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Comment on Two Predatory Bloopers by A Khan

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If you see carefully master journal list of ISI (8576 journals in SCIENCE CITATION INDEX EXPANDED), you may find out approx. 200-300 journals whose name can give a wrong impression about the publisher’s country (Reference: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/publist_sciex.pdf). For example AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY can be published by a publisher based in DENMARK, or AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEPHROLOGY can be published by a publisher based in SWITZERLAND, Asian Journal of Mathematics can be published by a publisher based in UNITED STATES or so on. It is quite easy to find out this type of mismatch and it is a common practice for last 50-60 years in publication industry. Anybody who is having some experience about publication industry, knows this fact.
It is not journal’s name; it is journal’s quality and peer review practice, what bothers me more.
Academicians expect that a Scholarly journal should work as a gatekeeper of scientific research. A scholarly journal mainly provides a kind of certification to a research by publishing a paper after peer review. Definitely quality of certificates differ from each other as per the peer review quality of the journal. That’s why different tires of scholarly journals exist. That’s why impact factor changes from journal to journal. Ultimately journals are meant to provide result of trusted filtering service to scholars. Therefore, in my opinion if a journal fails to provide this (trusted) service, it is predatory journal or vanity press. This should be the one and only criteria to judge a journal. Too many parameters create too much problems/controversies and ultimately divert from the main issue (i.e. peer review standard/ transparency/ quality). If any journal gives the result of fake peer review, though it is supposed to give the result of original peer review, then it is predatory journal or criminal journal or pseudo journal. It can be Open access journals or subscription based journal (Reference: Elsevier published 6 fake journals: Source: http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27383/title/Elsevier-published-6-fake-journals/ or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsevier).


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