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I just got an email from these people:

We’ve finished reading the abstract of your paper [title redacted of one of my papers already published in a highly prestigious journal] and will recommend it to our editors. If you are interested in our journals and want to publish it on our journals, please extend this paper and send it to us by our online submission system. All manuscripts submitted will be considered for publication.

My guess is that they are desperate for content, and are trying to have authors “extend” already-published papers and republish them. This seems like an incredibly bad idea, and likely to run afoul of copyright law.

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Comment on What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index? by Sh

January 13, 2014, 8:07 am

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While most of the points in this post have some sides of being true to some extent, but its general perception is off a true objective manner.
Current Iranian academic body have more merits than 34 years ago (even despite very high rate of brain drain that happens in Iran), simply because of changes in time, academic institutes expansions and population. As an evidence you might refer to its recent years growth:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20291-iran-is-top-of-the-world-in-science-growth.html

At the same time there exists publishing troubles for those who do research in local-context social science disciplines in languages rather than English. This can be more problematic, if they work in theology or fields similar to that.

And the sanction of Iranian authors (actually sanction of editing their works, specially without any other non-Iranian author in the list) is a true story.

At the end, the quality of ISC index or the possibility of abuse cases can of course be a matter of concern, but these do not reject the need for a localized indexing system, regarding the current cultural and political settings and barriers.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeanne A. Pawitan

January 13, 2014, 9:00 am

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Dear Mr Beall,
If you only limit on predatory open access, why did you include Trade Science as predatory publisher? Journals from trade science (Biotechnology: an Indian Journal [already vol 7 last year, and already included in scopus], and Biochemistry: an Indian Journal) are not open access. Moreover, they do not charge authors.

I have no association with Trade Science or India, You can check it in the editorial board members.

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January 13, 2014, 9:26 am

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Dear Mr. Beall,
How did you know that an e-mail is bogus, and a name or a location is fake? Also, how did you know that their so-called headquarter is in Delaware, while it is written: 2952 Market Street, Suite 140 San Diego, California 92102, USA?

Thank you

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

January 13, 2014, 9:36 am

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I don’t always know with 100% certainty that a name is fake, but when the spam email contains many grammatical and other errors and is then signed with a name like Tom Brown, then I think it’s fair to say that something is suspicious. Regarding addresses, in this case, this publisher changed its address from that of the incorporation agent it used in Delaware to that of a mail-forwarding service in San Diego. I think the publisher is really based in South Asia and uses American addresses to fool people into thinking it is U.S.-based.

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January 13, 2014, 9:39 am

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This is a fair question. Thanks for asking it. Trade Science used to be at least partly OA. You are correct that the publisher appears to have switched its model to subscription / toll-access. It also appears that they have launched a bunch of journals, many of which are mere templates, devoid of any scholarly content. I think an exception is warranted here because I would still like to warn researchers about this publisher. I don’t think it’s a good place to submit good research, and including them in the list will help convey that warning.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by alp

January 14, 2014, 4:31 am

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I alredy submitted my paper to Pensee Journal on http://www.penseejournal.com
is this journal fake or not?

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January 14, 2014, 4:53 am

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I work at Oxford University and we have recently received a lot of unsolicited emails from International Innovation asking for £2,250 to publish articles about our academics. Whilst the publication seems legitimate I’m sure there are more effective and credible ways of disseminating research, and I have told my colleagues as much. Thanks for putting this post together and highlighting the methods that they use!

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January 14, 2014, 5:04 am

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[…] of Geosciences, of Scientific Research Publishing (scirp) named as a predatory publisher by Beall’s list. I have tried to download this to have a laff, but have been hit three times by a network […]

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January 14, 2014, 5:25 am

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[…] Segundo alguns pesquisadores, existem hoje mais de quatro mil periódicos predatórios sendo publicados, o que representa, no mínimo, um quarto do número de periódicos de acesso livre. Para publicar seus artigos científicos sem muito esforço, são cobradas taxas que variam entre duzentos a três mil dólares. Em muitos casos, os autores só descobrem o “valor da fatura” após a publicação do artigo científico. Uma lista atualizada de títulos de periódicos predatórios é mantida por Jeffrey Beall, bibliotecário da Universidade do Colorado, no blog Scholarly Open Access. […]

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January 14, 2014, 8:32 am

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Hi Jeff.
Could you tell me about International Journal of Forestry Research of Hindawi publication? is it legit???? or predatory???

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January 14, 2014, 8:54 am

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[…] email addresses. This journal is published by the “Maryland Institute of Research,” which apparently is not based in Maryland at […]

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January 14, 2014, 9:58 am

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Yes, I’m afraid this is a hijacked journal.

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January 14, 2014, 10:01 am

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I generally analyze at the publisher level rather than the individual journal level. Hindawi is not on my list of questionable publishers. I do receive complaints about Hindawi, however. They use spam a lot, most of their over 500 journals lack editors in chief, and it seems to be a publisher that focuses just on the authors’ needs and not so much the readers’.

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January 14, 2014, 10:46 am

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Elsevier Life Science Customer Care has informed my library colleague that the content from HealthMED has been removed from Elsevier A&I databases (including EMBASE) due to the journal’s fraudulent practices, particularly mentioning the external evidence supporting the removal as Pero Šipka’s CEES paper “Legitimacy of citations in predatory publishing.” http://www.ceon.rs/ops/12122. Kudos to Pero Šipka, Jeffrey Beall, Elsevier and the library and research communities for bringing attention to predatory publishing practices and taking action to reduce their viability!

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January 14, 2014, 10:40 pm

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I didn’t notice that your criteria specifically include that the publisher requires payment by the author, but doesn’t state that in the author guidelines. (This is the very problem a friend of mine encountered recently. I will send him your list, because he was shocked at the treatment and wants to avoid the same problem in the future. So, thank you for your work.)

I suggest it be a prominent part of the criteria, even though it would normally be impossible for you to tell for yourself, as you’d have to go through the submission process to find out. (You’d have to rely on reader reports for this information.)

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January 15, 2014, 5:38 am

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In fact, requiring a payment from the author (the article processing charge) is not a criterion. It’s the abuse of this charge that contributes to making a publisher predatory.

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January 15, 2014, 5:53 am

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January 15, 2014, 6:41 am

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January 15, 2014, 12:35 pm

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I am an employee in Hindawi Publishing Corporation: I do not know how my opinion will be perceived, but I found it obligatory for me to share in this talk. I just want to say that Dr. Hindawi is a very honorable man who respects his employees. In addition, he is a very smart and accurate person. He loves science and so he uses it as a means to serve those who need it. So choosing this Open Access model was a natural result for his passion for science and his intention to benefit the readers of his journals. An evidence for this is that he formed specialized teams in his company whose only job is to make a paper of high quality in every aspect. As an employee in Hindawi Publishing Corporation, I bear witness myself how the review process goes in a very accurate manner and how our staff and above all Dr. Hindawi himself exert a huge effort to guarantee the accuracy and integrity of the whole publishing process.