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Christmas-Themed Call for Papers Promises Publication in Four Days
Naughty journal. The International Journal of English Language, Literature & Humanities (IJELLH) is using a (likely pirated) Christmas-themed call for papers. It promises to publish research papers...
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Is This a Paper Mill?
Is this a paper mill? A recent article entitled “For Sale: ‘Your Name Here’ in a Prestigious Science Journal” published in Scientific American described paper mills, companies that — for a fee —...
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I’m Following a Fringe Science Paper on F1000Research
The article I’m following. I am following the progress of the article “Culture and identification of Borrelia spirochetes in human vaginal and seminal secretions” in the journal F1000Research, which is...
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Anti-Roundup (Glyphosate) Researchers Use Easy OA Journals to Spread their Views
Toxic journal. I’ve added the journal Interdisciplinary Toxicology (interTOX) to my list. The journal is associated with the Slovak Toxicology Society (SETOX). In my opinion the journal is not aimed at...
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Strange New OA Publisher Launches with 42 Journals
Strange name for a scholarly publisher. A new open-access publisher with the strange name of Public Science Framework has launched with 42 new journals, most of which are broad and cover fields already...
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Iran-Based Paper Mill Seeks Collaborations with Scholarly Journals
Also called “ART Group.” Iran-based Aria Farnoos Isatis Co., Ltd publicly presents itself as an author services company, providing translation and copy editing services to scholarly authors, but a...
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Open-Access Publisher McMed International Helps Authors Needing a Fast...
Fast publication I recently learned of the new open-access publisher McMed International. Everything about this publisher is amateurish and even childish. Its website feels like it was designed for...
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Scholarly Conferences and Palm Trees: Get Academic Credit for Taking a Vacation
The academic life. There are several organizations around the world called Institute of Strategic and International Studies. The one I want to review here is the one run by Dr. Detelin Elenkov of...
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New Open-Access Humanities Journal Launches
What ? Attention humanists! You now have an open-access journal where you can submit your humanities research. Except, wait, maybe not. The journal is the International Journal Online of Humanities...
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How Does This Fake OA Publisher Manage to Publish Over 500 articles Monthly?
A publisher named The Global Journals, based in Gujarat, India, publishes hundreds of articles each month in its four broad-coverage journals. I don’t understand how such a low-quality and dishonest...
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“Canadian” Open-Access Journal Doesn’t Look Very Canadian
Looks very scientific. I recently learned about the Canadian Scientific Journal, a scholarly journal that is much more popular in Ukraine than in Canada, for some reason. It appears that the journal...
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Latvian Journal Has Almost All Chinese Authors — Something’s Wrong
Very popular in China. The journal Computer Modelling and New Technologies is published by the Latvian Transport and Telecommunication Institute (Transporta un sakaru institūts). It normally publishes...
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Library Science Journal Is a Poor Example of Open Access
Lots of problems here. The International Journal of Information Research claims to be published by the Society of Scholarly Publishing and Open Access Resources (SPOARS), but the only information I can...
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Possible Paper Mill Company Has Proliferating Websites
This questionable company does a poor job of making up names. Last December, I wrote a post about a possible paper mill, called Journal Publication. Now it appears the company behind Journal...
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Questionable Subscription Publisher Acts Like a Predatory OA One
A publisher to avoid. Knowledge Enterprises Journals is a subscription publisher that acts like a predatory publisher. It charges author fees, yet it’s not open-access. It requires copyright transfer,...
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OA Publisher to Peer Reviewer: Never Mind
Avoid this publisher. The Indian open-access publisher SCIENCEDOMAIN international invited a professor from Montclair State University to complete a peer review on a manuscript it had received, and he...
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Joseph Publishing Group Launches with 17 New Biomedical Sciences Journals
Joseph who? This publisher describes itself like this: Joseph Publishing Group is an international peer-reviewed science and medicine journals. It goes downhill from there. Joseph Publishing Group is a...
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Mexican OA Journal Demands a “Mordida” from Authors Submitting Manuscripts
Cultivating money. The journal Agrociencia, published by the Colegio de Postgraduados in Mexico, demands that submitting authors subscribe to the journal before their submissions will be considered for...
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More Published Pseudo-Science from Chinese Publisher SCIRP
Vanity press If you are a bogus scientist who wants to publish a fake scientific article, I’d like to recommend SCIRP, Scientific Research Publishing. They’d be happy to have you as a customer. They’ve...
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Evidence of Paper Mills Seeking to Collaborate with Legitimate Journals?
A front for a paper mill? Paper mills are companies that write scholarly articles and then sell the authorship to researchers needing extra publications. They then arrange to have the articles...
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