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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

Publication time 8-10 months? That seems terribly long to me, on top of all the fee unpleasantness.

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Comment on Fake Peer Review: More Documentation by Jeffrey Beall

I don’t think your argument is very cogent.

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

“The journal has an impact factor of 0.049 according to Thomson Reuters’ Journal Citation Reports.” Statistically significant!

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Novice researcher...

[…] Here is a list of predatory open access publishers and journals to avoid […]

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

Although seen from another angle an APC of $150 plus a complimentary print subscription is hardly outrageous, and also the equivalent of ‘society members’ (academics and students from the Colegio de...

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

To add insult to injury, the publisher is an institution of the Mexican federal ministry of agriculture! http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colegio_de_Postgraduados (in Spanish)

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

This is not an article processing charge. In my experience, APCs are only charged after acceptance. Here “this payment does not imply that the manuscript will be published.” I do not know of any other...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by chandra

Hi Jeff, Need to your feedback as one of my journal got accepted by hindawi. As I am reading mixed reviews wondering is it legit or spam? Could you please advise

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

Noted and Thanks. Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 15:02:57 +0000 To: ayetuoma@hotmail.com

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Hindawi is not on my list. You should be fine.

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Comment on OA Publisher to Peer Reviewer: Never Mind by Kitty

I work for a reasonably well-known set of research journals, and while this practice is not just limited to predatory publishers, it is something that I would encourage all editorial staff to nip in...

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Comment on OA Publisher to Peer Reviewer: Never Mind by Kitty

Actually, I can confirm that this does happen, but it’s not good practice.

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

Jeff – I have no idea about this specific journal, but fees for submission of a manuscript are charged by other reputable journals published by large scholarly societies. For example the Journal of...

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Comment on What’s Up with Dr. George Perry? by guest

If you had spent more than 5 minutes with Dr. Perry, you would know that it’s a bit like watching the Road Runner zip from place to place. He’s efficient, brilliant, and effective. He hasn’t managed to...

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Comment on Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting...

Agreed, but the point I was trying to make is that the fees are not mentioned on the website. Authors find out about them the hard way, after they’ve submitted a paper.

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Comment on More Controversy Over Open-Access Publisher MDPI by Jeffrey Beall

Yes, MDPI is on my list at this time. I list at the publisher level whenever possible, so when I publisher is included on the list, I do not separately list all its individual journals.

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

What is MPRA?

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Comment on Fake Peer Review: More Documentation by Goran

They have also option for 3-days publishing for 130 USD.

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

I think it is, and I recommend that you avoid it.

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Comment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Manfred Raida

Yes the names are funny, Helen White and other very simple names – and I am sure people with these names exist. And they had all been female, never a Henry Miller or a John Clark :-) Nothing is real...

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