[…] Posting about Frontiers at least once on his blog, he doesn’t go so far as to say they’re predatory but does highlight questionable practices such as spamming and arguably loose editorial practices, I get complaints about Frontiers […]
Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by Is Frontiers a non-profit or a for-profit publisher? | TK Talk
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Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Michael Getzner
I recently submitted a paper to a special issue of Sustainability, one of MDPI’s journals. Just saying: I received one excellent, one good, and one rather short review; major revisions took me some time, the paper was then accepted after some weeks.
As a reviewer, I was asked to review one paper, which was very low quality, I rejected it (and the journal also sent a rejection later).
My experience with Sustainability is good, their journal and editorial management is fine, and I chose the journal basically because of its inclusion in SCI and the special issue topics.
I though have no other experience with this journal nor MDPI, it seemed o.k. to me.
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by Michael Getzner
Thanks, Prof. Beall, for sharing this as an example of the need of some “researchers” for publications in the diverse predatory journals. If someone needs editorials or such short letters to blow up his/her list of publications, this says it all about ethics in science. Just by reading some of these “papers” (including the horrible English) no serious researcher will acknowledge the scientific merits behind.
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Comment on Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism by Alena Watson
We All know that you get paid to NOT include PLOS One
it’s obvious since there are many comments targeting thi journal and you do NO ACTION
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by Loms B.
Reading these comments is as entertaining as the actual post. Rampant sockpuppetry
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by Steve D
You are getting it wrong, Jeffery Beall.
There are many and full journals called Letters devoted to concise and short manuscripts (Physical Letters, Chemical Letters, Biology Letters, etc), which are influential in their respective fields in their short formats. So, your critic on the Editorials’ or Letters’ types is completely out the scope!
You are completely missing it.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Bagaimana Bisa Mengetahui Suatu Jurnal Terindex SCOPUS di Blacklist TIM PAK PUSAT KEMRISTEKDIKTI ? - Hariandi Maulid
[…] Untuk cek apakah masuk Beall’s List ? bisa search di daftar jurnalnya : https://scholarlyoa.com/2016/01/05/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2016/ Perhatikan: Predatory Journals (Ada bbrp Terindex di Scopus) […]
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Raj Kumar
Respected Sir,
will u please tell me Research India Publication(http://www.ripublication.com) predatory or not? because this publication published a number of international journals in various fields in india.
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by Guido Berens
The point is that he published a *lot* of these short papers, *and* that they are of very low quality (which you can verify for yourself). This raises the concern that shady publishers offer ‘researchers’ with some disposable income the opportunity to pad their CVs with huge numbers of publications in very short time. Sure it is takes more time and effort to write a good, short paper than to write a bad, long paper – but it also takes more time and effort to write a bad, long paper than a bad, short paper.
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by Sporkle Dorkle
This is exactly how people like this guy get away with what they do. As soon as someone points it out, they get accused of being personal, playing politics etc. Maybe it’s your culture, I dunno, but there’s this instinct to save people’s pride as soon as their faults are pointed out. But because you protect them, it means they can get away with stuff that is obviously selfish and wrong.
You don’t need to save his face. He has damaged himself by publicly claiming he is the most published person in the world, when most of what he writes is not scientifically valuable. He uses scam journals to promote himself. You should not want to protect such people.
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by W Viberg
According to Web of Science dr Wiwanitkit has an h-index of 13 which is not very impressive considering the large number of papers (1419 in WoS).
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Comment on Thai Researcher Has Hundreds of Publications, Except … by Editor Y
I do not question the quality of paper but the critics on the “type of publications”.
I agree with Jeffery Beall on the egotistical way the author presents himself as an “editor in chief and editorial board of more than 40 journals”, affiliated to many institutions at the same time (I saw 5 different affiliations in one of his publications!).
This is simply ridiculous and senseless. How one can be an editor in 40 journals and affiliated to 5 institutions at the same time?
This is possible in one case only; each organ of his body is affiliated to a different institution or journal!
Again, the problem should NOT be in the “type of publication” or its length but its content, which is, of course, debatable and criticizable but not the publication type (letter or editorial…) which is an arbitrary categorization that does not make much sense.
The problem is not in the type or length of a publication but in the “show-off” the author is presented with.
Even if we have thousands of papers and thousands of prizes, we should remain humble. This is the point that Jeffery Beall should focus on, but not on the length or the type of publication per se.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
In my opinion, Research India Publications is a low-quality publisher that exploits researchers. I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to its journals.
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Comment on A French Publisher / Conference Organizer to Avoid by DEUS ex MACHINA
Indeed.
But it looks clear to me that he is showing “Pasteur Institute” to attract people and suggest quality….
For most part of the meetings the place (physical) is a secondary information, the city and the dates are the most important thing.
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Comment on A French Publisher / Conference Organizer to Avoid by DEUS ex MACHINA
A VERY important additional information.
Indeed, it is a French society but at http://www.societe.com you may find revealing information:
http://www.societe.com/societe/takayama-418659728.html
Takayama: 403 300,00 € of profit in 2014. An increase in 30% between 2013-2014.
A really lucrative society.
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Comment on Appeals by Chacha
Dear Dr Beall,
Greetings from Tanzania. I would like to know if Food Science and Technology International is a good journal to publish. It is not in your list and I am about to submit my manuscript. I think the publisher is SAGE
Kind regards,
Chacha
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
You’re right: it’s published by SAGE. This is NOT a predatory publisher, and this is a strong journal. Good luck.
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Comment on Appeals by Chacha
Dear Dr Beall,
Thank you very much. I will submit my manuscript.
Regards,
Chacha
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Katherine
Prof, Beall please guide with this conference World Congress on Education http://worldconedu.org/ offering publications of selected papers in any of these journals (I checked them and couldn’t find them in your list): International Journal of Technology and Inclusive Education, International Journal for Infonomics, International Journal for Digital Society, Literacy information and computer education journal, International Journal for E-learning security, International Journal for Cross-disciplinary subjects in Education.
Thank you for your help! Katherine
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Comment on A French Publisher / Conference Organizer to Avoid by herr doktor bimler
They have grown into quite an empire. Someone should bring “neuromarketing-site.com” to Neuroskeptic’s attention, it is right down his street, with the grifters’ congress in Dubai.
Celine Joubet has been particularly diligent in staking out domains for potential World Organisations and World Conferences:
http://domainbigdata.com/name/celine%20joubet
Marvin Edreas has personally only staked out seven,
http://domainbigdata.com/name/edeas%20marvin
but the presence of “targeting-hairremoval.com” and “targeting-hairloss.com” and “longevity-site.com” on his list suggests an indiscriminate and non-fastidious approach to income streams, while the presence of “teamagazine-site.com” comes back to his old interest in the anti-oxidant possibilities of tea.
Rouby Joubet is part of the Takayama network:
http://domainbigdata.com/name/rouby%20joubet
While Anne-Sophie Mailfert has 11 domains
http://domainbigdata.com/name/mailfert%20anne-sophie
…including “ebola-site.com” and “targeting-ebola.com”, and “stemcells-site.com”, where “stemcells” is one of those words that leads me to expect a certain degree of opportunism. Even if the site is, in this case, merely a place-holder to promote the
International Society of Microbiota – 3rd World Congress on Targeting Microbiota October 22, 23 2015
The inevitable “Targetting Ebola” series of conferences attached to the “ebola-site.com” and “targeting-ebola.com” sites seem to be particularly good at presenting themselves as legitimate.
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