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Scholarly Journals for Winos
Don’t drink this stuff In American English, the term “wino” refers to a person who drinks a lot of wine or some other form of alcohol. Thus when I first became aware of WYNO Academic Journals, I had a...
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Large New OA Publisher Launches with 85 Journals
85 new journals all started at the same time. A brand-new open-access publisher has just appeared: Science and Education Publishing (SciEP). The publisher is launching with 85 new journals, the second...
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Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers (2nd edition)
In August 2012, I published the first edition of my Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers. I received many helpful comments and am now publishing a second edition of the work. I am...
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Three New Questionable Open-Access Publishers
We call for your author fees. Thanks to tips sent in by scientists and researchers, I learn about several new questionable publishers and independent journals each week. In this blog post, I highlight...
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Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2013
By Jeffrey Beall Released December 4, 2012 The gold open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the...
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Publishing Pseudo-Science
A threat to honest science. When I write about predatory publishers, I often mention that their lax or non-existent peer review allows pseudo-science to be published as if it were authentic science....
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Publisher Charges Authors for Retractions
I am involved in a case of duplicate publishing — as the person who discovered and reported it to Springer, who published it the second time. I have been copied on many emails being sent among the...
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Two Predatory Bloopers
The Biocan, second door on the left. The Bioscan is an open-access journal that claims to be the official organ of India’s National Environmentalists Association, however, the journal appears to really...
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Should Journalists Cite Material from Predatory Journals?
Worthy of citation? by Robert Calin-Jageman and Jeffrey Beall Society benefits from the results of scientific research in many ways. Scholarly research supports expert testimony in courts of law,...
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Bogus New OA Publisher Association Attempts to Compete with OASPA
A bogus industry association. Many have heard of OASPA (pronounced oh-ASS-puh), the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association. It’s an industry association that brings together some of the better OA...
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Open-Access Publisher Launches with 355 New Journals
Template city We recently learned of the launch of one of the largest scholarly open-access publishers. It’s called Academic and Scientific Publishing, and it launched with an amazing 355 journal...
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Scholarly Indexes are Unwittingly “Legitimizing” Corrupt Publishers
The EBSCO Headquarters in Ipswich, Massachusetts.[Photo by John Phelan.]I have attended many sessions at library conferences sponsored by companies that license scholarly journal indexes to academic...
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Documenting Plagiarism in Ashdin Publications’ Journals
A publisher to avoid. In late 2012, I was the victim of criminal impersonation. Someone sent out emails that looked like they were from me, asking for money to remove a publisher from my list. The...
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Predatory Publisher Steals Code, University’s Name
The publisher’s “contact us” page falsely links it to the University The International Network for Scientific & Industrial Information is a new publisher with two journals that purports to be based...
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Fraud Alert: Bogus Article Acceptance Letters
Retirement Home for Predatory Publishers.[Photo by Adam Jones, CC:BY]We’ve heard a few reports of researchers being scammed by criminals with inside information on article submissions at predatory...
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OMICS Goes from “Predatory Publishing” to “Predatory Meetings”
Stay Away From OMICS’ Conferences In earlier blog posts I’ve described and documented examples of OMICS Group’s unethical practices, including sending personal invitations to potential authors to...
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It’s Time to Reexamine the Tradition of the “Call for Papers”
Bring me some paper. Back in the good old days before the internet, scholarly journal publishers would mail printed calls for papers to university departments around the world, and these departments in...
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Did Dr. Krashen Commit Self-Plagiarism?
The other day I was analyzing the brand-new journal Iranian Journal of Language Teaching Research and observed that the journal had attracted submissions from several well-respected Western linguists....
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Corrupt New Publisher Fakes Association with Reed Elsevier
A collage of two discrete parts of the journals’s main page. If you want a really good example of a predatory publisher, have a look at KnowledgesPublisher. This brand-new publisher uses lies and...
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OMICS Ineptly Uses Social Media to Promote its Brands
Guest blog post by Kenneth Witwer. Kenneth Witwer is an assistant professor of pathobiology in the Baltimore, Maryland area. The views and opinions expressed in this post are his own and do not...
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