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Comment on More Junk Science Proudly Published by Chinese Publisher SCIRP by Alex SL

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Keith Fraser,

As I read it, it suggests that the publications will be sorted after those criteria in the search results, not that the supposedly poor papers won’t be shown at all.

Why have such a search engine when there is normal Google? Well, because normal Google will list 99% non-papers if you enter the same key word, and of course they take up the 20,000 highest ranking hits because they have many more visitors than specialist journal websites.

Again, GS serves a useful purpose. If I use Web of Science for example I only get the publications that have enough articles per year to be eligible and happen to already have been included. Taxonomic monograph series don’t qualify, so an entire class of publications in my area is missing from that database. Similar problems for many other indexing services.

An important point to keep in mind is that I am a qualified career scientist, so I can take GS search results and judge for myself whether a publication makes sense. (Interestingly this blog is generally written under the assumption that readers of scientific papers do not have such an ability, and, even more puzzlingly, that professional scientists do not have any ability whatsoever to distinguish between serious and predatory journals.) And of course I have to make the same judgement call with PNAS or Systematic Biology, because even if they won’t publish anything about a Martian civilisation flawed papers still slip through peer review from time to time.

Jeffrey Beall,

Anger and exasperation are different emotions.

I am totally with you on the problematic incentive structure of open access publishing and the tediousness of science spam. One may wonder, however, if you are helping your case by strongly implying that in a perfect world a search engine for papers would not be allowed to exist at all.

There is an obvious trade-off between getting all the good stuff and a lot of nonsense on the one side (GS) and getting less nonsense but also missing out on a lot of the good stuff on the other (indexing services). Sometimes you need the first, sometimes you want the latter.

Do you really prefer a situation in which people have no realistic chance of finding a monograph from the Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden series or a paper in the Western Australian State Herbarium’s peer-reviewed taxonomy journal Nuytsia unless they know of their existence in advance and browse every such journal homepage individually? Should “A new species of Angianthus from the south-west of Western Australia” be actively hidden from somebody searching for papers on Angianthus because Nuytsia isn’t in the JCR? That would seem less than ideal to me.


Comment on Hijacked Journals by lida farahmand azar

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Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I want send an article to
SILVAE GENETICA
this is real.
Please check it and let me know

Comment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall

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Is forest genetics your field of study? It’s not an open-access journal, so it is outside of my scope. It looks real to me.

Comment on Hijacked Journals by tara Tadbir

Comment on Low Quality, “No Author-Fee” OA Journal Has Hidden Charges by Weekend reads: Turning journal spam into a paper; embracing science's flaws; ending bias - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch

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[…] Hidden charges from a publisher claiming it charges authors nothing? Say it ain’t so. […]

Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by Ms. White

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I received an invitation via LinkedIn to be a guest speaker at an International Epilepsy and Treatment Conference to be held in Baltimore. When I went on the OMICS website, I found quite a few spelling and grammatical errors. And then I thought to myself that this person kept pressing the “we would love for you to be our featured guest speaker”, but that meant that I would have to pay the steep fee of $799. After carefully researching their website, they only list the city and state for this conference on the main pages and they made mention of the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel which I called and I could not get confirmation that OMICS was hosting said conference. Then I clicked on a link to download the conference brochure and there was a full address and contact info for the “conference secretariat” located in California, but no address for the conference in Baltimore. Exactly a month later, I received an email stating that they are still awaiting for my response to be a featured guest speaker at this conference and I replied that I have been chosen to speak at another conference and my transportation and lodging expenses have been fully paid for by the conference host. I have not heard back from OMICS since! :-)

Comment on Hijacked Journals by lida farahmand azar

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But I find to different site
one of them goes by Thompson and other with google search and they are similar but diferrent adress

Comment on Science Publishing Group Publishes Junk Science by Graham Saunders

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A very similar paper, with a different title and a co-author at a silk laboratory, appears in the International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Application:

Mohamed El Naschie’s Revision of Albert Einstein’s E = m0c2: A Definite Resolution of the Mystery of the Missing Dark Energy of the Cosmos
J. H. He, L. Marek-Crnjac
International Journal of Modern Nonlinear Theory and Application Vol.2 No.1, Pub. Date: March 21, 2013

Available here:
http://www.scirp.org/journal/articles.aspx?searchCode=L.+Marek-Crnjac&searchField=authors&page=1


Comment on Other pages by lida farahmand azar

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Justin Keogh

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jemal

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Dear Bell, I want to publish my manuscript in the Journal ” International Journal of Science, Engineering and Technology”. Does this journal present in your list of predatory journals?

