Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
<em>PLOS ONE</em> is not a predatory journal.
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Yes, Openventio is included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I recommend that you decline this invitation. I don't think this...
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This could have happened in a non-OA journal just as easily.
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Received same e-mail requesting service as reviewer next month from “Reni Koen, Senior Editor, Medical Research Archives” this morning and will ignore.
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Because closed access journals have negative incentives to publish an article (the money to do so comes from their pockets) while an open access journal has a positive incentive (they pocket for...
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Obviously, the spandidos family can do it.
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You may not know the definition of predatory journal. How is your idea, Dr. Beall?
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Jorge, do you work in science? I guess you do, so you know very well that a journal’s reputation is everything. A journal that publishes crap papers will not attract many submissions anymore. I’m sure...
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If a retraction will be issued (I see no other reasonable outcome but I’m not a specialist), perhaps it would be a great move to reimburse the OA fee the author(s) have paid for publishing this...
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Really, so now we’re saying that seven weeks is an unacceptably short time for submission to acceptance? This is bordering on absurdity, to look poorly upon a journal for actually being efficient. If...
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Hi Jeffrey, First, great site – appreciate the work. I have just read through this post and comments. I see you them on your list – have you confirmed that this is a predator journal? Seemed to be...
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Yes of course, if it has the same Editor who passes papers like this to print. I have the feeling, however, that it far more difficult to become an Editor of a non-open-access journal, because gaffes...
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The article appears to be plagiarized, so why would you refund the money? Refunding the money for an article when it is discovered to be plagiarized removes the disincentive for submitting the...
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A section editor of Diagnostic Pathology, Rodolfo Montironi, of the Section of Pathological Anatomy, Polytechnic University of the Marche Region, School of Medicine, United Hospitals, Ancona, Italy,...
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Yes, but in OA the probability is very high due to the corrupted business model (gold OA)! The OA movement refuse to think about/deal with this type of corruption, simply they bury their heads in the...
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There is another article of Aram Mokarizadeh’s (the corresponding author of the copycat paper) that reads odd: Down-regulation of miR-133a and miR-539 are associated with unfavorable prognosis in...
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Dear Dr Beall, After all, is it safe to publish book chapters or whole books at IGI Global? Thanks!
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Maximillian, do you work in science? I guess you do, so you know that the vast majority of author-pay open access journals don’t give a flying futz about their reputation, the content of the article...
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Retracted due to “overlap without attribution of work previously published by” a different set of authors. Oh dear.
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“Profound source of knowledge” – LOL. You’d think that people trying to make money by looking like a real scientific journal would put some level of effort into not looking like a crank echo chamber,...
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