“International Journal of Computer Vision” is one of the top journals in computer science. “International Journal of Obesity” is a very good outlet. These are just examples, of course. It is best to judge a journal by its reputation, not by name.

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Comment on Researchers in Southeast Asia Are Bombarded with Conference Spam by liorsham

March 18, 2016, 6:14 pm

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What caught my attention is the use of the titles starting with “Lectures Notes”. That sounds very much like the Springer conference series which has become a standard for many conference proceedings in computer science. If they publish their conference proceedings in titles starting with the words “Lecture Notes” it might seems deceiving.

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Derec Avery

March 18, 2016, 7:14 pm

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Please remove the following link from your list of predatory journals.

It leads to a page that simply says, “Hacked By Reza-Atoom” and “You’re security is low” with some really loud, obnoxious music.

I have broken the link so that nobody else will go there accidentally.

http://www. experimentjournal. com/

Again, please remove this from your list as it only leads to a hacked website at present.

Thanks.

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March 19, 2016, 2:09 am

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I am willing to warn you about the two bogus websites
1. Academic Research Publishing Group (http://www.arpgweb.com)
2. Centre of Excellence for Scientific & Research Journalism (http://centreofexcellence.net)
The Academic Research Publishing Group is running publishing company by using the names of bogus Dr. Name for editorial board and advisory board. If you have published articles previously with this publisher, now you should check this website. You will found the names of contact persons are not present that have used with your article publication negotiation.
Centre of Excellence for Scientific & Research Journalism is organizing conferences and the issue is that the resource person for workshop: Nasir Ali Shamsi. He is showing affiliation as a Member, Elsevier Advisory Panel. If you confirm from Elsevier publication they are not aware from him. He is not a Doctorate degree but he will give a talk, how to publish paper in Impact Factor publication. Even he is not a single Academic publication.
URL: http://centreofexcellence.net/

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Comment on Researchers in Southeast Asia Are Bombarded with Conference Spam by Jeffrey Beall

March 19, 2016, 4:37 am

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Thanks, I have both of these bogus publishers included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

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March 19, 2016, 5:17 am

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I was thankful for the previous comment by you sir,
Please help me in the following.
1. International Journal of Computational
Intelligence technique http://www.bioinfopublication.org/journal.php?opt=azjou&jouid=BPJ0000221
2. AISC series of Springer

Thank You

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Santhoshkumar

March 19, 2016, 5:36 am

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. International Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences ….is this worthy to publish?

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

March 19, 2016, 7:44 am

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No. This journal is included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and I recommend you not send any papers to it.

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March 19, 2016, 7:48 am

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1. I recommend that researchers avoid all Bioinfo journals and publications.
2. The Springer series, Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, is good.

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March 19, 2016, 7:56 am

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Ah, interesting. Rather out of my field but interesting. Formally it is not “Global” journal it is “Global change” journal, that is to say if you omit word “Global” the name become meaningless. Most of other ‘global’ journals just try sound important

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March 20, 2016, 1:06 am

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These are some of the main IA Publishing affiliated sites: IACT (iact.org), IACSIT (iacsit.org), SCIEI (sciei.org), SAISE (saise.org), ASR (asr.org), IAP (iap.org), The Singapore Institute of Electronics (dissolved?), and CBEES (cbees.org).

I took a closer look at the ICMAE conference hosted by SCIEI. The ICMAE site lists two contacts. They follow the English/Chinese name pattern (e.g., Celine Xi), as do all of the other affiliated conferences. The secretaries/contact names they provide for these conferences are always those of women. They are always listed as Ms. ____. Apparently, there are no men or PhD contacts/secretaries at any of these academic conferences. Members/fellows of SCIEI, IACT, ASR, etc., along with sponsors, can organise and chair/ serve as keynote speakers for new or existing conferences. For instance, ICMAE is organised by Embry Riddle and the site is registered to Ian McAndrew, an SCIEI keynote speaker from Embry Riddle, with an email that could easily belong to Ken Witcher (ken.witcher@yahoo.co.uk), another keynote speaker from Embry Riddle. However, the address and phone # given still belong to SCIEI. It can be difficult to ascertain if there are any specific people at SCIEI who plan the other conferences as generic registrar names are usually given, along with an sciei.org email.

http://icmae.org.2compete.org

SCIEI is actually a registered business in CA (entity # C3676444). Their registered address is that of ASR and IA Pub, which is 3308 N Mayfield Ave, San Bernardino CA. It was registered on May 15th, 2014 to Jianhong Zhou. IA Pub was also registered on the 15th at that address (entity # C3676443).

