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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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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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Journal Editor Agrees to Review Paper Then Demands Payment
Pathological? A researcher agreed to peer-review a manuscript submitted to the Taylor & Francis journal Biocontrol Science and Technology. The researcher is Dr. S.S. Narwal, who is also editor of...
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What is the Real Motivation Behind the Islamic Science Citation Index?
Islamic Science Citation Index Note: This is a guest post by a professor from an Iranian University. Before the Islamic Revolution in Iran, some Iranian universities were almost as good as some...
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List of Predatory Publishers 2014
By Jeffrey Beall Released January 2, 2014 The gold (author pays) open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make...
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Questionable Polish Publisher Targets Scholarly Societies
There are many small learned and professional societies in the world, some of which publish one or more journals. Smaller, more specialized societies generally lack the resources, time, and expertise...
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Questionable OA Publisher Launches with a Clever Website and 52 New Journals
Looks very legitimate … but it’s not. A recent addition to my list is the American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD), which, unlike most new OA publishers, has a clever and...
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Publisher Launches with Two Nearly Identical Brands at Once
Twin 1 Twin 2 A colleague forwarded me a spam email from Lighthouse Journal Publication (also called Lighthouse Journals), and when I was investigating the publisher I discovered a second publisher,...
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Have I Discovered the Source of the Hijacked Journals?
The hijacked version of the journal. I received another report of a hijacked journal. Similar to many earlier cases, this established Austrian enology journal had only a minor web presence until some...
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University of Pristina Rector under Fire for Publishing in Predatory Journals
Dr. Ibrahim Gashi In Kosovo, University of Pristina Rector Ibrahim Gashi is being pressured to resign after it was revealed he published articles in predatory journals to meet the requirements for...
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New OA Publisher Launches with Three Really Bad Journals
Technoledge ? A very low quality and even ridiculous publisher – Globeedu Group – launched recently with three new journals. The publisher does not have its own website. Instead, each journal has an...
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More Questionable Scholarly Metrics are Emerging
My previous blog post described a questionable new scholarly metric called International Impact Factor Services (IIFS). Now I’ve learned about three new additional questionable metrics. The three...
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Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers
MDPI’s owner, Shu-Kun Lin I have added the Chinese publisher MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) to my list of questionable publishers. This is not a decision I have taken lightly....
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Under Pressure, MDPI Tries to Clean House, Retracts Paper
Why publish with MDPI when there are many better venues ? I recently added publisher MDPI to my list of questionable publishers, an addition that has caused the publisher to go on the offensive against...
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Used-Car-Style Marketing Comes to Scholarly Publishing
Not the way it’s supposed to work. We recently learned of a website called PublishFast® that offers to sell quick and easy publishing opportunities for scholarly authors. The site calls itself a...
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Article in Questionable Journal Claims Handheld Hepatitis C Detector is...
Pseudo-science? The Dutch-language blog KLOPTDATWEL? reports that the Egyptian military claims its research has led to a handheld device that can diagnose hepatitis C. Moreover, according to the...
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New Madras-Based Publisher is a Laugh a Minute
Taken from the Lands’ End catalog? International Science & Research Journals (also called ISR Journals & Publications) is a new publisher from India that is so fake and amateurish that its...
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