Comment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Mahmood
Dr. Jeffrey, if so, then why its not present in the ISI Master List as of today
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Ah, so this is <i>another</i> Yamamoto paper, this time claiming that GcMAF cures AIDS. And I see from their sites that the industry's promoters claim that GcMAF is produced by <b>all...
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Further thoughts come to mind on the difficulty of distinguishing between predatory journals and their non-predatory peers that limit themselves to mere grasping commercialism ones… I was looking at...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
When I analyzed it, I found plagiarism in the articles, and the editorial board members were listed without any affiliations and with initials: A. Baker (USA), among other problems.
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Update to that last comment: the paper by Bradstreet et al. in Front. Hum. Neurosci ("A new methodology of viewing extra-axial fluid and cortical abnormalities in children with autism via transcranial...
View ArticleComment on Backlog by Jason Eriksen
Hi Jeffrey, Here’s a recently launched site that, while it may not be a scam, seems to have some red flags associated with it: http://www.sciencescript.org. One of my colleagues was solicited to join...
View ArticleComment on Meta-analyses and the Problems of Duplicate Publication and...
This topic is certainly imporant. Luckily, not many putative double publications seem to have passed the meta-analystic filters, which speaks well of most scholars performing them. In fact, if...
View ArticleComment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Mahmood
Pretty Strange, its July 29 and no update from Thomson Reuters
View ArticleComment on Meta-analyses and the Problems of Duplicate Publication and...
In my field (road safety) we often need to consider the “grey” literature as well as peer reviewed publications, and this problem is common. It is not unusual for a non-peer reviewed conference paper...
View ArticleComment on Backlog by Jeffrey Beall
I have analyzed this publisher and added it to my list. Thanks for letting me know about it.
View ArticleComment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by johanneswilm
@Jeffrey Beall: Yes, but you seem to have your own agenda in relation to journals and open access, and some of the criteria you use for inclusion in the list, such as “The company exists solely for the...
View ArticleComment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by Zed
The only official IF list what we use is Journal Citation Reports. http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/JCR?PointOfEntry=Home&SID=Q1ftbjL83H7yreF3T65 That is the problem, that the journal name...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Bill Yerger
Is this a predatory journal? I can’t find this on your list. International Journal of Education
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
Bill, can you supply a link? There are several journals with this title.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Bill Yerger
Amy Li Editor International Journal of Education Macrothink Institute ************************************* Add: 5348 Vegas Dr.#825, Las Vegas, Nevada 89108, United States Tel: 1-702-953-1852 ext.506...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
Bill, this journal is published by the so-called Macrothink “Institute,” which is on my list. It is not an institute in any honest sense of the word, and it is not really based in Las Vegas. They use...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Garry
Can i get your imput on Open Journal of Epidemiology. Thank you for your advice
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Bill Yerger
Thank you for your kind help!
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by SCIRP, Scientific Research Publishing. In my opinion, this is a scholarly vanity press. This publisher publishes much pseudo-science. I will publish a blog post about this...
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