Yurii, you are indeed right. According to Brian Martin, “The most obvious and provable plagiarism occurs when someone copies phrases or passages out of a published work without using quotation marks, without acknowledging the source, or both” (http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/94jie.html). Although citing the source gives some credit to the original author, quoting without quotation marks is still misleading.
Comment on Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies” by Guido
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Comment on International Prank Involving Predatory Publishers Makes Headlines in Indonesia by naser
Milad
The site, growingscience, you mention does not charge all authors and the fee is waived in most cases. One of my friends published his paper with them and the fee you mentioned was only for assigning a group to carefully edit their papers. The final version of the paper was different. They honestly helped authors improve their paper, significantly.
You could also check with plagirism checker tools and see that they do their best not to publish fake papers. I have seen some people whose papers rejected by them solely because they had published their paper previously elsewhere. They have published many highly cited papers. You could check this with google schoolar. Please advise your friends to ask for the terms and conditions when they submit a paper.
The site does not claim to be affiliated with other publishers anywhere in their websites. Many other journals use similar frameworks and put ISSN number, doi, email address in the footnote. This helps other people could track the papers. However, if you think this is misleading, simply tell them and they will be open to your constructive comments.
About African Journal you mentioned, one of my friends had actual experience where he attempted to republish his paper in African Journal of Business Management and they simply accepted and asked him to pay the fee. I think making such mistakes caused this journal lose ISI and Scopus index. In fact African Journal of Business Management was indexed by ISI in 2010 but it was delisted in 2011 ISI report. Scopus covered them in 2010 but they decided not to include shortly after they published many papers like that.
Finally, asking for Fee does not mean the journal publishes junk papers. Hynadwi publisher has an open text journal in chemistry with impact factor of around 4 and they ask 1300Euro for publication. Many people pay that fee to have the chance of their paper getting cited simply because the paper is open text.
Naser
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Comment on International Prank Involving Predatory Publishers Makes Headlines in Indonesia by naser
Hello
This fake site is a good target for investigation
http://wulfeniajournal.at/
This is a fake site from http://wulfeniajournal.com
using the identity of Archives Des Sciences
You could easily check both fake and actual and see the difference between the quality of the published papers.
Good Luck
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Comment on “Research Publisher”: Another Vanity Press by Clinical Case Study Journals
Scholarly Open Access journals are very helpful for all the readers and publishers from where they can share and access the information very easily through proper channel.
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Jay
I am puzzled by emails inviting for contribution of articles in several new “Open Access Journals”. For instance, can anyone verify the authenticity of “OMICS Publishing Group” which lists an apartment address:
5716 Corsa Ave, Suite 110, Westlake, Los Angeles CA 91362-7354; Phone: 650-268-9744.
Although I have read many articles on predatory journals, practically, I am not quite sure about how to avoid submitting articles to these journals as well as how to avoid getting associated with these journals. Any suggestion would be welcome.
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Jeffrey Beall
I believe that OMICS uses mail-forwarding services in developed countries to fool people into thinking they are really based there. OMICS is really based in India.
Is there a science librarian at your university? He or she may be able to offer advice on which are the best journals and which to avoid.
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Shawn
Look at the authors. You can tell where a journal is based by looking at where most of the authors are based
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Ogwo
It is a pity that all this fraud is being perpetrated in publishing,compounding problems for the genuine publishers. I would be delighted to have confirmation on the status of the Japan based Publisher of ‘Asian Journal of Management and Education’ and ‘Asian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities’
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Shawn
Yep, and also “Maryland Institute of Research”… It is actually based in India. Lists the Annapolis address on their website, but it is the Annapolis Copy & Print.
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Jeffrey Beall
I had a look at this brand-new publisher’s website (Leena & Luna International, Japan) and it is too early to make a judgment. I will monitor them and see how they progress. They list three journals, yet none has any content yet.
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Comment on Growing Science — The Pride of Ontario? by Jean-Daniel Bourgault
Any plausible reasons why Canada would be such a hotbed for predatory publishers?
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Comment on A M Publishers Arrives at the Scholarly Open-Access Boomtown by R.A.D.Piyadasa
Thanks to God Am publishers have not published nonsense papers according to Prof. Beal as well.. I thank him very much in this regard.All results of me on The most famous theorem , Fermat’s last theorem,were published in CMNSEM of Am publishers. However, still website of Am publishers ,makes problems to the honest researchers who have published papers .in the journals of Am publishers.
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Comment on A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company by Robin Hood of Plant Science
How can a journal with only 3 issues, many of which are full of errors, have an IF of > 0.4? Any why would Elsevier’s Scopus want to list such a journal: SM mentality?
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Comment on The Maryland Institute of Research, From Bangladesh by Shirley
Getting information from this well written blog, I visited the address of this office(?) in Toronto few days ago. I found a library on the first floor and two rooms in the second floor; one looked like a meeting/ discussion room and another room leveled as “only for research work” where one guy was doing some writing in a very quite environment. I couldn’t find any responsible person to know about the organization. But one reader in the first floor told me that the office was going to shift to new address soon for larger space. I don’t know whether they are capable of publishing journal.
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Comment on Two Publishers Each Have a Journal With the Same Title by Dr. Asim Cheema
Its such a shame.
Harvard and many other well known universities have announced that there is a need to publish papers into OA publishers since many other publishers like Springer, Elsevier and others are very expensive and have started many fake journals. Thus jeopardizing the standard and quality of research. It is also mentioned on the website that these giant publishers (springer/elsevier etc) charge money to publish the paper and then again charge money in order to allow researchers to access the published content.
Thus increasing publishing cost with no/less qualitative research. Even IEEE conferences are of no quality and it seems that every tom dick and harry is arranging conferences with IEEE tags.
I do publish my research in many OA and other subscription based journals. I think that putting such remarks on the website without proper evidance may be a monopoly against OA publishers.
Its like, everyone can launch a website and start a cold-war to demotivate any publisher.
Perhaps the point raised by Bealls’ list should have shown some facts on the basis to show proof of what it claim.
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Comment on Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies” by Dr V Anantharaman
The following link from Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) flowchart on suspected plagiarism in a published article tells us the same, but not about retraction or resigning from post of editorial board member for a minor ?plagiarism (verbatim copying without referencing which is not even the case here):
http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/02B_Plagiarism_Published.pdf
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Comment on Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies” by Dr C B Srinivasan
An example of self-plagiarism by an Author from a developed country, not even citing his previous three works. The verbatim copied text is highlighted in all three papers in BIG medical journals. I request Jeffrey to look into the link below and take prompt action:
https://www.box.com/s/klhxecvkrmzz2gydxg4e
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Comment on Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies” by Vaishali Sisodia
I agree with Dr V Anantharaman on COPE and I sincerely feel that reaction to any article should be in a scientific manner provided in an ethically dignified way. Otherwise it gives an impression that only some particular author(s) from a region or population are being targeted, especially when a country’s name is mentioned. It’s better to avoid such unprofessional acts in future. J Beall should apologize for his error and he should close this post instead.
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Comment on Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies” by Jeffrey Beall
No. If you think I am going to download a 17.5 MB zipped file to my computer, then you are mistaken. Post the documents to the Internet as a webpage like I did.
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Comment on Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies” by Jeffrey Beall
The only unprofessional act here was the act of plagiarism. The reaction was scientific: I documented the case of plagiarism using pictorial evidence. It is undeniable. What’s unprofessional is the attempt to cover it up and to frame it in a nationalistic way. The person who committed the plagiarism needs to be held accountable as an individual.
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