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Comment on Hair Journal Reveals OMICS’ Exploitation of Researchers by Ole, Ole!

Yehuda, My top spammers list is, in alphabetical order, counting 2013-2014 from my and my associated e-mail accounts (give or take 5% error): AASCIT: 121 e-mails Academic Journals: several dozen...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

I don’t know the exact reason for the difference in the timing. If a publisher claims that it has completed a peer review of your paper in five days, I would be very suspicious.

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Comment on Hair Journal Reveals OMICS’ Exploitation of Researchers by Dave...

That is about as good an argument as “e-mail has led to spam, so what good is that?”, and certainly no better than “subscription-based publishing has led to publisher monopolies, so what good is...

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Comment on Hair Journal Reveals OMICS’ Exploitation of Researchers by Ole, Ole!

Dave, your position is praiseworthy, but, I am afraid, you represent a tiny minority on the global scene. Please spend a solid day browsing through the papers of most of those journals of the...

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Comment on LIST OF STANDALONE JOURNALS by Fattori di crescita – Ocasapiens -...

[…] dice Jeffrey Beall che compila la lista nera degli editori “discutibili“ e riviste idem, ormai il DOAJ è discreditato, insieme alle riviste oneste che figurano nel suo […]

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Comment on OMICS Publishing Group’s Abuse of Researchers: More Evidence by Farid

My Friend from Iran who often travels between Iran and US was another victim of this predatory journal. His student received an acceptance letter and bill on a joint paper and OMICS group managed to...

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Comment on OMICS Publishing Group’s Abuse of Researchers: More Evidence by ED

Appropriately, according to his likely fake LinkedIn profile, Joseph G. is the ‎”Fianace Executive at OMICS Group Incorporation”.

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Comment on OMICS Publishing Group’s Abuse of Researchers: More Evidence by...

Is it not possible to try and get this Joseph Marreddy arrested? There seems to be enough evidence on this page alone showing that he is scamming scientists. His address lists in California, but is he...

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Comment on OMICS Publishing Group’s Abuse of Researchers: More Evidence by...

Undisclosed fees are generally unenforceable (in common law terms, there’s no contract), though of course the details will vary by jurisdiction. If you are a victim of a predatory publisher and are...

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Comment on Is Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) Publishing...

Galileo wasn’t persecuted because his peers didn’t understand him–he was persecuted because the Catholic Church found his conclusions uncomfortable, and he made some powerful political and theological...

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Comment on Hair Journal Reveals OMICS’ Exploitation of Researchers by Dave...

Impressive list, horrific as the burden is. However, I do hope that you do not consider invitations to review as spam (provided they are somewhere reasonably near your field of expertise). Peer review...

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Comment on Hair Journal Reveals OMICS’ Exploitation of Researchers by Jeffrey...

I agree, but it is common for predatory publishers to solicit <em>ad hoc</em> peer reviews from scholars with no connection to a journal's focus. For example, when an engineering researcher...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Elsevier publishes a journal called <em>Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health</em>. Savvy Science Publisher publishes a journal called <em>Global Journal of Epidemiology and Public...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

I think so. It’s published by SciTechnol, which is an imprint of OMICS Publishing Group. I strongly recommend that you avoid this journal.

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Comment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by sam

I felt abused by this company’s hoax conference. They posted my abstract in a “not ever happened ever” conference a year ago. And they allowed my idea mentioned in the abstract viewed by some idea...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Thanks for letting me know about this publisher, which I’ve added to my list. It has a very messy website, with most of the links dead, and an excessive number of grammatical errors, among other...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

I am assuming you mean the International Forum of Researchers Students and Academician (IFRSA). While I did not see any claims of such an impact factor or quick acceptance notification, I did find that...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall

This journal is extremely questionable. I strongly recommend that you not submit any papers to it.

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Shabbeer Hassan

Thanks Jeff !! But the Elsevier journal has a strange editorial board list. I didn’t find any designations being listed along them. Do you think that’s suspicious?

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Yup, the editorial board members are listed without any affiliations. This is non-standard and as you say, suspicious. Will you be submitting a paper to this journal?

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