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Very nice, Jeffrey! Rob
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What I don’t get is, if an author can get their articles published in ISI-indexed journals, why would they even consider submitting to GRJ?
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Thanks Jeffrey for flagging the issue. Manipulating IF is certainly unethical IMHO. I think ISI is going to take this seriously.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by krityakiarana
Dear Jeffrey, Thank you very much for your kindly information. I’m wondering that the International journal of physiotherapy and research (IJPR) is in your list?
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Dr Beall I just knew about list organized from your side. Can you tell me the reasons for the inclusion of “Nobel International Journals”
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Authors who can and do publish in TR-indexed journals know that articles in predatory journals will hurt them academically in any normal scientific environment. It is a pretty bad offer btw. One can...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Titu
Dear Asif, I read the article publish in IJICTT 1st volume “Automated Software Test Data Optimization Using Artificial Intelligence by Arshad Mansoor” and amazed that I have read it before than I...
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Well, one reason is that they use the name “Nobel” and try to associate themselves with the Nobel Prizes.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by bill
>found almost same on site http://www.ukessays.co.uk Parts of the paper can also be found in this 2009 publication: http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJSEIA/vol3_no4_2009/6.pdf
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by a company called International Journals of Health and Medical Research (IJMHR). I have this publisher included on my list. I recommend that you find a better publisher than...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Correct, publishing plagiarized articles does indeed hurt the credibility of a publisher. It is now pretty routine for scholarly publishers to perform plagiarism checking checking before accepting...
View ArticleComment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Today in...
[…] Technology, a pretend academic journal, which just published the exciting breakthrough paper “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List.” The reviewers found it excellent! And perhaps most of all,...
View ArticleComment on Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community by Marco
I checked the whois entry, and it probably contains false information. The address given for the registrar is 15 Shiprow in Aberdeen, which is an Ibis hotel (Centre). Also funny, my McAfee site advisor...
View ArticleComment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by...
I thought it was interesting that my invitation to speak was addressed to my first name “Dear Barbara.” That was a clue to me that something was not right
View ArticleComment on Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community by herr doktor bimler
Browsing through the list of indexed journals brings up a lot of the usual suspects, so you could add “use of their services” as one more criterion for rating a publisher as a scam.
View ArticleComment on Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community by Jeffrey Beall
Agreed. I hope to re-write the criteria document I use and add this as a new one. It’s not currently listed as a criterion because the fake metrics companies didn’t exist when I last updated the...
View ArticleComment on Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute” by Jeffrey Beall
Good question. I will analyze it. I think I have looked at it before but didn’t see any OA content there. I do now. Thank you.
View ArticleComment on Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community by J.J.
It’s fascinating to see a whole sub-economy blooming around fake science. This is the second case of predators praying on predatory publishers that I see on this blog (the first one was the...
View ArticleComment on Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute” by Neal
Thanks, I will be interested to learn what is different about Clute’s operation and Mondal’s operation such that Clute’s publications are not currently listed on Cabell’s but Mondal’s are still listed....
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