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Open Access Journal Provides One-Day Peer Review
On pharmaceuticals. Need to publish an article quickly? The Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Science and Technology can make you a published author in a matter of days. According to its homepage, the...
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Articles with 2013 Publishing Date Cite Articles Published in 2014
Earlier articles cite articles published later. Some articles in volume 17, issue 5 (2013) of the Latvian journal Computer Modelling and New Technologies have references at the end dated 2014. Here’s...
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Large, New OA Publishers Continue to Appear — Two Recent Examples
The logos of Juniper Publishers and Cresco, two recently-launched OA publishers. There is no slowdown in the creation and launching of new open-access journals and publishers. Here I briefly describe...
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New Diagnostic Pathology Journal Copies Existing Journal Title
The recently-launched OMICS Group journal. OMICS Group recently launched a new open-access journal called Diagnostic Pathology: Open Access. The title closely matches that of the BioMed Central (BMC)...
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New Fake Metric Company Sells Nine Bogus Metrics to Publishers
Worthless metrics. Let me introduce Impact Factor Services for International Journals (I.F.S.I.J), the newest addition to my list of misleading metrics companies. The firm’s mission is to help...
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Article Spinning: A Plagiarism Technique for the 21st Century
Be prepared for article spinning. Article spinning is an increasingly-popular technique for creating plagiarized scholarly articles that plagiarism-detection software doesn’t always catch. It involves...
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Dutch Amoeba Newsletter Hijacked
Infected. The Dutch journal Amoeba: NJN-mededelingenblad has been hijacked. The hijackers have changed the title to Amoeba Journal, stealing and copying the original journal’s ISSN, publisher, and even...
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Article Broker Offers to Write Articles for Researchers, Arrange Publication
“Publication Web of Science — Publication Scopus —Translation of scientific articles and texts on request.” A Russia-based article broker has appeared that offers various services to researchers,...
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More Duplication of Journal Titles and Conference Names by Predatory Publishers
A bogus conference with a duplicate name designed to trick people. Over the past couple weeks I’ve received several emails informing me about two scholarly publishers / conference organizers and their...
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Publisher Acts Suspiciously Like OMICS Group
Another spammer. The publisher Open Access Text (OAT) follows several of the same, questionable business practices as Hyderabad, India-based OMICS Group, leading me to suspect that it may have been...
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Philippines Journal Charges Two Excessive Fees, Exaggerates IF
Highest author fee in Asia? The Philippines-based journal Asia Life Sciences charges authors a submission fee, and, when their papers are accepted, it also charges an exorbitant author fee. The fee is...
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David Publishing Company, a Massive Spammer from China
The source of much spam email. David Publishing Company is among the most annoying scholarly open-access publishers. It incessantly spams pretty much everyone in higher education, medicine, and...
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BioMed Central Accepts and Quickly Publishes an Obvious Junk Paper
BioMed Central, anyone home? Biomed Central has published an obviously bogus scholarly article that apparently uses the “template-plagiarism” technique, crafting a new article from an earlier one,...
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Two New Pay-to-Publish Startups: SciRes Literature and Gavin Publishers
The logo and tagline for SciRes Literature (left) and a journal cover image from Gavin Publishers (right). The system of payments from authors is spurring the creation of many new companies seeking...
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Strange Website Claims it is a Respected Citation Index
Impostor ? I learned recently of the “Institute of Science Index.” It appears vaguely similar in some ways to Journal Citation Reports, the database now published by Thomson Reuters that supplies...
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More Apparent Template-Plagiarism from BioMed Central
The original article, published in April, 2015. This later article, published in September, 2015, apparently uses the earlier article as a template. Another apparent case of “template-plagiarism” in a...
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A Spammer and a Liar: Global Journals Inc.
A completely inept scholarly publisher. If you haven’t already, you may soon receive an annoying spam email from an Indian publisher called Global Journals Inc. (US). This publisher misrepresents its...
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Bentham Open: Evidence of Article Brokers?
Pay-to-Publish with a Middleman? I have observed what may be evidence of article brokers at work in a number of Bentham Open journals. Bentham Open is a Sharjah-based open-access publisher with over...
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Two Bizarre New OA Publishers Help Mark the Decline of Scholarly Publishing
The world’s two newest scholarly publishers, both failures. Two strange, scholarly open-access publishers recently launched and began spamming for article submissions. While early predatory publishers...
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Is this 17 Year-Old Korean Ph.D. Student a Plagiarist?
Yoo-geun Song turns 18 next week. South Korean prodigy Yoo-geun Song is 17 years-old and about to complete his Ph.D. in astrophysics. The boy genius, along with his dissertation adviser Seok Jae Park,...
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