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September 5, 2013, 9:12 am

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“The publisher’s fleet includes both open access and toll-access journals. They publish two pairs of journals that are almost identical:

Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences
Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences Letters
Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability
Journal of Statistics Applications & Probability Letters

I don’t understand why a publisher would publish two such closely-related journals.”

The first journal in each pair is probably for full-length articles, while the “Letters” one is for shorter texts (possibly comments). In my field (economics), there are (for example) two similarly related (quite reputable) journals “Applied Economics” and “Applied Economics Letters” published by Taylor & Francis.

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September 5, 2013, 9:19 am

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Thank you! Very helpful comment.

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September 5, 2013, 9:50 am

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This site says “under construction.” [http://wases.org] Please let me know when it is ready. Thank you.

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September 5, 2013, 10:33 am

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Dear Dr Beall,

Thank you for your continuing efforts. I was wondering if you could look in to the journal ” European Journal of Agricultural Sciences” (http://bellpress.org/Journals/index.php/EJAS/index) and comment on its.

With regards,
Dastogeer

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September 5, 2013, 2:07 pm

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Bell Press — I have not heard of this publisher, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will do a fully analysis. It looks very suspicious at first glance. Thank you again. –Jeffrey Beall

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September 5, 2013, 3:40 pm

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[…] World Applied Sciences Journal are indexed in Scopus and Web of Knowledge. IDOSI is one of the predatory scholarly open-access journals identified by Jeffrey Beall A librarian from UC […]

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September 5, 2013, 5:41 pm

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Dr. Beall,

Please take a look at this journal. I need your expert judgement whether or not it is a fraudulent journal, which I think it is. Here is the link:
http://asian-efl-journal.com/about/

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September 6, 2013, 1:30 am

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September 6, 2013, 5:02 am

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I want to publish in it for free..

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September 6, 2013, 5:36 am

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Looking for information on Scholar’s Press. https://www.scholars-press.com/ They are approaching our recently graduated Architecture Masters students to publish their theses. It seems legitimate.

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September 6, 2013, 11:10 am

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Thanks for your hardwork, Dr. Beall.

Please take a look at the Academic Scholars Publishing House (http://academic-publishing-house.com/). I believe this is fraudulent, predatory.

In the Asian EFL Journal (http://asian-efl-journal.com/), one of the journals it publishes, it is said that the publishing house is in Sydney, Australia, but there is no clear contact or address at all listed on its web. Another this that makes it suspicious is they are using free yahoo mail for correspondence. The last point that makes me wonder is this publishing house publish TESOL Law Journal, which is completely hilarious, I think. I completely understand that TESOL and Law are completely different fields and there is no way that one would publish articles from those two different field in one journal.

I hope you would investigate this publishing house as well as the journals it publishes and prove me right.

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September 6, 2013, 1:31 pm

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Thanks for letting me know about this publisher. I have analyzed it and found that it meets the criteria for inclusion on my list. So, I have added it to my list. Thanks again.

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September 6, 2013, 1:42 pm

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Terri,

This publisher does not publish academic journals, so it can’t be on my list. It’s a publisher that wants you to sign over the copyright of your thesis or dissertation so they can sell copies of it, giving you a small royalty (if any actually sell). There’s nothing illegal here, but I don’t think it’s a good idea to give away your copyright like this for such a work.

–JeffreyBeall

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September 6, 2013, 4:35 pm

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Thank you, TTK, for the link to the melanin is the human chlorophyll paper. Extremely strange group of citations in the reference section. But the figures really are amazing.

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September 7, 2013, 4:28 am

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Your are true..But on your BLOG in the list of JoURNALS…you have given names of such journals which are having fake Impact factors what abot them?

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September 9, 2013, 12:57 pm

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[…] list of the publishers, which he calls “Potential, possible, or probable predatory publishers” (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ and http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/#more-1036 […]

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September 9, 2013, 1:23 pm

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Just to add examples…
The “letters” approach is also used by the “Tetrahedron family” of chemistry journals: Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry (IF 2.903) and Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (IF 2.338) where the latter is for “preliminary experimental or theoretical research results of outstanding significance and timeliness” and Tetrahedron (IF 2.803) and Tetrahedron Letters (IF 2.397) covering organic chemistry in a similar way as the previous examples (the family also include Tetrahedron Asymetry (IF 2.115) for rapid publication of asymmetric chemisry). It is also applied by the Phytochemical Society of Europe+Phytochemical Society of North America in their Phytochemistry (IF 3.050) and Phytochemistry Letters (IF 1.179) where the latter supposedly is a quicker publication accepting smaller work such as single compound descriptions . All these are currently published through Elsevier.

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September 9, 2013, 3:30 pm

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James,

This journal is published by the Academic Scholars Publishing House. This publisher is on my list. Therefore, I recommend finding a better publisher/journal.

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September 9, 2013, 9:56 pm

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one cannot compare Elesevier and other open access publisher..

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September 10, 2013, 8:12 am

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Alas, plagiarism is a plague that does not only concern predatory OA publishers (although the three cases you demonstrate are extreme). We just had a retraction of a paper that plagiarized the Introduction section of a 2009 Elsevier paper. During our investigation we found that the Introduction part in the Elsevier paper itself was plagiarized from an even earlier 2006 paper. The retraction is at http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/18/9/11001