Comment on BioMed Central Accepts and Quickly Publishes an Obvious Junk Paper...
“the vast majority of author-pay open access journals don’t give a flying futz about their reputation” – This is something hard to explain to people who don’t actually write papers and apply for...
View ArticleComment on Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community by Dheeraj Shah
I got a mail from another possible fake impact factor service. From: International Institute of Organized Research [mailto:editor.i2or@gmail.com] Sent: 20 October 2015 11:36 To: i2or.pif@gmail.com...
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and more.. S. Sandhya, Benedict Bruno and Udaya Ramakrishnan, 2014. Sequestration of CO2 by halotolerant algae, Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering 12, 81-88...
View ArticleComment on Two New Pay-to-Publish Startups: SciRes Literature and Gavin...
Currently, SciRes Literature has also been diligently spamming for editorial board members. I believe that the founder for a site titled ‘Leaders in Pharmaceutical Business Intelligence’ (LPBI) copied...
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Scientists from weird places? Would you care to operationalize your usage of weird? OA journals are supposed to be an asset for scientists in developing countries, the majority of whom are not part of...
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W.r.t. Scireslit’s whereabouts: the spams all came from a domestic Internet connection in Hyderabad, and the dude named his computer “PrasanthiPC”. We listed the IP and the domains.
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“peer-reviewedjournals.com” How could they not be legit with such a prestigious URL?
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The corresponding author of this paper has turned a deaf ear to the allegations
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The irony is the corresponding authors are heads of famous government institutes in India like National Environmental Engineering Research Institute
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kindly notice Ramkrishnan et al.: Sequestration of CO2 by halotolerant algae. Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering 2014 12:81 (doi:10.1186/2052-336X-12-81) published in IJEHSE The...
View ArticleComment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by...
Scammed a 17 year old boy out of money!!!! Poor kid! Isn’t that ILLEGAL!!!!??
View ArticleComment on OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings” by...
They scammed my student out of funds!! Kept asking for more money!
View ArticleComment on Large New OA Publisher Launches with 85 Journals by herr doktor...
In a late update to this story, I received my SciEP spam today, nominally from a “Dr. MD. Miller (Editorial Assistant, Science and Education Publishing)”. In a display of their competence and nous, the...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Recamar
what about biomed central journals? are they predatory?
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Shakhi Sharma
Hii Jeffery I am an engineering final year student and I am looking for online journal which could publish my paper as soon as possible but seeing your post I am in dilemm. Please suggest me some good...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) is included on my list. I recommend that you not submit any papers to its journals.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Ronnie
Thanks for clarifying. I have checked IAMURE. They seem to be similar with PHILAIR. They have the same login procedure to access full papers. Now I am confused. How come IAMURE is in your list and...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I don’t play publishers off each other. IAMURE is on my list because I occasionally make exceptions in especially egregious and dangerous cases.
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Fake journals: ‘Make in India’ gone wrong The Hindu – October 25, 2015 http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/fake-journals-make-in-india-gone-wrong/article7800231.ece “A scam of the most scholarly kind on...
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