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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

This is NOT a predatory journal. I think it is a fine journal. It does not meet the criteria for being classed as a predatory journal.

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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

Sorry. Where is the evidence to show there was no peer review process? I know the acceptance for a manuscript from reputable journals can be less than three days. It may be the case that the journal...

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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Chris

Was just solicited by ‘Mary Thompson’. ‘She’ first reached out in LinkedIn, then sent me a message once I accepted (which I obviously shouldn’t have). The message was in broken English, asking me in...

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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

Dear Mr. Beall, As you said that Life Science Journal is OK, I was interested in the journal and downloaded the instruction to authors (I click Introduction). The publication cost is 640 USD (rather...

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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

No, I made a mistake and confused this journal with another one. I am sorry for this mistake. Thank you very much for your helpful correction.

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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

So as I’ve understood the Life Science Journal isn’t so good and considered to be predatory, but is it still cited in Scopus or Thomson then? I’m confused…

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Aliah

Very informative! I would like to follow this post.

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Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by Jeffrey Eldred

I also got one of these invitations to be an editor. It was for there new Frontiers in Mathematics, except that I’m not qualified to be a reviewer. Their website makes frequent reference to their...

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Comment on European Journals Added to List by Joseph

Dear, Jeffrey Beall, I would like to know about springer open access journal, Advances in Difference Equations It has impact factor of 0.76. I have noticed it is publishing very low grade articles on...

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Comment on European Journals Added to List by Jeffrey Beall

Thank you for this comment. I can tell you is that neither this journal nor its publisher are on my lists. I can;t remember hearing any criticism of the journal before. The actual amount of the article...

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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

The two journals discussed in the thread have JCR impact factors, but a key indicator that something is fishy with these journals is their self-citation values (“self cites to years used in impact...

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Comment on De Gruyter Journal Hijacked by Links vom 13.06.2014 | Offene...

[…] De Gruyter Journal Hijacked | Scholarly Open Access – Vielleicht kündigt sich da gerade ein "Journal Hijacking Trend" an? Die Journal-Websites werden nachgebaut, geringere Publishing-Kosten...

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Comment on Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review,...

Reblogged this on <a href="http://hemiscelleny.wordpress.com/2014/06/14/serbian-journal-accepts-paper-in-24-hours-with-no-peer-review-demands-eur-1785/" rel="nofollow">Doctoral education to...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Stephanie

Any thoughts on BioMed Research International? (formerly titled Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology) claims impact factor of 2.88

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

This is published by the Cairo-based publisher Hindawi, which is not on my list. I think the impact factor they claim is legitimate.

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Comment on Appeals by » Exposing the predators: checking the quality of open...

[…] lists can appeal the judgement. Even better, the appeals and responses to them are published on the Appeals page, some of them providing fascinating […]

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by rplimaye

Why have you included RJPBCS they claim to be in NLM list soon.Please give us information about it.Thanks for thr great work

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Right, this journal, <em>Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences</em> (RJPBCS), does indeed make a lot of claims. It (falsely) claims to have an impact factor...

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Comment on Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment by Narun

How could charging for reviewing a paper becomes unethical when article processing charge is ethical ? One mistake which Dr.Narwal did was not finalising the deal before accepting to review a paper....

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Comment on Misleading Metrics by Rahmatjib

Another to be added is this http://www.bestjournals.in

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