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Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review, Demands EUR 1785
Going downhill fast. The Archives of Biological Sciences is the official journal of the Serbian Biological Society. Here I describe one case in which the journal accepted a submitted paper within 24...
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Science Publishing Group Publishes Junk Science
Their current logo (top) and the old one. Science Publishing Group (note the unoriginal name) is a predatory publisher that first appeared in late 2012. When it appeared, it used the logo from Google...
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Questionable Publishers Block Access to Their Websites in Colorado
… except those in Colorado. People in the U.S. state of Colorado are unable to access two questionable scholarly publishers. I think the sites are blocked here to try to prevent me from analyzing them...
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Real Location of JSciMed Central Revealed
They want to sound like BioMed Central. JSciMed Central is a questionable open-access publisher of 36 journals. It lists two U.S. addresses as its headquarters locations, and I’ve long suspected these...
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New York Attorney Warns of “Junk Science” and “Trial by Literature”
Michael Hoenig New York attorney Michael Hoenig is the author of the column “Complex Litigation” that appears in the New York Law Journal. He works for the law firm Herzfeld & Rubin. I read these...
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LifeSciFeed Ventures: Where Authors are Fodder
Don’t venture to this publisher. Here’s a new scholarly open-access publisher of three journals: LifeSciFeed Ventures. It follows the established formula for setting up a new scholarly publishing...
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Cardiology Journal’s Decline is Heartbreaking
Heart attack journal The medical journal Experimental & Clinical Cardiology used to be a respected journal. It still has an impact factor (1.100). The publication was based in Toronto until it was...
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Is OMICS Publishing Group Sneakily Trying to Buy Its Way into PubMed?
The NIH, PubMed, and OMICS Group logos. OMICS Publishing Group’s journals are not included in NIH (National Institutes of Health) databases such as PubMed and PubMed Central, but OMICS may be working...
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Canadian Sustainable Development Journal Doesn’t Appear Very Developed, or...
Proceed with caution. I have added the OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development to my list. Although sustainable development is noble and trendy, there’s nothing noble about this...
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Life Science Journal Delisted from Scopus
Scopus says good-bye. Life Science Journal has been prospectively delisted from Scopus. I received a confirmation that Life Science Journal — published jointly by Marsland Press and Zhengzhou...
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Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal?
Magic potion? I am writing this blog post in hopes of starting a conversation in the scientific community about the medicine called GcMAF and one of the companies that is currently distributing it, a...
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Meta-analyses and the Problems of Duplicate Publication and Plagiarism
A chart showing happiness levels by country, generated from a meta-analysis (public domain). “Meta-analysis refers to the application of quantitative methods to the problem of combining results from...
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Is Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) Publishing Pseudo-Science?
This publisher will publish almost anything. Scientific Research Publishing has published many articles by controversial researcher Mohamed El Naschie and his band of followers. Scientific Research...
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Hair Journal Reveals OMICS’ Exploitation of Researchers
Thinning ethics. OMICS Publishing Group is one of the most prolific, abusive, and annoying spammers. Here we give an example of an email exchange sparked by one of OMICS’ spam emails soliciting...
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New Open-Access Publisher Offers Financial Incentives to Authors and Editors
Throwing money around? The publisher Spring-City Culture International Group is making some interesting appeals to authors and editors — appeals that seem to promise financial rewards. Spring-City has...
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Publisher Can’t Make Up Its Mind
Micro experience. MacroWorld is a new scholarly publisher based in Izmir, Turkey. It is notable for making contradictory statements — indicating a total lack of understanding — regarding its copyright...
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Indian Open-Access Publisher Assigns Metrics to Its Own Journals
Crazy name, crazy publisher. We recently learned about the scholarly open-access publisher called Researchjournali. It launched with 24 broad journals and is based in Odisha, India. It promises an...
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A Curious Case of a Hijacked Journal, or Just a Title Change?
International Journal of Junk. I am trying to understand what’s going on with the International Journal of Scientific Research (IJScR). It claims to be published by the United Arab Emirates University...
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New OA Publisher Launches with 107 Journals, Fakes Association with Elsevier
Sprinting to nowhere. We recently learned about a new open-access publisher called Sprint Journals. The publisher has launched with 107 new, scholarly open-access journals — or more precisely — it is...
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Predatory Publisher Organizes Conference Using Same Name as Legitimate...
Avoid at all costs. The predatory publisher WASET (World Association of Science, Engineering and Technology) is organizing a conference using the exact same name as a legitimate conference on the same...
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