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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

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1. There is the regular occurrence of plagiarism among the articles. For example, one of the journal’s articles contains this passage, without any attribution:

“Variability in CD4+ LCs among healthy HIV seronegative adults has been widely reported and has been attributed to biological, ethnic group influences as well as differences in the methodologies used for T-cell enumeration.”

That passage originally appeared here:
http://intl-cvi.asm.org/content/11/5/930.full

2. Much of the authors’ guidelines is copied from other sites.

3. The journal has a very broad coverage to attract more author fees, and there are already many journals with a similar coverage — there is no authentic need for this new journal. It’s just being done for the profit.

4. The journal claims to be indexed is services that are not abstracting and indexing services.

5. There no indication of the journal’s digital preservation policies.

6.. There is no indication of the journal’s policies regarding retraction.

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