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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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Some of the problems with the Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences are these:

1. The journal tries to affect legitimacy by boasting that it is a “US National Library of Medicine enlisted journal.” The fact is that NLM catalogs thousands of medical journals, and it doesn’t necessarilly screen for quality.

2. I easily found plagiarism among the articles.

3. When I examined the journal, I couldn’t find any information about what the APCs are.

Regarding the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research:

1. This journal displays the Elsevier logo at the top and brags that it is associated with Elsevier; this is an attempt to steal some of the publisher’s legitimacy
2. APC information if any is not prominently displayed
3. . Articles bear a conflicting licensing statement: “All© 2013 are reserved by International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. This Journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”
4. I had no trouble finding instances of plagiarism among the articles.


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