Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by ICC
There are some interesting remarks about an OMICS group journal in the last section of the following preprint: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.4087v1.pdf
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View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Ahmad Hassanat
is any of these journal with impact factor?
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Jeffrey Beall
No, none of the journals has a legitimate impact factor (also, they are too new).
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by alu mudgal
Mr. Beall, What do you mean by a legitimate impact factor? If the journal is new, what is the problem?
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Jeffrey Beall
By legitimate impact factor, I mean one assigned in <em>Journal Citation Reports</em>.
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We should find a way to forbide these journals. That can be done at country, regional, continental and worldwide levels. Why not having some standards. For instane each journal which is not recognized...
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Sudesh Kumar
Right or wrong, isn’t the motivation for doing this the reason that there is an inherent bias towards (an address in) developing and underdeveloped countries, which are perceived to be of low standard...
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Jeffrey Beall
Wrong. It will be based on deception and trickery for the journal that lies about its headquarters location. Why are so many Indian companies embarrassed to admit they’re from India?
View ArticleComment on Would You Submit a Paper to This Publisher? by The Iron Chemist
As long as its your career and not mine, Lae.
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I, for one, love the acronym.
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Sudesh Kumar
If the same publisher was to open two identical journals, one with Indian address and one with US address – which journal do you think will get more submissions and higher quality submissions? Aren’t ”...
View ArticleComment on Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group by Jeffrey Beall
Lying to authors is wrong, and you can try to justify it all you want, but I won’t change my mind. All scholarly publishers need to be completely honest and transparent about where they are based....
View ArticleComment on Introduction to “Super Closed Access Journals” by Stacy Konkiel
Here’s a question: why are libraries paying third parties like ProQuest for access to journals in the first place? Pre-selection of content by aggregators may have been an advantage in the past, but...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by raul valverde
It seems that this list is a bit bias. Basically if the journal is open access and charges money, it is predatory. The American journal has an H index of 17 and it is ranked as a Q2 by SJR:...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Kesatebrhan Haile
Dear The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research is free journal i.e. has no any publication charge. Moreover, it has 4.57 impact factor. So why is it consider as predator...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
That journal does not have an authentic impact factor. It is lying to you, and to others. This, along with many other reasons, is why the journal is on my list.
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