Zhou filed a fictitious name report in LA county and, as per state law, ran an explanatory ad once a week for four consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation. Zhou chose one of the suggested papers, the British Weekly, and ran this ad (very meticulous about following the process):

“The following person(s) is/are doing business as: IACT, International Academy of Computer Technology, American Society For Research, ASR, 18974 Radby St., Rowland Heights CA 91748. IA Publishing, 18974 Radby St., Rowland Heights CA 91748. This business is conducted by: a corporation. The Registrant(s) commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed herein on: n/a. Signed: Jianhong Zhou, CEO. Registrant(s) declared that all information in the statement is true and correct. This statement is filed with the County Clerk of Los Angeles County on: June 24, 2014. NOTICE – This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed on, in the office of the County Clerk. A new Fictitious Business Name Statement must be filed prior to that date. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state or common law (see Section 14411, et seq., B&P Code.) Published: 07/12/14, 07/19/14, 07/26/14 and 08/02/14.”

http://www.british-weekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/lrbw072614.pdf

As such, I find their nonprofit claim dubious at best given that the LA county website claims: “non-profit corporations, organizations or associations are not required to file a Fictitious Business Name Statement.” Plus, if they registered as a nonprofit in the US, I can not locate them. I searched several databases, including ProPublica’s nonprofit explorer.

So, yes, the name is officially registered as fictitious, but I will point out that there is a Jianhong Zhou of Sichuan University named as registrar of several conference sites, notably icmv.org, and is listed as a publication chair. The email given is zjh@e.ntu.edu.sg. Apparently, @e.ntu.edu.sg is the office 365 email given to students and alumni of Nanyang Technological University. The other ICMV registry data differs in that it does not explicitly mention SCIEI or a similar organisation. However, the conference contact is the SCIEI secretary (noted above) from the ICMAE conference, which is Ms. Celine XI. Also, Jianhong Zhou has chaired many of the other past conferences (primarily as a publication chair- ICMEE, IACSIT, ICMCE, ICSTE, etc), several of which note her previous affiliation with Nantang tech.

http://userexp.net/icmv.org.html

Another point of note is that a Yi Xie is the registrar of IA Pub and many of the other conference sites that haven’t yet used generic place fillers. Yi Xie is listed as a publication chair for multiple past conferences and is frequently listed as the director of the IACSIT Chengdu Section and the Singapore Sichuan Computer Federation. He previously served on several of the journal editorial committees (as a member and an EIC), but it’s difficult to find a visible trace of him now:

http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=5082653352&page_url=//www.ijtef.org/editor.htm&page_last_updated=2010-11-30T17:13:03&firstName=Yi&lastName=Xie

http://www.zoominfo.com/CachedPage/?archive_id=0&page_id=6048485316&page_url=//www.icsgs.org/Com.htm&page_last_updated=2012-08-29T11:51:49&firstName=Yi&lastName=Xie

The email used to register IA Pub was cbees@sie-edu.sg. The sie-edu.sg address gives the deceptive suggestion of having an academic affiliation. This site actually belonged to the Singapore Institute of Electronics LTD, which was a registered business in the UK from early 2009 until late 2010. The company director was Yi Xie. This site is no longer in use, but is well archived and was hosting the same journals and conferences that IACSIT and others have inherited.

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06818907

https://web.archive.org/web/20100923103555/http://www.sie-edu.sg/conference.htm

Further, I’ve been attempting to follow the fees for these conferences. They all have rather identical registration forms. Most of the fees are directed to a Bank of America in CA. However, the IACSIT conference fees are being sent here:

Bank Name: Maybank, Singapore
Bank Address: 131 Jurong East Street 13 Singapore 600131
Name of Account: XIE YI
Beneficiary’s Address: #07-42, BLK 708, St. 71, Jurong West, Singapore 640708
Account Number: [redacted]
BIC/SWIFT Code: MBBESGSG

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0sQEOKjoO7EJ:www.icrsa.org/listener-reg.doc+&cd=20&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au

Since all of the site registries share an IP address, server, and multiple emails, etc, one person is either ambitiously running the sites or there are multiple individuals involved in each branch.
It is always possible that Xi/ Zhou or another individual is just using the ASR/SCIEI platforms to host conferences while the real owner remains hidden in plain sight, so it’s hard to be sure about anything at this stage.

Many unexplained items remain. One journal, Joams(.com), is registered to ETPub. However, their contact page directs all inquires to joams@ejournal.net. Ejournal.net is a site that hosts aggregate data on many publishers’ journals (a substantial majority are respectable). I located JOAMS on their site and the noted publisher is EJournal. Was this journal transferred or are the two sites are related? They are hosted on the same IP and server, along with several other ETPub journals, but the ejournal.net registry uses the email gzh@swjtu.edu.cn, which appears to be an institutional email. Curiously, the registrar named for that site is California State University, Long Beach, a school unlikely to be involved in any fashion, especially using a Chinese institutional email address.

http://bgp.he.net/dns/ejournal.net#_whois

Finally, there’s a non-journal site registered to Zhou, which is on the same server and IP as the others. It is youngstudy.com and currently redirects to one of the journals. Glancing through archives, it appears to have been a site that assisted with immigration for jobs and schooling. The business now has a new site: young.ac.cn. The site links back to several of the IAP/ETPub journals and conferences. Their old site listed a purported business # of 510,105,000,062,779, but I’m not especially adept at searching through Chinese business registrations in order to find the owner.

