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Fazel has been busy today. I also received an e mail where he listed one of my previous papers by title. Very glad I googled and saw this warning!
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Based on the amount of spam that I receive from them (mostly calls for papers in special issues), the fact that their automated emails do not feature a “unsubscribe me” link, and the fact that I did...
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In order to elude people, MDPI clearly cheat and steal brand names from reputable one-word journals like Cell, Science, Nature to create their one-word predatory journals. In many cases, by adding a...
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If you are a MDPI lawyer, the lengthy comment is understandable. If not, I wonder why you are defending this publisher which its principle objective is to make MONEY. When there is some research...
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Indeed Keith, well pointed! Have anyone heard about a high quality publishers sending spam invitations or inviting low quality guest editors? Certainly not, because that’s the feature of predatory...
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Tleski, here is another special issue on the same topic i.e. Antibiotic Resistance, but launched by another mdpi journal (http://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes/special_issues/antibiotic-resistance). So,...
View ArticleComment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by El timo...
[…] ilustra mejor el extremo al que llega el problema que el caso del estudio creado en 2005 por los científicos computacionales David Mazières y Eddie Kohl…. Hartos de recibir toneladas de spam...
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[…] The editor of a special issue of an MDPI journal says the publisher is trying to deceive people. […]
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I have some experience with MDPI. It is not only one side of the coin. There is no question that these newly emerged publications are for money, but the extent differs. I am surprised here that people...
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I am sorry Nep but you do not seem to understand the problem here. The real problem is not that they are for profit, the problem is that they are using deception and lies to make money damaging the...
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In fact, this is not completely true. Serious concerns were raised about at least one paper in that special issue by Grant Steen, which took also about 2 years – or more – to develop. A challenge was...
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Sofia, this is an anonymous forum, so you are protected. Please reveal the exact identities of those names, and how you know what “routes of black money” they are receiving. If we only have broad...
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There is only one real and viable solut ion to revealing the academic rot of this publisher, if there is any. To reexaine published papers and to reveal flaws and problems, as a post-publication peer...
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The style of the covers are identical to Academic Journals, of Nigeria, when they started out.
View ArticleComment on OA Publisher to Peer Reviewer: Never Mind by ICC
Another example of “research” published by this journal, with ample potential of damage to society as various internet “news” sites pick it up:...
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I agree most of the part, but if you are being a police and say I am not aware who is thief, it is not enough justification for me at least. Don’t blame these shady publications, everyone knows, the...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you, I do not want to add this journal to my list at this time. It has some weaknesses, but I cannot make a case for adding it to the list. I will monitor it.
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Errata, corrigenda, and retractions by ABS are started to be recorded at Retraction Watch:...
View ArticleComment on Another Strange New OA Publisher with a Strange Name by Keith Fraser
1. Go on blog about substandard and dishonest journals to promote journal featuring plagiarism, page number doctoring and fake impact statistics. 2. ??? 3. Profit
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I had a paper recently published with MDPI, which I deeply regret as now it is obvious I was victim of a predatory publisher (I thought indeed strange that there are papers completely out of the scope...
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