Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
There are several journals with this title … can you send a link so I am sure I know which one you’re referring to?
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Dear Mr. Beall, This is Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer of MDPI. As I indicated to Dr. Gromov (and cc to you yesterday 16.12.2015) we could not disclose the report of the second reviewer...
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It’s regrettable that the “renowned expert” editor missed the scientific flaws that the reviewer tried to report. You can try to hide behind your SCIE and impact factor all you want, but it won’t...
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Franck, also, one of the documents you link to <a href="http://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/responsibilities-in-the-submission-and-peer-peview-process.html"...
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Dear Prof. Beall, What can you say about “The International Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Learning” of Common Ground CG Publisher? http://ijlsmtl.cgpublisher.com/ Is it a predatory...
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Though MDPI is removed from Beall’s List, it’s still hovering on the frontiers of predatory publishers. I can’t deny that in MDPI there is some improvement compared to what was before. The paradox:...
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It appears that the manipulation of peer-review process is not only widespread but also is evolving and taking new shapes given the technological advances made in the area of online submissions and...
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Hi Prof Beall; Is being predatory not illegal and punishable by the law? I am just pondering why predatory journals and publishers are flourishing all over and the law is just blind. I am tempted to...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall
In most cases, freedom of the press allows the predatory publishers to operate with impunity. If they add names to their editorial boards without permission, this may be identity theft.
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Common Ground, the publisher, is out of scope for my work because it’s not an open-access publisher. However, I receive many inquiries about it, an indication to me that researchers find it questionable.
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More on this on Retraction Watch: http://retractionwatch.com/2015/12/18/in-more-faked-peer-review-news-10-papers-pulled-by-hindawi/
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The real threat of predatory journals on science integrity does not lie in the predatory journals themselves. It lies in traditional publishers increasingly copycating their practices and fees and...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by fsuzun
Ofcourse not! In the contrary, they followed a serious process with three different reviewers with at least two or three revisions and corrections. It was not an easy process as we compare with the...
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I worry about your last sentence. If cases are not heard in the open, how do we get a handle on the extent of real bad practice? Sure, there are some plain bad reviewers defending their own turf as...
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Basically, a reply to WK Dawson. Thanks: I think the moral here is for editors to tell reviewers why their recommendation has been discarded. I guess what annoyed Gromov was not getting any feedback...
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A reply to Robert Cameron: Thank you also. Again, I probably largely agree with you. Certainly a “post-decision” explanation was clearly lacking and exacerbated by a failure to genuinely engage the...
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Dear Jeffrey: An invitation was sent to our University from Pinnacle Journal Publication and the link of course was distributed to all the teachers who trusted and submitted articles, is it 100% scam?...
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Fake open access journals should know better than to send spam to Jeffrey Beall!
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