Channel: Comments for Scholarly Open Access
Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by AlexH
They crave for APCs but the only thing they can offer is a grave for your research. No pun intended, well maybe only a little.
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[…] There are a lot of scams in publishing nowadays so try to avoid companies that are listed on Jeffrey Beall’s list or those are mentioned on Internet forums as […]
View ArticleComment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for pointing this out. I do have this publisher, the so-called Council for Innovative Research, on my list. This appears to be one of the extra services they offer (in addition to publishing...
View ArticleComment on Other pages by Paul
Dear Beall, Thank you for your response. The name of the publisher is Academic Journals (http://academicjournals.org/). Recently, I viewed their site and alot of changes have been made and also...
View ArticleComment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Shirley Ainsworth
I am not entirely sure that the Colombian journal Vitae, is a hijacking case. In Latin America it is very common for journals to maintain multiple websites, even within the same university. Which all...
View ArticleComment on Counterfeit Impact Factors are Devaluing the Real One by gaudart
The international journal of health geographics, from the BMC group I presume, publish a lot of good paper in its field. In its web page, we can see an IF of 2.2:http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/...
View ArticleComment on Counterfeit Impact Factors are Devaluing the Real One by Jeffrey...
I do see it on the <em>Thomson Reuters Master List</em> <a href="http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&Word=geographics" target="_blank"...
View ArticleComment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by gaudart
At the time when MDPI was not on Beall’s list, I did review an manuscript fo Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health. I did not see specific problem during this review. The article was accepted. I will be...
View ArticleComment on New OA Publisher Aims to Compete with Preprint Servers by Dom
I had one of these emails informing me that my article was now available! I had published it a year earlier in BMC Biology (proper OA, decent impact factor), so I was a little surprised and worried...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Psychology researcher
I came to this website to see about this journal as I am currently reading a paper from the Scientific World Journal (Hindawi). The study seems good, the results legitimate but I was concerned how well...
View ArticleComment on Researchers Find “Naming Of Allah” Prevents Certain Histological...
Interesting! Why not let others try it and see whether it is reproducible or not. The believe is science is neutral so the bias that science should not be employed to prove a religious truth should be...
View ArticleComment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Tomasz Lewandowski (Centre for Open...
“Chemical and Process Engineering” has also a (legitimate) website here, on an official PAN domain:http://cpe.czasopisma.pan.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=136...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I recommend: Do not submit any work to anything published by the Photon Foundation.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Rafat
Dear Jeffrey, Kindly tell me about the “Journal of Life Sciences (ISSN 1934-7391), USA, David Publishing Company, http://www.davidpublishing.com. However, the name of David Publisher is on your list....
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Rafat: I don’t see on their website where they say their journals have impact factors. Nevertheless, this publisher is on my list, and I strongly recommend that you not submit a paper to any of its...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Kevin J. Black, M.D.
That is awesome … considering that they are now published by Nature Publishing Group (more or less).http://www.nature.com/press_releases/npgfrontiers.html
View ArticleComment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...
Instant gratification at a semi affordable price but good scholarship it is not.
View ArticleComment on Be Careful with Spam from Research Media by Jesse
Just got one today from these guys. Thank you for the warning. To be fair though, buried within the very lengthy email was the information that it’s not a peer-reviewed article, and would cost me about...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I’m very sorry — I don’t have time to properly analyze these journals at this time. I have added to my backlog here: http://wp.me/P280Ch-Ov There are just too many megajournals such as these appearing....
View ArticleComment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...
Thank you very much for your tremendouse help to the authors! And do you know any information about Life Science Journal (ISSN: 1097-8135 (Print) / ISSN: 2372-613X (Online); Impact Factor 2012: 0.165)...
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