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Oxford on alert: predatory conference organisers are coming to town, or,...
Guest blog post by Dr. Ali Mobasheri, University of Nottingham Oxford, also known as the “City of Dreaming Spires” (the term coined by poet Matthew Arnold) is a beautiful university town in the UK. It...
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Is the Editor of the Springer Journal Scientometrics indifferent to plagiarism?
Does it measure up? Summary: A reader of my blog alerted me to significant word-for-word plagiarism in an article published in Springer’s journal Scientometrics. I analyzed the article and confirmed...
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Scholarly Article Submitted and Accepted before Research is Completed
It appears that a scholarly paper was submitted and accepted before the research it reports on was actually completed. The article, published in December, 2013, is this: Izetbegovic, Sebija. (2013)....
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Greedy Indian Publisher Charges Authors and Readers, Requires Copyright Transfer
RIP Off Research India Publications (also misspelled as Research India Publication) is a massive subscription publisher based in Delhi, India. It publishes over 180 journals, and you have to pay if you...
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Misleading Metrics: A New List on This Blog
Another list of questionable companies. I have added a third list to this blog, and it is called Misleading Metrics. The purpose of the new list is to alert researchers to bogus metrics companies that...
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Did FWS Officials Use a Predatory Journal to Publish Questionable Science?
Buried ethics? A blog called The Equation reported recently that two U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) officials used flawed models to determine the range of the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus...
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New OA Publisher: the Council for Innovative Research
Innovative deception Yesterday I added one of the worst scholarly publishers ever to my list, the Council for Innovative Research. The only innovative thing about this dangerous publisher is the number...
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Introduction to “Super Closed Access Journals”
Best at fooling people. There is a new class of scholarly journal. These journals are not open-access. You can’t purchase their articles individually. Individuals cannot subscribe to them. The only way...
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Red Alert: Avens Publishing Group
A complete impostor. The purpose of this blog post is to warn scholars to avoid having any association with Avens Publishing Group. By this I mean: don’t serve on their editorial boards, don’t submit...
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Yet Another OMICS Publishing Group Blunder
The “editorial” This 2012 editorial, “On information thermodynamics and scale invariance in fluid dynamics” was published in OMICS Publishing Group’s Journal of Thermodynamics & Catalysis. Two...
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Fallout from Questionable Article in OA Pediatrics Journal
Questionable science. This article, “Changes in confirmed plus borderline cases of congenital hypothyroidism in California as a function of environmental fallout from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown”...
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Red Alert: Polish Scholarly Journal is Hijacked
Bogus and counterfeit. The Polish journal Sylwan has been hijacked — sort of. Unlike previous journal hijackings, in this case the legitimate journal has a website, and a bogus website pretends to be...
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New Questionable Publisher — New Conference List — New Plagiarism Book
Journal of salad. New Questionable Publisher I recently added the new publisher called Webcrawler Journals to my list of questionable publishers. Like many questionable publishers, this one is not...
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Scholarly Publishing Phishing Attempts Noted
Not really Elsevier. I’ve recently been alerted to several phishing attempts that involve scholarly open-access journals. The phishing attempts try to lure scholars into submitting papers without ever...
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New Low-Quality OA Publisher: Imprints Open Access
Group? It’s just one guy. There is no slowdown in the number of new, questionable, and low quality gold open-access publishers appearing and offering their services to scholarly authors. Here I...
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Impact Factor Confusion: Spam Emails Mislead Researchers
Bogus metrics companies have made it possible for essentially any journal to have an “impact factor.” However, because true impact factor information — the data supplied by Thomson Reuters’ Journal...
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Spanish Journal Latest Victim of Journal Hijacking
The authentic journal. The Spanish journal Afinidad has been hijacked. Someone has set up a fake website for the journal and is soliciting submissions and payments from the authors in accordance with...
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European Journals Added to List
We accept just about everything! I have added European Scientific Journal to my list, as well as a bunch of brand-new journals just launched by the journal’s publisher, the European Scientific...
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A New Clone of OMICS Publishing Group: MedCrave
It’s not research that you will be stepping in. A highly questionable publisher with the silly name “MedCrave” launched in April, 2014. I have added it to my list of questionable journals and...
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De Gruyter Journal Hijacked
The hijacked version of the journal. Chemical and Process Engineering is a scholarly journal published by the German company De Gruyter for the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN). A duplicate website has...
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