Eve Douglas, do you work for the ISSN? You seem to be defending it so fervently. The ISSN purportedly claims to be serving the academic community, so let it be more transparent and respond to queries by the academic community. Failure to respond or silence simply feeds more distrust into the system. Regarding your criticisms of the “paper”, you seem to grossly misunderstand the scope, sensu lato, of what a paper is. I tried to track you on sciencedirect and PubMed, but I couldn’t find a single hot for your name, suggesting that you are either working for industry or for the ISSN. Identify who you are so we can assess your criticisms and bias within the context of the publishing world. Mr. Tonukari, who is in fact Nigerian and not Japanese, still needs to prove his claims, which, if true, will be a serious set-back for the academic and OA communities, I believe. Is Mr. Tonukari referring to Nigeria?
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