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Spam Email from Questionable Journal Provides Comic Relief
Proof that anyone can be a scholarly publisher. The American Based Research Journal, which claims to be based in the UK, is providing researchers with some much needed comic relief by sending out a...
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Low-Quality Scholarly Publishers Don’t Understand Copyright
See the contradiction ? Click image to enlarge. I am increasingly seeing contradictory licensing statements on the websites of low-quality, questionable, and predatory publishers. Typically, these...
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Shabby Indian Management Megajournal Reveals Its Peer Review Process
Poor management. The International Journal of Management Research and Review (IJMRR) is typical of the many low-quality and deceptive megajournals that are started up in India every week. This one...
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New Bottom-Feeding OA Journal: American Research Thoughts
Thoughtless. American Research thoughts is a new open-access journal published by a Romanian-Indian team of two people. The title American Research Thoughts is not suitable for a professional scholarly...
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Google Scholar is Filled with Junk Science
Pseudo-scholar Google Scholar is the world’s largest and most-used academic search engine, yet it is increasingly becoming polluted with junk science, making it a potentially dangerous database for...
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New Open-Access Oncology Journal Has Big Ambitions
Not off to a good start. The brand-new mega oncology journal Cancer Research Frontiers is in the process of launching. It is not associated with Nature Publishing Group’s open-access imprint Frontiers,...
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An Open-Access Publisher You Can See Through: Pyrex Journals
Cracked ? One of the newest scholarly open-access publishers is Pyrex Journals. It launched recently with ten broad-scoped journals. And it has a twin. Although the publisher’s “contact us” page does...
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OA Publisher Known for its Junk Science Has Chinese Language Imprint with 160...
Be very careful Hans Publishers Inc. (also HansPub or 汉斯) is the Chinese-language counterpart of Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP), a highly-questionable publisher that has been on my list for...
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Open-Access Medical Publisher Has Contradictory Journal
Scholarly hypoxia is more like it. Scholoxy is an India-based scholarly publisher of six medical journals. The publisher is a massive spammer, and it includes a medical journal with an unscientific...
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Bogus Journal Accepts Profanity-Laced Anti-Spam Paper
One of many low-quality open-access journals. The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology has accepted for publication a manuscript that was first written in 2005 to protest spam...
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Open-Access Physics Journal Accommodates Authors Blacklisted from arXiv
Dark matter. Progress in Physics is an open-access journal that publishes articles unsuitable for mainstream physics journals. Among other roles, it provides desperate authors, some of whom have been...
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Why Researchers Should Avoid the Clute “Institute”
The entrance to the “Institute” Among the questionable publishers on my list, the one physically closest to me is the so-called Clute Institute. It’s located in a lonely professional building southwest...
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Clueless Reporter from the Mirror Bases Story on Withdrawn OMICS Publishing...
Cracked. An article in the website of the British newspaper the Mirror is based on an apparently withdrawn article published earlier in the OMICS Publishing Group’s journal Epidemiology: Open Access....
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New OA Publisher “Pubicon International Publications” Launches with 14 Journals
Pubicon ? A company called Pubicon International Publications launched recently with 14 open-access journals. The publisher is based in Bhopal, India, so we found it strange and probably inappropriate...
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Open-Access Publisher Offers to Waive Fees, But There’s an Unethical Catch
Let’s make a deal … Global Researchers Journals is offering to waive article processing charges (APCs) for authors who cite articles in its journals in other journals with impact factors. The fine...
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The Chinese Publisher SCIRP (Scientific Research Publishing): A Publishing...
AIDS Denialism Another day, another report of a junk science article published by China-based publisher Scientific Research Publishing, or SCIRP. This publisher specializes in publishing junk cosmology...
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The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding
Accelerating profits OMICS Group, the Hyderabad, India-based group of scholarly publishing-related companies, is expanding and now operates at least twelve publishing imprints (brands), as well as a...
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Christmas-Themed Call for Papers Promises Publication in Four Days
Naughty journal. The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (IJELLH) is using a (likely pirated) Christmas-themed call for papers. It promises to publish research papers...
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The Decline of a Library Journal — The Decline of ITAL
Going. Downhill. Fast. Information Technology and Libraries (ITAL) is the official organ of the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association. The...
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Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015
2015 Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2015 by Jeffrey Beall, January 2, 2015 Each year at this time I formally release my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the list is now very...
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