Comment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Robin Hood
Guido, if the scientific community does not begin to punish frauds, how on earth do you honestly expect justice to be delivered to science? I disagree with you. The authors are clear frauds. Both the...
View ArticleComment on OA Publisher Gratuitously Uses Other Groups’ Logos to Feign...
Look at the email id of IOSR: iosr@gmail.com
View ArticleComment on List of Publishers by On Bogus Journals « Achilleas Kostoulas
[...] may wish to consult a very useful list of publishers who appear to engage in dubious publication practices, compiled by Jeffrey Beal, a [...]
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Robin Hood
Leanne, some friendly advice. Publish your story so that it serves as a historical document for posterity and also to warn others to take care. The only way to advance our cause against fraud is...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Robin Hood
Leonard, I have an idea. Why don’t YOU take care of being responsible for contacting Google and aksing them about their responsibilities towards academic quality. That would serve the community of...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by rleonhard
Robin Hood, you’ve completely misunderstood my comment and question. I was asking the author Beall (and anyone else who cared to respond politely) how he dealt with this issue as a librarian with...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Ymir
This is a helpful list, thanks for putting it together. Consider changing the links to use “no follow” (see http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569) so that you’re not...
View ArticleComment on Publishing Pseudo-Science by Todd W. Carter
Is it mostly universities in developing countries that consider publication in one of these pay-to-publish journals as legitimate? Please tell me that no U.S. university would award tenure based on...
View ArticleComment on Publishing Pseudo-Science by Jeffrey Beall
It varies by university, not so much by country. Hopefully, tenure committees are gaining awareness of predatory publishers granting credit (or not) accordingly.
View ArticleComment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Shawn
Any type of embargo is not practical. First, there is no standard that you can enact to determine which publication is vanity press. You can define vanity press as “Pay to publish,” but it is very...
View ArticleComment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA...
Plus, it looks like they might be a franchise of the Football Association of Ireland (going by their logo, at least: see http://www.fai.ie/index.php)
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Excellent catch! Thank you!
View ArticleComment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Ogwo
I agree entirely with Shawn.
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I think that you valuable work merits a big piece like an editorial in some big news paper or even a book. Thanks for all these warnings.
View ArticleComment on Two “Institutes” That Want Your Money by Alireza Heidarzadegan
HI I WANT TO KNOW CAN I TRUST TO Macrothink Institute TO PUBLISH MY ARTICLES OR NOT?
View ArticleComment on Two Predatory Bloopers by eponine
May I know how legitimate is Inderscience publisher? I read your blog about this publisher having a journal with identical name as another existing journal. In addition, many bogus conferences have...
View ArticleComment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA...
I don’t know whether this organization is from India or out of India. But it is non- profit organization as it has no any fees for publisher as well as researcher. It is good work by OAJPA for...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Open Access Is Not...
[...] last year Jeffrey Beal published an update to his list of Predatory Open Access Publishers. The list grew from 23 questionable publishers in 2011 to 225 in 2012. With his list Beal reminds [...]
View ArticleComment on Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd...
[...] could these standards be? Beal gives a number of reasons why publishers are included in his black list. Yet, these are tentative criteria that just allow to [...]
View ArticleComment on Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA...
Dear Mr. Singh, the academic community struggles to understand how you were awarded a PhD with such views. The list of publishers are full of fraud (please spend some time on the pages of each) and the...
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