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jemal

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what about the journal “American Scientific Research Journal for Engineering, Technology, and Sciences (ASRJETS)”. is it predatory?

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, this journal is published by a company that has two names: Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers (GSSRR) and International Journals of Research Papers. I recommend that you not send any papers to this journal and the others this company publishes.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, it is included in the list. I recommend that you not send any papers to this journal.

Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

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Yes, I have analyzed this publisher before and added it to my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. It is listed as "Science & Engineering Research Support soCiety (SERSC)."

Comment on The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science by O's digest - - Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it

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[…] Beall fa scoperte esilaranti. L'acchiappa-polli cinese SCIRP è nella sua lista da tempo, questa […]

Comment on The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing Empire Built on Junk Science by O's digest, con marziani - Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it

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[…] Beall fa scoperte esilaranti. L'acchiappa-polli cinese SCIRP è nella sua lista da tempo, questa […]

Comment on More Junk Science Proudly Published by Chinese Publisher SCIRP by O's digest - - Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it

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[…] Jeffrey Beall fa scoperte esilaranti. L'acchiappa-polli cinese SCIRP è nella sua lista da tempo, questa volta: […]

Comment on Two OA Journals Share the Same Title and Each Claims the Other is Not Legitimate by Craig Hassapakis

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May 18, 2015

To: Middle Eastern Herpetologist and Science Communities in general worldwide

The Office of Policy Making and Planning for Higher Education (http://www.msrt.ir/fa/rppc/pages/Home.aspx), associated with the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of Iran has released (http://www.msrt.ir/fa/rppc/Pages/Files/InvalidForeignPublications.aspx) its annual assessment of scientific journals on 13 May 2015. In this new assessment there are 221 journals listed as “low quality” (Black List Journals) because of their rapid non-peer review publishing process with little or no specialized editorial board oversight. There is also a list of eleven forged journals (Fake & Hijacked Journals) that have targeted legitimate journals. Dr. Sharifi director of the Office of Policy Making and Planning for Higher Education in an announcement to all Iranian universities has advised authorities to publicize the “Black List” and “Fake & Hijacked” journals to the Iranian scientists and encourage postgraduate students and academic staff not to submit articles to these journals since they will not be recognized by the government of Iran especially for granting purposes and/or academic advancement.

According to this announcement Amphibian & Reptile Conservation (http://amphibian-reptile-conservation.org/index.html), founded by Craig Hassapakis (ISSN: 1083-446X; eISSN: 1525-9153), has been hijacked by Robert K. Browne’s journal under the title Amphibian and Reptile Conservation on his personal website at: redlist-arc.org and his other website, Middle East Chapter (www.redlist-arcme.org). Robert K. Browne and his Iranian counterpart (Nasrullah Rastegar Poyani) have absolutely no connection and/or association with the official journal Amphibian & Reptile Conservation at: amphibian-reptile-conservation.org.

The herpetology community in Iran and surrounding Middle Eastern area are growing rapidly and deserve genuine and honest publishing agencies to broadcast their findings. Now that the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology of the country of Iran has courageously made a distinction between the legitimate and false Amphibian and Reptile Conservation I invite all Iranian herpetologist to send their articles to the official, legitimate, and recognized Amphibian & Reptile Conservation at: amphibian-reptile-conservation.org.


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Craig Hassapakis, arc.publisher@gmail.com
Publisher & Editor, Amphibian & Reptile Conservation,
Editor, FrogLog & member of the IUCN SSC Amphibian
Specialist Group (ASG) & Group Facilitator, Genome
Resources Working Group (ASG/GRWG)
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P.S. For orignal documents and official letters from the Iranian government you can contact me directly.

Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeremy Marchant Forde

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Just got this one today – I couldn’t find it in your lists. One to add?

http://www.siftdesk.org

Dear Marchant-Forde, Jeremy,

Sift Desk – Invites the Editor-In-Chief, Associate-Editor-In-Chief, Editorial Members and Reviewers.

Sift Desk Publications is adding editor members of all its journals in the area of science and Technology.
Sift Desk would like to invite you join this network of professionals/researchers as Editor-In-Chief, Editorial Members & Reviewers.
We would like you to Register to Sift Desk If you are Interested to work with Sift Desk Publications.

We would like to invite you to send your complete profile if you are interested to work with Sift Desk Publications to joinaseditor@siftdesk.org
• You can add journals in your account using our Editorial Managerial System.

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