Comment on Open-Access Medical Publisher Has Contradictory Journal by Kathy
We recently had a manuscript accepted for publication in one of the Scholoxy journals. The payment for publishing was made via PayPal, and the manuscript was never published. I’ve tried about 10 times...
View ArticleComment on Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin” by Joe Ellison
Is it possible that this is another hijacking of a legitimate site, rather than an “evil twin” established by the publisher of record?
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by stephanie
I asked him per email if he was on board. he replied he used to be on board but he gave up. This is an ambiguous answer so I don’t know.
View ArticleComment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...
Bill, I have no idea what it is. As I pointed out, they have published loads of similar articles in a range of journals. One even in a journal that supposedly focuses on cancer biology.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Dr Deepak Batura
Dear Mr Beall, What is your opinion on “The Ulutas Medical Journal” and “Ulutas Genetic Research Journal”? 15 days to publication, impact factors and conference linkages. Sounds a familiar narrative…...
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Jeffrey Beall
This journal is included on my list <a href="https://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I agree with you that this is a familiar narrative. Thanks.
View ArticleComment on Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board by OffHours
As a Russian speaker, I skimmed through one of the volumes available online, there are mostly articles of Russian authors and a few Ukrainian. (Some of the articles are of particular interest, e.g....
View ArticleComment on Appeals by syc
Dr. Beall, What about North American Business Press (http://www.na-businesspress.com/)?
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Biny
Dear Beall, Thank you very much for letting me know about this.
View ArticleComment on Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2016 by Biny
Dear Beall, Please inform me the current status of Dove Medical Press that is sending me to join Peer Reviewer Database. I am in dilemma whether to accept the proposal or not.
View ArticleComment on Another Controversial Paper from Frontiers by Klaas van Dijk
Virginia Barbour, the chair of COPE, states on her biography at http://publicationethics.org/about/council/virginia-barbour that she is a director of WAME (“As well as being Chair of the Committee on...
View ArticleComment on New Mega Open-Access Scholarly Journal Publisher by yahya
hello Whats IS Impact Factor of this journal ?
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
It’s out of scope for me. It is not an open-access publisher. I do receive many inquiries about it. It’s clearly a bottom-tier publisher.
View ArticleComment on Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology...
I think it is a weak journal. Pretty much every issue is a “special issue,” and in this case there appears to be an article broker involved. One of the 2015 issues merely re-publishes papers already...
View ArticleComment on Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin” by Raul G. Diaz
Thanks for your great job in listing these rather dodgy sites for emerging scholars most whom have had bad experiences with these expanding business of predatory publishers. To be sincere, I will...
View ArticleComment on Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin” by Taylor & Francis
“A wise person once said, “Be wary of any publisher whose name is comprised of two English forenames.”” Nice one, but don’t you dare put us on your list bruv! Sincerely, Taylor and Francis
View ArticleComment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by David
What a bad research you did Jef (same like your many other posts). The society’s website link is there on “About the Publisher”. Here is society link http://spts.jpn.com/. The journal is available on...
View ArticleComment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
I’ve analyzed this journal’s publisher before. It is AME Publishing Company. I think it’s a borderline medical publisher, and there’s not a strong case to be made for adding it to my list, so it’s not...
View ArticleComment on Appeals by Jeffrey Beall
A lot of things. There’s a whole series of standalone journals that all purport to be headquartered in a large house in Rowland Heights, California. In most cases, there are no editorial board members...
View ArticleComment on Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke by Jeffrey Beall
This is a journal that has no EiC or editorial board, and you think it’s an “attractive publishing point” ? That says a lot about you. The impact factor does not make it legitimate, but it does...
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