Comment on Other pages by Rani Sauriasari
Hi Jeffrey… I really need your suggestion on this conference: http://www.bitcongress.com/wce2015/default.asp (managed by Bit congress Inc.)
View ArticleComment on More Junk Science Proudly Published by Chinese Publisher SCIRP by...
Among the many bizarre findings here, this is one of may favorites! GS: weirdly, I sometimes find it useful for analyuzing dubious papers that sneak through into legitimate journals, and then seeing of...
View ArticleComment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by arightturkey
Thank you Jeffrey. I’m not based in the US so I don’t want to go down the road to consulting an attorney. I’m more interested in best preserving the integrity of the article, which people have told me...
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It’s a long shot but I’m wondering if perhaps SCIRP has been pwned. “Ack” is the monosyllabic utterance of the Martians in the marvellous documentary (cough) ‘Mars Attacks’, and it seems somewhat...
View ArticleComment on A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave by Jeffrey Beall
I would not pay the ransom. Sometimes very strong articles appear in weak journals. Hopefully, in this case, the article will outshine the journal.
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Alex – you make good points about keyword searches and things which don’t show up on Web of Science. However, I still think they shouldn’t include content from obvious crank/predatory publications. As...
View ArticleComment on OA Publisher with a Long, Strange Name is Based in a Place with a...
Nobody puts the name of the institution after their name, I have never seen anyone do MSc (Coventry) on their postnomial. Unless this editor thinks having UK after his name makes him look more...
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Also noticed something. The contact details for the two store clerks, they have +1 numbers for their contacts, +1 is the US not Canada which is 011
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Thank you for sharing Jeffrey…I keep learning!! :)
View ArticleComment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by...
When the invite arrives, it’s best to keep the Groucho Marx quote in mind: “I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.”
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While the Journal appears to be of poor quality, the supposed editors are not “clerks at drugstore chains”. In the US, a Staff Pharmacist has to have a degree in Pharmacy, complete an internship, pass...
View ArticleComment on Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s by Scholarly...
[…] each article. Despite this relatively low cost, they seem to make an extraordinarily high profit of 52%. This may reflect certain shortcomings in the way they do things. As Jeffrey Beall has...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Scholarly publisher profit...
[…] profit of 52%. This may reflect certain shortcomings in the way they do things. As Jeffrey Beall has written, “Hindawi is not on my list of questionable publishers. I do receive complaints about […]
View ArticleComment on OA Publisher with a Long, Strange Name is Based in a Place with a...
Canada’s country code is 1, same as the US. 011 is what you dial when in Canada to call overseas.
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Nothing strange about the place. What’s strange is that their acronym is missing a D.
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Intellectual Consortium of Drug Discovery & Technology Development Incorporation (ICDTD Inc.) I’m pretty sure that “Incorporation” is the legal process; the resulting legal entity (the corporation)...
View ArticleComment on Questionable Polish Publisher Targets Scholarly Societies by...
The list of predatory journals is very long. Several questions occur in my mind. Why these journals have grown in number? Who gave opportunity to unscrupulous elements to flourish?….
View ArticleComment on Hijacked Journals by Abdul Rahim
The claimed hijacked Journal Wulfenia accepted my manuscript which is related to Mechanical Engineering and requested a payment with no identification to method of payment even after I contacted the...
View ArticleComment on Counterfeit Australian Society Recycles and Renames Researchers’...
The image of “Professor Robert B. Kunz” (who is editor in chief of several of the journals) is actually of Professor Peter C. B. Phillips (Yale) and is lifted from:...
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