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Comment on Three New Open-Access Publishers — All with Dumb Names by Michael K.

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Please someone tell, is British Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences, with 2048-125X, origional? What should one do fo falling victim to fake journal? Can the same article be oublish again in orther good journal?

If one finds said published article been attached to/with a different online title, what can be done?


Comment on Three New Open-Access Publishers — All with Dumb Names by Jeffrey Beall

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The British Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences is a predatory journal. You can ask them to withdraw your paper, but they probably will not fulfill the request, especially if you’ve transferred copyright.

If your article is published in this journal, do not submit the same article to another journal. It’s possible there are no good options here.

Comment on Three New Open-Access Publishers — All with Dumb Names by MC

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THERES NEVER BEEN ANY THING BAD OR WRONG IN PUBMED OR MEDLINE EVERRR!!!!1111

ALL CAPS!!!11

Comment on Two Turkish Journals with a Fake, “German” Editor by Ehiagiwna, Frederick

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please why is sciencedomain international listed?
thanks

Comment on Business Deans Endorse Resolution Regarding Predatory Journals by Diretores de faculdades jesuítas nos EUA fazem alerta contra periódicos predatórios | Direto da Ciência

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[…] Jeffrey Beall, professor da Universidade do Colorado em Denver.  (Ele postou em seu blog Scholarly Open Acces em 22/3 sobre o alerta dos “Business Deans”.) Sediada em Sofia, na Bulgária, a WSEAS […]

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Morita

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I tell you, it’s the Xhinese. They’re making their scientific status to grow in their way of doing things. And we have some of the developed country people that needs a longer publication lists to get funds. It their tag-up.

I think we got two problems:
No.1
There’s no standards for a PhD. Not in my country, not even in my university. Needless to say is there an international standard. A guy with an Harvard PhD and a guy who god a PhD some where in arctic region are, for some mechanism I have no idea how it works, are both same PhDs. How is one supposed to deal with a guy across the table that gives you a business card with a PhD on it?

No.2
The peer-review system relies 100% on the goodness of human. Is this an adequate behavior as a scientist? I’m sorry for being irresponsible since I have no remedy or alternative for this system, but let’s start facing the fact that we all know now. Peer-review doesn’t work. It relies on some ethical spirit you find in Disney CG animations and it get’s too strong influence of personal view. It’s way far, too far to just say it’s the best effort, from the reviewing process being subjective.

Please, to the people with authority in their own field and specialty. By the name of god do something about these problems or sooner
but not later, our degrees will be worth nothing.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Soud

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Kusumartono

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Could you please help to know whether The International Journal of Climate Change: Impacts and Responses, publish by Common Ground is predatory? if it’s not predatory, how about impact factor ? thank


Comment on About the Author by Falsas métricas. Un timo para editores – EC3Metrics – Rafael Repiso | Francisca Cuéllar Gragera

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[…] Jeffrey Beall nos alerta de un listado de páginas fraudulentas (36 en total) que generan métricas de impacto a las revistas, y que en muchos casos optan por la estrategia de suplantar al famoso Impact Factor. El último objetivo de este grupo de productos es sacarle las perras a las revistas que quieran ser sometidas a evaluación. […]

Comment on Misleading Metrics by Falsas métricas. Un timo para editores – EC3Metrics – Rafael Repiso | Francisca Cuéllar Gragera

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[…] Beall nos alerta de un listado de páginas fraudulentas (36 en total) que generan métricas de impacto a las revistas, y que en muchos casos […]

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall

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The publisher Common Ground is not on my list, but I receive many questions about it.
I don’t see any impact factor for this journal at this time.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, these are strong journals. They are not predatory journals, not even close.

Comment on About the Author by Del blog de EC3metrics: Falsas métricas. Un timo para editores | La biblioteca informa

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[…] Jeffrey Beall nos alerta de un listado de páginas fraudulentas (36 en total) que generan métricas de impacto a las revistas, y que en muchos casos optan por la estrategia de suplantar al famoso Impact Factor. El último objetivo de este grupo de productos es sacarle las perras a las revistas que quieran ser sometidas a evaluación. […]

Comment on Misleading Metrics by Del blog de EC3metrics: Falsas métricas. Un timo para editores | La biblioteca informa

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Comment on Another Predatory Conference Organizer from Asia: Academic Fora by tos

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Carper others excel, Your life is what bugs tell me? I had been participate with academic fora. What would you take with you.
Organizations, academic work Did nothing wrong are you ok ??


Comment on Another Predatory Conference Organizer from Asia: Academic Fora by J_C

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Eh, you always beat me to some of the good stuff.

I was interested in their conference associated journals and why these particular venues were chosen. All of the journals, except for the Middle Eastern Journal of Scientific Research, belong to MedWelljournals.com. The director of medwelljournal publications is Muhammad Sohail. I would guess that the publisher is based in Pakistan, specifically Faisalabad. The site is registered to someone by the name of Muhammad Sarwar. He notes his affiliation as being with ‘ANSI’, but I’m currently uncertain what this could refer to.

