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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Jeffrey Beall
You have signed your name as “Ron Davis.” What is your real name? Why are you afraid to use your real name?
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Jeffrey Beall
If you are receiving invitations to submit papers to Elsevier, than that is spam.
What is your name? Do you have any association with one of the publishers on my list?
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Ramesh
Some journals/publishers you’ve listed such as the American Journal of Applied Sciences published by Science Publications appears as a SCOPUS Indexed journal. Aren’t SCOPUS indexed journals supposed to be reputable publications?
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
Supposed to be, yes. But things are never as they appear …
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Antony Williams
I think that image is of Jason Priem…of AltMetrics fame? i.e. impactstory.org . I don’t believe that Jason (and his colleague Heather) are pushing article level metrics….rather the fact that scientists should be measured by their contributions to science…not only through their articles. So, their data contributions, their code contributions etc. Its outlined in the AltMetrics Manifesto: http://altmetrics.org/manifesto/
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by thank you
the more I read your material, the more disgusted i become. it is time to throw this back in the face of the OA advocates: don’t tell me why we MUST give our work away for free and why we MUST stop publishing in journals that work just fine and (in my field at least) cost very little money. instead, tell me what the incredible social benefit is that OA is supposed to grant, because I don’t get it. If you want to be a doctor, you have to go to medical school. If you go to medical school, you get access to journals. If you don’t want to become a doctor, why does society owe you access to doctors’ writings MORE than it owes to the people who have devoted their lives to medicine? Are non-doctors really going to start contributing droves of real medical research that doctors can’t do, and that non-doctors could not do by going to the library? And their right to do that trumps the right of academics to determine their own system of promotion, review, and assessment? Who said so? Why?
More and more, I think OA is showing its true colors, which is not just antithetical but actually hostile to the academic enterprise and to academic freedom.
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Ochuko Tonukari
Yes indeed, that is spam. Beall is correct. It has nothing to do with being a big publisher or not. I think Jeffrey Beall has clearly spelt out the objective of his blog from the onset: ‘critical analysis of scholarly open access publishing’. Except of course, we are now asking him to start evaluating closed access journals alongside, which is, in my opinion, a different endeavour. Any other scientists/librarian can pick up the task of evaluating closed access journals if he so desire. I strongly believe every endeavour should have a roadmap, a clear-cut objective and that is what Beall’s blog has achieved. If the man wants to start analysing closed access journals as well, it is for him to decide. After all, none of us conceived this whole idea for him in the first place.
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Comment on All About Scigmoid Publications by Robert
I agree with Thomas E. I would say the journal is suspicious but would hesitate to classify them as predatory. In their favor they aren’t publishing hundreds of titles, their website is reasonably well written. I also don’t know why someone would think Gena Marie is not a real name.
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Comment on Appeals by Mihai
Dear Dr. Beall,
why Romanian Biotechnological Letters is on your fake journal list?
Mihai
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Jeffrey Beall
Thanks, Michael. These are excellent points. I hope that whatever system emerges it is able to handle data manipulation well.
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
This journal uses deceit. It claims to have an impact factor when it really doesn’t. Also, The journal says it’s published by a bogus foundation and headquartered in New York: Foundation of Computer Science, 244 5th Avenue, # 1526, New York, NY 10001, USA — This is likely a mail forwarding service. There are additional reasons. I think the journal is really based in India.
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Lakshmi
Dear Jeffrey,
Your answer shows your immaturity. It is not that anyone who are not supports you are having association with your publisher list. He may be a researcher/academician. People are educated and civil, they know who is right and who is wrong. If a rational author publish in a under grade journal, he would never publish again in that, off course.
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Comment on Recognizing a Pattern of Problems in “Pattern Recognition in Physics” by Michael
Benestad has written a comment (in PRP) on the earlier Scafetta PRP article (S13). Benestad is scathing of S13 and some quotes are:
“This conclusion is in error because it is based on a misrepresentation of the previous work.”
“S13 further made reference to “outdated hockey-stick paleoclimatic temperature graphs” with no factual support”.
“S13 misrepresented BS09 by giving the impression that a multiple regression with 10 covariates was used to estimate the solar contribution to the recent warming.”
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Comment on Appeals by hesamedin ramezani
Dear Dr. Beall,
What do you say about the journal “journal of ethnobiology and traditional medicine”. http://www.ethnobiomed.com/. Is it not a predatory journal? They ask for a very hefty publication fee; if you commit to pay, then they process the ms. Or simply being from BMC group, it is not predatory and fine. Please comment.
Hesam
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 17:58:47 +0000
To: hesamramezani@hotmail.com
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Comment on All About Scigmoid Publications by L. S.
I would not call this well written:
“Striving to revolutionize the publishing sector, Scigmoid Company is established to achieve a status of a trusted organization in publishing scientific, technical and medical information. Sharing of ideas and technical information is of utmost importance to any scientific community for the betterment and for the development through quality related research.”
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I think it is a very fine journal.
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Kaveh Bazargan (@kaveh1000)
Ron Davis is of course not his/her name, and he/she won’t have the courage to reply. ;-)
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Kaveh Bazargan (@kaveh1000)
You have very strong views. But why the anonymous post? ;-)
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Guido B
“If you go to medical school, you get access to journals.” The problem is that in developing countries, this is often not the case.
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