Comment on Open-Access Journal Publishes Review Article with Questionable CoI...
Okay, this is a conference organized by the Emirates Association of Chemical, Biological & Environment Engineers. I generally limit my work to scholarly open-access publishers. I have not heard of...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Cy
Hello Prof Beall, I was wondering what your thoughts were on LiBRI: Linguistic and Literary Board Research and Innovation (http://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/libri). Would you consider this journal...
View ArticleComment on Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers? by T. Lewandowski
But they will never be on the list – as the author of the list chooses to list open access journals only. Furthermore, he repeated several times in various works and interviews that his definition of a...
View ArticleComment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by Le Finale...
[…] add-on, as what i mentioned in my post, there may be hoax publications[3] and those who access OA content have to “take with a pinch of salt” on the […]
View ArticleComment on Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper by...
[…] it might have setbacks on the quality of work published as well. As seen from his example on hoax publication, publishers fail to conform to standards and not perform peer review before articles...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
The journal seems to have all but died (as many open-access journals do). While it did publish an issue in 2014, its <a href="http://www.edusoft.ro/brain/index.php/libri/issue/archive"...
View ArticleComment on Research by Jeffrey Beall
I agree. I have completed my investigation and have added the journal to my list. Thank you for alerting me to it.
View ArticleComment on Ivy Union Publishing: A Publisher to Avoid by L_C
The site is noted as being registered to a man by the name of Rober Peng. I suspect that this is an Americanized first name (probably missing a T). Upon closer scrutiny of the email address associated...
View ArticleComment on Ivy Union Publishing: A Publisher to Avoid by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you for this helpful comment.
View ArticleComment on New OA Publisher Based in Clifton, New Jersey Apartment by Jeffrey...
Yes, publishers do get removed from my list. For example, the publisher MDPI was removed recently, following a formal appeal. Also, Dove Press is not on my list at this time. There is intense...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
It’s a very low-quality journal that claims it has an impact factor when it really has not earned one. The journal should be avoided. Its title is International Journal of Science, Engineering and...
View ArticleComment on Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers? by Joro Paveto
I also have a paper (in respected journal) that contains “based on” and I am not chinese (native speaker of one of the slavic languages). My english is relatively poor (I ask typicaly some of the grad...
View ArticleComment on Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers? by Neuroskeptic...
“Based on” is absolutely fine and very common in English. What’s unusual is to start a title with “based on”. Sorry if that wasn’t clear!
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Andy
Hi Prof Beall; Sorry to bother you again. Please kindly help verify me these: Journal of Family Medicine and Disease Prevention published by “ClinMed International Library”, and also “Clinics in Mother...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
ClinMed (the name sounds silly in English) is a publisher that is on my list. I recommend avoiding all its journals. The second journal you list is published by OMICS Group, so I recommend, strongly,...
View ArticleComment on Ivy Union Publishing: A Publisher to Avoid by JanosToth
“…the publisher is NOT based in America but wants to mislead potential authors to think that it is based here” I think who they want to mislead are not authors but university administrators/grant...
View ArticleComment on Ivy Union Publishing: A Publisher to Avoid by JanosToth
Concerning the Vivek Darapaneni – Sihua Peng issue, I recommend the Vol 1, No 1 (2015) of Ivy Union’s American Journal of Current Virology http://www.ivyunion.org/index.php/ajcv/issue/view/83 Same...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by $10 Million Challenge To...
[…] 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...
View ArticleComment on Other pages by Jeffrey Beall
Thank you, and yes, I agree. This is a predatory journal. Its articles are full of plagiarism, and it’ already published several 2016 issues. Thank you for alerting me to this, and I have added it to...
View ArticleComment on Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers? by Joro Paveto
I am surprised that Scopus is indexing some of their journals despite the fact that they published SciGEN paper … And many other predatory journals. Meanwhile they are strangely strict with legitimate...
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