Hi, Gerald, no, I do not keep track of where the publishers on my lists are based. Many are dishonest and don’t state where they are really from.
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Comment on Cosmic Journals by R.V.Krishnakumar
It is not correct to say there is bias. If I am a gangster, I am bad. Doesnt matter to which country I belong to. There are many originating from India which should be bothering scholars in India. Scholars on “top” should act.
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Comment on Cosmic Journals by Shawn
First, not all publishers start at the bottom. There are plenty of small start ups that produce quality material (Academic societies for example).
Frankly Indian journals are frequently cited here is because it is currently the epicenter of small scale vanity publishing. There are several factors on why this is occurring in India, but that’s another topic.
While it seems like the region is being picked on, it is only because they are easier to identity. There are much larger and well financed operations from China (for example). You would never know the country of origin because they buy domains using proxies. They also disguise the journals better and is harder to pin down for an outsider.
Comment on Copying Elsevier by Jan Velterop
An Indian journal! All the authors Indian! Even an Indian telephone number! Shouldn’t be allowed! And it doesn’t even reach the exalted levels of European or American journals, where you’ll never find any trace of plagiarism because it’s called extended citation or referencing there! C’mon, Jeffrey, this journal may be amateurish, even very amateurish compared to the professional journals of Elsevier and the like, but ‘predatory’? Really? Plunder, pillage, rape?
Comment on Copying Elsevier by Jeffrey Beall
Jan, I think you ought to submit one of your papers to them. I am sure they will accept it.
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Comment on New Open-Access Chemistry Journal with Some Problems by Peace Peter
You did not list enough Journals. For example: This journal has a problem: http://ijcsi.org/
Comment on And Now, a Proofreading Scam by Austin Rinehart
It’s just a nightmare, I never used such services if I didn’t sure about quality of them. Make sure to use proper services like http://www.papersconsulting.com for example.
Comment on Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme by dzrlib
If nothing else, ‘open access’ publishing, by new and previously unknown publishers, is becoming increasingly creative.
Comment on Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme by Ninth Level Ireland » Blog Archive » Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme
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Comment on Cosmic Journals by Gerald Dorey
The sites seem to have been taken down now: even worse luck for the poor authors who thought their work was published with perpetual access, but which now find it is stuck in a strange academic limbo land of undead articles that no-one can read.
Comment on And Now, a Proofreading Scam by Peter Matthews
Even when we know a service is genuine, it is best to start by asking the editor or company to edit a sample text.
Of course, even the response to this can be faked (the company might employ an excellent editor just once, for the test), but it does help to build trust in most cases.
Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Rob Rittenhouse
I have very mixed feelings about that Dirty Western site. On the one hand it’s interesting to see how prevalent publishing in low-quality journals is but, on the other hand, some of it is, methinks, a bit nasty.
What would be interesting is collecting some data and reporting it in the time honored format: “Compass Point University is a Midwestern university with . An analysis of publishing records from to shows the following pattern.
Obviously these low-quality journals have a market because of the research evaluation practices of some universities.
Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Frank Lu
What has ISO got to do with quality control of journals? What is the international standard that we are talking about — ISO 9000?
Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Jeffrey Beall
They are completly abusing the ISO certification system to make themselves look legitimate.
Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt
It might worth noting that faculty at Western Illinois University are not being tenured or promoted on the basis of the articles found in predatory publishers. While the DW “broke” this story four weeks ago, Department Personnel Committees began addressing this issues at least a year ago. These publications are not being allowed for tenure or promotion consideration. I have made PowerPoint presentations at the department level regarding this issue, and gave a presentation to the University Chairs Council last month on this topic. I have openly shared my presentation materials internally (at WIU) and externally (with the American Sociological Association). Some departments actually have procedures in place to help junior colleagues avoid getting caught up in this national problem.
In short, the DW is not breaking news. While they have shown that this problem can seriously affect campuses if left unchecked, Western Illinois has in fact been addressing this issue on our campus. We discovered it more than a year ago. We are working through Department Personnel Committees and Chairs to intentionally mentor our junior colleagues regarding this situation. We are trying to catch them prior to tenure so that they are able to remedy the situation before coming up for tenure. In the end, the DW has simply come to the table late, found evidence of food, and demanded that they get credit for the meal. They have also misrepresented how the dinner was served. In fact, we are not promoting people or tenuring people on the basis of these articles. But we are bussing the table now.
Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Rahim Khan, India
The fact is that there are a number of organizations that get you ISO certification in India for a fee. I guess these journals must have availed these kind of services. There is a lack of any regulation regarding research publications and quality control in India. Mushrooming of large private educational organisations have made matter worse. As a result a there is a huge market for these substandard journals because most faculty of these private institutions are not good enough to publish with IEEE,ACM,Springer and other established publishers.