Comment on Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions by Dr. Rajesh K Anand
The authors should be fined and even the authencity of the work reported needs to be checked once again. The new regime, where publication are being given more weightage has led to this type of frauds...
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Haha, I wonder what a “Perfect Editorial Board” is.
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If it exists, it can not be perfect. So for a chance to be perfect, it must be non-existent, and i think at least some predatory journals have such an editorial board.
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“Serials should not be irregular Any previously published matter should be not publish by the serial” What is a serial??
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by George
I’m really concerned to see that Hindawi is not included this year after being under investigation this year. In Hindawi is clear that you pay to get something published. There are no anonymous...
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Exactly Shawn. That is why the scientific community is now in serious trouble, I believe. Journalism and scientific journalism is, in my opinion, already so biased and opinionated, that it actually...
View ArticleComment on Two Predatory Bloopers by Robin Hood
Dear Eponine. Jeff does not have Inderscience listed on the list of predatory publishers. You claim that many “bogus” conferences are published by this publsher. You cannot make claims without proof....
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Peter Nonacs
I did publish this year in a Hindawi journal. It was anonymously reviewed and and our experience was professional. The journal is Psyche, which has had a long history of being published by the...
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I work for a museum in Japan where we use both ISBN and ISSN numbers for monographs published within a series. This allows librarians to file the monographs all together on one shelf, or seperately...
View ArticleComment on Three New Questionable Open-Access Publishers by pbp
You can see The “Science publishing group” had changed their logo from google crome style to another one..
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Hi Schmuck, Serials are any kind of publication that is appears in a series, i.e. a sequence over time. Formal academic journals are the most common kind of serial discussed in this blog. They usually...
View ArticleComment on Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals? by Shawn
The point of my post was not “against” embargo, my position is that it is not practical. A total ban is not realistic because vanity publishers have learned to mask their operations to make...
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals by naser
I wonder whether this guy could even manage to register ISSN for these journals. When a person wants to handle so many journals at the same time, he will end up publishing Plagiarized papers and his...
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals by Robin Hood
The ISSN is in a large part to blame. Corruption does not start at the bottom., It starts at the top. No quality control. Makes you wonder what the ISSN benefits from being associated with this plague....
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals by Ben
While scrolling down to the comment form I was also thinking about ISSNs :) I noticed that 56 and 57 appear to be duplicates (“International Journal of Anthropology”).
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals by Jeffrey Beall
Ben, thanks for catching that. I crossed it out, but I think I will not change my title.
View ArticleComment on Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals by naser
There are many similar cases of OA publishers who claim they are running over 100 journals but when we check the journals’ content we see that only a few have actual contents. Look at IDOSI for...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Laureano Ralon
Reblogged this on <a href="http://figureground.ca/2013/01/16/12110/" rel="nofollow">Figure/Ground Communication™</a>.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Hilary Carey
What about this kind of approach? I do not need to pay publishers to accept my work and I wonder why I am being pressured (I was approached multiple times with the same request) to publish in this...
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