Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Sharmila King
Dear Jeffrey, Modern Economy is listed in the EconLit list of journals: https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/doctypes.php Many economics depts. use EconLit as an acceptable list of journals for promotion and...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall
I agree; this is very strange. <em>Modern Economy</em> is published by China's Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP). I documented many times that this publisher is a mere vanity press...
View ArticleComment on The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor — Again...
The Agrawal, A. A. (2014) paper is already out of date – it was actually a one page letter and I am sure it got the author a few citations. You can read it here...
View ArticleComment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52...
Do they ever publish your article? If not, can it be submitted to a different journal of a reputable publisher?
View ArticleComment on Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52...
Will you be able to submit your article to a different journal? I am in the same boat as you, and am wondering if all of my research has been wasted.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Hakkan G.
Dear Jeffrey, your listing has alerted many young and inexperienced research from the predatory journals. Recently I have come across an ‘institute’ that seems to me a predatory. Please check this...
View ArticleComment on Is this 17 Year-Old Korean Ph.D. Student a Plagiarist? by Tina N.
Since when do kindergarten-aged boys get PhDs? And a PhD for just one article?? The requirement is at least four articles (as principal author) published in peer-reviewed journals where I am from....
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
Can you let me know that aspects of the institute you see as predatory? Thanks.
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Hakkan G.
Yes, first they have a number of journals announced but some of them either have not published any article yet or few articles without indexing, for example, International Journal of Software...
View ArticleComment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory...
‘Apparently, some of the same people who are researching the drug also are involved in marketing and selling it.’ I find this a highly amusing comment considering that the pharmaceutical industry has...
View ArticleComment on Watch Out for Insight Medical Publishing (iMedPub)...
[…] Beall has some insights about Insight Medical Publishing, and they’re not […]
View ArticleComment on WSEAS and NAUN: Two Publishers (and Conference Organizers) to...
Publishing to WSEAS is not free since May 15, 2015. You can check the following link from their blog: http://wseas-cscc.blogspot.gr/2015/06/wseas-journal-submission-notification_343.html They ask 600...
View ArticleComment on Instead of a Peer Review, Reviewer Sends Warning to Authors by...
I have had similar experiences as a reviewer for PLOS journals, which somehow have acquired a reputation as the “good” OA stuff.
View ArticleComment on Instead of a Peer Review, Reviewer Sends Warning to Authors by...
Yes, recognise that all too well.
View ArticleComment on Instead of a Peer Review, Reviewer Sends Warning to Authors by...
Agreed. Stuff gets through regardless if a senior author is “prominent” and/or friends with the editor. I have learned to decline assignments when I know that provision a thorough review is going to be...
View ArticleComment on MIT Journal Hijacked by Hugo van den Berg
I wonder if observation bias explains why all these reported hijackings are so poorly done; are there lots of competent hijackings about, flying merrily under the radar?
View ArticleComment on Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory...
The comment of Zena Warrior Princess is well focused. The big problem is not the way GcMAF has been introduced and sold to patients … and not even (the big problem) is the fraudulent research of...
View ArticleComment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by...
[…] rivista disposta a pubblicare qualsiasi articolo purché l’autore paghi a sufficienza, inclusi paper plagiati (e che quindi quasi certamente non hanno dovuto sottoporsi a nessuna revisione […]
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by ZaniQ
Actually it doesn’t take 2 weeks, but only several days after submission. They don’t offer any reviews from the external reviewers. I think this is suspicious. Before submission I did not find any...
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