Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Dietrich, Happy New Year. How are you going with your investigation of the extraordinarily faulty Australian Paradox paper, published in your MDPI’s Nutrients “journal” by an influential lead author...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Ubaka

January 31, 2014, 1:40 am

God job you have done here. But I noticed you listed academic journal as predatory but one of its journals (african journal of pharmacy and pharmacology) is on the 2013 journal citations report by...

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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by...

January 31, 2014, 3:39 am

Dear Jeffrey, Thank you very much for the frequent update on predatory journals. Today I have one query i.e. about the European Scientific Journal . I could not find it in the list of predatory...

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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by Peter...

January 31, 2014, 5:46 am

Dear Jeffrey, As usual, you bring us news of the awful, and I just had to see how bad the noledge can be. I couldn’t get past the first page of tripe, but did find an interesting detail that might be...

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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by...

January 31, 2014, 7:09 am

That journal is not on my list. I have analyzed it, but I didn’t find that it met the predatory criteria.

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall

January 31, 2014, 7:17 am

Yes, the publisher Academic Journals is on my list. I think Thomson Reuters is mistaken in assigning an impact factor to this journal.

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Liam Mac Liam

January 31, 2014, 7:41 am

With regard to the African journal of pharmacy and pharmacology, i could be reading it wrong but it seems to me it appeared as indexed in 2011 but not 2012 (2013 not released yet).

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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by Matham...

January 31, 2014, 8:50 am

Mr. Jeff, how sure are you on your claim about European Scientific Journal ? Hmmm. !

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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by...

January 31, 2014, 9:24 am

I agree that it’s borderline. I try not to add borderline publishers to my list, trying to err on the side of caution. I’m happy to hear reasons why you think it should be on the list. Thanks.

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Professor David M....

January 31, 2014, 9:31 am

I nominate Cambridge Scholars Press to list of Predatory Publishers. Sent them ms. and they asked for us to do our own copy editing. Paid $14000 to do so, only to have CSP ask for more, and pay $1500...

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Comment on Appeals by Researcher

January 31, 2014, 9:53 am

Please, tell me about International Journal of Energy and Environment IJEE. I do not see this in your list. Can I consider as authentic for publications. Regards

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Comment on New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals by Liam...

January 31, 2014, 2:00 pm

They seem to be very productive and crank out more than 1 issue per month (4 in December and 3 in January) which cover an enormous breath of disciplinary content while maintaining “the review procedure...

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Comment on Respected Swiss Journal Hijacked by Unknown Criminals by Peter

January 31, 2014, 6:37 pm

Some researchers including my students sent some works to this journal because of the long publishing years and impact factor shown in the website. However, they did not show full paper but abstract. I...

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