Comment on Is This a Paper Mill? by maximilianhaeussler
No. Professional medical writing and ghostwriting seems to be accepted and prevalent, it is more than just correcting English grammar and typos:...
View ArticleComment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Nils
@ maximilianhaeussler: The Wikipedia entry you mention does not seem to support that gostwriting is “accepted and prevalent”. It gives examples of some journals having between 2% and 11% ghostwritten...
View ArticleComment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Frank Lu
I’d like to respond to Nils from my selfish viewpoint that doing the research is easy for me as I’m a professor who can call on his students. Writing is the hard part since most students think that...
View ArticleComment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Nils
Dear Frank, You make it sound like your students do all the research, and you do all the writing. Perhaps that’s the way it is in your field. I’m glad it’s not as clear-cut in mine. When I cosign a...
View ArticleComment on Is This a Paper Mill? by Frank Lu
Hi Nils, Haha…definitely not so simple as I painted it. Writing is a collective, emotional affair. So much pain that finally results in joy. I just think that most scientific types don’t like to write...
View ArticleComment on Is This a Paper Mill? by herr doktor bimler
<i>Ah, we should all write in Latin.</i> How about writing in Lorem Ipsum? Occasionally the originators of new predatory journals are so lazy they leave <a...
View ArticleComment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
Navin, Thanks for letting me know about this journal. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. I recommend that you not submit any papers to it.
View ArticleComment on Hijacked Journals by herr doktor bimler
Another one for your list — Kasmera http://www.kasmerajournal.com/index.html Original indexed here: http://www.scielo.org.ve/scielo.php?script=sci_serial&pid=0075-5222 I received a wave of spam...
View ArticleComment on Hijacked Journals by herr doktor bimler
Ah, I see now that Kasmera is in the list (but currently out of alphabetical order)
View ArticleComment on Hijacked Journals by Jeffrey Beall
I will work on fixing that next year. (Still 2014 here).
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by mahshid
hello i have submitted my article to a journal entitled TPLS- Theory and Practice in Language Studies published by Academy publisher, i reviewed your list , i have found some similar name like science...
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics by JToth
Hi, please could you look at this website and give us some thoughts about this indexing(?) service? “Directory of Research Journal Indexing” http://www.drji.org They have their own metric (DRJI value),...
View ArticleComment on Is This a Paper Mill? by KRLemmons
Reblogged this on <a href="http://krlemmons.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/is-this-a-paper-mill/" rel="nofollow">Lifelong Quest</a> and commented: Let the writer be aware.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Academy Publisher is not on my list.
View ArticleComment on Misleading Metrics by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, actually please see my list of "Misleading Metrics" here: <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/other-pages/misleading-metrics/http://" target="_blank"...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by bill
Thank you Jeffrey for maintaining this invaluable service to the various academic communities.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Rocket Scientist
Thank you for this service and best wishes for the new year!
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Sylvain Bernès
The growth rate of predatory publishers over the years is really impressive, and the work done by Jeffrey Beall should be acknowledged. It’s hard work and quite a commitment to maintain such a database...
View ArticleComment on Hijacked Journals by herr doktor bimler
Baltica Journal: http://balticajournal.com/ Legitimate version here: http://www.geo.lt/geo/?id=710 The hijacked version is linked to the same crowd as Sylwan and the others (with re-use of articles).
View ArticleComment on The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A...
There are also predetary authors. Why would the names of Scully and Thornhill appear on researches performed by Jordanian authors? Do they qualify as authors? do they know that there names could have...
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