Comment on When a Journal Goes Bad: the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical...
I think Ascent Journals is out of scope for my work at this time. It appears to be a subscription publisher. I can access the articles’ abstracts, but not the full text. I generally limit my work to...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Anne
Dear Jeffrey: First, thank you very much for your invaluable work and the help you provide. What do you think about Conference Alerts?: http://www.conferencealerts.com/ Thank you. Anne
View ArticleComment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Rahul
I’m doing M.tech . They sended me mail in July that they were appritiated my work n wanted to publish my dissertation as a book format free of cost so I were communicated with LAP Publisher And Publish...
View ArticleComment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Rahul
Lambert Publisher Academy LAP , Editor Andrei Gesica please suggest me is this editor is good or bad. Is there any type of forgery ( cheater)
View ArticleComment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by...
I don’t know how did you reach to this article. I myself objected on this article, and to prove that the journal in which the article was published is a substandard journal. We sent one of our paper to...
View ArticleComment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall
I think in most cases it’s better to avoid LAP Lambert. They will take your work an your copyright and they will make the work for sale, and no one will see it. It is probably better for you to put...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Well, it’s interesting. I note that one of the featured conferences is the “Christmas Multidisciplinary Conference” to be held in Freiburg, Germany in early December. The conference is organized by the...
View ArticleComment on Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One...
reni koen issill busy, received similar email today.
View ArticleComment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Rahul
Sir, thanks for reply Sir there is a query that they have published my research work as a Book format with ISBN No. the cost of book is 49.90 € but i’m some scared that the cost is too high & if...
View ArticleComment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall
You are correct that the sales of Lambert Academic Publishing books are thought to be very low. Typically, the authors are not charged for the service of publishing, but authors do have to purchase...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Kizito
Dear Dr Beall, recently I received an email asking to publish my work in Lambert Academic Publishing. Are they predatory publishers ? Thanks for advice. Here is the email : Dear K Nishimwe, I would...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Lambert is not a predatory publisher by definition, but it is a publisher that most will probably want to avoid. They want you to sign over the copyright of your thesis or dissertation to them, and...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Phillip Helbig
Why all the questions? If you don’t even know whether a journal is a respected journal in your field, then either it is not or you are not familiar with your field.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you. I agree. I do have the publisher, SCITECH, included on my list of questionable publishers.
View ArticleComment on The Decline of Medicine, a Wolters Kluwer Health Megajournal by...
I’ve just seen @Neuroskeptic (https://twitter.com/Neuro_Skeptic): “OMICS Publishing Group is a predatory publisher” – according to their own website!...
View ArticleComment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by...
I agree. Moreover, one would hope that academics would know enough about their area to ignore any nonsense that might be included in Google results. However, librarians tend to be of a different view....
View ArticleComment on Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century by...
After an embargo period, journals often do allow authors to post pre-print and/or post-print versions of their papers so I don’t know if it is fair to say “pirated”.
View ArticleComment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
I have the <em>International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology</em> included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank"...
View ArticleComment on Dutch Amoeba Newsletter Hijacked by Jeffrey Beall
These journals are published by Symbiosis (Symbiosis Online Publishing). This publisher is included on my list. The impact factors they claim are false. None of the Symbiosis journals has a legitimate...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
Regarding number one, this is not a predatory journal/publisher. Regarding number 2, this is a case of journal hijacking. There is a legitimate version of this journal (and it's not predatory), and...
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