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Comment on Questions Surround the American Academic & Scholarly Research Center — Part 2 by Ramasse-miettes – Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it
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Comment on Icelandic Journal Latest Victim of Journal Hijacking by Dr. Imran Touqir
A new ISI Journal (Bothalia, from South Africa) hijacked by cyber criminals. The following link is fake. Do not submit your articles to this Fake Journal:
http://www.bothalia.com/
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Comment on Appeals by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya
Dear sir…
I want to include our journal ‘Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Journal’ to Scholary Open Access. Kindly visit our website ‘www.journal.appconnect.in’ for more details.
Waiting for your reply…
Thanking you…
Dr. Rajiv Dahiya
Editor-in-Chief
editorbpr@gmail.com
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
You sure?
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Comment on Appeals by chikumamu
don’t know how to react to a request by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya
cant they just see its predatory list
anyway URL to pharmacology online
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Comment on Appeals by AlexH
I think it is another journal. The journal which have Dr. Rajiv as EIC is http://journal.appconnect.in
and it seems to me that it may have a chance to be listed on the appropriate section of scholarlyoa. An Universal Impact Factor of 0.7851 is a good start for considering…
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by Guria
“a five-paragraph article”…That’s amazing!
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by Yurii
I think it is about time Google Scholar introduces some sort of screening mechanism, or risk to become irrelevant
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Murray State Business
[…] about publishers and journals to avoid. The Scholarly Open Access blog maintains the list and is upfront about its criteria for labeling a publisher […]
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Comment on LIST OF INDIVIDUAL JOURNALS by Open access and journals you might want to avoid | Murray State Business
[…] Scholarly Open Access blog maintains a list of journals it might be wise to avoid citing in your academic research papers. But your best bet is to find […]
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by Puja
Hello Sir,
Really appreciate your work. You are doing a great service to maintain the sanctity in the academic world. I am from India and it is really disheartening to see so many predatory journals from my country.
Could you please check http://www.researchersworld.com/about_journal.html
Many Thanks.
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by TTK
The climate change paper almost beats this recent one, which introduces human photosynthesis – melanin is the chlorophyll – the numerous illustrations are breathtaking.
http://www.wsrjournals.org/journal/wjmmsr/archive/july-2013-vol.-1-%282%29
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by TTK
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by brembs
Ha ha ha! Awesome! “Combating Climate Change with Neutrinos” is almost as good as “arsenic in DNA” or “table-top fusion”! :-)
The only thing that beats these papers is the journal “Homeopathy” lol :-)
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by Jeffrey Beall
I need to spend some more time examining this one. The articles are poorly copyedited, and I did see some plagiarism. I’m not sure that it’s really predatory, though.
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Comment on A Vanity Scholarly Press from Québec by Scholarly Open Access - useful blog about online publishing
[…] It has an interesting blogroll discussing the topic of open-access publishing, online journals, online scams and trends in the online publishing […]
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Comment on Article-Level Metrics: An Ill-Conceived and Meretricious Idea by Costa Vakalopoulos
The potential use of OA and ALMs is as idealistic it appears as peer review, both open to self-interested abuse, both systems if managed properly could achieve what they purport to.
There is an obvious risk to OA, which Jeffrey Bealle has done well to highlight, but the demand for such a platform has to do partly with the sheer frustration of submitting to journals with 10 percent acceptance rates. There is no doubt about the high quality of many articles thus published, but one gets the impression certainly that name of mentor and institution has a great deal to do with acceptance. These aren’t necessarily dirty words of course, but a high rejection rate probably has less to do with poor quality as it does with control and the impression of elitism. In the day of electronic publishing it is a travesty that journals have such low acceptance rates and the contribution of peer review often appears anti-scientific.
Unfortunately, predatory publishing appears to be tainting OA and legitimises the often uncompromising rhetoric of those wishing to maintain the status quo instead of finding avenues to improve the current system.
ALMs appear such a great tool in theory, but there appears to be an urgent need of standardisation that will help the perceived integrity of OAs. Citations appear at face value a good metric, but as anyone who has published knows particular papers are often cited because of prospective desire to be published in the “right” journal.
It appears that downloads is an objective and genuine measure of interest in a paper that may not translate into a citation, for whatever reason. The problem as I see it is that papers published in less prestigious journals may be ignored in references, but could have a major impact on thinking and downloads are a better index of this. Obviously several metrics are needed.
The concern for downloads or page views as rightly noted by Dr Bealle is gaming, but the brush is applied widely. I’m not sure it’s practical or possible even but a list of journals using ALMs with a high suspicion of gaming could discourage the practice and put individual article metrics as a legitimate alternative to impact factor.
Jeffrey has taken the first important step of listing predatory journalism, but he won’t stop it. In the evolution of OA for those committed to a fairer system than the peer review of a small number of elite journals which have vested interest erecting barricades, maybe he also needs to provide ideas as to quality control that is still compatible and not downright antagonistic to alternative ways of publishing and the metrics used. Science would be well served and an attack on gaming that doesn’t do damage to ALMs would seem a good place to start.
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Comment on Weekend Update: Predatory Publishing News by pujaweb
Thank you so much. I would wait for your detailed examination.
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Comment on Appeals by World Academy of Science, Engineering & Space
Kindly include WASES name in your listing, also do let me know if further information required.
Warm Regards
AALOK DUBEY
Secretary,
World Academy of Science, Engineering & Space
Email – info@wases.org
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Comment on David Publishing: Flipping Its Model by Lizhen Chen
translate.google.com makes spelling errors?
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