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Comment on LIST OF INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS by AISR News & What’s New on JEFFLINE » Blog Archive » Predatory Publishers: Where Should I Submit My Research?

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[...] Publishers By Journal titles View the criteria for inclusion in the list (highly recommended [...]


Comment on Will Article Promotion Companies Make Article-Level Metrics Obsolete ? by Dr. Stats

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Hi Beall,

How are you, i am fed up from your posts. Although, you are doing good by pointing out new or money sucking publishers. BUT, as far as my opinion is considered, you are supporting the PREDATORY ones, according to the concept of SCANDAL MARKETING techniques. Please read this emerging marketing tactics. According to this point of view, businesses try to scandalize their products, this technique saves the business marketing expenses by giving them cheap fame, i-e. parasitical behavior. What you are doing? just giving them cheap fame. You are giving fame to those publishers whom name was not listen by majority even on GOOGLE.

My dear friend, let me tell you that you need to read the basic literature of BUSINESS, FINANCE, ADMINISTRATION all based on socially constructed realities and self fulfillment prophecies. Have you written a single word about the blood sucking CAPITALISM or WALL STREET, where the so-called management researchers are planning to cheat people by making plans like Sub prime mortgages, Collateralize debt obligation, from Moore’s law to More’s law, Cap n trade and many other bullshits. I would appreciate you if you write about these bullshits, can you estimate the wealth of a person responsible for present crisis of credit started from US and destroyed every good economy at the surface of Earth. Can you? No you can’t. You can only market publishers who are publishing wrongly, who are making few dollars by sheparding papers, but you can’t point out the GIANTS who are teaching our students, HOW TO SUCK BLOOD OF POOR, HOW TO GET COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE AT ANY COST, you know the meaning of any cost? No you can’t even think about it. Write about white collar slaves which we in US manufacturing. A slavery to serve business tycoons.

In the present business knowledge’s point of reference, you are doing nothing but getting paid to market these publishers via scandalizing them. I would appreciate you if you direct you marvelous castigating skills towards actual issues and let the Adam Smith’s invisible hand be decided the fate of these publishers.

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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You’re right; the link I had for this journal no longer works, so it has disappeared. I have indicated that on my list. Thanks.

Comment on Will Article Promotion Companies Make Article-Level Metrics Obsolete ? by Jill Miotke

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Dear Rahim Khan,
How would the forwarding of the Nature link violate a cyber security act? It is just the link to a report that is already available at the Nature website, not to the paper itself.
I can understand that the “remove” paper might be in violation. But I appreciate the posting of the link by Schmuck. It is the best laugh I have had in a few days.

Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Explaining Open Access Journals with the Language of Math (for Those Who Like that Sort of Thing) | Open Access @ CUNY

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[...] of questionable quality. For more about predatory open access journals, see Jeffrey Beall’s List of Potential, Possible, or Probable Predatory Scholarly Open-Access Publishers.  Unfortunately, by having shady practices, these journals put the reputation of open access more [...]

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Seba Marshall

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Look what i found during net surfing, this article was published in 2012 in the journal at this link:

http://mag.bakhtalruda.edu.sd/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Predicting-Banks-CAEL-via-Discrimenant-Ananlysis-IJAMES.pdf

The exactly same article with a different name was published in 2013 at this link:

http://jbsq.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/March_2013_13.pdf

If you check the quality of this article, its dumb, if you check end references, there is no issue no, volume number and no page number.

What you will comment for this.

Comment on Appeals by T Singh

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I was on the Editorial Board of this journal

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Jeffrey Beall

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Are you sure the first one is a journal? It may be an institutional repository, so this may be okay.


Comment on Trying to understand “ACADEMIC JOURNALS & CONFERENCES” by Decadent Science: Does fake differ from genuine? If so, how? « Skepticism about science and medicine

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[...] of the predatory conferences have registration fees of several hundred dollars ($600-$700 for Academic Journals & Conferences), not out of line with “genuine” conferences like those of the International AIDS Society whose [...]

