As an author, I’m doing, on the legal grounds, the following query:
How many books the publisher united p.c. UK issued in last 3 years?
What is the average circulation of each book?
What’s the average number of copies which the publisher managed to sell with each draw?
Why the contract for the publication of a book does not provide an advance fee to the author and why such a low author’s royalties (10%)?
I have received complaints about this journal since Oct 2015 and have forwarded the complaints to the editorial team to look into.
It was determined that the journal has indeed quality issues (amongst others) and it was decided that Asia Life Sciences needs to be removed from SCIE to maintain SCIE’s data quality.
This highlights the importance of the scientific community being vigilant about these activities and the need for constant reviewing of content in databases such as the Web of Science. Constant monitoring is a massive task and no other database provider has invested in a full time team to do just that.
Removing journals from a database is a massive decision and it affects many stakeholders. In fact, just a few days back, I was in a conference in Parsay, Philippines and it was lamented among the guest speakers that Asia Life Sciences has some good work published in it but unfortunately needs to be removed from the WoS due to other issues.
The journal states that for the April issue, the last day of submission is April 25, and the last publication date is April 30. That means they promise a turn-around time for review of just 5 days.
That they say something else in the FAQ is irrelevant. Especially since that FAQ contains sentences that indicate they have no idea what they are doing. After all, they write “How much does time is needed to publish the proceedings?”
Proceedings?? The journal is supposedly publishing normal papers, not conference proceedings. Let’s also forget the weird English for a moment, which I think is the result of copy-pasting from elsewhere, where they deleted a section but forgot to remove the “does”
In the next question they answer “JMEST recommends the conference organizers”. Eh, what?! Again reference to a conference.
This is just incompetence.
Dear Dr Beal. Please let me know why Bioflux Society is in your publisher list? Even they don’t know why. Please see in their news, which even give a warning! (http://www.bioflux.com.ro/news/). Thank you
It’s on my list as a warning to honest researchers that this is not a good place to publish. There is a problem with plagiarism, there are papers published here that are unsophisticated, high-school level papers, and the overall quality of the publishing house is low. I confirm my inclusion of this publisher on my list. I strongly recommend that honest researchers find a better publisher for their work. If one merely wants to pay someone to publish low-quality work, this publisher is perfect.
Any word or opinion about Scholar’s Press?
Nevyn
Because it’s not a publisher of scholarly open-access journals, it’s out of scope for my work.
I think it’s a vanity press that wants you to sign over the copyright of your thesis or dissertation, and then they’ll try to sell it on Amazon and similar places. In most cases, avoiding this company is the best strategy, I think.
Indeed, I’ve had emails from Derrick Matthews, when the quality and structure of the English clearly indicates something is awry. Emails from OMICS have been added to my junk mail filter.
This journal is one of the predatory journals coming out of India and their practices are obvious if you care to spend 2 minutes on the quality of the articles published. They hire few computer science graduates to run the website, that’s all the investment they make. Even if they publish few hundred articles per year they make good money.
Yet, from the comments I read above, many experienced scientists are willing to give the benefit of doubt and review articles for this company. Please stop this at once, do not support these outfits in any form. Articles will be published as long as the service charge is paid, regardless of your comments.
Do not send articles or review them, if you do you are doing big disservice to Science.
Mohan
Dear Mr Beall,
Could you please guide me with regards to the following.
1. A publishing house called PAGEpress. A link to one of their recently promoted journals: http://www.jperitoneum.org/index.php/joper
2. A publisher called sciencedomain international. A link to one of their journals: http://www.sciencedomains.org/journal/12
Many thanks,
PAGEPress is not on my list.
ScienceDomain International is on my list. I recommend you not submit your work to any of its journals.
Yes, I agree that this appears to be a case of journal hijacking. Thank you for sharing this information; I have added this case to my list of hijacked journals.
Dear Beall:
I wonder why this journal http://www.cjpas.net is in your list. I know some of the editorial board members complaining inclusion of the journal in your list. The journal has a decent editorial policy and number of articles seem to be of high quality. Please enlighten me of your analysis.
I think this journal is okay for you to publish in, but not for anyone else.
> I would like here to ask you about this collection in the link below, that has reached my email lately, if you have come across or mentioned in your blog? http://www.pyrexjournals.org/index.php
Pyrex and Donnish journals were added to Jeffrey’s list in 2014:
https://scholarlyoa.com/2014/11/11/an-open-access-publisher-you-can-see-through-pyrex-journals/#more-4419
Hi Prof. Beall. What are your comments on Contemporary Sociological Global Review, the home page is http://www.csgr.syllabapress.us/index.html
Thank you very much.
Something is wrong here. The journal prominently claims to have an impact factor of 3.59, yet I cannot find it included in Journal Citation Reports, the database that lists the (authentic) impact factors. I will investigate.
Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
Dear professor Beall,
I am looking into finding a journal specifically for stem cells, and it seems a plethora of predatory OA journals have now flooded onto the scene.
One I have found is Stem Cell Biology and Research. I googled the company behind the journal; Herbert Publications Ltd.
This had two addresses, one is the registration office in the UK (which upon googling, was found to be a roofing company) and the editorial office in Hyderabad, India.
I read before that you mentioned that this address is synonymous with predatory publications….so I just wanted to pass on the information.
There is also a publication fee of US$500 and $500 for open access.
Please find the website in the link below:
http://www.hoajonline.com/stemcells
Thanks. Herbert is on my list, and I strongly recommend that researchers not submit papers to its journals.
Received an invitation from “Mary Lopez” to submit to the Journal of Microbiology and Experimentation (see below). The title of the email was “Aspiring your good health” (!). One would think these scammers would get a little more sophisticated in their approach. But I must admit…the quote from Henry Ford was a nice touch!
Thanks for all you do in keeping us apprised of the perils of web publishing…..
Mark LaRocco
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