Felipe, please see the 2nd edition of the criteria here: http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition/
By their nature, the criteria are subjective rather than objective. Therefore, there is no specific number of criteria that must be met to be predatory. If there were an objective way to measure this that everyone could agree on, then we would rush to adopt that way. Thanks.
Dear Ron Davis,
On what basis we have find whether is is Predatory for not? Please help me out.
[…] are crowdsourcing the authorship of a manuscript which we intend to publish in this Predatory Journal. Everybody who pitches in may list themselves in the acknowledgments. Our goal is for the paper […]
Dear Beall,
I am the Editor in Chief of Malaysian Journal of Science (MJS).
I’m reluctant to believe that MJS is listed in your list stating that it has been published by Natural Sciences Publishing Corporation Journals.
MJS was established in 1972 by Faculty of Science, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Since, we have been publishing under our own University of Malaya Press. Beginning 1st of January 2014, MJS will be published under Springer. For further information on MJS, please see the link below.
http://www.myjurnal.my/public/browse-journal-view.php?id=194
We strongly disagree the listing of our Malaysian Journal of Science and we are not anyway related to the publisher as mention above.
Thank you.
Prof Dr Agamuthu P.
Then who give i.F AND wher to find origional journal with I.Fctor ..and why should nt that abve i.f count.. Reply thankx.md
sir
kindly explain why al ameen journal and IJPSR are on list
Dear Dr. Agamuthu P.:
The Malaysian Journal of Science is not included on my list. Why is your journal included in the portfolio of Natural Sciences Publishing Corporation (which is indeed on my list)?
It seems to me that you should take action with the publisher that has added your journal to its portfolio of journals if you are unhappy with it being included there.
What is your journal’s relationship with Natural Sciences Publishing Corporation? Did you agree to let them include your journal on their website?
Thank you,
Jeffrey Beall
Actually, an erratum is probably well matched to these types of journals :)
TL/DR – Gullible career lab tech’ in protected government job is angry because he got taken for the fool he probably is.
What the hell is an NCI scientist doing, wasting their only meeting per year on what is widely known to be a scam? Was this guy living under a rock? Did he not do any homework about this organization? For most scientists out in the “real world”, we go to meetings run by established societies in our area of expertise. Those, and a couple of other well known conference organizing bodies (Gordon, Keystone).
This type of negative publicity is useful, to highlight these shady business practices to the <1% of academia that isn't aware of them already. But C'mon! In my opinion he got exactly what he deserved for being so gosh-darned gullible in the first place. He got his ego massaged by the invitation, and thought "this looks sweet". It's like that time the Department Chair got a computer virus, or gave the Dept. bank account details to a guy from Nigeria who seemed legit. Maybe that's why this guy is a "senior research associate" and has a grand total of 20 publications after 30 years in the biz. He'll probably also find there's all sorts of small print in the attendance contract, in which attendees agree to have their name and likeness associated with the meeting, so he's up the creek without a paddle on that front too. Wonder if this guy has an AOL email account too?
Some of the problems with the Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences are these:
1. The journal tries to affect legitimacy by boasting that it is a “US National Library of Medicine enlisted journal.” The fact is that NLM catalogs thousands of medical journals, and it doesn’t necessarilly screen for quality.
2. I easily found plagiarism among the articles.
3. When I examined the journal, I couldn’t find any information about what the APCs are.
Regarding the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research:
1. This journal displays the Elsevier logo at the top and brags that it is associated with Elsevier; this is an attempt to steal some of the publisher’s legitimacy
2. APC information if any is not prominently displayed
3. . Articles bear a conflicting licensing statement: “All© 2013 are reserved by International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. This Journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”
4. I had no trouble finding instances of plagiarism among the articles.
Greetings Dr. Beall,
Several months have passed since you indicated that you would review the information submitted regarding the CDDK, would you be kind enough to provide an update.
Best,
CDDK Advocate
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Mr. Beall, please look into this site. http://www.journalsindia.com
Regards
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Oh mighty R3sanon, with the >20 publications (greater than Dr. Sawitzke, for sure!), we should all bow down to your dizzying intellect and sharp detection of fraud from ANY corner of the globe. Please bestow upon us more words of wisdom from your tower on high so that we “protected” minions at the NIH can learn from your astounding (probably NIH granted) research insights! LOL
i think most of the journals listed provide free access to read and down load the papers. their payment also conditional you can publish if you don’t have capacity to afford the payment and if your paper is really good. i think you better revise your study before criticize most of the publisher.
