I wonder if there is a distinctly Australian — and possibly U.K — problem here, what is sometimes referred to as ‘audit culture’ in which performance is measured by easily counted objective variables rather than in more meaningful ways. In the U.S. universities in which I’ve taught and reviewed promotion and tenure cases, as well as merit raise petitions, annual reports, etc, assessments of the prestige of each journal are considered, individually, rather than through some kind of white list on which the weakest journal appears to be comparable to the strongest journal. I don’t doubt that it does happen, but I also know that the imposition of national level metrics in countries such as Britain and Oz encourages shortcuts that are not sensitive to differences that are routinely considered in American research universities.
Comment on The Weaknesses of Journal Whitelists by David Taylor
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Comment on The Weaknesses of Journal Whitelists by Weekend reads: How to prove (and find) false claims; confessions of a wasteful scientist - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch
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Comment on Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism by OffHours
Abdelmoumen Bacetti, let us put argumentum ad hominem aside. If you are interested in my viewes, you are very welcome answer this question; why apparently the only solution to which different “academic guerillas” agree, is to hack the publishers instead of unseating them with a more attractive and legitimate example to follow?
For instance, one of the commentators to previous posts mentioned preprint servers, e.g. http://biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv, which is “a free online archive and distribution service for unpublished preprints in the life sciences. … By posting preprints on bioRxiv, authors are able to make their findings immediately available to the scientific community and receive feedback on draft manuscripts before they are submitted to journals.” To me, this is an example of a civilized and sustainable solution. It’s only up to authors to choose it.
However, western authors apparently prefer to boost their careers by publishing with the few prestigious overpriced publishers, on the terms and conditions of the latter, paying for their status. Elsewhere, in order to promote their careers, so-called “developing world” students are hacking the very same high status publishers, viewed as a source of guaranteed high quality publications. To me, the question is why “developing countries” can not or do not want to set an alternative sustainable and competitive model of a more democratic scientific communication by producing their own quality research for free to the world scientific community? It doesn’t add up. One cannot demand or forcefully take from others something he or she is unwilling give them in turn, this is a totally unproductive mindset in my view.
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Comment on The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research” by Academics Need To Embrace New Ways Of Writing And Sharing Research – Meta Tags
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Comment on The Weaknesses of Journal Whitelists by Advertencia a estudiantes de ciencias sobre revistas predatorias | Razón y política pública en Puerto Rico
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Comment on Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism by Prof Majdi
I cannot see how relationship between plagiarism and SCIHUB. In academic research, people are expected to make reference to high quality journal, which sometimes cannot accessed or limited accessed. As research work cannot be stopped at a point with this small reason (accessibility), SCIHUB helps a lot. May be many people able to publich paper or even pass PhD.
I can assume here that many people’s mindsets are now profit minded and plagiarism might also be exposed to this mindset. Should we care about others who might not have economically enough to access high quality journal. Dont we care they fail in research while academic requirements almost similar to developed nation?
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Comment on How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly? by Hoogar M.B.
It seems that much of sort of bias has gone into writing of this blog. I have recently published my article in IJSR and I would like to assure the readers here that the article published is my only original scientific study, and during the entire process of publication of the article thorough transparency was maintained by the editor of the journal. The manuscript of my article was sent back to me for correction and proof-reading after acceptance of the article and a copyright agreement was to be signed before the article was published. There was nothing fishy or shady in any of the procedures followed in publication of the article. On the contrary, when I was looking for reference articles or academic resource material for my study, few references were available in international publications of repute, which were equally fake, if not more, that what one could get elsewhere. I do have in my possession certain references from so-called ‘reputed’ international scientific publications such as ones from international journals like Blood, Seminars in Haematology, Advance therapy, American Journal of Hematogology, Journal of thrombosis and Haemostasis, European Journal of Haematology and so on. Many of the data in the articles published appeared ‘suspicious’ as there are were subtle discrepancies which could be found only by discerning them carefully. The language and coherence in analyzing and compiling of the data used in many of these published articles was certainly below par for the claim these ‘reputed’ journals make themselves to be. In India, there are 430 medical schools and 754-plus universities, and as there is an increased emphasis in recent years on improvement in the academic standards and research activities, lot of research activities are taking places in these institutions of higher learning. Hence it is natural that the number of scientific publications as gone out of bounds of sorts. Considering the huge amount of publishing of scientific papers going on in the country, there are new publication houses which have come up in the country, which, hitherto, otherwise was at the mercy of certain monopoly of ‘reputed’ publishing houses elsewhere in the world, to cater to the increased demand for publishing of academic activities in all fields of learning not just limited to scientific and research activities. There might be some element of truth that some unscrupulous elements might have crept into the field of publishing as it could happen anywhere considering the magnitude of publishing activity going on in the country, but it is also highly preposterous to say that IJSR or global journals are indulging in full-time predatory journalistic activity or fake publishing. On the contrary, they are doing yeomen service to the millions of aspiring scholars and students of higher learning in the country by helping them publish their academic and scientific works at the earliest and at minimal expenses by way of publication costs.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Norman
Dear Prof Beall
Thanx for all your work.
What about Applied Ecology and Environmental Sciences published under the followimg url http://www.sciepub.com
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
The publisher SciPub (Science and Education Publishing) is on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank">here</a>. Please have a look at the list.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Emmanuel Ugwu
Dear Professor Beall What can you say about Global journal of science frontier research?. Is it a predatory journal?.
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Comment on Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism by Abdelmoumen Bacetti
because there is no such more attractive and legitimate example to follow that could be accepted by the publishers and has an academic value.
unpublished papers have no value because they could be rejected for either their bad quality or for plagiarism. Then, the example you pointed to won’t put a free version of the final paper (after modifications), which is the real reference not the preprint, because the copyrights are held by the publishers.
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Comment on Science Publishing Group: A Complete Scam by Jeffrey Beall
Thanks. I only see conferences that they organize, but no journals. If you think I am missing something, please let me know. Otherwise, I will not add this to the list at this time, as it is only a (low-quality) conference organizer.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Not at this time.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
I think their journals are not open-access, and I generally limit my work to OA journals. The organization itself looks fishy and unprofessional (and sloppy). If you are able to access the journals, please let me know; I did not see any links to full text. Thanks.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, I think it’s rubbish. I strongly advise you to avoid this journal.
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Comment on Appeals by ๏ O ซัมวัน O ๏
Dear Dr. Beall,
I wonder whether International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health (IJCRIMPH) journals is on your list?
http://www.iomcworld.com/ijcrimph/index.htm
Best wishes,
DP
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, it is on my standalone journal list <em><a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank">here</a></em>.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
Not on my list.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
The second one is not on my list.
You’ll need to supply a link for the first one. It’s impossible for me to search that broad a term.
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