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This appears to be a near-copy of Murat Tumay’s post above, down to the use of “ceitism”, which I assume is a misspelling of “criticism”. Similarly, it mentions making/having “new friends” just like...
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A lot of them use similar words and phrases, including spelling/grammar errors. Sockpuppetry? Astroturfing by crowdsourcing past guests and getting them to copy/paste standard support messages?
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[…] Then again, there is a problem with “predatory journals” that will accept scholarly articles from just about anyone … for a fee. In one case last year, two journals accepted a paper about Fuzzy...
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[…] predatórios é mantida por Jeffrey Beall, bibliotecário da Universidade do Colorado, no blog Scholarly Open Access. A PUBLICAÇÃO DE ARTIGOS FALSOS Para expor as fragilidades da revisão por pares em...
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Sir, Would you please let us know your perception regarding Scholar Publications, (http://www.scholarpublications.in/). Thank You
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I am thinking that the same thing is going on with people who are trying to make people believe GAN conferences do not exist. Also, grammar mistakes might be simply due to commenters being...
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I have participated at Hong-Kong conference this year! Everything is real and with very high academic level!
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Hello Keith Fraser, I am glad you at least accepted the fact that these conferences exist, because the initial ceitism (Critism) was started around these conferences being fake. In my case, I did not...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
I had not heard of this publisher before. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. It is quite easy to find instances of plagiarism among the published articles. I recommend that researchers not...
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The “best paper” award is particularly insidious since academic bean counters do not know (a) it is the best and (b) it is presented in a mediocre conference. Some folks amass a lot of “best” papers...
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Getting my comment in before (based on past experience) a bunch of mysteriously similar comments are made saying “I went to a conference run by this company in [City X] and it was the most amazing...
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Well, I attended the 2014 conference in Dubai and I found it interesting. The level of the speeches was good and, most of all, these events are an opportunity to get to know people you’r supposed to...
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I appreciate all the comments, which I chanced upon today and read. You have saved me. I got my article accepted by the Foreign Languages Journal. No editing whatsoever recommended. I was advised to...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by suliyanto
Dear Jeffrey Beall I will publish on the International Journal of Business Research, is this journal predatory?
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just realised i left this on the wrong post: Late to the party but i note that they say they are holding a conference in Sydney in September. I may just pop down to the venue and try to get some info....
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, this journal is published by the so-called “International Academy of Business & Economics.” I have this publisher included on my list and recommend that you find a stronger journal for your...
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I gather from looking at the cv’s of colleagues that running such conferences and giving out best paper awards is a sideline for several predatory publishers on the list. The Clute Institute seems to...
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It’s always worth checking the e-mail address that a ‘call for papers’ spam e-mail from this type of publisher come from. I received a spam call for ARIPD’s ‘Journal of Anthropology and Archaeology’...
View ArticleComment on Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network by MC
The illegitimate business practices of the organizers? The fact that these “conferences” clearly do not attract the top people in their field? Not good enough reasons?
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