What about “Psyche: A Journal of Entomology”?
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Comment on MIT Journal Hijacked by Nihal
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Robert Cameron
Bill,
I also monitor the Scholarly Kitchen. For those who don’t know it, it is a librarian’s blog, and fair goes, it represents their views. Some of the stuff is great. I don’t get a picture of uniform hostility to Beall though there have been a few very fierce attacks. There does seem to be a fixation on what is new and trending, but I don’t see an uncritical endorsement of OA regardless of quality.
Jeff has done a great job, single-handed as far as I can see, and must have saved many authors from falling into predator’s clutches. I have used his list to advise a number of authors in non-western countries who are caught up in the citation/publication racket in our uber-competitive research environment.
Some of the attacks follow the “one man band” “vested interest” line (there was some really personal stuff out there). I know Jeff consults and researches carefully, but (but long life and happiness, Jeff) we have to consider the succession of the nasty business of policing this stuff and exposing the villains. Actually, I would guess that the Scholarly Kitchen should be a base, but at present I don’t see it filling that role.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by f
Dear Dr. Beall,
What about this conference. Can I submit. I need to know the level of this conference: http://saiconference.com/IntelliSys2016/CallforPapers
Thanks
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Comment on Appeals by Charlie
Thank you again – I’ll look elsewhere to present and publish.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Lior Shamir
MC, whoever gives a promotion based on publications in predatory journals is predatory themselves, and deserves a co-worker who publishes only in such journals. So it will contaminate those academic institutes who are already contaminated. No legitimate academic institute will hire or promote someone who does not publish in legitimate journals. I agree that the problem is that it might be confusing for the general public, and in some situations might make science seem ridiculous to the outside.
On the other hand, such journals can also serve as outlets for real scientists who have innovative/unproved ideas that do not fit in the establishment journals.
It is reasonable to expect that the journal will be quickly polluted by rubbish papers, so it will be difficult to identify the stimulating ideas from the typical pay-to-publish content. But who knows. We might be pleasantly surprised.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Bill
I’m sorry, I insinuated no such thing. I think you mis-understood my post.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Bill
Wonderful comments, Robert. Your observation that Jeffrey has undertaken this role single-handedly is on target, with due credit of course to those stalwarts who provide his behind-the-scenes tips.
The “Scholarly Kitchen” is very well described. Only added note: there are some actual and would-be industry consultants there who regretfully over-use the blog for to publicize their names. It’s a “Kitchen” with lots of excellent pies and some over-done meat loaf.
Your comments do you credit, really! Thank you for posting!
Best wishes,
Bill
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Lior Shamir
Yes Keith. That’s more or less what I meant by “nature” of the journal. Meaning, perhaps it should not be taken too seriously, as long as it does not expand to “serious” fields.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Robert Cameron
thanks! I forget now how I got sucked into this, probably by responding to a Malaysian’s question on ResearchGate; she was not in my field, but seemed to be a true researcher struggling with this. I am ancient (72), but I do a lot of collaborative work with much younger co-authors from many countries who get impacted by this. I am lucky. No way can I afford to use PLoS One or other respectable author-pays journals, but I am able to publish in traditional society-based specialist journals, and I (but not my co-authors) don’t give a s**t about impact factors. I also don’t have to be in a hurry for career prospects!
I guess I have two motivations: protecting the younger generation (and predatory journals are not the only problem) and trying to prevent scientific communication turning into mush. When I looked at the actual contents of a few journals on Jeff’s list, I was shocked.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
I haven't analyzed this journal. I do find it <a href="https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/search/index.html?KEYWORDS=IntelliSys&CONF_SRCH_RDO=conf_date&RANGE_FROM_DATE=&RANGE_TO_DATE=®ION=ALL&COUNTRY=ALL&RowsPerPage=10&PageLinkNum=10&ActivePage=1&SORTORDER=desc&SORTFIELD=start_date" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">listed </a>on the IEEE website, despite the fact that its "contact" page lists no physical location and despite the fact that its website looks fishy.
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Comment on MIT Journal Hijacked by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by Hindawi, a Cairo-based publisher that is not on my list. However, this is not a guarantee that it’s a strong journal.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Bill
Your younger colleagues are lucky to have you! And this blog feature is lucky to have your commentaries.
The target of the mushrooming mush seems to be funds extracted of from large research grants, and chunks from the annual mega-millions from certain huge foundations and I think the UK government. It is doubtful if much money flows from individual researchers, although no doubt this also comes about.
Your views on all this are so wisely balanced, again–they are welcome commentaries.
Might you be able to cite a few examples
of, uh, “surprisingly strange” journal articles published by journals found on Beall’s List? My suggestion is leave out the actual journal titles so you aren’t the target of any reprisals.
Bill
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Scopus has made a mistake — three mistakes.
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Comment on Appeals by pakzainalhasan
Why the scopus mistakes for that journal ?
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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I’m not sure. Scopus uses a different evaluation criteria than I use, and also I have much more direct evidence of misconduct. I recommend that you avoid the journals on my lists.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Robert Cameron
OK, I will try to have a go, but not tonight. Often,the problem is not so much the title (often “normal” if a bit pedestrian), but the actual contents.
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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal by Bill
I know what you mean. Sometimes a quotation of a few sentences in the “Conclusion” area is enough. Or perhaps (less work) a link to the entire article.
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by melese abate
Dear beall the OMIC international invited me as organized commitee of the following link food microbiology -2016 conference at UK. but they requested me to regiostered online to confirm my presense or participation on the conference. registration fee =700USA dollar. shall i do this. i need you kind help as usual
http:/foodmicrobiology.conferenceseries.com/registration.php
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Rini
Is it possible that a Journal earlier if present in the list of predatory journals now be not in the list
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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
No. I recommend you ignore all invitations from OMICS. Journals and conferences, delete everything from OMICS.
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