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Nasser, they are fake. Please see my list of fake (misleading) metrics here: http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/
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Thank you Jeffrey, there is one called J-Gate is this also fake? here is the address: Shylaja L Asst. Production Manager Informatics (I) Limited No. 194, R V Road, Basavanagudi, Bangalore 560 004,...
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J-Gate is a mystery. It is not on that list. I think it intended to be more of a directory than a supplier of metrics. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_J-Gate" target="_blank"...
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And I sense a small taste of French in there, too: “Researche”. IT is truly a global and international publisher! I will admit, it is one of the few jokes that gave me a stomache ache.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Fernando Cardona
What about Discoveries? In your list I saw discovery but not discoveries http://www.discoveriesjournals.org/
View ArticleComment on Spam Email from Questionable Journal Provides Comic Relief by Katrin
I just got a spam mail from an organization named “SciencePG” that didn’t even bother to separate my name form my co-author’s names properly. So it addressed me like this (names changed of course):...
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Dear Beall, After many years of following your work and visiting your site, I felt compelled to thank you for the great work you are doing and for helping the academic/scientific community. I wish to...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I will monitor this publisher. I don’t want to add it to my list at this time. Did you observe anything unprofessional about it?
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics by DC
The opening line of their website is a good tip off: “…the IC Journal Master List – contains currently over 13,000 journals from all over the world, including 1200 journals form Poland” 10% are “form...
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SciencePG is a serious spammer and will succeed, for the following reasons. Fortunately, in your case, you can see the farce. But for many thousands if not tens of thousands of scientists in developing...
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And while following all the pleasant advice about speaking to your advisors, may I also suggest that you contact the Pakistani higher education authorities to stop using the IF as an equivalent of...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Y Charles
Dear Jeff Beall, thank you very much for your valuable information. To find a good legitimate journal has become very difficult with high processing fees charged to authors.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Mrs. Adekemi Olowokere
this is a great work. please I will like to find out why Sciedu press is included. I have submitted an article to them before. and the review process was rigorous .
View ArticleComment on Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus by Lishan
Dear Guys, Beaware, Life science Journal has also been delisted from the Thomson Reutors web site
View ArticleComment on Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don’t Understand Copyright by...
Well spotted, Jeffrey! Your suggestion for why the publishers do this is plausible, too.
View ArticleComment on Real Location of JSciMed Central Revealed by Joseph D. Tariman
JSciMed is fake. You can’t get hold of anybody. They want your credit card number through email which is very dangerous. Who knows who else will get your credit card number.
View ArticleComment on Spam Email from Questionable Journal Provides Comic Relief by Marco
It may be a bit too easy to think only scientists in developing countries will fall for this. Gullible souls are everywhere; not to speak of the cynical.
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Hmm, maybe this is so they can change their mind on a whim. Today it is CC, tomorrow they charge? If everything is vague, then they can say what they like.
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Dear Beall what about English Language teaching at http://www.dcthink.org/index.php/elt/index ? tanx
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