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Comment on Recognizing a Pattern of Problems in “Pattern Recognition in Physics” by Climate comments push open-access publisher to terminate journal : Nature News Blog
[…] July 2013, Scholarly Open Access, a watchdog blog written by Jeffrey Beall, a Colorado librarian, warned that Ouadfeul had few […]
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Comment on LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS by Plagio seudoescéptico | Homeopatía
[…] Jeffrey Beall por un lado registra la incesante explosión de revistas de acceso abierto que muchas veces sólo tienen como finalidad en lucro en detrimento de la calidad. En comparativa, el sitio Retraction Watch informa sobre los artículos retractados de las revistas dominantes que también suelen buscar muchas veces el mero lucro comercial o el escándalo mediático. […]
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
No — this is a highly questionable publisher. Its name is Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, and it launched recently with ten journals. I recommend that you NOT submit papers to any of its journals. Thanks for letting me know about this new publisher.
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Comment on Open Access Theses and Dissertations Increasingly Used as a Source for Plagiarized Journal Articles by Open Access Theses and Dissertations Increasingly Used as a Source for Plagiarized Journal Articles | nchardz Information Literacy Skills Training
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Les Biesecker
Hi all
As others have stated, kudos to Mr. Beall, his work is exemplary!
I have a suggestion for you all that I have taken up in support of Mr. Beall. Every time I receive one of the endless spam solicitations for one of the companies listed by Mr. Beall, if they claim to have editors with academic affiliations, I look up the editor’s emails and send them the following message and copy the company:
Dear Doctors/Professors,
I am writing to you regarding your affiliation with XXXX publications. As you may know, this publisher has been designated as a predatory publisher by Mr. Beall, of the University of Colorado.
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
There was also a recent exposé of these publishers in Science magazine, demonstrating that many of them will publish worthless manuscripts.
I urge you to consider whether your association with this publisher reflects well on your excellent scientific reputations.
Les Biesecker
P.S. to XXXXX publications – each time you send me this spam, I will write to the editors.
I get responses from maybe 1 of 5 of the named scientists – most often to decry that they have no affiliation with the publisher and that they will work to get their name removed. I also copy the company and have received one reply from a publisher claiming that their listing by Mr. Beall is undeserved and that they are appealing. If we make our colleagues aware that we look poorly on such affiliations, this may discourage bogus claims of legitimacy.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This is great!
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Comment on Appeals by liza2408
What do you think about Common Ground publishers? They require payment, not necessarily attendance, at their conferences to get manuscripts published. I emailed to ask about submissions and was told I must register for a conference. I did this once. There were 40 people at the conference; I did not submit my paper. But I’ve read many negative blog posts (Chronicle of HE). All of their journals are edited by the same 2 people. I have a colleague who always publishes with this press — never had an article turned down. And she “presents” virtually at conferences held all around the world — Greece, Spain, Mauritius…
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I think the publisher stinks. However, it does not meet the criteria for inclusion as a predatory publisher. It’s run by a husband and wife team. They must be making a ton of money. I regularly receive inquiries about their operation, an indication that some find it questionable.
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by Margaret YS
Dear Jeffrey!
There is a small typo in the link to the fake Jökull: it should read “jokulljournal” instead of “jokuljournall”.
A bit off-topic: the fake “Wulfenia” operates with a faked editor-in-chief: Prof. Dr. Vienna S. Franz… yeah, right… but:
I fail, however, to see that this journal is somehow connected to Tomas Publishing. I did some quick look-ups on builtwith.com, and it does not seem evident to me that Tomas Publishing hijacked Wulfenia or the journals you mention. While some of those journals share some similarities, they use different architectures, different name servers (okay, understandable). I would have expected some more hard- and software conformities for all of them. Allright, most of them run on Apache web servers, but I do not consider that unusual. Most of the hijacked journals are registered in the US, according to “Whois” searches.
Can you elaborate on the reasons why you think these are similar, apart from the pirated images and cheap looks?
Cheers
Margaret
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by Jeffrey Beall
Hi, Margaret,
Thanks for the link correction. You may be right. I was convinced by the look and feel, the consistent and prominent display of bogus impact factors, pirated images, poor grammar, and the modus operandi, i.e., the hijacking. Also, I have seen many of the spam emails (thank you to those who forwarded me them), and they also bear a strong resemblance to each other.
I am not 100% sure that Tomas Publishing is the hijacker, but I merely wanted to report that much of the evidence points to them, and that’s one of the reasons I wrote the title as a question. If you have additional thoughts, please share them.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by Ricardo Jiménez
Reblogged this on <a href="http://comunicarbien.wordpress.com/2014/01/21/have-i-discovered-the-source-of-the-hijacked-journals/" rel="nofollow">comunicarbien</a> and commented:
Interesting!
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Comment on Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals? by RMS
I received the email claiming to be from Mitteilungen Klosterneuburg and inviting submissions. It looked fishy, now I see why the website was so strange and the editor names didn’t make sense. Thank you for the clarification. Hopefully this can be stopped.
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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by RMS
I had a publication with Hindawi recently published. I felt the peer-review and copy-editing were very professional, so I am satisfied. I am not sure if all journals they publish are the same or not, in my case it was The Scientific World Journal, their largest publication I believe.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Syed Jawad Hussain Shahzad
Sir,
Please need your comments on the “JOURNAL OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH”. Journal is available in Zoological Records (ISI-Thomson-Reuters) http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Full=journal%20of%20basic%20and%20applied%20scientific%20research.
However it accepts paper on almost all disciplines e.g. Accounts and Commerce etc.
Do you recommend the publication of an article related to commerce in this journal.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by jawadkazm5
Sir,
Please need your comments on JOURNAL OF BASIC AND APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. Journal is listed at ISI Zoological record. However is multidisciplinary. Can a commerce related article be published here?
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Comment on Recognizing a Pattern of Problems in “Pattern Recognition in Physics” by Mark
It is clear that science is always controlled by politic and librarian that ignore science, read:
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Comment on Another Fleet Startup: JSciMed Central by David Corney
Thanks for this info! I just got a request to review for the “International journal of Plant biology & Research” by a Sherline Kurt. Same fake address, same flowery language. Think I’ll skip this one…
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Comment on Two More Predatory Publishers by Dr. Kate Katafiasz
I’ve just received the same email word for word. Thanks for the heads up! I will ignore it!
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
That journal is published by Textroad Journals. This publisher is on my list. I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to the <em>Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research</em>.
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