Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Hi dear,
Can u please tell me about inderscience publishers because they have started many journals recently which looks suspicious and I want to submit my research paper in a jounal under this publisher.
Regards,

You refer initially to the “gold (author pays) open-access model”, but gold open access simply means publishing in open access journals, which may or may not involve author payment. I am just interested to know whether all the journals and publishers listed here require payment (the obvious incentive for a predator) or whether there are predators that seek something other than money. (I can imagine that newer efforts may not charge for early articles just to gain some content, to attempt to demonstrate credibility.)

John, my definition of gold open-access is different. I recognize the gold OA model (free to readers, authors pay an article processing charge) and the platinum OA model (free to readers and free to authors). I generally try to limit my list to gold OA publishers and journals, following the definition I give here. I agree with your last statement, that new gold OA publishers frequently waive fees just to get some content, and unfortunately, it’s usually pretty bad.

For friends of Index Copernicus: their description of ranking process is here http://jml2012.indexcopernicus.com/page.php?page=3&id_lang=3

See the last step:
“Base Points (BP) are converted into the 10-point, Total Score Base – Total Basic Score (TBS), then:
- In the case of the magazines in the Journal Citation Reports maintained by Thomson Reuters, Index Copernicus Value (ICV) is calculated by the following formula:
9 + [(TBS) * (IF)]
where IF (called ImpactFactor) represents the ratio of impact.
Journals indexed in one of the databases: Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Science Citation Index Expanded, Art and Humanities obtain the ICV = 9 points.
- In other cases, the magazine receive a score TBS = ICV.”

No wonder, that ICV correlates with IF. One just has to have in mind that ICV for !!!any!!! journal which has IF will be above 9. And when some journal cites its ICV on the web page as impact factor, this is real fraud.

Is “International Journal of Electrochemical Science” really a predatory publication? The ISI impact factor was 3.7 in 2011…

The current impact factors are the 2012 ones. While that journal may have had an impact factor in 2011, ISI journal citation reports does not list an impact factor for it now. Here are the closest entries, where it would fall:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS

It is not uncommon for predatory publishers/journals to lie about having an impact factor. They do this to attract more article submissions.

In fact, this page, http://0-admin-apps.webofknowledge.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/JCR/static_html/notices/notices.htm, shows that this journal has lost its impact factor.

Thank you for your response. This journal has lost its impact factor or it was suspended only in 2012?

It may be for just this year, or it may be forever. That will be up to Thomson Reuters, the company that publishes the impact factors. The 2013 impact factor data won’t be published until June, so we won’t know until then.

This journal is published by the “Contemporary Research Center”. That publisher is on my list, and I recommend that researchers NOT submit papers to any of its journals.

What about international journal of multidisciplinary and current research ijmcr

As long as there will be bibliometric rules for academic requirements, those journals will exist (and increase). Don’t focus on the supply, rather than on the demand. The only way to assess a paper is to read it !!!

This journal has many serious problems and I am adding it to my list.

please visit this link: http://www.sagepub.com/journals/Journal202037/manuscriptSubmission#tabview=boards

sage open not in your list??

Correct. SAGE Open is not on my list.

This publisher started these Journals with impact factor from inaugural issue. their news updates as well as domain suggests that this is Journal is from US but its Indian Publisher from Tamilnadu
Predatory Journals URL: http://www.impactjournals.us/

Faking to be http://www.impactjournals.com/

Domain reveals all for us : http://www.whois.com/whois/impactjournals.us