Comment on Scholarly Indexes are Unwittingly “Legitimizing” Corrupt...
[…] things separately. Yes, there is authoritative information in library databases. But there are also questionable journals in these databases. Conversely, there is plenty of good, scholarly content...
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I admit that I just was asked to peer review a paper for an MDPI journal. I had no idea it was an MDPI journal at the time I conducted the review and it appeared that the journal was based in...
View ArticleComment on Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper by Rich...
my experience when I sent a paper to insects I had to go through two round of reviews to publish the paper. I am no slouch either nor my colleague on the paper who is a scientist from the Max Planck....
View ArticleComment on The Decline of Medicine, a Wolters Kluwer Health Megajournal by...
I am in the Editorial Board of Medicine and, at present, my acceptance rate is 40%. However I realize that there are some problems in this transition to OA (i.e. the lack of a well-recognized lead...
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Reni Koen is on a roll! I would like to add to all the thanks for keeping up and maintaining this site! It is a great service to the community.
View ArticleComment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by...
Google Scholar even help me to get free versions of pay-walled articles. That is, the free versions archived in databases by authors. I do not think I can have that service from a journal index without...
View ArticleComment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by...
You are correct — Google Scholar helps with the discovery and distribution of pirated scholarly content.
View ArticleComment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One...
One more here from Reni Koen. They seem to come in waves, judging by the dates of posters above. Thanks for this site.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes. Thank you for alerting me to this journal, which I hadn’t heard of before. I’ve analyzed it and found that it meets the criteria, so I’ve added it to my list.
View ArticleComment on Is SciELO a Publication Favela? by Toby (pseudonym, as La Carré...
Interesting discussion. There was bound to be a lot of aggro because we Latin Americans see the the yankees as our enemy, and this has some sort of basis in the USA internationl politics, a tradition...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by divyamaneesha
Respected sir, thank you for your reply, what is your opinion about the journal “international journal of mathematical sciences and applications ijmsa” pls respond,
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by KN
Dear Kartic, You need to take legal action against the author and/or the publishers for this unshameful disregard for ethical issues.
View ArticleComment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by...
I am not talking about pirated content. I am talking about articles that are legally archived (like preprint) in University and other databases.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal claims it has an impact factor, but in fact it does not have any legitimate impact factor. I have added it to my list. Pretending to have an impact factor is misleading to researchers, a...
View ArticleComment on The Decline of Medicine, a Wolters Kluwer Health Megajournal by...
Wolters Kluwer is quite a heavy weight: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolters_Kluwer This is not good news.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by divyamaneesha
respected sir, Thank u for all ur service, i think i was too late to recognise the reality, my two research papers were published in these journals ijma and ijmsa, what to do now, is it effects my...
View ArticleComment on Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent...
It seems that Ghulam Akhmat and Khalid Zaman are used to plagiarize. Many other papers have been recognized to be plagiarism: “Impact of foreign political instability on Chinese exports”, “The...
View ArticleComment on The Decline of Medicine, a Wolters Kluwer Health Megajournal by...
[…] a mega-journal, is declining, says Jeffrey […]
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
I’m sorry; I focus my work on identifying deceptive and predatory journals and publishers. I do not publish any list of good journals.
View ArticleComment on David Publishing: Flipping Its Model by CZpersi
They are still active. I have presented on international conference in Prague that has visible abstracts online and received their e-mail to submit an article into something called: “International...
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