Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Here are some of the reasons: Lack of standard numbers (ISSNs) The journal pages are garnished with logos from many legitimate organizations No clue where this is based; they don’t give any location...
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View ArticleComment on Appeals by LAOcampo
Dear Sir, I would just like to take some of your time to look at these journals/publishers and to know your views about them. 1. Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management – a journal published...
View ArticleComment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by The Open Access Journal Rant | Darren Goossens
[…] In open access, the author pays the journal. The journal notionally uses the money to ensure good quality refereeing, and to actually publish the work. But the big problem is the direct link...
View ArticleComment on Hindawi’s ISRN Brand Offers to Pay for Articles by The Open Access...
[…] probably OK but one to watch, have solicited long review articles and offered honorariums of around $1000. This is presumably to lift them above the sloshing sea of lightweight, vanity press OA...
View ArticleComment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by...
I’ve read a couple of pieces in MDPI’s journal Sustainability and they are usually as good as some of the less prestigious journals published by Sage, Elsevier or publishers usually recognized as...
View ArticleComment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C...
Dear Jeffrey, One more open access journal, one more! http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6172/709.full Of course, for the sake of people in developing countries who cannot pay to access to...
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What’s your real name? Why don’t you use it here? Will you share your CV?
View ArticleComment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by...
sustainability person, I agree that we should “focus on criticisms of the peer review process, the quality of the work, etc”. Please consider the extent of problems in the MDPI’s “Australian Paradox”...
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I don’t really know how that’s relevant. I’m not a “big deal”. I’m just saying that critiquing the fanciness of some publisher’s office doesn’t seem relevant nor does it seem relevant that they have a...
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Bill, I request that you take back this statement: “Hopefully you will include it in your list, otherwise you are a partial guy.” Why do you have such a mean tone in your comment? Are you sure you read...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
1. Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management – a journal published by American Scientific Publishers. I analyze at the publisher level rather than the individual journal level whenever...
View ArticleComment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C...
Jeff, Yes I did read the article, and I think it was not peer-reviewed, otherwise it would not be accepted and published as a lot of commentators stated under the article. Science and Nature publish...
View ArticleComment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by...
I wouldn’t say an entire publisher is “bad” because of 1 paper. By this logic we should consider Duke University press “bad” because it publishes Social Text, the home journal of the infamous Sokal...
View ArticleComment on LIST OF PUBLISHERS by Fake papers are not the real problem in...
[…] hoax papers, which have tried to raise awareness of pseudo-academia, such as spamferences and predatory publishers. Most recently, Science reported on a massive ‘sting’ operation which used...
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Yeah, that’s what the Egyptian military needs to research for a more democratic nation. Mike
View ArticleComment on Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C...
beside the money factor, what else is/are the factor(s) that can prove Science/Nature/Cell should be on the list? do they compromise quality or break any publication rule?
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Arben
Dear Dr. Beall Are all the journals listed under DOAJ (http://www.doaj.org/) LEGIT ?! Can I find a journal on this directory and publish my work. Thank you for your opinion.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
There is some overlap between my list and DOAJ, so, no, not all of the journals listed in DOAJ are legitimate in my opinion. DOAJ has tightened its criteria over the past year, so it’s not as bad as it...
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