Comments for Scholarly Open Access

Not unlike another predatory publisher/meeting organizer–remember http://tinyurl.com/nazyz79 –who unfortunately are still at the game of creating fake accounts on social media to peddle their wares....

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Comment on Publisher Uses Fake LinkedIn Identities to Attract Submissions by...

February 10, 2015, 8:21 am

I should note that on both LinkedIn and Facebook, fake accounts can be reported. For example, declining a LinkedIn invitation like the one above leads to a short series of questions about why you...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by yash

February 10, 2015, 9:03 am

Mr Beall, please tell about Journal of Advances in Radiology and Medical Imaging launched by Annex Publishers. Is it too potentially predatory one or just a start up?

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

February 10, 2015, 11:26 am

I have Annex Publishers included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and I recommend that researchers not submit papers to any...

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Comment on Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute” by Jeffrey Beall

February 10, 2015, 11:32 am

Your indication that your paper was reviewed by a “well-reputed [sic] scholar and researcher” tells me that the peer review was not blinded and involved only a single reviewer. Given all the weaknesses...

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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by Manfred Raida

February 10, 2015, 5:13 pm

And terribly expanding, just got an invitation to a conference in Boston on Metabolomics. Many speakers, do not know anyone of them, but more shocking many sponsors, big mass spectrometry companies....

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by yash

February 10, 2015, 5:34 pm

Hello Mr Bealll, hope you are doing fine. Please tell about Journal of Advances in Radiology and Medical Imaging by annex publishers. Is it a start up or potentially predatory?

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

February 10, 2015, 5:38 pm

It’s predatory.

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Comment on Publisher Uses Fake LinkedIn Identities to Attract Submissions by...

February 10, 2015, 6:37 pm

Thanks for the warning. I had no idea that they were on LinkedIn.

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Comment on New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches by Neuroskeptic...

February 11, 2015, 4:46 am

Yesterday I emailed IJOHMN accusing two of their papers of plagiarism. Today, those papers have vanished and have been replaced by two new papers! Well, they moved quickly… but some retraction notices...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Sunday Brownson Akpan, Nigeria

February 11, 2015, 5:14 am

Hello Prof Jeffrey, Am interested in participating in one of this meetings as academician. Please assess the authenticity of the following conferences. Thank for your wonderful work so far! (1)...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

February 11, 2015, 7:39 am

I do not have any established criteria for evaluating conferences. If the second one is really organized by who it says it is, then it is probably is okay. The first one and the last one are anyone’s...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Mars

February 11, 2015, 8:59 am

What would you say about journals belong to MECS Publishers?

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

February 11, 2015, 9:33 am

I have analyzed this publisher but did not add it to my list. It’s not a predatory publisher. Individuals will have to decide for themselves whether they find this publisher’s journal appropriate for...

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