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Comment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One by L. Lambert

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Milena is now forwarding emails to another colleague and editorial board member:

Dr.xxx,
I hope this email finds you well. My colleague Milena asked if I could get in touch with you about your paper titled xxx. 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 the Internal Medicine Review. 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 our scope I can put you in contact with Dr. Chadwick Prodromos from our editorial board.

Could you please let me know your thoughts on this?

Sincerely,

Dr. Lisseth Tovar, M. D.
Senior Editor
Internal Medicine Review
http://www.internalmedicinereview.org


Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by Janos Toth

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I recently discovered a ‘Frontiers’ account on Scribd with thousands of uploaded articles publihed NOT in Frontiers journals. All seems to be open access/freely available articles, but one would question why a legit scientific publisher would republish other publishers’ content; in fact I think it is pretty unheard of?!

https://www.scribd.com/publisher/47197814/Frontiers

Comment on Watch Out for Publishers with “Nova” in Their Name by ANE Historian

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I have no reason to doubt that these publishers are “no-goes,” but it certainly would be much more helpful if you could give more concrete reasons why this is true.

Maybe some examples of experiences people had would be good. How could this spell the end for an assistant prof. in his/her field? Any examples of this that have occurred?

At the heart of academics, we are trained to be critical thinkers. We need developed arguments to be persuaded of something. Or at least that’s what I have taught all of my students, wrong or right.

Comment on A French Publisher / Conference Organizer to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall

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Are you sure? It appears to be a subscription journal, and its table of contents indicates its most recent issue is from 2012. I have not analyzed this journal. Proceed with much caution.

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

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If you mean the one published by Springer, it’s not on my list.

Comment on Is JoVE Just Another Spammer? by From Morocco

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“Praise worthy prize publishing house” a predatory publisher who charges both subscribers and authors.

Comment on Is JoVE Just Another Spammer? by Rocket Scientist, ScientificSpam DNSBL

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We don’t know if they’re _just_ another spammer, but they definitely are a spammer and recognized as such on the ScientificSpam DNSBL.

Comment on Is JoVE Just Another Spammer? by Wim Crusio

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Isn’t it normal for a hybrid journal to charge both readers and authors? Readers need a subscription to access the journal’s closed content, but anybody can access the content that authors have paid for to be OA.

As for the high price of having your article OA and to subscribe to the journal, I think that is because the costs of producing videos is significantly higher than creating a PDF, although I admit not being privy to the journal’s finances. (Disclosure: I have been a member of their editorial board since 2007).


Comment on Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences by Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences - USF Libraries Faculty & Staff NewsletterUSF Libraries Faculty & Staff Newsletter

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[…] is James McCrostie, a full-time Associate Professor and part-time journalist in Japan. The list is here. For a PDF file of the criteria, click […]

Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by Mari joli

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Thanks for the review…nearly made a gaffe..got suspicious when I was asked to make payment to a person in Dhaka, Bangladesh..using us dollars and converting it to task..

Comment on Is JoVE Just Another Spammer? by tekija

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Here is an unsolicited e-mail that I received today from Kager, which by the way does not mention the publication fee of the journal.

Case Reports in Ophthalmology

If you are having trouble viewing this e-mail, please click here.

Invitation for Papers

Dear Dr. (Redacted)

Submit your case report to this peer-reviewed, online-only journal to share your findings with the international scientific community. Papers are published online within 2 weeks of acceptance and will be searchable in PubMed!

Your benefits of publishing in Case Reports in Ophthalmology:
High citation potential
Peer-reviewed
Fast online publication
For more information, please visit Case Reports in Ophthalmology. To submit your own case report, please refer to the online submission instructions.

We look forward to receiving your submission.

Kind regards,
Sandra Braun
Product and Marketing Manager
Karger Publishers

Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief
Anat Loewenstein, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel

Editorial Board
Adi Abulafia, Ein Tal Eye Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ehud Assia, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Albert J. Augustin, City Hospital of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
Francesco Bandello, University Vita Salute, Milan, Italy Irina S. Barequet, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Rubens Belfort, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gabriel Coscas, Eye University, Créteil, France
Diana V. Do, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Omaha, USA
Dafna Goldenberg, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Michaella Goldstein, Tel Aviv Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel
Atsushi Hayashi, University of Toyama, Toyama, Japan
Sue Lightman, University College London, London, UK
Joseph Moisseiev, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel
Jerzy Nawrocki, Ophthalmic Clinic “Jasne Blonia”, Lodz, Poland
Christian Prünte, Vista Clinic, Binningen, Switzerland
Ursula Schmidt, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Rufino Silva, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Eric Souied, Hôpital Intercommuncal de Créteil, Paris, France
Simon Taylor, University College London, London, UK

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Comment on Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences by Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences - The EdLib ReportThe EdLib Report

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[…] is James McCrostie, a full-time Associate Professor and part-time journalist in Japan. The list is here. For a PDF file of the criteria, click […]

Comment on Is JoVE Just Another Spammer? by Stuart McKelvie

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I was recently asked to review a submission to JOVE. INo flags were raised in my mind by the request.

I did it and recommended a revision. I might contact them to ask what the status of that submission is.

Comment on A French Publisher / Conference Organizer to Avoid by DEUS ex MACHINA

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And “22 Nobel Prize Winners are Honorary Members of the CMB Editorial Board”

Huge *WTF* to the whole story. It is just as dadaist as Duchamp would like it to be..

Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals by natho

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My invitation came from Shirley Paul. The description of the journal, “The Scientific Pages of Metallurgical and Material Engineering,” feels the need to explain that mixtures of metal elements are called alloys.

As above, thanks for the service. I see less attention to the ethical issues in physical sciences, but it is definitely there. And it is not just packing publications, but people listing editorial board experience as relevant.


Comment on Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences by David Taylor

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I hope I am not too late to comment on this issue — medical conferences have a long history of being held in attractive locales, often tropical or touristy. Participants don’t spend 24 (or even 18) hours a day in “serious scientific debates” and can usually afford the extra-curricular attractions. CME conferences are notorious in this regard: spend a morning learning about new stent techniques, the rest of the day at the Caribbean beach!

Comment on Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences by Trash science: as conferências caça-níqueis são apenas a ponta do iceberg | Blog do Pedlowski

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[…] Finalmente, para os interessados em não cair nas malhas das conferências caça-níqueis, sugiro a leitura dos critérios propostos pelo professor Jeffrey Beall para identificar quando nos deparamos com esse tipo de pseudo evento científico, o qual pode ser acessado (Aqui!). […]

Comment on Oncotarget’s Peer Review is Highly Questionable by MC

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As first author or , lately, corresponding author I published three papers in oncotarget. Those papers have received a conspicuous number of citations and were, in all cases, rigorously reviewed by three-four reviewers. in all cases their comments were deep, interesting and never superficial. Nothing else to add.

Comment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal? by John Sanderson

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The process around publishing scientific research is a vastly different realm to understanding the content of the research. Unfortunately, Mr Beall attempts to deal with a mix of these very separate aspects to form a rather ill-informed position around the topic of macrophage activation.

Comment on Is JoVE Just Another Spammer? by Stuart McKelvie

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Further to my comment above (with apology for the typo in “INo” which should be simply “No”, I looked at my review again. I treated the submission seriously and recommended that two major changes should be made. However, overall, I found that the submission was credible. Of course, that does not mean that the journal is or is not credible. Perhaps others could look more closely at the quality of the publications.

In the meantime, here is an interesting exchange on Research Gate:
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_anyone_have_experience_with_the_Journal_of_Visualized_Experiments

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