I foresee more tactful approaches in coming years to make appear online publications look more real. Earlier it was the statue of liberty alongside one open access journal’s name. Now, it is the logo of ISO itself. Those researchers and scholars who do good work publish in established journals and I am sure are not gullible. I partially agree with Mr.Khan. It is those faculty who try to make their bio-data “appear fat” are responsible for the sudden spurt in open access journals. I also foresee journals such as “mathematica indica”, “acta indica”, “indica politica”, “Accounts of Science and Technology”, “indica historica”, ….. oh! I am tempted to start one.
Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by R.V. Krishnakumar
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Anonymous
In fact, rhw, faculty are being rewarded for this behavior at wiu through awards, money, grants, and more. Clearly, given the recent problems in one dept. on campus this is still a problem. I’m nearly certain that some people have been promoted or granted tenure based on some of these publications. Remember…not all dpcs are created equal.
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Sanjay Kumar
Mr. Jeffrey Beall whats your opinion about International Journal of Development Research as I wanted to submit the paper to this journal but no where i am not getting the publication group nor its office address
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Sanjay Kumar
Mr. Jeffrey Beall whats your opinion about International Journal of Development Research as I wanted to submit the paper to this journal but no where i am not getting the publication group nor its office address
journal website address is http://www.journalijdr.com/
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Comment on Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme by Open-Access Publishing Pyramid Scheme « Scholarly Open Access « aretescholar
[...] See on scholarlyoa.com [...]
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Jeffrey Beall
I am not able to access the site at this time. It shows an “internal server error. I will keep trying. Thanks.
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Comment on List of Publishers by e-Science, Scholarly Communication, and Open Access | e-Science Community
[...] of “predatory” publishers and questionable open access journals. Beall’s List<http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/> describes “predatory publishers” as using unethical practices such as high author [...]
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Lars Juhl Jensen
It is worth pointing out that Lambert Academic Publishing is just one of many publishing houses run by the same publishing group, namely VDM Publishing. To the best of my knowledge one would be wise to stay clear of all of them. For a complete of the many names under which they operate, look up VDM Publishing in Wikipedia.
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by R.V.Krishnakumar
I think it is all too obvious with International Journal of Development Research. I could access the site now. The header of the paper with the logo matching closely that of Elsevier, appears to me a perfect humbug. Yet, I would like to hear your verdict.
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by R.V.Krishnakumar
By header of the paper, I mean research articles. I read one paper on ‘Computer anxiety among……….students’. Must read, only if you dont mind the time you had spent for the purpose.
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt
Dr. Mr. Beall
I have a concern with another statement you make in your DW post. It concerns your pronouncement that “earning tenure at WIU actually involves very little published research on the part of the candidate and that the tenure and promotion process has no external review.” This statement is false, plain and simple. I would guess that the source of your information is “Anonymous.” I can also guess that your source did not provide evidence of their claim. Relying upon anonymous sources that are purely argumentative and lacking in substance may have led you to conclude as the anonymous source has. But doing so does not legitimate the claim.
In fact, our departmental criteria are publicly available for review. Below, I provide you with the criteria from my own department. And I openly attest that our criteria for tenure and promotion in fact do require published research.
More generally, WIU is bound by a faculty union contract, and that contract requires our minima criteria for tenure and promotion to be shared across departments. Hence, in all cases, WIU requires junior colleagues to submit for evaluation at least two peer-reviewed publications/professional works, that are have appeared in bona fide, legitimate venues. The validity of these venues it determined by department personnel committees, then the chair, then the dean, then the provost. I say “two” bona fide/legitimate professional works, because some departments require more. In addition, all portfolios must demonstrate additional profession works (beyond the two). We also expect junior colleagues to have established themselves in professional societies, through service in order to be tenured. Our university views legitimate peer review, service in regional and national societies, and the publication of additional, secondary scholarly works as a form or external validation from the disciplines and professional communities. While we do not go further to the point of asking faculty from other universities to serve as external reviewers, I do not believe this practice is common.
The union contract requires DPC and other reviewers to effectively judge the quality as well as the quantity of professional works prior to making recommendations regarding retention, tenure, and promotion decisions. What follows are the criteria from my own department.
