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Flawed Article in Canadian Library Science Journal
The journal. This blog post is a review of the article: Nwagwu, W. E. (2016). Open access in the developing regions: Situating the altercations about predatory publishing. Canadian Journal of...
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Another Article Broker from China
Unethical, mendacious, and venal. The Association for Scientific and Engineering is a Chinese article broker. It arranges for its clients’ manuscripts to be published as scholarly articles in indexed...
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A New Publisher to Watch Out for: Ology Science
Predatory-ology There’s a new open-access publisher in town, and its name is Ology Science. I fear that the publisher may have a connection with the notorious publisher called OMICS International....
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Two Turkish Journals with a Fake, “German” Editor
A mess indeed. Be on the lookout for spam from a man using the fake persona of “Dr. Karl Heinz” and soliciting manuscripts for two open-access journals of abysmal quality. The journals use the...
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Two New Absurd OA Journals, Two New OA Mandates
KnowledgeCuddle …. Really? This past week I added a publisher called KnowledgeCuddle Publication to my list. The publisher’s name is silly and unprofessional, more evidence of scholarly open-access...
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Two Predatory Publishers: One Old, One New
A cheap knockoff of the real thing. Here I’d like to sound a warning about two low-quality scholarly open-access publishers. I wrote previously about Pyrex Journals and have an update on them. I’ll...
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Three New Open-Access Publishers — All with Dumb Names
New scholarly open-access publishers continue to appear at a fast pace. Here are three that launched recently — one with a generic name, one with a stolen name, and one with a suspicious name. Here are...
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Another Predatory Conference Organizer from Asia: Academic Fora
A low-quality, mega-conference organizer. For several months, I have been receiving emails and blog comments about a highly questionable conference organizer called Academic Fora. I find Academic Fora...
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The TR Master Journal List is not a Journal Whitelist
Overstated. The Thomson Reuters Master Journal List is not a journal whitelist and should not be used as one. Numerous low-quality and predatory journals are announcing their inclusion in this list as...
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Medical Journal Accepts Sting Paper, Gets Tipped Off, Retracts
Unhealthy archives. Fed up with the easy acceptance of articles submitted to the Bosnian journal Medical Archives, a faculty member at the University of Prishtina (Universiteti i Prishtinës) decided to...
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New Open-Access Publisher: Clyto Access
Are you serious? The open-access movement recently welcomed its latest, fully open-access publisher: Clyto Access. This brand-new publisher launched with 15 journals, mostly in the biomedical sciences....
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New Name, Same Horrible Business: OMICS International
International rubbish. I am writing this blog post to renew my urgent warning to researchers in all countries to avoid all products and services of OMICS International. It’s a counterfeit scholarly...
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Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism
An interpretation of Sci-Hub’s logo, a raven. The over 50 million scholarly articles stolen by the pirates at Sci-Hub will significantly increase the occurrence of academic plagiarism. In some cases,...
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Hijacked Journals Are Still a Problem
The masthead of a hijacked journal. Hijacked journals — scholarly journals whose identities are stolen and represented on counterfeit websites — are still victimizing researchers in some countries....
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Science Publishing Group: A Complete Scam
A threat to science. I think Science Publishing Group (SciencePG) is a totally bogus publisher. Here I would like to repeat my warning to all researchers that they not send any papers to this...
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More Questionable Articles from MDPI
Power to the people. Imagine you’re a rogue physicist and you’ve invented “a revolutionary new scientific breakthrough that will provide the world with a cheap abundant source of sustainable...
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Company Offers Academic Ghostwriting Service
Pay to write, pay to publish. HallScript, a Lebanon-based company that specializes in writing- and editing-related services, offers ghostwriting as a service. Currently spamming under a likely...
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The Weaknesses of Journal Whitelists
Conclusion: Researchers seek the easiest journals on a whitelist. I just read an article [1] about a well-known journal whitelist by the brilliant Australian economist Imad A. Moosa. Entitled “A...
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Three New Low-Quality Open-Access Publishers
They keep appearing. Here are three new open-access publishers I’ve added to my list recently. Each of them is low-quality or predatory in its own unique way. I have seen no decline in the number of...
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