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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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Respected Swiss Journal Hijacked by Unknown Criminals
The impostor. Archives des sciences is a reputable journal that has been hijacked online. There are two websites for the journal, a real one and an impostor one that is run by criminals. The real...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Another Society Journal Hijacked ?
The impostor site. The journal Bradleya, published by the British Cactus and Succulent Society appears to have been hijacked. Journal hijacking is the process of maliciously setting up a duplicate...
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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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New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles
Here be dragons. Recently launched, and with 66 brand-new journals, Horizon Research Publishing Corporation carefully hides its headquarters location on its website. The “contact us” page does not list...
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Another Questionable Publisher Emerges from Canada
One of many in Canada. We recently learned about the Canadian Science and Technology Press Inc. a scholarly publisher with six brand-new scholarly journals. The journal lists an address in the Toronto,...
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“Please add my journal to your list”
I’m happy to add this to my list, sure. I regularly receive emails from new open-access publishers asking me to add their publisher or journal to one of my lists. My lists include publishers and...
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Hawaiian Publisher Caters to Latin American Scholars
Aloha? Adios! Based in Hilo, Hawaii, the Institute for Business and Finance Research publishes eight business journals and organizes a regularly-occurring conference called Global Conference for...
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OA Publisher Recent Science Launches with 38 Journals
Researchers beware. I recently discovered a new publisher called Recent Science, a scholarly publisher with 38 journals in its portfolio, some of which duplicate other publishers’ titles. According to...
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OA Publisher Launches with over 350 New Journals
An ambitious new venture. The International Journal Network is a new, open-access publisher that includes over 350 journals in its portfolio. The publisher’s main page lists San Francisco as its...
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OMICS Creates Ghost Brands to Attract New Authors
e-Medical Central Hyderabad, India-based OMICS Publishing Group has set up new websites with different brand names that all try to lure potential authors into submitting papers to one or more of OMICS’...
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Savvy Science Publisher Not So Savvy
Should be called “Amateurish Science Publisher” The word savvy in English, according to Wictionary, means “shrewd, well-informed and perceptive.” The term is informal, so I am surprised to see it being...
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KY Publications — A Slimy New OA Publisher from India
The KY Publications CEO, Medikondu Kishore, sitting back and waiting for the easy money to roll in. We recently discovered KY Publications, a new open-access publisher based in Guntur, Andhra Pradesh,...
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