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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Can you salvage an article published on a predatory journal? | Achilleas Kostoulas
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Comment on Bell Press Now on Beall’s List by mohammad shamsul hoq
bell press is very much irresponsive to complince
I emailed several times but no response. now it changed its official webpage. so it is difficult to find information about journal.
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Comment on Appeals by Amal
Dear Mr. Beall.
In your list released on 14 December 2012, Greener journals appeared, but couldn’t not be found in this list. have you cleared them?
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher: Stringer Open by Kovo Godfrey
Please can u send the full list of journals to be avoided to my mail. Also i want to find out if the pacific journal of science and technology is in ur list. Thank you
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
No, Greener Journals should still be on my list.
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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher: Stringer Open by Jeffrey Beall
The lists are freely available online. I haven’t heard of the PJST before but will have a look at it.
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Comment on Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies by Ronita
It is not only the right of Thomson Reuters to analyse the quality of any journal. Thomson Reuters is also included in bogus companies if others are fake and bogus.
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Comment on The Maryland Institute of Research, From Bangladesh by The Confidence Man | Louis Proyect: The Unrepentant Marxist
[…] umbrella group that puts out this journal and others just as lofty is the Maryland Institute of Research about which Jeffrey Beall had this to […]
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by Samir Hachani
I like the strong response of Mark Goettel (especially “the shame on you” ).This is the first time I hear about such an unethical demand and I know the subject ( I have just defended a thesis on peer review and open access). Such a behavior from a “scholar” should be denounced by name !!!!I join Dr Goettel : “You brought shame on knowledge ” .
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by Jurgen Ziesmann
Of course it touches on the most unethical point of all science publishing. While the big publishers make record revenue, often asking prohibitive fees to read the articles, those who did all the research, writing, editing, peer review are left without any compensation whatsoever. What is ethical about that? Absolutely nothing!
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by Alex SL
Hm. I find even some of the best journals in my field sometimes play tricks to inflate their perceived Impact Factor. One whose IF oscillates around an impressive 10, where one would not think they need to stoop to such things, did not update the IF listed on the journal website for two years or so because the new ones were a bit lower. Only when a new IF surpassed the old one did they update the website again.
There are people arguing that reviewers should be paid or otherwise rewarded, and I can understand that position. The problem is that he should not have accepted in the first place if he expected remuneration.
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by moom
I don’t see it as unethical. All these open access advocates keep going on about how we shouldn’t provide free labor to journal publishers… But he then should have been more upfront about it.
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Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by S P Dhanavel
Thank you for sharing useful information with other scholars and teachers. Some them may not really know the shady operations of the so-called open access journals.
Prof S P Dhanavel, Chennai
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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by TheGrimReaper
Although it appears as if genuine peer review takes place at Allelopathy Journal, fees are only for Narwal’s pocket. There is no organization, only Narwal. I second all comments made above. I have had nothing but unprofessional and irritating experiences with “Prof” SS Narwal. I have submitted three papers to that journal, and withdrew one from review because the PR was so bad. In every single case, this nonsense, Xeroxed standardized response followed:
Dear Author,
Thanks for submitting your Ms to Allelopathy Journal. Please modify the Ms as per following and attached INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS.
NEW INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS
Thanks for submitting your Ms (Manuscript) to Allelopathy Journal. Recently we have made changes for Ms submission and revised the INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS. IMPACT FACTOR : I am pleased to inform you that the IMPACT FACTOR of Allelopathy Journal has increased to 0.846. I advise you to Update your Ms as per these INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS and re-submit at allelopathy_2010@yahoo.com.
1. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR MS: Allelopathy Journal is INTERNATIONAL SCI JOURNAL with current IMPACT FACTOR OF 0.846, hence, we maintain International Standard for Publication of Mss. Hence, the minimum requirements for submission of Ms are: (i). Should have Results of Lab Bioassay, Pot Culture/ Field Experiemnts. (ii). Identification of Allelochemicals in Donor plant material, its Extracts or Leachates and (iii). Studies with the bioactivity (against plants, insects, nematodes, pathogen related to your research) of these compounds.
2. INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS: You have not written the Ms as per Journal Style, Please (i) rewrite the Ms as per attached INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS AND MODEL MSS., (ii). Please send Ms as single File, (iii) Do not insert Tables and Figs in Text, but add after the References, however, indicate their Preferred Position in Text, (iv). Use TIMES ROMAN FONT in Ms. (v). Submit Ms in MS WORD-2003 only.
3. INTERNATIONAL REVIEWERS: To evaluate your Ms, please send the names of 5- INTERNATIONAL REVIEWERS. They should be other than REGIONAL EDITORS of Allelopathy Journal and their names, Postal Address and E.Mail Addresses should be added to Cover letter/ E. Mail of Ms.
4. OUR NEW E.MAIL ADDRESS: Please submit the new Ms at http://us.mc1140.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=allelopathy_2010@yahoo.com
5. YAHOO E.MAIL ADDRESS: We make all Correspondence for Mss by yahoomail, hence, we strongly advise all Authors to open Account in Yahoomail for (i) Easy, (ii) Efficient, (iii) Fast and (iv) to ensure surety of delivery of our mails between us (Journal and Authors). Because many servers in different countries are not compatible with yahoomail, hence, we cannot correspond successfully with such Authors. Sometimes, Authors mail reaches us but our mail neither reaches Author nor return to us.
6. SINGLE FILE: In Ms, add Tables and Figs after References and submit full Ms (Text+ Tables+ Figs) as single File in MS WORD 2003.
7. Please submit Ms as MS WORD file.
8. Please send the Updated Ms within 3 days, so that it could be processed for publication in Allelopathy Journal. Thereafter, we will assign Ms Number to your Ms, for further correspondence with us.
AUTHOR(S) CERTIFICATE
(Please Type on Istitute letter Pad and submit Scanned copy with Ms.)
The Author(s) Certify that (i). The research work presented in this Ms is Original.(ii). Its no part has been copied from research work published earlier.
Author (s) Signature
Full Name:
Postal Adress:
E.Mail address
Date: ……………….
With regards
Prof. S.S. Narwal
Attachment: INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS AND MODEL MSS
Prof. S.S. Narwal
Chief Editor
Allelopathy Journal
# 101, Sector-14
Rohtak- 124 001, INDIA
Ph/Fax: +91 1262-274101
Mobile: +91 9315496321
http//:www.allelopathyjournal.org
It is evident that Thomson Reuters does not assign an impact factor based on the quality of service or on prefessionalism of PR. I do agree that authors should be paid royalties, or be allowed to publish freely and that peer reviewers, that represent the quality control of a paper and journal, should be paid. But, as Mark Goetel indicated, to demand fees after he agreed to review a paper is totally unacceptable and unprofessional.
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Comment on Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums by Farooq
Dear Colleagues, see also a journal pensee of france it also seems to be fraud it also demand 450 dollars and it is copy of another journal becarefull, please.
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Comment on Bell Press Now on Beall’s List by Ghazi
I can not found a website for European Journal of Developing Country Studies
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Comment on Science Target: Targeting Your Author Fees by Amr El-Banna
I published with them in the International Journal of Agricultural and Food Research. When I asked them for a fee waiver, they simply agreed and I published my article for free after few cycles of editing. I think they are legit but just small business. It took me 6 month to publish my article.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Sure, feel free to copy the post. Happy New Year.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin
You are welcome,dear friend.
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Sharon
Hi Mr. Beall, thank you for compiling this list, the scale at which this exists is really eye-opening. Sorry to add yet another journal to your workload, but we recently received an email asking for submissions from the Journal of Nephrology and Urology Research (Synergy Publishing, which is on your list). Their website can be found at: http://www.synergypublishers.com/journal-of-nephrology-and-urology-research/. Do you know if this is a predatory journal? What was the criteria that Synergy Publishing met to be put on your list? I’ve done some research online but can’t seem to gather much information.
Thank you!
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