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“No Author Fee” Open-Access Journal Bills Author for His Accepted Paper
Annals of Misrepresentation The South Korean journal Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine (ARM) claims on its website that authors are not charged any fees, but one author received a bill after his paper...
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Open-Access Journal Offers to Pay Peer Reviewers
World Journal of Exploitation The World Journal of Biotechnology is a new, niche journal that fulfills the long-standing demand for an international publication outlet in the field of biotechnology....
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MIT Journal Hijacked
How’s that open source thing working out for you? The MIT Technology Review has been hijacked. In the last few months, I’ve seen an increase in the rate of hijacked journals reported to me. This blog...
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Snapshots of Recent Additions to the List of Questionable Publishers
Watch out for all of these. I didn’t get much rest over the Christmas break, as tips regarding questionable new publishers and journals poured in — tips I am grateful for. Over the break I added five...
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Another Respected Society Journal Victimized by Title Thief
The copycat journal’s unprofessional masthead, boasting fake impact factors. I learned recently of a journal whose title exactly copies the title of a respected journal in the same field, the Journal...
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The Growing Parallel Economy in Scholarly Publishing
Scientific Object Identifier ? There is increasing evidence of a parallel economy developing around the scholarly publishing industry. The components of this parallel economy include predatory...
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Bogus Iran-Based Journal Allows Up to 40% Plagiarism
Journal of unoriginal content. The Journal of Current Research in Science (JCRS) is included on my list of questionable journals, and I strongly advise all honest researchers to avoid it. It allows up...
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Bogus Polish Journal Has Completely Fake Editorial Board
More fiction than fact. A Russian-owned journal that claims to be based in Poland is as fake as a scholarly journal can get. The East European Science Journal has a completely made up editorial board,...
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Fringe Scientist Named Editor-in-Chief of OMICS Astrobiology Journal
Outreach to nuts. OMICS International (formerly OMICS Publishing Group) has named Chandra Wickramasinghe editor-in-chief of its strangely-titled Journal of Astrobiology & Outreach. Wickramasinghe’s...
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Another Article about Plagiarism — That Contains Plagiarism
A torturous read. Here is another example of an article in an open-access journal about plagiarism that itself contains plagiarism. The 2016 article, classified as a “short communication” in the...
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Elite Hall Publishing House: Nothing Elite about It
Worst-ever publisher website. Here’s a bottom-tier, confused, and low-quality publisher everyone should avoid, Elite Hall Publishing House. This publisher of seven, broad, open-access journals is based...
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Open-Access Publisher Clones Itself
The original one. A Tunisia-based publisher has “cloned” itself, creating a new publishing operation with a different name, but with the same low-quality journals. The two versions of the publisher...
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New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 65 Unneeded Journals
Cute logo, but this publisher is dead on arrival. A new open-access publisher with the strange name The Scientific Pages launched recently with 65 worthless scholarly journals. All the journals...
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The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research”
This article concludes, “Current asbestos-related regulations are irrational.” A recent article in the National Review used the term “advocacy research” to describe unscientific articles published in...
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Mysterious Turkish Thales Academic Publisher Promises “Fast” Publication in...
A Trojan horse? [Note: This is a guest blog post by Dr. Tansu Küçüköncü]. Thales Academic Publisher publishes 23 open-access journals and organizes scholarly conferences. It also publishes academic...
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Researchers in Southeast Asia Are Bombarded with Conference Spam
Conferences, journals, spam. A continuing explosion in the number of low-quality and predatory scholarly conferences in Southeast Asia is confusing and annoying researchers in the region. One example...
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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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