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Introducing World Science Research Journals
Don’t even think about publishing here. The gold rush continues — gold open-access, that is. This blog post briefly describes a brand-new publisher we recently discovered. It has serious problems. Let...
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Bangladeshis Publishing Even More Journals from Connecticut
Moinuddin Sarker, publisher. I recently discovered a group of 15 brand-new journals that are not published under the banner of any publisher — each operates as an independent journal. They all have an...
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OA Journal Stops Publishing, Deletes Website
One of the things I look for in scholarly open-access publishers is an understanding of and a commitment to digital preservation. In fact, my Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers...
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Documenting Plagiarism in the Journal of Academic and Business Ethics
Research Institute or Vanity Press ? The Journal of Academic and Business Ethics is one of 19 journals published by the Jacksonville, Florida-based Academic and Business Research Institute (AABRI). The...
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Appeal Process to be Implemented for This Blog’s Lists
Appeal This blog will be adding an appeal process soon. If any publisher or independent journal feels that it should not be included on one of the two lists (publishers, independent journals), a...
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What’s Up with Dr. George Perry?
Geroge Perry When I analyze and investigate possible predatory publishers, there is one name that I frequently see: George Perry. Professor Perry is the Dean of the College of Sciences at the...
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New Term: MOAMJ = Multidisciplinary Open Access Mega Journal
Open Access IEEE has just announced that it will be starting a new gold open-access mega-journal to be called IEEE Access. In launching the journal, the publisher has also coined a new term for the...
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Report Details Predatory Practices of Two Bosnian Journals
The report’s cover. A report entitled “Legitimacy of citations in predatory publishing: The case of proliferation of papers by Serbian authors in two Bosnian WoS‐indexed journals” was published in late...
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Beware of Spam Email With Offers to Promote Your Research
There are companies that publish websites or magazines that showcase research. These companies send spam invitations to published researchers inviting them to pay to have their research promoted in the...
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Spam from Predatory Open Access Publishers is Dominating my Inbox
Guest blog post by: Ali Mobasheri, D.Phil., Associate Professor University of Nottingham, United Kingdom I was a graduate student when e-mail became widely available as a form of communication and the...
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Hundreds of Articles Disappear as Publisher Changes Model from Open Access to...
Gone but not forgotten. The publisher EUROJOURNALS has apparently decided to change its publishing model from open access to toll access. This Seychelles-based publisher — which is included on my list...
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Trying to understand “ACADEMIC JOURNALS & CONFERENCES”
Dr. Turan Senguder and some of his conference co-attendees. We recently learned about a publisher and conference sponsor called Academic Journals & Conferences. Based in Florida, the company...
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Does Scholarly Open-Access Publishing Increase Author Misconduct?
Stop author misconduct in scholarly communication. I believe that open-access publishing enables, facilitates, and increases the rate and occurrence of author misconduct. I base this conclusion on my...
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Article Acceptance Letter Reveals a Bogus Peer Review
Don’t trust their peer review. Sometimes, we are able to gather direct evidence of how predatory publishers operate. In this case we received primary information about the operation of the Journal of...
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Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s
House of spam: the Hindawi Office in Cairo, Egypt. Hindawi Publishing Corporation is one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers — and one of the most profitable. Interviewed in September, 2012,...
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The Epitome of Predatory Publishers
Scholarly publishing has never been so easy. The English word epitome can mean, according to Wictionary, “The embodiment or encapsulation of” or “A representative example.” Here I want to describe a...
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The Suspicious Case of Science Record Journals
Well trusted by whom? Science Record is a Delaware-based publisher of ten scholarly journals. This publisher now appears to be a toll-access publisher, and each article listed has a “purchase” link,...
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Will Article Promotion Companies Make Article-Level Metrics Obsolete ?
Danger Will Robinson! Scientists beware: There is a new scholarly publishing-related scheme that aims to separate you from your money. I recently blogged about several emerging, web-based companies...
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Vanity Journals are Threatening Taxonomy
A must-read article. Recently I have learned about two self-published “journals” that are creating havoc for insect and reptile taxonomists. These are the two journals: Australasian Journal of...
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The Onslaught of Questionable Open-Access Journals Persists Unabated
On April, 8, I was quoted in a New York Times article about questionable open-access publishers and questionable conferences. Since that day I’ve been happy to receive many emails, some with...
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