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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mikhail Blagosklonny’s Journal Aging: A Review
[This is a guest blog post. The author has asked to remain anonymous.] Quick and easy publishing. I would like to talk about my experience as a co-author in a paper that was submitted to Aging, a...
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Juniper Publishers — Rotten to the Core
This publisher stinks. This is a renewed warning to all researchers to refrain from submitting any work to — or associating with — Juniper Publishers. Juniper is a deceptive publisher, a scam designed...
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OMICS International Continues Violating Canada
Danger: OMICS It appears that Hyderabad, India-based OMICS International has bought another Canadian scholarly publisher, but in this case, they have bought up a very low-quality, Saskatoon-based,...
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Three Open-Access Publishers from Turkey
Turkey. It’s Thanksgiving Day in the United States, a fitting time to examine a selection of predatory publishers from Turkey. Higher education in Turkey is currently in crisis, with numerous academics...
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Hyderabad, India — City of Corruption
Predator central. Hyderabad, India is one of the most corrupt cities on earth, I think. It is home to countless predatory open-access publishers and conference organizers, and new, open-access...
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Predatory Publishers Thriving on LinkedIn
Toxic journal. Predatory publishers are taking over LinkedIn. They are using it to spam for article submissions to their low-quality journals and to make themselves look like legitimate businesses....
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Spammers Invite Researchers to Pay to Advertise Their Research
Be very careful. There are several research advertising companies that spam scholarly researchers, companies often confused with predatory publishers. The spam emails aim to get researchers to pay to...
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Three New Open-Access Publishers from October, 2016
Red alert. Here are three new open-access publishers I learned of and added to my list of questionable publishers in October, 2016. Each is strange is its own special way. They are True Scholar,...
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A Pakistani Publisher to Avoid: Academic Research Publishing Group
Keep a safe distance. Whenever an open-access publisher uses the phrases “Academic Research” or “Publishing Group” in its name, researchers should be very wary. Here’s a low-quality, rent-seeking,...
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MedCrave Update: It’s Still a Dangerous, Predatory Publisher
Watch where you step. I first wrote about the Hyderabad, India-based, open-access publisher MedCrave soon after it launched in April, 2014. Since that time, the publisher has grown and continued to...
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