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Thanks. MedCrave is a dangerous publisher.

Nowadays Indexing is easier, every publisher is mentioning in their website that we are indexed in so and so. Do we really believe indexed journals are maintaining the standards?

Came across this post googling WASET after I noticed their fake ICCM (real ICCM: http://acs.ist.psu.edu/iccm2016/). Extra evil because the deadlines and conference dates are within a few days of each other, and the fake conference has a special issue just like the real deal. I did a double-take and thought WASET was some sort of indexer at first.

Hi everybody,

I am editor-in-chief (From McGill university) of the journal which its articles are published by Science Publishing Group. I would like to say that I do not know about other journals of Science PG but regarding my journal it has a meticulous and restrict guideline along with well-known editorial board members. We consider every article accurately before publishing. I think that the quality of the articles published in each journal depends on the editor-in-chief and editorial board members of that journal as well as reviewers. So, we cannot generalize our idea or a mistake to all the journals of the publisher (SciencePG). However, we can discuss about one specific journal.

Thank you,
Regards,
Yousof

What two US universities do has no immediate impact on me (retired, and publishing for my discipline, and for the advancement of my worthy co-authors). But this trend for mandating is a real threat to those of us, perhaps more in the humanities than in the sciences like me, who rely on our enthusiasm and past experience to write stuff which is of interest and use to others, but have no source of funds other than our pensions to pay for publication. There are OA journals (perhaps dependent on public funding) that maintain traditional standards of rigor while avoiding author charges. There are not many, and i guess they will diminish.
The attention naturally focuses on areas like engineering and medicine where the competition and need to publish is greatest. spare a thought, you mandaters, for those of us in specialist fields with no immediate economic returns. do you really want the supply of insightful science to dry up unless it is publicly-funded?

How could OASPA associated with it???

The publisher probably copied OASPA’s logo without permission.

Daylight robbery $ 700+ fees!

It seems a tad disingenuous to suggest that institutional open access policies encourage researchers to publish in low-quality OA journals, the policies are pretty explicitly crafted not to interfere with researchers choice of publication outlet, whether OA or subscription or some combination of the two.

Is there also a list of not so credible non OA journals and publishers?

Open Journal Systems is a free software. The creators of the software have no control over publishers. Do you have control over the English language? Will you say that these journals are published in English language as most predatory journals are? I can use Linux and Ubuntu the same way too for good and bad. So, please do not bring disrepute to OJS by associating it with poor quality journals.
Arun

Dear Sir,

Could you please help to know whether this journal is predatory?

http://www.ijasbt.org

Yes, I have it included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

I fail to see how Mr. Beall has brought a bad reputation to a piece of software. Those who run the fake journals have used the software. The software is now associated with fake journals, because someone used it for that purpose. This is a fact and your argument is backwards.

And no, these OA journals are most frequently *not* published in English, I assure you. I, and others here, including Mr. Beall, do have control over the English language. Thank you for clarifying that.

Better to blindly save money and publish your work in a journal that no one will ever read or believe any of the content in. What fake impact factor will you aim for? Good luck “Eric”.

Yes — this journal is published by a firm called Medip Academy, and I have this company (which is not really an academy) on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>.

Royalty payments start after 200 copies of the books have been sold. At least this is what Nova Science Publishers is telling me.

Hi
I am a specialist entomology and biological control
I want to publish search in specialized and a global Journal with a high impact factor and requests a small amount not to exceed $ 100 for publication
I hope you send more than one journal
Best Regards
Dr. Maan Al-Salihi

I recommend you use <a href="http://journalfinder.elsevier.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this resource</a> to find a good journal to publish in.

“Pyrex” is actually a registered trademark for a brand of glassware (https://www.corning.com/content/microsites/cls/pyrex/en/pyrex.html)… So I guess this name is also a trademark infringement.

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