In case you get such an email, I suggest forwarding the following link
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v434/n7036/full/nature03653.html
http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/home/papers/remove.pdf
Comment on Will Article Promotion Companies Make Article-Level Metrics Obsolete ? by Schmuck
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Comment on LIST OF INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] journal. There’s even a list created and maintained by academic librarian Jeffrey Beall that keeps an eye on all the new fake journals coming out. When Beall started the list in 2010, it had only 20 entries. Now it has over 4,000. The [...]
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Comment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] can evidently be lucrative. Hindawi Publishing Corporation with its more than 520 journals had a profit margin of 52% in 2012, better than that of the long-established Elsevier’s [...]
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Comment on Trying to understand “ACADEMIC JOURNALS & CONFERENCES” by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] akin to fake publishing is the staging of fake academic conferences, exemplified by Academic Journals & Conferences. At the “Editorial Board” page, observe the rapidly flashing counter, evidently intended to [...]
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Comment on About the Author by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] of self-advertising, of course, but as costs of administrative expenses and the like. Librarian Jeffrey Beall lists publishers and journals that seem to be blatantly dishonest, for example in claiming to use [...]
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] of course, but as costs of administrative expenses and the like. Librarian Jeffrey Beall lists publishers and journals that seem to be blatantly dishonest, for example in claiming to use peer review while [...]
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Comment on Article Acceptance Letter Reveals a Bogus Peer Review by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] Jeffrey Beall lists publishers and journals that seem to be blatantly dishonest, for example in claiming to use peer review while not doing so, or by not even publishing actual journals, only citations (e.g. “The [...]
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Comment on The Suspicious Case of Science Record Journals by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] use peer review while not doing so, or by not even publishing actual journals, only citations (e.g. “The suspicious case of Science Record journals”; “The epitome of predatory publishers”). The lack of any serious editorial or peer review means [...]
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Comment on The Epitome of Predatory Publishers by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] actual journals, only citations (e.g. “The suspicious case of Science Record journals”; “The epitome of predatory publishers”). The lack of any serious editorial or peer review means that authors can publish the same thing [...]
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Comment on Does Scholarly Open-Access Publishing Increase Author Misconduct? by Fake, deceptive, predatory Science Journals and Conferences « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] At any rate, the need for academics to get published, together with the low cost of “publishing” on-line, has brought a cornucopia of entrepreneurial “publishers” who make money by creating “journals” where authors pay to have their articles published. The payments are not described as costs of self-advertising, of course, but as costs of administrative expenses and the like. Librarian Jeffrey Beall lists publishers and journals that seem to be blatantly dishonest, for example in claiming to use peer review while not doing so, or by not even publishing actual journals, only citations (e.g. “The suspicious case of Science Record journals”; “The epitome of predatory publishers”). The lack of any serious editorial or peer review means that authors can publish the same thing over and over again, and that plagiarists can re-publish others’ work freely (“Does scholarly open-access publishing increase author misconduct?”). [...]
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Comment on Will Article Promotion Companies Make Article-Level Metrics Obsolete ? by Rahim Khan
Not a great idea….Decency apart, it comes under violation of cyber security acts of many countries.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Dr. Michael Sophia
I and my friend published many books with LAP for three years, but never received any royalty fee even one dollar. The number of net sales that LAP reports to me with 0 copies (0 credit) is far different from the net sales that I check directly from the bookstores selling my books.
Right now I really know that LAP is a spam and a fraudulent publishing house. I and my friends regret to have published our books with LAP.
Please other people as many as possible to stop publihing a book with LAP. Don’t let this worst company benefiting of the authors.
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Comment on Will Article Promotion Companies Make Article-Level Metrics Obsolete ? by Galuh Sarasvati
Dear Mr Beall,
I agree with you, why should we pay if there are systems such as Reserach Gate and Academia Edu, where we do not have to pay. More over, those system allow communication between scientist, where we can ask for suggestions, when we got difficulties in our research.
(Jeanne Adiwinata Pawitan)
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Comment on Research by Galuh Sarasvati
Dear Mr. Beall,
I am one of the editorial board of Med J Indones. Our journal is now more than 20 years, but maybe not old enough for a journal. We used external reviewers, who are expert in the field to assess the content of the articles. We also have editors, who work hard to edit the articles. However, we have not succeeded yet to be listed in scopus and Pubmed. According to Scopus, our articles are weak. We are very sad to hear that.Therefore, in my opinion, a journal that is already listed in scopus must have a better quality than ours, apart from the fact that it charges the authors a lot.
