Comment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by wkdawson
Be diplomatic. For example, begin by assuming that everything was done in good faith.
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Thanks for your help! I received the same mail and a second requiring a review for the journal.
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I work as a freelance copyeditor for Longdom. They’re good guys, promise, just new and small.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I think it’s very low quality. I would recommend that you find a better computer science journal than this one. It’s based in Asia but uses the address of a house in California as its headquarters,...
View ArticleComment on Open Access Journal Provides One-Day Peer Review by Nwokonkwo D.C
I appreciate the work you are doing; making authors aware of those who are bent on destroying the academic world because of greed. I once sent.an article to asian academic research associates, my...
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Good catch. Here’s a definition of ‘plagiarism’: it means ‘AJPST’
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[…] that the International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology recently accepted for publication a paper titled “Get Me Off Your (Fracking) Mailing List,” whose text was nothing more than those...
View ArticleComment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by anon
re: the clear case of data falsification If you’re talking about the gif Oswald H. posted about the rainwater vs. leachate data — I agree, it’s pretty damning. You can’t blame MDPI for not catching it,...
View ArticleComment on Open Access Journal Provides One-Day Peer Review by Eric
Got Invitation to be a member of Editorial Board from a new publisher. How is your idea about this journal, Dr Jeff? The email attached: Dear Dr. xxxx, Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in...
View ArticleComment on Open Access Journal Provides One-Day Peer Review by Jeffrey Beall
I’ve analyzed this publisher with help from a colleague. I found it to be borderline and therefore did not add it to my list. I will monitor it, so I appreciate this reminder. It clearly is not a...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by naresh
AUSTIN PUBLISHING GROUP is also a bogus company. They are there to make money.
View ArticleComment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by Kenji
Thank you for your reply. However, are there any accurate figures which prove that MDPI has published relatively more ‘dodgy’ articles than other reputable publishers?
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Mohamed
Dear Beall Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease is listed as predatory but it is hosted by Elsevier. Does this represent a quality guarantee? Regards
View ArticleComment on More Pseudo-Science from Swiss / Chinese Publisher MDPI by Leo
Why did the MDPI editors not discover the data fabrication? First of all as “anon” mentioned the obviously fabricated data was not reported by MDPI at all but some other journal. Second, even for the...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Leo
[There are indeed financial incentives for Special Topic editors, in the form of a discount for their own publications in Frontiers.] I think “Brian W.” made things clear with his conference analogy....
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The inclusion of Herndon’s work in arXiv devalues the entire database and the effort and resources devoted to it. Note that most of his papers in the arXiv are categorized as “General Physics”,...
View ArticleComment on Frontiers Launches OA Library Science Journal by Jeffrey Beall
Who are you? Why do you make such childish arguments?
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
It’s an extremely low-quality attempt at a scholarly journal. I recommend against submitting manuscripts to it or serving on its editorial board.
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