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Another Controversial Paper from Frontiers
“Nonsense.” Some scientists have identified a published, scholarly article they consider nonsense, but the paper’s publisher, Lausanne-based Frontiers, has so far refused to take any action to correct...
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Another Respected Society Journal Victimized by Title Thief
The copycat journal’s unprofessional masthead, boasting fake impact factors. I learned recently of a journal whose title exactly copies the title of a respected journal in the same field, the Journal...
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The Growing Parallel Economy in Scholarly Publishing
Scientific Object Identifier ? There is increasing evidence of a parallel economy developing around the scholarly publishing industry. The components of this parallel economy include predatory...
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Wacky Open-Access Publisher Launches with 61 New Journals
Strange spelling, strange publisher. Another pay-to-publish, open-access publisher has appeared: Lawarence Press. Based in Delhi, India, the press is named after the street its headquarters is located...
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Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism
Journal of unoriginal content. The Journal of Current Research in Science (JCRS) is included on my list of questionable journals, and I strongly advise all honest researchers to avoid it. It allows up...
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Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board
More fiction than fact. A Russian-owned journal that claims to be based in Poland is as fake as a scholarly journal can get. The East European Science Journal has a completely made up editorial board,...
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Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal
Outreach to nuts. OMICS International (formerly OMICS Publishing Group) has named Chandra Wickramasinghe editor-in-chief of its strangely-titled Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach. Wickramasinghe’s...
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Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin”
A contrived name? Ontario-based Andrew John Publishing Inc. has two websites, one for its subscription journals and print monographs, and a secretive new one that also includes its in-progress,...
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Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke
Journal of easy academic credit. I don’t see too many questionable open-access journals that originate in Japan, but here’s one, the Journal of Physical Therapy Science. It purports to be the organ of...
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Finnish Man Uses Easy Open-Access Journals to Publish Junk Climate Science
Antero Ollila: Too long in the sauna? Predatory open-access journals stand ready to publish junk science that legitimate journals reject for publication. Anyone with a pseudo-scientific idea can write...
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Elite Hall Publishing House: Nothing Elite about It
Worst-ever publisher website. Here’s a bottom-tier, confused, and low-quality publisher everyone should avoid, Elite Hall Publishing House. This publisher of seven, broad, open-access journals is based...
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Open-Access Publisher Clones Itself
The original one. A Tunisia-based publisher has “cloned” itself, creating a new publishing operation with a different name, but with the same low-quality journals. The two versions of the publisher...
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New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals
Cute logo, but this publisher is dead on arrival. A new open-access publisher with the strange name The Scientific Pages launched recently with 65 worthless scholarly journals. All the journals...
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A True Predator: Austin Publishing Group
Avoid at all cost. I am writing this blog post to warn all scholarly authors and researchers to avoid Austin Publishing Group. It is a sneaky and exploitative, second-generation predatory publisher. It...
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The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research”
This article concludes, “Current asbestos-related regulations are irrational.” A recent article in the National Review used the term “advocacy research” to describe unscientific articles published in...
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Mysterious Turkish Thales Academic Publisher Promises “Fast” Publication in...
A Trojan horse? [Note: This is a guest blog post by Dr. Tansu Küçüköncü]. Thales Academic Publisher publishes 23 open-access journals and organizes scholarly conferences. It also publishes academic...
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A New Open-Access Publisher Whose Name Rings a Bell
Here’s a new open-access publisher with a familiar-sounding name: ScienceVier. It launched recently and began spamming. It claims a Hamilton, Ontario base. ScienceVier is a scholarly publisher and...
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Researchers in Southeast Asia Are Bombarded with Conference Spam
Conferences, journals, spam. A continuing explosion in the number of low-quality and predatory scholarly conferences in Southeast Asia is confusing and annoying researchers in the region. One example...
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Business Deans Endorse Resolution Regarding Predatory Journals
Good advice. A group of business deans here in the United States has issued and endorsed a statement opposing predatory publishing. The resolution is from the Business Deans of the Association of...
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Another Chinese OA Publisher “Based” in Southern California
Another open-access publisher to avoid. Last week I wrote about a publisher that claims to be based in a small house in San Bernardino, California. Now here’s another Chinese publisher that has claimed...
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