Comment on LIST OF INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS by Decadent Science: Does fake differ from genuine? If so, how? « Skepticism about science and medicine

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[...] of the proliferating “open access, on-line” predatory journals  notes that they are cheap to produce, being published only on the Internet, so that their [...]

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by David Marjanović

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Uh, the BIOSYSCONTEXT post makes clear that "Hawkeswoodiidae" was "named" by Makhan & Ezzatpanah, not by Hawkeswood. It's also <b>invalid</b>, because they used <i>Amrishoonops</i> as the type genus, as opposed to anything beginning with "<i>Hawkeswoodi-</i>". Cargo cult science.

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Jeffrey Beall

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David, thanks for that correction. I regret the error. –Jeffrey Beall

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Seba Marshall

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First one is a university magazine, not a repository. What you will comment on this publishing behavior of author and publisher.

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Seba Marshall

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I want to know that in your list, there are few journals having respected indexing like Scopus, DOAJ etc. I think the journals cleared their inclusion policies, why these respectable indexers associate themselves with journals if they are not doing good. Please explain the error is at your selection side or indexers side?

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Jeffrey Beall

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The error is not on my side.


Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Wendy Scutt

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Actually I think the vanity journal of note here is “Journal of Herpetology”, where the editor is the paper author and yet he doesn’t tell the readers.
The paper you cite has about 300 evidence free taxonomic changes in an act of grievous taxonomic misconduct. Most of the authors of your cited paper, (e.g. Schleip, Wuster and Crother) are serial offenders!
Maybe you should actually “read” the papers you slate an those you commend, before offering ill-informed comments!

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by dannybloom

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yes call them vanity journals or “vanity academic paper mills” or VAPS as i call them or your good term of PREDATORY JOURNALS or predatory publications. THIS IS IMPORTANT

Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by dannybloom

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dr beall _ dan bloom in taiwan here _ found you after reading gina
kolata”s very good article on predatory publications that vampire on
naive and sometimes vain scientists and academics. your term is good
ie predatory publications. i call them “vanity academic paper mills”
and i think that the more the media calls the preying journals as
either predatory publications as you do or vaps as i do for vanity
academic paper mills the more the public and the science community
will wake up. i noticed that nyt kolata never used the word predatory
publications in her article. why not? maybe send info to dot earth
blog at andrew c revkin page at ny times. since climate change vanity
articles might also be preyed on?

Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Larsen

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What they do is legal but I would not hesitate to call it a fraud. If you offer a self-published, print on demand service you can´t advertise it as “academic” publishing, because that, together with the high prices, conveys the image of a proper academic or university press with editors, distributors, correctors, external readers, etc. They don´t say explicitly that they offer those services (which is why they are legal) but they blatantly mislead buyers in Amazon with those prices and that name. There are many reviews of customers who thought that they were butying a proper academic book or manual only to get a printout of someone´s undergraduate dissertation. It´s legal, but it is still fooling people.

Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by John Green

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Maybe because I’ve come across another of their imprints before, I knew more or less the score on this one. All I can say is that people need to research publishers before they go with them. What I will also say is this. I was originally tempted to go with them because a) I didn’t really expect money from the project I was doing, so not having royalties from them wasn’t an issue b) I have no intention of pursuing an academic career from this. If you are happy not to receive royalties and you have no interest in using the services of this group for any sort of career move or advancement, I can’t see a problem. So it really also depends on what you want from this German service. If it’s simply (and I mean only) to see your name up there as the author of a book, but you want nothing more, I don’t see the problem. I had (and have) no interest either in self-publishing or in trying to market the thesis to a “proper” academic press.

In the end, I declined to go with them. This was because on reflection, I think that if my Ph.D. is reworked (and this would be when I have enough time, which I don’t at present) it “might” be more attractive to a real academic press, which I do agree is preferable. The trick there is to make it more attractive, and that’s not easy, and to do that does require some work. I know that normally, and without reworking, Ph.D.s are not that attractive to scholarly presses, since they are created for somewhat different purposes and audiences.

My first thought was to avoid all that hassle and extra work, which is why I entertained the thought of going with VDM for a while.

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