Hi Jeffrey,
I wanted to know whether there exists a list of genuine publishers to enable potential authors make informed decisions when publishing. I am about to publish however there are challenges in finding genuine publishing sites.
Kindly advise at your earliest.
Regards,
Nana
I remember ology group. They seem to have migrated from ologyopen.org. What I cannot fathom is why they did not bother to change either their website setup (same panel options at top and on side bar) or their publishing name when they moved to ologyscience.com. It’s too obvious.
They just copied and pasted their ‘Faqs’ info from one site to the next:
http://www.ologyopen.org/faqs.php
http://ologyscience.com/faq.php
Plus, both sites are using the same mail server and IP combination:
http://bgp.he.net/dns/ologyopen.org#_dns
http://bgp.he.net/dns/ologyscience.com
Ologyopen.org had just one viable journal: Expert Reviews of Immunology Vaccines and Informatics (erivijournal.org). Both the site’s link to the journal and the journal itself are currently only available through archives:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801110451/http://erivijournal.org/
https://web.archive.org/web/20151204081904/http://ologyopen.org/index.php
Erivijournal.org also shares the same mail servers and IP as the two ology sites:
http://bgp.he.net/dns/erivijournal.org#_dns
However, it is unique in that its WhoIs data is unshielded. The site is registered to the possible pseudonym of raz pp and lists an Indian address (the mail servers could be Singaporean though). The email given is tcsraz@gmail.com, which has also been associated with the name Madhu K. This email was also used to register biocoreopen.org, which potentially has changed hands since. When Biocoreopen.org first began, they used the same contact address in Edinburgh as did Erivijournal.org (64B/1, Northfort Street, Edinburgh, Eh6 4hL, Scotland, UK).
https://web.archive.org/web/20150801050746/http://biocoreopen.org/#
https://web.archive.org/web/20150213123859/http://erivijournal.org/contact.php
I believe that I’m remembering these names from back in January:
BTW- I love the tiny picture ologyscience.com used for the single editorial board member of the Journal of Diagnostic and Cardiology Research:
http://ologyscience.com/cardiology-research/editorial-board-members.php#
There is a journal by this title published by the so-called “Center for Promoting Ideas.” It’s a completely fake publisher, and I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal or any others from this bogus company.
Use it as a learning experience and submit your work only to top journals in the future.
Yes, there are various white-lists available. Some include DOAJ, Cabells, journals in SCI or SSCI or with an impact factor, journals included in a specific, respected database, etc.
It’s too confusing for me to draw any conclusions. What’s your theory?
Expert Reviews of Immunology Vaccines and Informatics (erivijournal.org). Both the site’s link to the journal and the journal itself are currently only available through archives:
Looks like ERIVI put out only the one issue, in Aug 2014 —
https://twitter.com/erivijournal
— before it died from apathy and amateurism. This has not prevented the Founder and Editor-in-Chief, Fabio Grizzi (an OMICS stalwart), from boasting of his title there and giving it top billing in his LinkedIn page. Whatever, dude.
Pro-tip for the Ology Open site… you could at least try to spell the name of your Editor-in-Chief correctly, it’s a good look.
http://www.ologyopen.org/aboutus.php
Also, Golliwology.
L_C mentions Biocore as another entry to the mockademic scam, emerging from the same fertile e-mail address of tcsraz@gmail.com. The Goofle informs me that in December 2015, Biocoreopen.org passed into the ownership of one “ravindra koyilada”, with a Hyderabad location.
But on April 6th it moved to a private by-proxy registration:
http://whois.easycounter.com/biocoreopen.org
We should tell Reni that if he/she doesn’t want to stop sending these messages, at least he/she should consider to stop adding a period after the titles of the articles in the first line of the emails, as it looks very unprofessional. ;)
See John’s message of March 30, and Matthew’s of April 1, and mine, received today:
“I looked at your paper on [title]. and would be very interested in (…)”
The publisher of the first journal. Academic Journals, is included on my list. I think “journal of AJBM” is another way to refer to the same title.
Thank you for your response. I wanted to know whether they are listed in a similar fashion as the “List of Predatory Publishers”. If yes, may I have access to suck link?
Thank you for that information.
regards,
Nana
“Gemeinde” means both church congregation and community. 10965 is Kreuzberg, just north of the Neukölln part of Berlin. The language of the letter is also not Teutonic English.
Bizarrely, the Senate of Berlin actually uses ISSNs and ISBNs as marks of quality when they judge how “successful” we are at research at the Berlin universities….
Reni Koen is still at it for the Medical Research Archives. In the email I received today, the name associated with the email address was M. Mihaleva @ internalmedicinereview.org, but the content of the message was from Reni Koen from KE-I.
Please, tell me, what is problem with http://www.avicenapublisher.org . On http://www.scopemed.org, You can find all three journals, also on PubMed and PMC.
In my opinion, Web of Science cannot be gold standard, science is not money, but Web of Science is just money. If You have money, You can publish without any problem in journal, which is on WoS.
This journal is not on my list at this time.
Bill comes later :-) once caught by them they spam you always teh same polite way and the same short easy names under the email, computer-generated???
