What about journals that invited you as a guest editor and you have to do everything? just for the honor…
Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Nora
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Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Terry McGlynn
David, the way that taxonomy works, an official species description or revision in a published venue has precedence over prior work and must be cited in future work. There are detailed reasons how and why this matters, as discussed in the articles and posts cited by Beall. Even though these are rinky-dink outfits, they are actually threatening the foundations of taxonomy in these fields. Presumably the rules for systematics will evolve to deal with contemporary pseudojournals, but at the moment, it’s a big issue.
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Comment on New Term: MOAMJ = Multidisciplinary Open Access Mega Journal by Felipe G. Nievinski
I’m starting to think that community might be a useful demarcation principle, i.e., whether or not a journal is sponsored or organized by an academic or professional member society. The rationale is that, contrary to creating a website, it is not trivial to attract and retain members. This principle separates well bogus or fake journals. It also separates mega journals (open or not), such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Access, Nature Scientific Reports, etc. which, although genuine, don’t serve any single community — their signal-to-noise ratio is low for any individual scientist.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by zak5126
Dear Everybody,
I published a book with LAP about 2 years ago. During the publishing process, I was given all the fine prints of the deal and I understood what I was doing. My main aim was to have my book on my shelf and I got it. Meanwhile, they sold some copies too and gave me book-buying credit for it (since my royalty did not cross the payment threshold).
Sine the book is my thesis, I had already published 3 papers in good journals out of my work; I am sure you all understand that journals papers do not come straight out of thesis, they have to be changed a lot to get published.
So I would say, LAP helped me by saving the money I would have otherwise spent on publishing my own book (vanity publishing??), put me right over the internet (amazon, Barnes etc) and gave me buying credit.
I have no complaints! I suggest if your thesis/academic work is good, you should publish papers out of it (in a journal language) and then consider the appropriate publisher to publish the book form. If you don’t know how a book is different from a journal paper (srly???). And if your work is too good, I am sure you have world’s top publishers ringing your door bell already!
Cheers!
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Comment on Appeals by pari
Thanks for your kind reply…Can u please explain more about IAFOR (International Academic Forum) as it looks decent organizer. I have submitted an abstract and it is accepted in ECSEE-2013 to be held in Brighton, UK during 4-7 July, 2013. Should i go to attend it from India. I did not find many reviews about this.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Husain
Sir, you mention “Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA)” above, at the same time you are critical to Hindawi publications, while the OASPA is chaired by Paul Peters (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) Chair. (http://oaspa.org/about/board/ )
Don’t you think it’s a conflict of interest.
Another query, MedKnow was included in your list in the past (if i am not mistaken), what Medknow publication has done to remove them from your list. They have hundreds of publications under their belt.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Husain
I agree with your statement Galuh. Elsevier journals (Some) charge very exorbitant, which no one can afford in developing or underdeveloped countries. I clearly see a bias by Mr. Jeffery toward those Scientific journals.
Mr. Jeffery, I strongly recommend that you put up a list of European and American journals who charged for publications.
Then it will be a fair landscape.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by John Green
Good to hear the positive aspects of VDM publishing. Given a choice, most people would be better pursuing publication through a reputable publisher, since I know that VDM books are not well received in scholarly circles. But if you are only interested in seeing your name as a book author, rather than your thesis lying gathering dust in a university library, I don’t see a problem going with VDM. The other point is that attempting to get published through established academic presses as an alternative is NOT EASY. If you did a Ph.D. the chances are (especially in the social sciences) that it will have to be extensively reworked to come up to standard for that audience. Otherwise, expect a lot of rejection letters. At least with VDM, they will accept a thesis for publication with few if any alterations and you can get on with your life.
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Comment on Report Details Predatory Practices of Two Bosnian Journals by Akpis Arodot
There are many superfluous information in madam Kudomovic comment, while some relevant are missing:
(1) that she is the Editor-in-chief of HealthMed, an Open Access journal charging authors with fantastic amounts;
(2) that HealthMed was just these days dropped out from Thomson Journal Master List;
(3) that this happened after abovementioned study revealed that HealthMed was a member of a cartel exchanging non-existent, fabricated citations, with the only goal to inflate impact and income of cartel members;
(4) that member of the cartel is a journal edited by her husband.
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Comment on About the Author by Jeff Beall’s Blog about Predatory Open Access Publishers | The EdLib Report
[...] of open access) they cannot withdraw the paper and submit it elsewhere.One of my librarian heroes, Jeffrey Beall (pictured above), has a blog that keeps up with Open Access issues, particularly ferreting out [...]
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Comment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by The business of for-profit “science” « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] mainstream journals. Elsevier’s profit margin may not have been as high as Hindawi’s, but at 36% some (including me) might still regard it as excessive, representing gouging of their captive [...]
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by The business of for-profit “science” « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] then there’s Landes Bioscience. It isn’t listed by Beall among “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers”, but it came to my attention because I received a notice from Oncoimmunology announcing their [...]
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Comment on LIST OF INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS by The business of for-profit “science” « Skepticism about science and medicine
[...] 6 a year since then. Landes Bioscience may have discovered a new market niche. Beall’s list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals” is replete with very broad, general titles — International Journal of Agronomy & Plant [...]
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Comment on Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy by Truth Hater
The fact that clicking on “Wendy Scutt’s” name takes you to http://www.smuggled.com, i.e., Raymond Hoser’s website, also suggests this ;)
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Comment on Appeals by T Singh
I was on the Editorial Board of this Journal
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Comment on About the Author by Jeff Beall’s Blog about Predatory Open Access Publishers | USF Libraries Faculty & Staff Newsletter
[...] of open access) they cannot withdraw the paper and submit it elsewhere.One of my librarian heroes, Jeffrey Beall (pictured above), has a blog that keeps up with Open Access issues, particularly ferreting out [...]
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Open access con occhiali da sole – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it
[...] ma sono una più sberluccicante dell’altra e tutte dai titoli talmente credibili che l’editore non è nemmeno nella lista di Beall. [...]
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Comment on Another Society Journal Hijacked ? by Open access con occhiali da sole – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it
[...] compenso Beall ha scoperto una contraffazione di Bradleya, gloriosa rivista dell’associazione britannica Cactacee, i [...]
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Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Jeff Beall’s Blog about Predatory Open Access Publishers | USF Libraries Faculty & Staff Newsletter
[...] that keeps up with Open Access issues, particularly ferreting out predatory journal publishers. His list of potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access publishers is very helpful if academic faculty or graduate students are solicited for manuscripts from [...]
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Comment on Article Acceptance Letter Reveals a Bogus Peer Review by Jeff Beall’s Blog about Predatory Open Access Publishers | USF Libraries Faculty & Staff Newsletter
[...] articles about how to detect such practices. For example, his latest blog post highlights an article acceptance letter that reveals a bogus peer review. Jeff was recently featured in two articles, one in Inside Higher Education, “Librarians and [...]
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