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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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This publisher is deceptive — it claims that it’s from Australia when it’s really based in India.


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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I think there will always be some good quality OA journals. The <em>African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines</em> is <strong>not </strong>included on my list.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Nana Yaw

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It is quite interesting to note this list again. Well, I have mixed feelings about such list. First, this list does what western social science does so well: creation of binary opposites in which the category that is associated with established western institutions is deemed correct/better/standard.

Second, OA journals (I mean those that do not charge authors processing fee and still make their articles publicly available) particularly from non-western societies seem to challenge the old opinion that English, French, and German and their institutions are the epistemic centres for knowledge production and production (this is probably unknown to many young western scholars and the older ones who have taken everything they find in academia for granted as what ought to be or ordained by providence) . Indeed, they have challenged the old view that scientific knowledge production is lower in non-western societies relative to western societies.

Unknown to many western scholars, these journals are springing up in reaction to the view that to be recognized one must publish in western journals. What you don’t realize is that many of them have national reputation and are a reflection of their national self-determination.

Again, the use of language as one of the criteria of assessment worries me. If you are a native speaker of English , pray that what happened to Latin does not happen to English and Chinese takes over as the next so-called international language. My English may not be as good as that of a native speaker and I won’t apologize for it.

Now I see why Russia and other BRICS countries have their own national citation index; I believe many more separate national citation indices will appear just for simple reason of national self-determination. And one thing that is also certain is that Jeff’s list will get longer and longer each year because people are just tired of this academic imperialism and want academic independence. Note that many of these journals are part of the calls to indigenize the social sciences and as much as the indigenization fire burns, Jeff you will have a great deal to do.

Indeed, things fall apart (Chinua Achibe); the centre can no longer hold and must give way for multi-epistemic centres of knowledge production and dissemination.

So do you think any western journal will publish such style of writing? We know to be published in “Jeff’s acceptable journals”, one must be a “good boy” and not challenge anything but “bad boys” must also publish so the OA journals proliferation. Posterity in their own nations will judge the worth of their work.They represent part of a long struggle for mental emancipation from the shackles of the colonial mentality of reduced self-esteem and dependency.

Well, these are my thoughts. You will want to read Claude Ake’s “Social Science Imperialism” and Kwesi Yankah’s “Globalization and the African Scholar”.

Comment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by AÇIK ERİŞİM SINAVI GEÇTİ | Açık Bilim - Aylık Çevrimiçi Bilim Dergisi

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[…] J. Beall’ın kara listesi […]

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Nana Yaw

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Interestingly surprising! Well, I do agree with you about ethics and quality. I do agree that it is annoying to read a paper full of mistakes and false claims. But who defines the standard of ethical behaviour and quality? I was questioning who determines the criteria and based on whose standards. You may not appreciate whatever I said because probably you take most things you came to meet on this earth as given.

By my submission, I wanted to draw attention to the fact that there are varied reasons for the proliferation of OA journals: some want to cheat academics who want promotion and others do set up these journals because they want a forum where their academics can engage in discussion about issues of national interest. And these issues are less likely to be of adequate universal interest (where universal is what is of interest to home-country academics of many of the established journals). So Jeff’s list must distinguish between pay-and-publish-subscribe journals from publish-and-subscribe journals. Again, a team should work on such lists as peer review that those journals are accused of not carrying out equally exists; that said, there is the risk that the list may be scientific and “useless”. This is because it doesn’t follow the research protocols that can give users assurance of accuracy and lack of bias. If we claim that We love what Jeff is doing, let’s encourage him to share the methodology used (not a list of criteria) and data by way of publication.

Postmodernist philosophy and critical realism question views that empirical world is the real world. Underneath the empirical world is the real world and that needs deconstruction. No wonder critical realists describe the positivist reality as naive realism. In short, there is always a motive underneath the surface that we must search for. Questions like: Who funds this research and why? Is the principal researcher on the board any of the established journals? Are there any conflicts of interest that we must know? Has there been any incident at his university that drove him to do this and full disclosure thereof? Accurate answers will increase confidence in the list.

