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Comment on Scholarly Indexes are Unwittingly “Legitimizing” Corrupt Publishers by naser

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The link for World Journal of Science and Technology
worldjournalofscience.com/ does not work. May be this site has become down for copyright violation. I do believe cheaters will face much trouble in long term doing business as Open Text Publisher.

Even if Scopus index them, scientific society can take a look at the figures like h-index, g-index or highest index and when these numbers become insignificant, people simply could call them predatory publiser.

African Journal of Business Management is a good example for this case where it was actually listed on Scopus and ISI a couple of years ago and when they acted as pay-me-publish, they lost their indexation in both. Even Scopus did not show any trace of this publisher when some one tried the name of journal using “all field” and placing the name of journal in qutations.

One of our colleague had actual experience when his PhD student wanted to publish his paper where it had been published somewhere else. The publisher could easily figure this issue even using a simple search, but it seemed that thet preferred to receive the 550$ and published the paper, which did not have even a good quality. My colleage stoped this guy and asked him to make significant contribution and re-submit the paper.

The problem, as jeff specified in other posting, is that most of predatory publishers make false statements about their journals being listed on ISI, Scopus, etc. I sincerely encourage Jeffry to create a page for these publishers and call them criminal!

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Naser


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