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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Harisha
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Not on my list.
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Comment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Fuckとだけ書かれた論文がアヤシイ学術誌に受理されたと話題に |アレ待チろまん
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Comment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One by Ricky
Interesting, and thanks for posting this.
I just received an email from them with the following:
Dr. XXXXXXX,
I hope this email finds you well. My colleague Reni asked if I could get in touch with you about your paper titled XXXXXXX XXXXXX XX XXXXX XXXXXX. Firstly thank you for taking the time to publish this, it was an interesting read. I am hoping to have the opportunity to discuss having a short followup or perhaps a review article published in one of the next issues of our journal. I think our readers could be interested in a paper with information from any continued research or new data since this was published. It would not have to be a long article, but if you don’t have time for this perhaps you could also reach out to the co-authors or one of your students to collaborate.
If you have moved on from this line of research I am certainly interested in knowing more about your current projects; perhaps there is the potential for an article that would fit our journal. If you have any questions about whether or not a certain subject fits the scope of the Medical Research Archives I can put you in contact with Dr. Steven Lindheim from our editorial board.
Could you please let me know your thoughts on this?
Sincerely,
Dr. Kateryna Bielka, M. D.
Medical Research Archives
http://www.journals.ke-i.org/mra
I thought this was fishy – why would I be asked to write a review article about an article that I wrote that is already quite short and easy to follow?
So I searched their journal.
The first was a link to the journa.
The second was to your site.
The third was to another journal with a very similar name called “Archives Of Medical Research”. This appears to be a reasonable journal with an impact factor of about 2.
They are using names of respectable journals and tweaking the name slightly to trick us.
I am thinking of playing with them for a bit.
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Comment on The Weaknesses of Journal Whitelists by Katja Mayer
Thanks for this comment on the problem of whitelists and your mentioning of big indexes like Scopus or Web Of Science being treated like whitelists. Like you do in your article, I think we need to acknowledge even more the fact that every tool of evaluation is creating an effect on knowledge production. A way out of this could be to make peer review more transparent, and to encourage authors and reviewers in general to make the reviews public alongside with their papers.
Furthermore we should not forget about an important benefit of white lists: the strengthening of locally relevant publications, which is of high importance in social sciences, parts of humanities, biomedical research and so forth.
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Comment on Appeals by ๏ O ซัมวัน O ๏
Thank you for your response.
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Comment on About the Asian Research Consortium by Chandrasekar
I can i get latex format for this journal.
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Comment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One by Christian
I got the exact same email from “Dr. Kateryna Bielka, M. D.” today :-D
Thanks for the warning
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Comment on Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism by wkdawson
I found this information on what people are generally likely to make at Elsevier.
https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Elsevier-Salaries-E230096.htm
As you can see, the editors are hardly rich. By the time you figure the cost of relocation (typically uncompensated) and housing costs in publishing capitols (not rural Louisiana folks!), that looks paltry and is a hard life to boot. As usual, MBAs (who often know next to nothing about science) make far more money than editors (who do understand science), but I guess even those wages are not as insane as some places and would probably see many turn their nose up. These wages might even be called reasonable, but I wish they would value their editors a lot more.
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Comment on OMICS Publishing Group’s Abuse of Researchers: More Evidence by Xavier
Hi everybody. I am in the situation that I submitted a paper there and then discovered the tru nature of the omics group. After the accepted the paper very fast, we saw it was not write and decided to withdraw the paper. After seven days we have not get an answer from them. We would like to publish our paper in another journal but we don´t know how to proceed because our paper is still cited as “in press” in their website. Can somebody tell me about your experience? Should I just go and publish somewhere else? use another paper name? Ignore their emails (if they answer some day) and don´t pay anything?
Thanks in advance!
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Comment on Misleading Metrics by Jeffrey Beall
The publisher Academic Journals is included on my list. I would recommend that you avoid these two journals, and indeed all the journals from this publisher, and find a stronger publisher for your work.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Percy Okae
hello Prof. Bealle:
Please do you know of International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security (IJCSNS) ? Is it predatory? It is based in Seoul South Korea.
Thanks.
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Comment on Three New Low-Quality Open-Access Publishers by L_C
Hmm, is it fair to question someone’s (not just Madhu’s) credentials based on their English proficiency?
& why would he want the journal on the list? Does he, in fact, not realise that he’s imploring for the opportunity to be blacklisted? OTOH, I’m guessing that most readers have never heard of these journals before today. With one email, that has changed. If someone is looking for a quick publication, they’re now aware that this is an option.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
Please have a look at my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank">here</a>.
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Comment on Three New Low-Quality Open-Access Publishers by herr doktor bimler
Submission Manuscript does not violet the copyright or trademark and has not been published before.
I for one am glad that no copyrights or trademarks are being violetted.
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Comment on Real Location of JSciMed Central Revealed by RT
Thanks to all, this is a great help for quickly deciding the destiny for incoming mails from publishers. My experience is that the more you unsubscribe the more spam you get, do anybody share this experience?
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Comment on Appeals by ๏ O ซัมวัน O ๏
I would like to ask for International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
http://www.ijmra.us/
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Please check the list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank">here</a>.
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Comment on Three New Low-Quality Open-Access Publishers by Jeffrey Beall
No, I don’t know of any systematic way to do gather that information.
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Comment on Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism by OffHours
wkdawson, when it comes to illegal projects I do not sure we can totally rely on the information which is given to the public, but to clarify that source further, “the website is situated is Saint Petersburg (Russia)” (https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub). Having a quick look at the ways how one can support the project, by transfering money, apart from via bitcoin and Visa/MasterCard, to a Sberbank card (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sberbank_of_Russia), Yandex Money (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex.Money), a Qiwi account (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiwi). The last three are Russia-operated.
As a native Russian speaker from Ukraine, I know a thing or two about what are the former Soviet Union countries in terms of academia and what an economically developing (or deteriorating) country is. For poor countries like mine, one of possible civilized ways would be to lobby Western publishers with a fact that, say, an average physician earns $140 in a month so please give us access at some other, affordable for us terms than $35 per article. Or please join the HINARI access to research project by WHO. Or to lobby publishers to accept preprint deposition of the drafts as the norm. There are some constructive ways, is there a will? All we need is the will of our academia to do it in a civilized manner. Isn’t science about communication of the results, cooperation and at least some basic ethics? When an area of human experience called science is based on stealing, which is our current state of affairs, there is no point of reference and this makes us steal further, this time from more reputable sources in the West. I see no point in normalizing the attitude “if you are poor, then you should steal”. In my book, this is a socially destructive way to behave and it’s against elementary human dignity, I don’t understand why so many people here and apparently in the West see it the other way round.
The question of distribution of the Western-produced knowledge is to the Western academia – why you submit your papers to elitist overpriced publishers thus making them unaccessible to the underpriviledged (I guess the answer you mentioned is: metrics! metrics!). But these are your papers, your funds, your choice who should have an access. You could use preprint servers to make your non peer-reviewed drafts accessible to non-Western scholars and students and get their feedback, as it was mentioned by one of the commentators here, preprints are a usual thing in some fields. With many open-access journals we arguably reading non-peer-reviewed publications anyway.
Yes, I imagine chief editor’s vision, proofreading, plagiarism check, website maintenance, must be among expenses of issuing a quality journal which attracts peer reviewers to work for free – and somebody has to pay for these addedd-value features. Preprints seem to me a reasonable compromise between ensuring dissemination of the knowledge and justification for added value job done to publish an established Western peer-reviewed journal. Spotify-like services, suggested above, would be great in the long term.
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