Though I believe that such a list properly produced by all stakeholders is needed (and he has shown the way), I will not be a good boy and accept it just because it has been produced.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jaap Timmer

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Reblogged this on <a href="http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/" rel="nofollow">Culture Matters</a> and commented: Here's an interesting list of allegedly predatory journals, but even more interesting is the troll of comments below the list. While I tend to agree with those who talk in favour of open-access forums, I would, when searching for a journal to publish my article, check this list and of course do some careful research on the journals that attract my attention.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Akademik Ketenpere: Bilim diil Yayın yapalım mıııı? « Benan Eres

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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That journal is not listed as a predatory journal. Happy New Year


Comment on LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS by Predatory Journals! | JHND NOTES: The Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics Editor's Blog

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[…] Beall who blogs at Scholarly Open Access has very helpfully put together this list of possibly suspect ‘journals’, which may help prospective authors avoid getting ripped […]

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Erick

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Have you heard anything about a publisher called “Research Trends.” I got an invitation to submit an article for what I think is an annual “Current Trends in Neurology.” I had an unpublished review article (from my diss. that my advisor let languish) and I figured I’d see if I could dust it off and get it published. After several rounds of emails, I found their manuscript submission to be strange (“send an email to email id: editor@researchtrends.net“), and I could not locate academic credentials of anyone listed on their editorial board. I DID see a few publications from the journal in PubMed, though. Very strange experience and I ended up not submitting the article to them, but probably wasted a lot of time.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffery Beall Releases “List of Predatory Publishers 2014″| LJ INFOdocket

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[…] The 2014 list (actually two lists) were posted by Jeffery Beall (U. of Colorado-Denver) on his Scholarly Open Access blog late last week. There are more than 477 publishers listed. The 2013 list contained 225. […]

Comment on What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index? by The Iron Chemist

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I’m not sure how accurate that is. I’m American and have reviewed a couple of manuscripts from Iranian labs.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, but I don’t think this is an open-access publisher, so I haven’t fully analyzed it. I do regularly receive emails asking about this publisher, an indication that some at least find it questionable.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Atef Alsarayreh

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Thanks a lot for all you efforts Jeffery Beall.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Rubin Cohen

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Hello
I follow our website with interest. I would like to share with you the email I had just received. It all looks very legitimate with the publisher’s address being in San Diego. They are “ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research…”

Dear Dr XXXXX
Greetings for the day!

In view of your scientific reputation and trustworthiness in your field, we would like to invite you to submit a short communication/perspective/Research/Review on your research area for publication in our upcoming issue.

Clinical Research in Pulmonology is ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research in the fields of Pulmonology & respiration through open Access platform. This open access journal facilitates rapid publication with unlimited dissemination of knowledge to readers.

If you are interested, kindly let us know your possible date of submission.

Anticipating your kind positive response

Sincerely,

Mark Victor
Editorial Office-
Clinical Research in Pulmonology
JSciMed Central
2952 Market Street, Suite 140
San Diego, California 92102, USA
Tel: 1-302-360-8046
Fax: 1-302-360-8174
Toll free number: 1-800-762-9856
Email: pulmonology@jscimedcentral.com
For more info, please visit our website: http://www.jscimedcentral.com/Pulmonology/curentissue.php


Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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Pretty much everything about their email is bogus. The names are fake, and the location is fake. They use a mail forwarding service as their “headquarters.” Their so-called headquarters used to be in Delaware. I strongly recommend against submitting papers to this bogus publisher.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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There are many people who are already describing the problems associated with subscription journals such as <em>Actual Problem of Economics</em>. My voice is not needed there. I choose to limit my research and work and commentary in the area of predatory open-access scholarly publishers and standalone journals. My goal is to help researchers avoid being scammed by these corrupt publishers.

Comment on Appeals by mekhola

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Dr. Beall,
Many thanks for your valuable works.
Could you please check the following journals and comment on its quality and merit?

1) ”International Organization of Innovative Research and Development IJIRD” – http://www.ijird.com/

2)“International Organization of Scientific Research IOSR” http://www.iosrjournals.org/

Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, both of these are included on my lists. The first one is included on my list of questionable standalone journals; the second one is included on my list of questionable publishers. In both cases, I recommend finding a higher quality venue. Thanks.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Christopher Hekimian

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I have experience as a contributor with two of the organizations that you list as questionable publishers. First, OMICs Group. I attended and presented at one of their conferences and was very pleased at how professional they were despite their small size. My article was not accepted by their peer review committee. Next, Photon Journal for Public Health. Very professional and did everything they said they would do within the timeframe they promised. They put a lot of good peer-reviewed comments into my paper and required that I make the changes. They were very professional. Their website needs work. It is difficult to browse articles. In neither case did I find anything questionable about these organizations at all.

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