A. Scholarly/Professional Activity
1. Categories of Materials and Activities
a. Publications of Scholarly Research: refereed journal articles, book chapters in edited scholarly books, and scholarly books
b. Publications of monographs, refereed teaching notes, and refereed research notes
c. Research Grants/Contracts: receiving, administering and fulfillment of research grant project obligations including written reports
d. Editorship of a professional journal
e. Officer or leadership activity in a state, regional, national or professional organization
f. Other Research and Creative Activities (not prioritized)
1. papers presented to professional associations and other
2. professional meetings
3. manuscript review
4. work in progress
5. research grant proposals
6. consulting work, paid or unpaid, that is reflective of the faculty member’s discipline
7. professional testimony to groups, agencies, courts, etc.
8. book reviews
9. film reviews
10. encyclopedia entries
g. Any scholarly activity can be counted only once
2. Relative Importance
In general, categories a, b, c, and d are judged more important than categories e and f.
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Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Jeffrey Beall
I will be adding this journal to my list for the following reasons:
1. The “contact” page does not list an address for the publisher; the site gives no indication where it is located, so we assume that they are trying to hide their headquarters location.
2. The site is poorly presented; the singular is used when the plural should be. There are many links that do not work.
3. The journal requires copyright transfer; this is non-standard for open-access journals.
4. The site does not state what the author fees are.
5. The publisher’s logo mimics that of Reed Elsevier.
6. Many of the published articles have no relation to development studies, an indication that the journal accepts articles just for the author fees.
7. The editorial board is called “International Board of Executive Editor” (makes no sense) and appears to be only an honorary, rather than a working, editorial board.
8. The site uses professional pictures, likely pirated from other sites, without attribution.
9. The editor in chief does not list his editorship on his website.
10. None of the editorial board members have contributed papers to the journal.
11. Some of the journals issues have a few as two articles. Some articles have as few as 2-3 pages.
12. There is evidence of self-plagiarism:
http://www.journalijdr.com/sites/default/files/Download_0.pdf
http://www.journalijdr.com/sites/default/files/Download.pdf
–Jeffrey Beall
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Jeffrey Beall
Wow, two peer-reviewed articles to get tenure. Pretty impressive. I’d say great negotiating on the part of the union.
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Anonymous
Two peer reviewed works IS very little, rhw. Looks like you’ve proved DW’s and Beall’s point–far from proving it false as you claim. Good job.
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt
Two plus, Mr. Beall…. Two plus. *smile* I’ll not speak directly to the union’s role in this, as I am not sure they like me any more than the DW. On the other hand, as least the union does not hide behind the mask of Kowardice *smile*
As I indicated, there are additional professional obligations beyond beyond the two peer reviewed, bona fide articles in legitimate journals. I am not sure what you would establish as a threshold for peer reviewed articles across disciplines, but the one we have is currently two in category A.1.a., “plus” additional professional works. And surely you will acknowledge that getting properly published in some fields is more difficult than in others. Two represents our university’s minima, and departments may require more than two.
I personally am not convinced it is problematic to ask new PhD’s hired into regional Masters level universities to establish themselves within five years by publishing a least two peer reviewed articles (I had more) plus a lot of other professional works, after being hired, is necessarily problematic. I will admit it is minimalist. I know some other Masters level universities set the standard at three plus additional works, rather than two. On the other hand, I am actually wishing to challenge your assertion that gaining tenure at WIU “actually involves very little published research on the part of the candidate.” Yours is a very generalist assertion suggesting the university as a whole has no standards. Yours is an overgeneralization based on an anonymous assertion that we have little to no standards. We do have standards – “two plus,” not “two,” as you now suggest. While we might debate whether tenure should require 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or more legitimate publications in category A.1.a. within the first 5 years of a career, that was not the context of the original post. You simply suggested someone unknown to you led you to believe WIU has no standards. I suggest you were misled.
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Robert J. Hironimus-Wendt
Who are you?
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Comment on Exposing Sketchy Faculty Publications: The Dirty Western by Anonymous
I’m neither an apologist nor an axe-grinder.
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by manglien
how about this one http://www.primejournals.org/PRE
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Comment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Soumyadeep B
Thank you for this warning :)
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Comment on Defining Platinum Open Access by Soumyadeep B
Would you be kind enough to write a defination for platinum open access.
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