Comment on Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires...
The part claiming that the publications are freely accessible is the problem. Subscription journals frequently charge submission fees (in my field of economics) and/or page charges to authors (in...
View ArticleComment on Mysterious Publisher Launches with 44 Journals by Dan
I, too, submitted a manuscript to them. I have agreed to let them publish it, but now am having second thoughts. I wonder if there would be any consequences if I were to withdraw the manuscript. Any...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Adam
In other words, is it OK if I submit a paper in a journal indexed in Scopus but the publisher is listed as predatory publisher? Thank you.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
No, not in my opinion. When I add a publisher to my list, I add it for good reasons, and I believe that scholars should not submit papers to journals belonging to publishers on y list.
View ArticleComment on Researchers Find “Naming Of Allah” Prevents Certain Histological...
You overestimate the level of knowledge in the peer communities of some areas and underestimate the level of perceived cultural relevance for such types of research. In other words, the problem is far...
View ArticleComment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent...
No, no, no! The definition for plagiarism is not and must not be up for debate. There is confusion in the discussion here among three different things: plagiarism, writing style, and the degree of...
View ArticleComment on Oxford on alert: predatory conference organisers are coming to...
I don’t know about this one in particular, but, in my experience, the “fake conferences” work pretty much like the fake journals. They take fees, then issue certificates (at times) or publish an...
View ArticleComment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent...
Thank you very much for this most thoughtful contribution.
View ArticleComment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent...
Yes, thank you for this most thoughtful contribution (uh, oh, I think I just plagairized Miguel! :-) Whereas I agree with you about not doing anyone favors by allowing them to cheat, I must...
View ArticleComment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Amy D.
I just received an unsolicited email from them asking me to review a manuscript (the manuscript was attached). I’m guessing they found me on ResearchGate, or possibly PubMed, as the email addressed me...
View ArticleComment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by...
Thanks for sharing this. I suspect that ‘Kevin Nelson’ is a made-up name.
View ArticleComment on New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles by Amy D.
Also noting that the manuscript wasn’t blinded very well. The acknowledgements listed specific professors and the organization’s acronym was scattered throughout – it wouldn’t have taken much to figure...
View ArticleComment on Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires...
Okay, this is a bit of an overstatement … perhaps I’d even go so far as to agree that it’s a lie, not not even a little white lie. But all the publisher would have to do to make it true is to change...
View ArticleComment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent...
Well, Jeff, you are correct, in THAT sense, yes, anything can be debated. :)
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics: A New List on This Blog by RMS
Jeffrey, I appreciate this new list. It’s pretty easy to detect ‘fake’ metrics, but maybe you can clarify on your site, or here is the comments, what methodology you use to categorize a metric as...
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics: A New List on This Blog by Jeffrey Beall
Hey, Rafael, Thanks for your comment. I do think that most of the companies on this list make up the value out of thin air, as you say. Here is one new metric that is looking pretty good: <a...
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics by Preet Khandelwal
Thank you very much Jeffrey Beall sir for opening this blog. Dear Sir Directory of Journal Quality Factor is probably bogus agency for evaluation of Journals, its prime aim is to earn money. Some major...
View ArticleComment on Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires...
No opinion on this publisher, but one might mourn the days when the costs of publication were shared by reader and author. Society page charges began to disappear when Pergamon and other commercial...
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics: A New List on This Blog by Liam Mac Liam
Hope you are not being too harsh on the Directory of Journal Quality Factor, Jeffrey – after all they are partnered with such august bodies as the International NonOlympic University and the the...
View ArticleComment on Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires...
For a detailed example of a gross case of plagiarism published in a Research India Publications journal and the nonresponsiveness of the publisher in dealing with it when brought to his attention is...
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