Comments for Scholarly Open Access

“(as an exception, because it’s a subscription publisher that behaves like a predatory publisher).” How about Bentham Science? Their open-access arm, Bentham Open, is on your list, but their subscription-based offerings are also highly-dubious – and concerning, because they appear to have scammed a professional society into giving them their journal. I went ahead and forwarded you the corresponding e-mail.

Mr. Beall, can i have a list of your so called legitimate journals.

I do not compile any such list.

I don’t understand. You review papers “more freely” when they come from CU campuses? You published papers from there with fewer reviews in Oncotarget, because pressure was put on your by Mr Beall? And now you are suggesting (threatening?) to re-review those papers only? I don’t think that is even a remotely close way of addressing the criticisms brought up here.

Please clarify.

And, why has no one else pointed out that this is a ridiculous comment purporting to be from the editor?

As you noted, the OAE and its sock-puppet medical association are based in Hong Kong. But because they are a lazy shower of low-lives who put the whole thing together from bits and pieces stolen from elsewhere, we find this on the <a href="http://hrjournal.net/pages/view/author_instructions" rel="nofollow">Instructions to Authors</a> for "Hepatoma Research": <blockquote>The entire contents of Hepatoma Research (HR) are protected under Indian and international copyrights.</blockquote> That is, they copy-pasted boiler-plate text from any one of innumerable Indian journals (not all of them predatory!) without bothering to change the regional reference. On another of their journals, <blockquote>Neuroimmunology and Neuroinflammation (NN) favors registration of clinical trials and is a signatory to the Statement on publishing clinical trials in Indian biomedical journals.</blockquote> (the same paragraph of text was plagiarised for Plastic and Aesthetic Research; also for numerous other scammers around the world).

[…] Bealls List of Predatory Publishers 2016 […]

Dear Mr Beall. Thank you so much for providing the list. Please let me know why American Scientific Publisher is in your predatory publisher list? Thanks.

Dear Sir,
I would like to know that is ‘Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment’ http://www.la-press.com/substance-abuse-research-and-treatment-journal-j80 on your list?

Thank you

Dear Dr. Beall,
There are two publishers, one called Academic Journals Inc. and the other Academic Journals. I believe you have listed the second one. What do you think of the first one? Note: One of the journals of Academic Journals Inc. “Research Journal of Information Technology” was ranked Q1 on http://www.scimagojr.com/.

Dear Mr. Beall,
Thank you so much.

This type of posts are being boring now.Now everyone can identify this type of journals from your guidelines.My advice is that, please write from now on deteroriation of quality of papers in open access gaints which are sci indexed.many low quality papers are pushed in between high quality research.You can check it.

What is “it” here? Which publisher? Which journal?

No, this journal’s publisher is not on my list.

I have both Academic Journals and Academic Journals, Inc. included on my list. One is from Nigeria, and the other is from Pakistan. I think researchers should not publish in the journals of either one.

Thank you for your response

Since American Scientific Publisher doesn’t produce an open access journal. Thanks.

Please note that there is a very high frequency of self citation (Oncotarget papers cite other Oncotarget papers) and the relatively new journal Oncoscience (from the same publisher) have an artificial high citation of Oncotarget papers. This is probably some of the explanation to explain the high impact factor for Oncotarget (I used Web of science to analyze the citations).

Please also note that most of the papers are published by Chinese authors. Could there be a citation ring here to boost the citations and impact factor for Oncotarget and Oncoscience?

In many cases a manuscript undergo 2-3 rounds of revision before the editor put the date of the final revision as a “submission” date. It is actually quite common.

I call Bullshit. A Submission date has many purposes, but one of them is to stake out priority. An author wants it on record that she first submitted her results on Date X — not on some later post-revision Date Y, by which time someone else might have published something similar.

http://files.aiscience.org/journal/article/html/70110028.html
“American Institute of Science”.

This is a copy from Wikipedia – just check for “Wikipedia” in the article.

Getting into PubMed is relatively easy, as any article published as OA can be uploaded into PubMed Central and then automatically gets into PubMed. However, MEDLINE is much more selective and journals only are included after a serious vetting process. It’s pretty serious, but like any vetting process, I assume that it is not infallible.

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