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Comment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by herr...

A possible indication of the target audience is the page stating publication fees in Zloty, Rubles, dollars, Euros and Ukrainian Hryvnia. On the Russian-language version, anyway… the Polish version...

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Comment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by L_C

The journal is described as being founded in 2012. Is it possible that it had a previous site/affiliation? Is this date incorrect? Their site appears to have only been created in June of 2015 and,...

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Comment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by herr...

But the address is such a <a...

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Comment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by MC

Yelp says they have good spring rolls

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Comment on Appeals by Abun Tefera

I want to know about an indian journal called” Journal of Applied Biology and Biotechnology”

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Mohammed Alaskary

Hi Mr Beall, I found some predatory publishers you listed here are indexed in Emerging source citation index ( ESCI) of WOS and some of them in Scopus. An example of that one journal entitles...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Jeffrey Beall

Right, I think the “Emerging Sources Citation Index” should be called the “Questionable Sources Citation Index.” I think it has so far demonstrated that it is a dirty database. Thomson Reuters is...

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Comment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall

It’s not on my list at this time.

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Comment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by Keith...

Anthony Maverick sounds like the hero of a low-budget 80s cop movie – the kind who doesn’t play by the rules, and has his badge temporarily confiscated by the Chief at least once a month, but gets...

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Comment on Research by Emea Uma

Dear Jeff, Thanks for all you have been doing. Here is another strange practice to add to the criteria list for determining predatory open-access publishers: Swapping Between “Theme” of one author and...

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Comment on Research by Jeffrey Beall

Thanks, I will have a look at this. The journal is indeed included on my list of standalone journals. These are single journals that do not have a publisher. If you could send me a link to your...

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Comment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Analyst

How can you be so sure of your recommendations while journals such as the International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications IJACSA are indexed by Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources...

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Comment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by dr bhanukumar .M

Good information about counterfeit/bogus journals and publishers.please comment about international journal of scientific research.http://www.ijss-sn.com/

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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...

Astrobiology and Outreach! The title is strange!! :-D Stephanie

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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...

Jeff, thanks for this, but it makes me a bit nervous. i don’t know if you are going to list this as a predatory journal, but I would be cautious. A journal for kooks is subtly different from simple...

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Comment on The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding by A Friedemann

Is this a scam? I was invited to be a speaker at a United Scientific Group conference because of my Springer book “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”. The conference is...

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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...

Anyone who believes that aliens sent a “seed” to earth and it contained “genetic material” that survived temperatures of 1000 C are dead in the water. Another crack pot scientist trying to lie his way...

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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...

There is a fine line between downright fraud and establishing outlets for unorthodox views. If it’s from the OMICS stable, it’s because the management have seen a profit to be made by facilitating...

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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...

Point taken, and a worthy one. Thank you, Robert! If one keeps track of citations to Beall’s List via “Google Scholar Alert,” you’ll see Beall’s List is enormously respected and cited in numerous...

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Comment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...

This is an odd comment as it insinuates that trained, critical, and successful researchers need to take Beall’s list ‘with a grain of salt’. That’s not true. I’ve studied at two top schools in North...

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