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Amateurish New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 64 Journals
Meta junk. I learned recently of the launch of Meta Research Press, a New Delhi-based publisher of 64 extremely low-quality, open-access journals. I’m told this new imprint is the effort of Research...
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Fake “Institute” Has Fooled Many — Even Harvard
One of their four broad-scoped journals, each with a fake impact factor. The Institute of Research Advances is a backward open-access publisher based in Chandigarh, India. Like the Clute “Institute,”...
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Questionable Spam Email from a Springer Nature Journal
Crossed signals. I was recently forwarded a very suspicious spam email from Nature’s Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, a journal co-published by the West China Hospital, Sichuan University....
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Another Dangerous Medical Publisher: SMGroup
A very dangerous medical publisher. I am writing this blog post to warn researchers about the open-access publisher SMGroup. It also uses the name SM Open Access Journals. This is a deceptive and...
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United Nations-Sponsored, Chile-Based Journal is Hijacked
A screenshot of part of the hijacked journal’s website. A scholarly journal sponsored by a United Nations organization and published in Chile has been hijacked, with the hijackers creating a...
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Conference-Organizer WASET Continues Copying Names of Legitimate Conferences
Bogus conferences. The bogus conference organizer, WASET, based in Turkey and Azerbaijan, continues to rip-off the names of legitimate conferences, using them to name its own conferences, hoping — I...
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Is It Time to Retire ResearcherID?
A ResearcherID profile for a predatory journal. ResearcherID is a unique, persistent identifier for individual researchers set up by Thomson Reuters. ORCID, which came later, has made it mostly...
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Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2017
2017 by Jeffrey Beall, January 3, 2017. Each year at this time I formally announce my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the publisher list is now very large, and because I now publish four,...
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Standalone Journal is One of the Worst-Ever Open-Access Journals
Journal of WHAT ? Here’s a quick description of the Journal of Biospectracal, a journal I learned about and added to my list last month. The first thing one notices about this journal is the strange...
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When “Science and Education” Go Bad
No known point of origin. I recommend against sending articles to the publisher known as Science and Education Publishing, Science and Education, SciEP and Sciepub.com. It’s a sneaky publisher that...
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