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Thanks — I agree. This operation uses the name Europment, and it is just another brand for WSEAS. I strongly recommend that scholars NOT attend any of these conferences.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Excellent question; I can tell you that I am re-evaluating this publisher at this time for possible inclusion in my list. Please stand by.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Cleve Smith
MDPI journal ask for 500CHF publication fee. They also help people to correct English language and then ask for additional 250 CHF. They have scores of journals. It seems to be very profitable.
View ArticleComment on More Questionable Scholarly Metrics are Emerging by Harvey Kane
Kind of reminds me of the explosion of boxing sanctioning bodies. Just who is the heavyweight champion?
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I believe, when a journal is indexed by Thomson Reuters or Scopus, authors should not worry about anything. The personal opinions have no intrinsic or extrinsic value. No one can set the rules for open...
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Please look up the word “fatuous.”
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Mr Beall is obviously right in certain cases. However, I’m beginning to think that his assessment is subjective with respect to certain publishers or journals. One of the journals published by the...
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There are so many logical fallacies in this that I don’t know where to start. First, yes, I agree, the criteria I use are chiefly subjective. I’ve never claimed they were objective. I also mentioned in...
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In my humble opinion MDPI is a bogus publisher. They have published many plagiarized papers in the past and many papers with counterfeit experiments. They publish several papers per month, they find...
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First, I have never published in any of the journals. Second, what do you mean by “one-word journals”? Are Nature, Cell and Science two-word journals? They are also one-word journals! Will you include...
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I see that the general opinion about MDPI is that is a substandard and questionable publisher to avoid. Again, my (only one) experience with MDPI was positive. But I begin to regret to publish there...
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Based on the amount of spam that I receive from them (mostly calls for papers in special issues), the fact that their automated emails do not feature a “unsubscribe me” link, and the fact that I did...
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I agreed to be a special issue editor for an MDPI journal. My experience so far is good. They seem to have decent standards for review, rejecting clearly sub-standard papers. Mainstream publishers like...
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Okay, help me out. Can you list three objective criteria that I can use to evaluate a journal that is less than a year old, criteria that I can apply across the board? If someone can come up with a...
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Is it legitimate to translate “one of them” into “they”? Forgive my poor English.
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Yes, perfectly legitimate. (Good point).
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(1) As the idea of this post is largely come from a disputatious Chinese report, I think Beall doesn’t like to be involved in ; and I have to say that it is a little difficult for Beall to fully...
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Both at the beginning and at the end of your article, you cited the publisher being a controversial figure in China as a main reason for your recommendation of avoiding MDPI. I think it is fair to say...
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Under what circumstances did he leave the University of Louisville? Not the Louisville in China, but the one in the U.S.
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