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Comment on BioMed Central: New Website, Same Old Low Quality by Jeffrey Beall

Indeed, I struggle to understand the paradox as well, and that’s why I wrote the blog post. Why would a supposedly high-quality publisher negligently misstate the impact factor of one of its journals...

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Comment on Snapshots of Recent Additions to the List of Questionable...

I don,t believe u jeff.IJRAP is not pseudoscience,but real science in traditioal medicine..u are not expert man in traditional med..so i am sure, u make mistakes when including this journal in .your...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Cristina Osuna

Dear Jeffrey Beall: I am a new researcher, I want to know your opinion about “SM Journal of Public Health & Epidemiology”. Thank you.

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Comment on Snapshots of Recent Additions to the List of Questionable...

When I got to “Holy crap” I spit tea all over my screen. Thanks a lot.

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

I have this journal's publisher, SM Group Open Access Journals, included on my list <a href="http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I strongly...

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Comment on Real Location of JSciMed Central Revealed by PM

I sent an article to this publisher one year ago and after 8 months they sent me information of acceptance. After 4 months without information I sent an email asking them when would my article be...

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Comment on Appeals by Zaini

Dear Jeffrey, My article submitted to http://icmsce.net/cms/ was accepted to be published in http://www.indjst.org/. With payment of USD220. It is not in your list. But the publisher...

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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

Because there are so many individual journals, I always try to analyze at the publisher level, and my analysis is for all the journal from the publisher. So, you mention journals (and a conference)...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by D. Rordorf

A surprisingly refreshing, although cynical read in your blog. In scholarly publishing you will also find a lot of female employees. They are probably over-represented in this sector. (May be this is...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by quiquelps

I concur, based on my interactions with journals as an author. In my country, we have the term “bureaucratic rejection” for rejections done before peer review, likely actually done by someone working...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Um problema...

[…] Por Jeffrey Beall (este artigo foi publicado originalmente no blog do Prof. Jeffrey Beall Aqui!)  […]

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by dzrlib

I hadn’t notice this but I do notice a steady influx of former commercial publishing representatives now working for scholarly non-profit publishers. This seems to correspond to an increase in ‘hard...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Harvey Kane

One needs absolutely no knowledge of a field to be a successful publisher in it, What one needs is a sense of market and a willingness to ask questions. The publisher relies on others who have...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Nicholas J....

Jeff, I like your blog in general, but this post is just mean-spirited, poorly thought-out, and unfair. Reasons: 1. You present no particular evidence that editors working for publishers are making fat...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Robert Cameron

I certainly don’t think Jeffrey should retract this, even though I found it a tad cynical, We should be questioning just what a PhD is for: I agree, not just for academic (tenured) jobs, but there are...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Bobo

Nick Matzke nails it. I was going to write a post just like this, but I didn’t have the stomach or the energy.

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Jim

Most of the assistant editors I know are recently graduated English majors. They are not living the high life.

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by wkdawson

I really appreciate that you are recognising that this is increasingly a general problem not strictly limited to OA, and particularly predatory OA journals. However, I also think that having a talented...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Jaime A....

I think this is an interesting and valuable set of reflections by Jeffrey Beall. Sometimes experience and observation can be superior to evidence-based data, and Beall proves this with his acute sense...

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Comment on One Problem with the Scholarly Publishing Industry by Jaime A....

My apologies, I forgot to add a bit of a disclaimer. I have a personal interest in this post by Beall for the following reason. I have had a nasty experience with one such “recent drop-out graduate”...

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