If Scopus is really as you said:”they try to include more journals in their coverage”, why did Scopus refuse to list our journal? In my opinion, Scopus has a standard to be passed by the journals, and journals that are listed is Scopus have passed the standard.
The fact that the papers are easily accepted, it might be that the articles are of good quality.
Jeanne Adiwinata Pawitan
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by John Green
If you feel you are being ripped off (“is far different from the net sales that I check directly from the bookstores selling my books.”), what do they say? Have you complained?
The thing about royalties I can believe. I don’t have a copy of their contract, but I understand that with some publishers, they have to sell over a certain number of books before royalties are paid out. Clearly, if they only sell 10 books, and there is this type of contract, you’re not going to get anything. I would expect this is spelled out in the contract. If they don’t mention it, then there is a problem that you need to ask them about as well.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
To your first question, no. There are some journals indexed in Scopus and that have an impact factor that are on my list; the criteria are diffrerent.
The Global Journals is indeed on my list; it’s filed under G not T.
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Comment on Research by PUBLICAR EN ACCESO ABIERTO | Biblioteca del Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias
[...] Diario Médico se hace eco del Blog Scholarly Open Access de Jeffrey Beall que alerta del crecimiento de editoriales que cobran a los autores importantes [...]
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Comment on Image Manipulation: World’s Strangest Case Ever Discovered? by Bruno Granier
I invite you to have a look to
http://paleopolis.rediris.es/cg/uk-index-2009.html#CG2009_A04
The IMAM case. Additional investigation of a micropaleontological fraud, by Bruno GRANIER, Monique FEIST, Edward HENNESSEY, Ioan BUCUR & Baba SENOWBARI-DARYAN
Abstract: Starting in 1996 and for almost a decade, M.M. Imam contributed to twelve papers published in international geological journals. These papers dealt with the micropaleontology and biostratigraphy of Cretaceous to Miocene series from Egypt and Libya. They were abundantly illustrated in order to support the author’s findings and interpretations. However most photographic illustrations (189 at least) were fabricated with material lifted from the publications of other authors, commonly from localities or stratigraphic intervals other than those indicated by M.M. Imam.
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Comment on Appeals by T Singh
Dear Dr. Beall
I recently came across your effort to prepare a list of predatory journals. I really appreciate your effort and research in this area to help researchers in deciding to publish their work as well as to decide about their affiliation to the Editorial board of such journals.
I went through the whole list and I also consider that most of the journals listed do not meet all the criteria to be not included in the list. However, I noted some journals that are in fact not open access in true sense and are listed on your website. For instance, the Indian Journal of Social Science Researches that appear on your list is a print journal and to the best of my knowledge they made available the content of some of the back issues on website freely hosted by 110mb.com to make the journal visible to scientific community. This site is perhaps deleted as it is not accessible.
Further, they also do not charge printing cost except a mandatory reprint charge of Rs. 1000 against which they provide 10 reprints and one copy of the journal to each author of a given article. Thus, around 60 to 70% of the reprint charges would be used in sending the journal and reprints to the authors. In view of this I think the reprint cost in itself is not even enough to get the journal printed as in India the printing cost of around 100 pages journal is about Rs. 40000/ for 400 copies and thus if the publisher would publish around 40 articles per issue then only they can meet the printing expenses. I have not seen any issue of this journal that has published more than 20 articles. Thus, I hope the publisher meets the printing cost. I find that this journal also meet other criteria mentioned on your website.
However, if you have listed it on your site then it is sure that you might have noted some thing that makes this journal to be listed here. But, these points may be very minor and rectifiable. Thus, if the publisher of this journal is made aware then such issues may be clarified or rectified.
One problem that I noted that some part of the instructions to authors is similar to some other journals but this is an issue that may be rectified if the publishers are made aware of it.
Would you please give the specific criteria that is violated by this journal so that it appears in your list.
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by AISR News & What’s New on JEFFLINE » Blog Archive » Predatory Publishers: Where Should I Submit My Research?
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