http://www.young.ac.cn/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=lists&catid=14

Here are some other journals (non-exhaustive list in no specific order):

1. ijcte.org- International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering
2. ijtef.org- International Journal of Trade, Economics, and Finance
3. ijmlc.org- International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing
4. ijesd.org- International Journal of Environmental Science and Development
5. ijimt.org- International Journal of Innovation, Management, and Technology
6. ijetch.org- International Journal of Engineering and Technology
7. ipcsit.com- International Proceedings of Computer Science and Information Technology
8. jocet.org- Journal of Clean Energy Technologies
9. ijfcc.org- International Journal of Future Computer and Communication
10. ipcbee.com- International Proceedings of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering
11. ijcea.org- International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Applications
12. icenc.org- International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering
13. ijmeer.com- International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Robotics Research
14. ijch.net- International Journal of Culture and History
15. ijmo.org- International Journal of Modeling and Optimization
16. joebm.com- Journal of Economics, Business and Management
17. ijmmm.org- International Journal of Materials, Mechanics, and Manufacturing
18. jacn.net- Journal of Advances in Computer Networks
19. ijiee.org- International Journal of Information and Electronics Engineering
20. lnpo.net- Lecture Notes on Photonics and Optoelectronics

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March 20, 2016, 2:04 am

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Pepijn van Erp referred in http://kloptdatwel.nl/2016/03/19/powerfoodie-rens-kroes-met-haar-klei-tegen-negatieve-straling/ (in Dutch) to a paper titled “Behavior of adenine in Na-montmorillonite exposed to gamma radiation: implications to chemical evolution studies” ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12146708 ).

This paper is published in the journal Cellular and molecular biology (Noisy-le-Grand, France). The homepage of this journal ( http://www.cellmolbiol.com/ ) states: “Published by C.M.B. Association, 34 Boulevard Solférino, 86000 Poitiers, FRANCE”.

The homepage of this journal states as well: “14 Nobel Price Winners are Honorary Members of the CMB Editorial Board. Eight of them participated actively to our World-Congresses! The presence of so many Laureates is the proof that Cellular and Molecular Biology is the driving force of scientific accomplishment in Life Sciences. In 1976, Sir Hans Krebs, Nobel Prize Winner, confirmed to Professor R. Wegmann that “Cellular and Molecular Biology is the most excellent definition of this interdisciplinary Life Science, without which no more any progress in research nor any discovery can be made in the future.””

http://www.cellmolbiol.com/editorial.htm states: “updated May 17, 2014. CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, Founder : Raymond J. WEGMANN”. This url states as well: “INTERNATIONAL BOARD: Nobel Prize Laureates, Werner ARBER, Basel, Switzerland, Günter BLOBEL, New York, USA, Christian DE DUVE, Brussels, Belgium, Leo ESAKI, Tsukuba, Japan, Pierre-Gilles de GENNES, Paris, France, Ivar GIÆVER, Schenectady, USA, Robert HUBER, Martinsried, Germany, Harold KROTO, Brighton, UK, Jean-Marie LEHN, Strasbourg, France, Hartmut MICHEL, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Ferid MURAD, Houston, USA, Ilya PRIGOGINE†, Austin, USA, Jens C. SKOU, Aarhus, Denmark, Torsten N. WIESEL, New York, USA.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Prigogine states: “Died, 28 May 2003 (aged 86), Brussels, Belgium”.

http://www.cellmolbiol.com/call%20for%20papers.htm states: “Special Issue: Recent Advancements in Molecular Pathogenesis. (….) Important dates: Manuscript Due: Tuesday, 15th March, 2016, First Round of Review: Friday, 15th April, 2016, Publication Date: Wednesday, 27th April, 2016.”

http://www.cellmolbiol.com/E_Submission/index.htm states: “When accepted, all submitted manuscripts are subject to an article processing fee 185 EUR. Processing charges will be charged for withdrawing a manuscript after submission. A manuscript cannot be withdrawn after it was accepted for publication. Only payments via paypal are accepted.”

http://www.cellmolbiol.com/liste_backissues.php?Annee=2002 indicates that “Behavior of adenine in Na-montmorillonite exposed to gamma radiation: implications to chemical evolution studies” ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12146708 ) is part of issue 5 (title “Biophysics of Radiation”) of Volume 48 ( http://www.cellmolbiol.com/liste_online_papers.php?Id_Fascicule=102&Annee=2002 ).

https://www.researchgate.net/journal/1165-158X_Cellular_and_molecular_biology_Noisy-le-Grand_France states: “Publisher: OMICS International”.

So what’s going on over here?

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Dhaval

March 20, 2016, 2:41 am

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Sir, can you check how this http://www.ijircce.com/ journal is? Thanks

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March 20, 2016, 3:32 am

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Immensely valuable information and extremely helpful, thank you.

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

March 20, 2016, 4:29 am

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This journal is included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>, so I recommend you not submit any papers to it.

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