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Comment on Appeals by T. Jack
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Comment on Defining Platinum Open Access by Felipe G. Nievinski
At hindsight, SciELO has been Platinum OA for over 15 years now — 1000+ journals and counting — see: .
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 199 Journals by John
Sadly OPEN ACCESS journals is a business model to make money. However, many journals from established publishers e.g. Taylor & Francis, Wiley, Elsevier… … also charge submission fee. For example, many Finance journals from aforementioned publishers charge USD 50 – USD 150 for submission. There is one Finance journal from Wiley charge USD 150 for processing fee, and, another USD 150 should your paper need revision. If your paper requires two revisions, you could pay up to USD 450.
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 199 Journals by Jeffrey Beall
Be careful not to confuse the submission fee with the article processing charge. There is nothing wrong with being a for-profit organization, and there is nothing wrong with article processing charges. It is the abuse of the gold open-access model that is problematic. I am not aware of any mainstream publishers that charge double fees. Generally they charge a single APC. If you could name the specific journal and provide a URL to their fee information, that would be helpful.
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by jbrittholbrook
I don’t think the charge that altmetrics can be gamed is a good argument against their use, much less evidence that the idea of altmetrics is meretricious. Let’s not kid ourselves — all metrics can be gamed. But that alone is not a good reason not to use metrics.
Although altmetrics can be gamed, it would be obvious. Typically, one can see not merely the number of tweets (for instance) that an article generates, but also WHO the tweeters are. I’d imagine that it wouldn’t be too difficult for you, Jeffrey, to identify the bogus tweets that were bought and paid for. The same holds true for blog posts — one doesn’t simply see THAT someone blogged about an article (as when one receives an email from Academia.edu that says “someone found your profile”, but one is left to guess from the key words and the country who that someone is). Rather, one sees precisely WHO blogged. One can even go to the blog and see what was written and respond to it.
Indeed, one of the best things about altmetrics is that they help us connect with our readers. Personally, I am happy to find that sometimes my readers include non-academics. I think it is meretricious simply to dismiss attention from non-academics as irrelevant. Insofar as altmetrics help connect us with all of our interlocutors, I think they are a meritorious idea.
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Altmetrics — Meretricious or Meritorious? | jbrittholbrook
[…] I think Jeffrey Bealle has got this wrong. He claims that altmetrics are an “Ill-conceived and Meretricious Idea.” […]
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Comment on Appeals by Bidesh Chakraborty
Dear Sir, Do you have any idea about the services offered by this site http://www.citefactor.org? Is it dependable or not? Please enlighten. Regards
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Why Publishing Dissertations with Lambert Academic is Not Such a Good Idea | The EdLib Report
[…] made up of mostly Wikipedia articles. This blog post from a reputable journal editor and Jeffrey Beall’s blog about predatory publishing all point out that there are several red flags with regard to students publishing their theses with […]
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Comment on Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies by Bidesh Chakraborty
As far as i can understand (since I am from india) from the design and layout of the site http://www.jifactor.com, it is located in northern part of India, may be Uttar Pradesh…may be Benares.
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Comment on Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies by Bidesh Chakraborty
Universal Impact Factor (http://uifactor.org): This site too seems to be hailing from India.
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Comment on Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies by Bidesh Chakraborty
I am shocked to find that not a single sentence in their “Important Notes” is grammatically correct. The man behind it must be a person with very low quality school education:
” The journal must have National or International level publishing.
Journals those have valid ISSN No. (Print / Online) can apply for impact factor.
Those journals who do not provide valid ISSN No. (Online / Print) are not considered for impact factor.
In case of Print only journals must have to send their journals softcopy to given email id.
The submitted journals has to be completed minimum 1 year.
The journals which yet not completed 1 year of publishing will not be consider for impact factor.
This is mandetory to all journals those who are registered with UIF must enter their all articles in Knowledge Database, then only we can calculate Journals IMPACT FACTOR.
Journals those who submitted fake or faulty data, will not consider for Evaluation.”
http://uifactor.org/SubmitJournal.aspx
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Comment on Icelandic Journal Latest Victim of Journal Hijacking by veli
Dear Beall,
Recently, I got an email from Bothalia (a bothanic journal), I think this journal has also been hijacked (website: http://www.bothalia.com/). Could you comment about the website (!) of the journal?
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
This is new. I need to analyze it. One other person kindly let me know about it also. Thank you very much.
–Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Questions Surround the American Academic & Scholarly Research Center — Part 1 by Zainul
Thank you Beall for the great investigation.
Looking forward to reading more on such mysterious entities.
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Comment on Questions Surround the American Academic & Scholarly Research Center — Part 1 by Rob Rittenhouse
Something funny with your link it gives a forbidden message and a 500 (internal server error). http://aasrc.org/ works though — it seems to really need the http: for some reason.
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Comment on Questions Surround the American Academic & Scholarly Research Center — Part 1 by Rob Rittenhouse
Actually mine doesn’t work either — the curious can just type it in I guess.
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Comment on Beware of Spam Email With Offers to Promote Your Research by Rich Edwards (cabbagesofdoom)
I just got one of these invites from Research Media Ltd. The email did not mention any costs so I emailed back asking who pays. Only then was I told that it was £600/page and they normally write 3 pages. My response: “Thanks, but not interested.”
I’m glad that I saw your post or I might have wasted more time on their games before I discovered that they wanted me to pay for this unsolicited exposure of dubious benefit.
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Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by Dietrich Rordorf
Dear Rory,
It is up to the authors’ university to commission an investigation into your claims of potentially falsified data. If the Publisher receives an official note from either the university or the academic editor to retract the paper, the paper will be taken down. Note that MDPI is an adhering member to COPE – the Commission on Publication Ethics – and that we strictly operate according to industry standards. We can not simply retract papers based on blog posts.
Kind regards,
Dietrich Rordorf
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Comment on Questions Surround the American Academic & Scholarly Research Center — Part 1 by Shirley Ainsworth
This url http://www.aasrc.org/aasrj/ gets to the journal, though there seems to be no content available. There is a note on the page:
AASRJ Website is Under Maintenance!
Some content may not be available during this period.
We will be back soon!
If you need any assistance please email us at editor@aasrc.org
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Comment on Questions Surround the American Academic & Scholarly Research Center — Part 1 by Shawn
This journal is also: http://www.naturalspublishing.com/show.asp?JorID=11&pgid=0, which has the address:
Prof. Mahmoud Abdel-Aty
Sohag University, Egypt & University of Bahrain, Kingdom of Bahrain
P.O. Box: 32038, Kingdom of Bahrain
Tel: (+973) 17438825 – (+973) 39839285
Fax: (+973) 17449187
E-mail: abdelaty@naturalspublishing.com
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