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Bell Press Now on Beall’s List
Not from Europe Bell Press is a newly-launched scholarly open-access publisher that uses deception to make itself look like a legitimate, European, scholarly publisher. It is none of these things,...
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Publisher of Two Journals Sells “Best Paper” Awards
We recently learned that an open-access publisher will publish submitted papers in one of its journals and include a “Best Paper Award” to authors for an additional fee. The publisher’ journals, both...
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Mysterious Publisher Launches with 44 Journals
Not an original name. I received several tips recently about a large, new open-access publisher called Open Science. I have added this publisher to my list and recommend that researchers ignore the...
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Green OA is Better than Publishing in a Predatory Journal
Green open access I think that using the green open-access publishing model is better for authors and readers than publishing in a predatory or questionable open-access journal. Green open-access...
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Be Careful with Spam from Research Media
Be careful with this. A company that sells research promotion services is using email addresses left on PLOS Medicine’s comments section to spam researchers. Research Media is a U.K.-based company that...
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More Bad Science in Predatory OA Journals
The suspect article. The COSMO-RS method is an advanced method for the quantitative calculation of solvation mixture thermodynamics based on quantum chemistry. It was developed by Andreas Klamt and is...
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Subscription Journal Retroactively Imposes Page Charges
Unwelcome page charges. The Journal of Reproductive Medicine is a subscription journal published by Science Printers and Publishers, Inc., based in St Louis, Missouri. The journal angered many of its...
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Anger in Albania
Neither scientific nor international Academicus (subtitle: International Scientific Journal) is a scholarly journal based in Albania. I recently added it to my list of questionable standalone journals,...
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I get complaints about Frontiers
Borderline? Frontiers is a Lausanne, Switzerland-based scholarly open-access publisher. Owned by Nature Publishing Group, the firm publishes 38 journals, chiefly in the life sciences. Frontiers does...
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Want a Faster Review? Pay for It
Pay more for a shorter review time. Hong Kong-based Baishideng Publishing Group is offering authors the opportunity to pay for expedited processing of their submitted manuscripts. It calls this service...
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Allegations of Plagiarism in a BioMed Central Journal Remain Unresolved after...
A paper published in the BioMed Central Journal Nutrition & Metabolism is a near exact match of a paper published earlier in the Journal of Clinical Pharmacy and Therapeutics. The 2008 paper, “Role...
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Predatory Publishing News
Here are three news items that relate to predatory open-access scholarly publishers. We’ll publishing anything! 1. Physicist Lorenzo Iorio served as an editorial board member for Science Publications’...
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New OA Publisher Launches with 99 Journals
Late to the party A new publisher called the Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (IDES) has launched with 99 open-access journals. The sole proprietor of this “institute” is Vinu V. Das. He’s...
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Index Copernicus Has No Value
IC Value? Index Copernicus is a Poland-based company that offers several services related to scholarly publishing. One of their products is a journal rating system, and I am concerned about the methods...
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New Open-Access Publisher: Stringer Open
Designed to fool. We recently learned about a new scholarly open-access publisher whose name sounds very much like that of an established scholarly publisher. It is Stringer Open, and of course it...
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Shedding Some Light on the Photon Foundation
Worst of the worst. The Photon Foundation is a predatory publisher of fifty bogus journals. This publisher, which uses Google Sites as its publishing platform, has been on my list for some time. I...
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A Magical Combination: Easy Acceptance and an Authentic Impact Factor
Easy ticket to an impact factor publication Faisalabad, Pakistan-based Medwell Journals was on my very first list of questionable publishers in 2010, and it continues there today. One of Medwell’s...
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WSEAS and NAUN: Two Publishers (and Conference Organizers) to Avoid
Two to avoid WSEAS = World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society NAUN = North Atlantic University Union These two companies are owned by the same individual and are all about profit and not...
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Gujarat-Based Mehta Press Now Up to 192 OA Journals
This is no Hathi Trust Mehta Press has been around since early 2010, but it has recently revamped its website and now boasts an amazing number of journals. I count 192 journals in the Mehta Press...
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Another Journal Hijacking
The monographic series Reef Resources Assessment and Management Technical Papers has been hijacked as an open-access journal. This is what the authentic (print) publication looks like. The above cover...
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