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Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Jeffrey Beall

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“Global Illuminators” is out of the scope of my work. I generally limit my work to scholarly open-access journals and publishers.

This appears to be a very large vacation / conference organizer based in Malaysia. It publishes conference proceedings monographs, but I was not able to access the full text of them (and conference presenters are charged both to present at the conference AND publish in the books).

Many conferences are organized by non-profit scholarly societies that focus their work on fostering the development and dissemination of new knowledge. Global Illuminators is not one of these societies. It is a large, apparently for-profit company that is selling presentation and publishing opportunities to many in Asia.

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Yu

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Thanks for your comments and clarification. Do you think that the Indonesian and Malaysian state universities are the real partner of Global Illuminators?

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Jeffrey Beall

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Good question. I am not sure. The only way to verify this is to contact each university.
It is possible that this company is using the logos from the universities without permission.

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Hadi Akbar

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I can assure you that the global illuminators are not associated with the local universities in Malaysia. It seems that they are operated by a group of opportunist students (some foreigners, some local) and using these association due to the fact that they are student/alumni of the mentioned university (most propable explanantion)

Hadi Akbar
Msc Student
The National University of Malaysia

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Yu

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Mr. Hadi I think you are right. But they showed few universities from Malaysia and many universities from Indonesia. Do you think that the state universities allow their students use the university logo for the conference business.

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Hadi Akbar

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Most certainly not (The university does not allowed the usage of logo without permission; even printing university shirts requires a written permission). But, our local universities should have more strict online “management”. When I try searching for my university logo, I manage to find a vector graphic of my university logo!

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Yu

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Mr. Hadi Akbar, you are from Malaysia. You should try to confirm from the universities of your country. What is the story behind this Global Illuminators partnership with the state universities of Malaysia.


Comment on Appeals by Giancarlo

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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Thanks — I have this journal’s publisher included on the list.

Comment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One by OlgaS

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I received this e-mail few days ago. Thank you for warning.

“I looked at your paper … and would be very interested in talking about having a short followup or a review article about this published in the next issue of the Medical Research Archives. It would be interesting to see a paper with new data since this was published, or any additional followup work you have done. If you could also tell me more about your current projects that would be helpful. The Medical Research Archives is an online and print peer-reviewed monthly journal. There is no hard deadline. It is a hybrid journal which means that publishing with open access is optional. I am happy to asnwer any questions. Please respond at your earliest convenience.

Best Regards,

Reni Koen

Medical Research Archives

612-524-5565

340 S Lemon Avenue

Walnut CA 91789 USA

http://www.journals.ke-i.org/m

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by MC

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Isn’t the solution more simply for honest and would-be credible researchers to realise and understand that low quality/fake OA journals are publishing low quality/fake work?

I’ve studied at top universities in the US and Canada, and I have many friends in science and engineering across the continent and in europe, and I can honestly say I have never once ran into an issue of someone “accidentally” publishing in some bullshit journal that no one’s ever heard of. I’ve never once sat in a meeting or attended a conference where anyone presented on, or a referenced a paper in “The Global journals of The Science of cellular Cancer preventions Letters”. My colleagues (and friends outside of academics, in R+D) and I often pass around both ridiculous TOC images in real journals (now there’s a problem with peer review), and hilarious posts from this blog. At least to me and within my world, the issue of wanna-be researchers publishing in garbage journals is still a far-off one (literally speaking, too) and something that remains a pretty pleasing joke.

I don’t see this as a problem that “universities, ministries and governments” need to tackle all at once; it is more up to the individual and their peers to be honest researchers. If you want to get a promotion and you can do so at your institution by by-passing peer review, reporting old and meaningless data, and plagiarizing someone else, then your own institution and your peers should take notice and solve the problem. Otherwise, that institution will continue to be derided as a whole. And, from my perspective, there are plenty of universities around the world that aren’t exactly considered to have joined the ranks of ‘higher learning’ just yet. This feels to me like a problem that is far more prevalent outside the so-called developed world. Why? Are people truly more likely to be honestly tricked? I don’t know, but I don’t think so. I think it has more to do with what is perceived to be ethical.

Comment on Predatory Publishing News by P. Udoma

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Dear Mr. Beall:

First, thank you for your undauntable watch over the scholarly Open Access sector. As someone who has been involved in academic best practices for many years, I find your blog to be an invaluable tool for all of us who care about the quality of academic publications and about the authors who submit to and publish in them.

With regard to the company in question, for me, the mark of a publisher’s legitimacy — be it open access or subscription based — is the academics who associate themselves with it. If we are careful to check for valid editorial boards — and whether or not they are actually able to be directly contacted — it will give us stronger clues into the authenticity of an Open Access enterprise and into its efforts to adhere to best practices.

My perspective about “fake” addresses is this. While a publisher’s mailing address can sometimes tell us something about the legitimacy of a publisher, it can also fail us as an indicator since the use of a “temporary” address (including business centers and the like) very often reflects that a company is simply relocating and is managing the details required for settling in a new home. To be sure, there are business center properties all over the world that also host legitimate American businesses in transition.

While it is always better to have an address in a more “permanent” location (for any business), a company’s mere use of a business center address does not render the company fraudulent. If, however, a company remains at a business center for year upon year and has no actual phone number in the US, but uses an answering service here and has the company “call back” every caller, and has no actual personnel residing or even working here sporadically — yet it bills itself as a US-based company, then yes, I would be suspicious. Full disclosure is always the best policy.

Sincerely,

P. Udoma

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Ahmad jammal

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Thank you
This is really a caner. We must think about the way to face this kind of publishers
Regards

Comment on Another Chinese OA Publisher “Based” in Southern California by Iamnobody

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Tooi, it is foolish you randomly list the universities and name of authors as fake publications just because publishers are of foreign origins. The paper are peer reviewed by some authorities in the journals, blame them and not the authors and their affiliations.

In my opinion most of journal material whether they are published in West or China are bogus. The material published by one author is rebutted by another author. This all paper publishing is a scam all together.


Comment on Another Article Broker from China by Greg

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I have a terminological question. “Predatory Open Access” can be used in connection with journals and publishers. But how can I use the same “predatory” in connection with papers published in those journals? “Predatory open access paper” is nonsense, isn’t it?

Comment on Another Article Broker from China by kO

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Tittle : Reform of Innovative Practice Training Mode for Postgraduates in Oil & Gas Engineering Field
Zhihua Wang:PhD. Asst. Prof. College of Petroleum Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China
Guangsheng Cao :PhD. Prof. College of Petroleum Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China
Daiyin Yin :PhD. Prof. College of Petroleum Engineering, Northeast Petroleum University, Daqing, China

These author has published in predatory journal Research Journal of Education— Academic Research Publishing Group by paying USD 220 and publish within 48 hours.

Comment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One by SM, EPA

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Reni must be very busy right now reading unrelated articles to place in this scam as I received verbatim the same as above today.

Comment on A New Publisher to Watch Out for: Ology Science by Wim Crusio

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I’d rather not lunch with those Excelytics journals… :-)

Comment on A New Publisher to Watch Out for: Ology Science by Stephane Louryan

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In the editorial board, of the “Journal of food science ans nutraceutical “, I find a scientist from the “University of Parakou (France)”. This university is not in France, but in…Benin (Africa).

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