Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
I think your decision to decline is a wise one. Note that I haven't directly referred to Frontiers as a predatory publisher; my lists are broader than that. The mission of the lists is to warn...
View ArticleComment on Strange Website Claims it is a Respected Citation Index by Ademir
We should not rely on such dubious companies with little contact information and methods of suspicious job. The fact of accessing the site is already a risk.
View ArticleComment on More Junk Science Proudly Published by Chinese Publisher SCIRP by...
No. That would simply be “Google” – the generalized search-engine we all know and love. Google Scholar otoh clearly attempts to differentiate itself from the aforementioned specifically on the basis of...
View ArticleComment on More Junk Science Proudly Published by Chinese Publisher SCIRP by...
Ptahh! The Reverend Colonel Ignatius Churchward Von Berlitz M.A. (Dom. Sci.) A scholar who towers above all who………..schol???
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Andy
Dear Prof Beall; Please can you help verify this journal “Journal of Pediatrics and Mother Care”. published by Elyns Group. It seems to be a new journal. Is it predatory or not? Many thanks
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
I have Elyns Publishing Group on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" rel="nofollow">here </a>and recommend that researchers avoid all their journals. Good luck.
View ArticleComment on Questionable Polish Publisher Targets Scholarly Societies by Majd...
Dear Jeffery, Can you please tell me about the status of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE). Thanks
View ArticleComment on Questionable Polish Publisher Targets Scholarly Societies by...
I have not analyzed it. It appears to be a Japanese scholarly or professional society.
View ArticleComment on More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central by herr...
Ultimately it is not just the reputation of BMC that’s at stake, but of the Springer empire, now that they have bought the BMC stable.
View ArticleComment on More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central by DRbio
BMC has enough credit to join your list
View ArticleComment on More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central by tekija
Half an hour of detective work suggests that this paper is a scam, albeit a bit more sophisticated than the two that Jeffrey Beall has posted about. Please check the following two papers published in...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by russellahunt
I’ve just received a call from another one that doesn’t appear on the list, and clearly should: _International Journal of Business, Humanities and Technology_. I find this particularly amusing: “IJBHT...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is published by the so-called Center for Promoting Ideas, which claims to be based in the U.S. but is really from Bangladesh. I have this publisher included on my list of publishers. Thanks.
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I advise you to ignore them. Please see the <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/05/lambert-academic-publishing-a-must-to-avoid/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">blog post</a> I wrote...
View ArticleComment on More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central by David
If BMC has qualified to join the Beal’s List of Dubious Journals, should we not thrash BMC also, and by extension, the Springer Empire?
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Kahsay Tadesse
Jeffery, Good contribution I could not see the ” International journal of Research-GRANTHAALAYAH “IN THE LIST. is that not? Thank you
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013 by Jeffrey Beall
Yes, actually it is indeed included on <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">this list</a>. Thanks.
View ArticleComment on More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central by Jeffrey...
Thank you very much for this extremely valuable comment. It appears that some of this may be the work of article brokers.
View ArticleComment on Young Assistant Professor Helps Promote Questionable Conferences,...
I just got this one today: The 4th International Symposium on Education, Psychology, Society (ISEPST 2016) March 29 to 31 2016 Kyoto, Japan http://www.isepst.org/
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Songyut Akkakoson
Dear Dr Jeffrey Beall, Could you kindly help advise whether the following conferences are predatory? Your kind helping hands is deeply appreciated. 1. International Academic Conference on Teaching,...
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