Comment on Predatory Publishers are Abusing the ISO Logo by Robin Hood

Frank, I contacted the ISO about this. They were so startled, the vice president or someone really high up responded to my query. The attribution of an ISO is purely voluntary. Apparently there are about 10,000 categories of ISO, you somehow just spun off some silly number you probably read off the back of a pick-up truck. Although a good business model for ISO, so I don’t see them turning away applications that would hurt their bottom line. So, I consider the ISO to be in collusion with the predators. Is any business truly clean? Finally, a trick question. If the IMpact Factor is the maximum level of quality in science (apparently), why does it NOT have an ISO? Now that is food for thought… You want to be smart, ask Thomson Reuters… and then link what it is that these predatory OA publishers are truly after… link the dots, and I don’t mean the three dots following the 9…