journals/publishers in your list should be avoided as well or you recommend that your list shall be followed for journal publications only?

Comment on Appeals by kulinez

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Dr. Beall, maybe you could add International Conference on Software and Information Engineering (ICSIE) to the list. I just call the venue for the event to ask about ICSIE and the venue receptionist answer that they don’t have any information about that conference.

Reagrds

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