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August 13, 2013, 11:14 am

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The first imposter site says “the journal now expands the coverage area to all aspects of the life sciences including human sciences and technologies” and says the subtitle is “The Iceland Journal of Life Sciences”. It even has a cover image with that subtitle.

The second imposter site appears to have an online archive (whereas the first one’s just leads to a login page). The archive lists titles and abstracts – all on life science topics – and has PDF links, but those links all go to the same missing web page. The titles and abstracts are from genuine articles, present in PubMed Central, from where they were lifted presumably. The few that I looked at were Elsevier journals, but presumably they’ve harvested titles and abstracts from multiple publishers.

They certainly know which field is most inclined to go the Gold OA route.

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Comment on KY Publications — A Slimy New OA Publisher from India by Bidesh Chakraborty

August 13, 2013, 12:15 pm

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Shame! Shame!

Comment on KY Publications — A Slimy New OA Publisher from India by Bidesh Chakraborty

August 13, 2013, 12:25 pm

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I found 5 ‘research’ articles there by a single author, SHEME MARY P U, in a single issue (Vol.1 No2).

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August 14, 2013, 7:08 am

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August 14, 2013, 8:16 am

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August 14, 2013, 8:25 am

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It has a very spare website that provides very little information to authors and readers about the publication and needed policies. For example, it provides no information on its digital preservation policies, if any. The headquarters location is not listed, so readers and authors have no idea where this journal is from; this shows a lack of transparency. The website also has several pages that are “under construction.” This journal requires copyright transfer; for an OA journal this is becoming increasingly non-standard. The journal claims to be indexed in services that are not A&I services. Also, the articles are of low quality and some contain plagiarism.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by leo

August 14, 2013, 8:28 am

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Dr Beall:

Do you have information abou this review?:

Modern Economy:

> Tel: 001(209)730-6998
> Skype: scirp_service
> E-mail: me@scirp.org

Guest Editor:
Prof. Hesuan Hu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
ME Editorial Office.

I have received a convocatory for publishing from this source.

I’m not interested for publishing there. However, it is interesting to be informed about such enterprises.

It is important to remark the important work you do for us, researchers from many countries

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall

August 14, 2013, 8:41 am

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“SCIRP” means Scientific Research Publishing. I recommend against submitting manuscripts to any of their journals.

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August 14, 2013, 8:55 am

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Thank you very much for your informative response.
What should I do with my paperpublished in that journal then? Anysuggestions? How about Journal of Language Teaching and Research?
http://academypublisher.com/jltr/

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August 14, 2013, 9:15 am

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Academy Publisher is not on my list, but I personally would not publish in any of their journals.

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August 14, 2013, 9:26 am

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I am saying about

Indian Journal of Science & Technology(INDJST)
Editor : Prof. Natarajan Gajendran Ph.D
Print ISSN : 0974-6846
Online ISSN : 0974-5645
Frequency : Monthly
IC Value : 5.02
url: http://www.indjst.org/

and its inclusion in your list.
As per the indexing it is indexed in ISI and scopus.

To my knowledge, it has got very decent editorial board, promising peer-review process and producing quality articles. It is one among the developing journal from INDIA. Also, the processing and publication fees are quite economic than other open access publishers (Biomed Central, Springer Open, PLOS ONE, Elsevier Open) for most of the authors.
Kindly explain in detail.

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August 14, 2013, 9:43 am

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I checked the site and it is awful. Just made for making quick money. How can they include hundreds of articles in a single issue? These shameless people from India are tarnishing the academic image of the country. These people need to be punished severely.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall

August 14, 2013, 11:36 am

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In researching the answer to your question, I discovered that this journal is indeed on my standalone journal list, but it is one in a fleet of journals published by the Indian Society for Education and Environment, which is on my list of questionable publishers. The standalone journal list should not duplicate journals under the publishers on my publishers list, so I have removed the journal from the standalone list.

You indicated that the journal is “indexed in ISI” but I do not see it listed in the Thomson Reuters master index here:
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/

I am concerned that the “Indian Society for Education and Environment” is not really a society in any normal sense of the word. It appears to be an open-access publisher that presents itself as a society in order to appear more legitimate. It publishes over a dozen journals, all with very broad coverage, done in order to be able to accept more papers and therefore earn more article processing charges.

I don’t understand why the society sells subscriptions to its journals (at $400 / year) when the content is open access. This is not illegal or even close, but it seems unusual to me.

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August 16, 2013, 8:00 am

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[…] Donc avant de soumettre un article dans une revue, allez jeter un œil sur cette liste de revues prédatrices. […]

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August 16, 2013, 11:26 am

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A fake Journal IJSER ( International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research (ISSN 2229-5518) is also doing same thing for attracting the authors and earning money by fooling new researcher….

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August 16, 2013, 12:54 pm

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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by chris

August 16, 2013, 2:13 pm

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I know of a company that puts the iso logo on all the products they product and they are not certified. What can you do about this?

Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Jeffrey Beall

August 16, 2013, 2:15 pm

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Probably not much. You can report it to ISO. The organization does not allow its logos to be used by others, especially by predatory publishers.

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August 17, 2013, 1:00 am

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Dear Dr. Jeffrey,

Once again, could you confirm whether Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences is legitimate?

It is indexed in Thompson and Scopus, published by http://www.insinet.net/ajbas.html. They are based in Punjab,Pakistan.

The trouble is, there is another journal that has the exact name,same ISBN number but published by AENSI, the web address is http://www.ajbasweb.com, contact person is in Jordan, fee is USD180. Contact is only with a yahoo.com e-mail.

The latter sounds terribly fishy!

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August 17, 2013, 9:01 am

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This is a company which make bounge of money by fooling innnocent authors with highly pblishing fees around 400-500 dollars.