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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Ogwo
Thanks for this update. Indeed, from the questionable publisher list, it is clear that this has become a growth industry. What a shame! Is it possible to be further guided with a list of fairly acceptable publishers, in the general area of Business and Management Studies?
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Comment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition) by Jeffrey Beall
Hi, Sharon, Yes, I consider all of Synergy’s journals to be questionable, and I recommend against responding affirmatively to their spam. I see a lot of strange aspects to this publisher, despite its jazzy website. It has a link to CCC on its pages, but it is unclear why this is there — all the articles I saw have a CC BY license. Perhaps it is because some articles will be toll access despite all authors having to pay a fee. It claims to have an office in the UK, but the office is really a dwelling. The articles show little or no copyediting, and many of them are very short. Some of the articles look questionable, like this one: “Asperger’s Syndrome and Skin Vibration Sessions: A Theoretical Model” Is this publisher a place to submit strange articles that were rejected elsewhere? It appears so.
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Comment on WSEAS and NAUN: Two Publishers (and Conference Organizers) to Avoid by Dart
Dear Mr. Jeffrey Beall,
Please confirm, are they (WSEAS & NAUN) :
1.Pedatory?
2.Fake?
3.Low quality?
Thank you very much for your confirmation….
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Comment on WSEAS and NAUN: Two Publishers (and Conference Organizers) to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall
In my opinion, these publishers are questionable, and I recommend that scholars find a better venue for their work. There are many better options available.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Bhaskar
Thanks Jeff. This is the my first visit to your list… Mixed feelings! I have two papers with publishers that feature on this list, viz. Academic Journals and Medwell Journals. Could it be possible (being optimistic) that some of the journals (lets say those that published my papers) by these publishers are not as malafide?
I published one paper with Medwell Journals in ‘Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances’ that claims to have an IF=0.39. The manuscript underwent rigorous review; I was asked to include more statistical treatment of my data and add more papers to the discussion and even re-format some of the references cited. However, when they published it, they misspelt one of the table legends as ‘Tabel No. 1′.
The other paper in ‘African Journal of Mirobiology Research’ did not ‘bother’ me much; they simply asked me to explain few points and justify my conclusions in greater detail. This journal also claims to have an IF = 0.7; in fact, they do not claim but I found this IF for the journal on ResearchGate.
Moreover, both these journals have a very fair metric (6.8 and 7 out of 10, respectively) in the NAAS journal index maintained by National Academy of Agricultural Research, India – the source from where I learnt about these journals and also the major reason why I submitted to them.
I shall be happy to know your views on these two journals. Thanks again.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Corey Allen
Hey Jefferey,
Thanks for the update. However there are several predators you have missed. SciHub (scihub.org), they first used an address of Lasani Town, Faisalabad Pakistan but when I questioned them to confirm, they changed their contact details to a PO Box in connecticut. They also have major grammar errors and their website doesn’t work properly.
Another is AENSI web (aensiweb.com) they were first called INSIpub, then they changed to AENSI. They have a series of conferences which if you see are definately not authentic (they dont even have a url).
We have plenty like eSci Journals Publishing (escijournals.net). From the address you can see this is a scam. It is in a house in a town in Islamabad Pakistan. You can also judge from the quality of the website.
I also did a bit of a research on Bentham. They are actually based in Pakistan and the person behind it is Atta-ur-Rehman.
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Comment on What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index? by vasiliy vlassov
This is a blue story. It is not about Iran only. Many societies who feel that they are underrepresented in the SCI want to have their own citation index. Of course, different motives are intertwined. E.g. in Russia there is a long (at least 70 Soviet years) period of isolation, when publications in Soviet journals were possible only. So, the mostly publishing-in-Russian is continuing and Russian language periodicals are underrepresented in SCI (etc.). Naturally the idea of creating the Russian index (elibrary.ru) is blossoming. It helps to self-esteem, but slow the reintegration of Russia to international science…
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Comment on Appeals by Bhaskar
Amusing
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I have heard that Thomson Reuters, the publisher of Journal Citation Reports, has removed the impact factor for the Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances. Also, I do not see the African Journal of Microbiology Research as having an impact factor at all. I looked this up in JCR and copy a selection from their list. The journal would fall here if it were on the list:
AFRICAN INVERTEBRATES
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
African Journal of Psychiatry
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE
African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines
African Natural History
I still recommend that researchers not submit any papers to the journals published by Medwell Journals and by Academic Journals. Thanks.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Hello, thanks for your comment. I do have ScienceHuβ on my list — I listed them under their full name that appears at the top of their website.
I also have AENSI on my list as well, check here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
I would love to hear more about your research on Bentham! If you could share your sources with me that would be great. Thanks.
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Comment on What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index? by tafandrew
Let us know the list of reputable journals where we can publish?
Sent from my BlackBerry wireless device from MTN
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Corey Allen
Thanks for your comment. Well I attended one of Bentham’s conferences in Dubai and one of their employee showed me a Pakistani man sitting on the stage and told me that’s the person who runs Bentham.
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Comment on About the Author by Thoughts on Academic Archaeology | These Bones Of Mine
[…] or ‘seriousness’. (Two fantastic sites to check out are Retraction Watch and Scholarly Open Access). Another natural extension of this is (for those who are either looking at MA or MSc courses, […]
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by caddisfly2002
Can anyone provide information as to what it is about “Austin Publishing Group” that got them on the list…. PLEASE.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Andreas
Thanks Jeffery for this update. You are surely doing a formidable job that needs to be encouraged.
My questions:
- With about 477 predatory publishers and 303 predatory journals, are we not heading for a situation where all open access journals will be predatory?
It will thus become very daunting for researchers to find an appropriate journal with acceptable ethical standards to publish their findings, if clear guidelines are not set up and published to guide for the choice of a good journal or publisher.
- Some publishers are cited as predatory, and not all of the journals they publish are predatory. How then can a choice be made from a journal not cited as predatory but published by a publisher cited as predatory?
- In an earlier post here the ‘African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines’ was cited as predatory whereas it is indexed in PUMED which is the most reliable international platform of medical publications. How can this paradox be explained?
Happy New Year, and continue in the same direction with the same strength in 2014.
Andreas
Yaounde- Cameroon
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