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Comment on More Duplication of Journal Titles and Conference Names by...

[…] http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/10/06/more-duplication-of-journal-titles-and-conference-names-by-predato… […]

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Comment on David Publishing Company, a Massive Spammer from China by Joe McVeigh

Got an email from David Publishing today and I’m just coming from a conference. They clearly scooped up my presentation title from the conference website. For what it’s worth, they’re back in New York...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Riscaldamento...

[…] IL PARCO DELLE BUFALE – Un articolo sull’entanglement telepatico dei biofotoni realizzato dal dott. Patrizio Tressoldi dell’Università di Padova potrebbe far pensare che i neuroscienziati...

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Comment on BioMed Central Accepts and Quickly Publishes an Obvious Junk Paper...

It’s not unique, but it’s strongly associated with author-pay OA because journals make money when they accept papers and none when readers access content, thus reducing the incentive to curate for...

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Comment on A Spammer and a Liar: Global Journals Inc. by tille

Thanks a lot! What about “Hindawi Publishing Corporation”?

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Comment on BioMed Central Accepts and Quickly Publishes an Obvious Junk Paper...

JJ, do you have data to support this statement? This is not what I see in practice. I see as much nonsense in OA as in non-OA journals. There is, however, one particular type of “scam” journal...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Vlad

Did any one find more info on vowscientificquest (VSQ) journals? It sound like this is another predatory publisher. What should one do if a manuscript has been submitted to a potentially predatory...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Kisok

Dear Beall What about this journal International Journal of Diabetes Research as they do not have publiser

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Comment on More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central by YC

I have a strong suspicion that articles like this are not written by the “authors”, but rather by ghost-writing services that have a series of templates where they just change names of proteins (siRNA,...

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Comment on New Open-Access Publisher Offers Financial Incentives to Authors...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Vishwa Jyoti Baruah

Sir, please also check if link given below is publishing bogus journals . “Bioinformation” is one such journal. It publishes paper in ‘one week!’ after receiving manuscript ,mostly as hypothesis. When...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Scientist Extends...

[…] pointing out that the publisher of Agricultural Sciences, Scientific Research Publishing, has been criticized for predatory “pay to publish” practices. Additionally, Folta, who is a professor and...

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Comment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Open IT...

[…] Another issue for OA is the possible damage to peer reviews systems, diminishing the overall quality of scientific journal publishing.[3] An example includes a hoax publication.[6] […]

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

I have the journal <em>Bioinformation</em> included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This means that the...

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Comment on Appeals by ishmael

please explain why youve included Asian journal of science and technology to me they r following every rule youve mentioned, i can even send u email explaining my argument

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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

What is your association with this low-quality journal?

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Comment on Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers? by wkdawson

Well, if we consider that 1/6 of the world’s population is Chinese, then if everything else were equal (which it obviously isn’t), we should expect to see Chinese authors outnumbering most other ethnic...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

I haven’t analyzed the first one. I don’t have an established criteria for evaluating questionable conferences, nor do I maintain a list of them. The second one, however (International Journal of Arts...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall

I don’t know. It does look fishy to me. It claims it’s organized by the Czech Institute of Academic Education, but I cannot find a website for this “Institute.” It may be fake. I recommend that you...

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Comment on I get complaints about Frontiers by Leonid Schneider

I present all my investigations in regard to Frontiers on my own blog here: https://forbetterscience.wordpress.com Personally, I now tend to believe that Frontiers’ main weakness is their lax attitude...

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