As for the Middle Eastern Journal of Scientific Research, this journal belongs to the International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (IDOSI). Their site is registered to a Muhammad Zeeshan of Faisalabad, Pakistan. He is also listed as a managing editor at the publication. This publisher was one of many caught in a sting by Science Magazine a while back, so there’s an invoice available for view from one of their publications. According to the invoice, the publication fee was to be directed to a Ayesha Majeed in Faisalabad, Pakistan:

http://scicomm.scimagdev.org/data/journals/272/11/Invoice%207444-GJP.pdf

While searching around, I came across an old Facebook comment written by Academic Fora that listed a couple of other journals not included on their website:

https://m.facebook.com/academicfora/posts/1040670592619101

One of these journals was the Asian Economic and Financial Review. This journal can be viewed on the Asian Economic and Social Society website:

http://www.aessweb.com/journals/5002/info/eb

The bottom of the aim and scope section lists several contact emails for the journal, one of which is editor@pakinsight.com. Pakinsight.com is another journal site where the Asian and Financial Review can be found (same editors and whatnot.)

http://www.pakinsight.com/journal/3/editorial-board.html

Aessweb.com is registered to a Kashif Imran of Pakistan.

Aessweb.com and Pakinsight.com also claim that they have a conference hosting partner called Scientific Group (schist.org). Scientific Group only runs a handful of conferences, but, as mentioned they do have a somewhat familiar list of conference associated journals:

http://www.scihost.org/?ic=contents&id=12

The first half of the list (the part w/o hyperlinks) primarily belong to Medwelljournals. The 2nd half of the list primarily belongs to Pakinsight journals.

Pakinsight has their own separate conference hosting site as well. It has been deemed the Pak Research and Development Wing (pakrdw.com).

Another something I found interesting was the similarity of payment instructions between the sites. For instance:

—Academic Fora—

“You may pay the conference registration fee by credit card, 2checkout, bank transfer, and Western Union. If you have any questions regarding payment, please do not hesitate to contact us at”

“You may pay the conference registration fee by credit card, 2checkout, bank transfer, and Western Union. If you have any questions regarding payment, please do not hesitate to contact us at: contact@academicfora.com or e-mail address of concerned conference.

Please contact our conference secretariat for payment by bank transfer, and Western Union.”

“Credit Card and 2 checkout
If you have a credit card or 2checkout account, we strongly encourage you to pay the fee through 2checkout. 2checkout enables users, whether or not they are 2checkout members, to use all major credit cards, including Visa,Master card, American Express, and Discover. 2checkout is fast, and secure.”

“Privacy Policy

The Academic Fora will protect your personal information. Your personal information received will only be used to fill your order. We will not sell or redistribute your information to anyone.”

http://academicfora.com/payment/

—Aessweb—

“You may pay the publication fee by credit card, 2checkout, bank transfer, and Western Union. If you have any questions regarding payment, please do not hesitate to contact us. editor@aessweb.com.

Please contact to editorial office by bank transfer, and Western Union.”

“Credit Card and 2checkout

If you have a credit card or 2checkout account, we strongly encourage you to pay the fee through 2checkout. 2checkout enables users, whether or not they are 2checkout members, to use all major credit cards, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. 2checkout is fast, and secure.”

http://www.aessweb.com/Pay/

—Pak Publishing—

“You may pay the publication fee by credit card, 2checkout, bank transfer, and Western Union. If you have any questions regarding payment, please do not hesitate to contact us. editor@aessweb.com; editor@pakinsight.com

Please contact to editorial office by bank transfer, and Western Union.”

“Credit Card and 2checkout
If you have a credit card or 2checkout account, we strongly encourage you to pay the fee through 2checkout. 2checkout enables users, whether or not they are 2checkout members, to use all major credit cards, including Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. 2checkout is fast, and secure.”

“Privacy Policy
The PPG will protect your personal information. Your personal information received will only be used to fill your order. We will not sell or redistribute your information to anyone.”

http://www.pakinsight.com/pay-publication-fees.html

Finally, if I had to take a guess, I’d wager that ‘fora’ is mistranslation of ‘forum’.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Andy

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Dear Jeffrey; Please can you assess me this journal? “International journal of Gynecology, Obstetrics and Neonatal Care”. I don’t know whether it is predatory or not.
Andy

Comment on Oncotarget’s Peer Review is Highly Questionable by Riaz Uddin

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Nope! I disagree. Usually submission date implies the date the manuscript has been submitted in a journal. Acceptance date is the date when the auricle was accepted in principal and publication date is the date when it was made available (some journals make the article available online ahead of publication). However, it’s not unlikely for some articles to be accepted by the editorial office within a short period of time. In such cases it can be argued that the manuscript was submitted to a journal, subsequently was reviewed and was transferred (or was submitted by the authors) to another journal as it deemed “not up to the mark” for that particular journal. The other journal might have a relatively “easy going” editorial policy and accepted the manuscript based on previous review reports.

Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Michal

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I noticed on the JPTS website http://spts.jpn.com/en/JPTS.html that they have an editor in chief by the name of Hitoshi MARUYAMA. If you have added JPTS as a questionable journal based on the lack of an editor in chief, I would like to ask you to remove the journal from such a list, as it clearly has an editor in chief on its English website.

Comment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall

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They only added an editor and editorial board AFTER I called them on not having/displaying one. I still think this is a highly questionable journal. Instead of seeking out easy-acceptance journals such as this one appears to be, I suggest researchers find a real scholarly journal for their work. This journal is like a factory spitting out ball bearings.

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