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OA Publisher with a Long, Strange Name is Based in a Place with a Long,...
Strange name for a publisher. The open-access publisher Intellectual Consortium of Drug Discovery & Technology Development Incorporation (ICDTD) is based in — you guessed it — Saskatoon,...
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OMICS Group Now Charging for Article Withdrawals
Legitimate scholarly publishers do not charge withdrawal fees. Hyderabad, India-based OMICS Group has found a new and likely lucrative revenue source — charging authors to withdraw their submissions to...
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New Open-Access Publisher Launches with Fake Scholarly Articles
Another one to avoid. A new open-access scholarly publisher — Sanford Inter Science Press — launched recently with three journals. The journals use an old predatory publisher trick — they lift old...
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Another Strange New OA Publisher with a Strange Name
Attention grabbing. Betty Jones & Sisters Publishing — a scholarly open-access publisher — launched recently with two journals. The unconventional name of this publisher isn’t the only strange...
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New “Journal of Chest” Hopes to Steal Authors from the Real CHEST Journal
Journal of Rubbish The Journal of Chest is a new medical journal published by the OMICS-Group-owned Insight Medical Publishing (ImedPub). The journal is competing in a sleazy way with the legitimate...
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Predatory Journal is Hijacked
And it really does have a connection to Thomson Reuters. The International Journal of Review in Life Sciences (IJRLS) has been hijacked. The victim journal is published by India-based Pharmascope, a...
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Open-Access Publisher Offers Free Kindle for Every Submission
Free Kindle Paperwhite with every article submission! Open-access publisher IORE International is offering authors a free Kindle Paperwhite for every paper they submit to one of the publisher’s eleven...
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Sting Operation Nails Korean OA Publisher
The International Association for Information, Culture, Human and Industry Technology — please avoid An anonymous researcher in Eastern Europe submitted a contrived and completely bogus scholarly...
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Another Conference Organizer to Avoid: Global Academic Network
Warning: Another low-quality, profit-seeking conference organizer. Here’s another mysterious, academic conference organizing company that I think everyone should avoid: Global Academic Network. It...
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Publisher Uses His McGill University Email Address and Affiliation to Conduct...
No longer at McGill. An alumnus of McGill University in Montréal, Québec — Abdel Rahman M. Al-Tawaha — is using his McGill University email account to conduct business as an open-access publisher. He...
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Predatory Journal Lists Murdered Doctor as Its Editor-in-Chief
The researcher listed as the editor has been dead for two years. The American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine currently lists a doctor murdered in 2013 as its Editor-in-Chief. The journal is...
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Iranian OA Journal Accepts and Publishes a SCIgen Paper
Junk journal SCIgen is a free, web-based computer program that instantly creates a fake scholarly article. An Iran-based journal, Applied Research Journal, recently accepted and published a fake...
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Another Taiwan-Based Mega-Scholarly Conference Organizer Emerges
Another conference from a Taiwanese organizer, one of many. There’s a lot of money to be made in the scholarly-conference organizing business in Asia these days. These are not conferences organized by...
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When a Journal Goes Bad: the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering
Journal of easy acceptance. First published in 1996, the Electronic Journal of Geotechnical Engineering is one of the oldest open-access journals, but I think it has gone bad. The journal is indexed in...
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Chinese Journal Has Surprise Author Fee But Gives Refund if You Cite Your...
Coercive Citation Letters. There’s a major, China-based scholarly society journal that has hidden author fees, but the fees will be refunded if authors cite their papers six times within the two years...
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Global Advanced Research Journals? None of the Above
Their journals are stranger than their carrot and beet cultivation methods. Here’s a publisher that all researchers should avoid: Global Advanced Research Journals. This firm publishes 29 broad...
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Another Questionable Publisher from West Africa: Unified Journals
Unified with low quality. There is someone in West Africa who creates a new scholarly open-access publisher every one or two weeks. Here is the latest one, Unified Journals. Unified Journals launched...
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Another Open-Access Innovation: Article Brokers
Brokerage house. Aspirans.com is an article broker. In other words, it’s a company that will arrange for you to publish articles in scholarly journals. All that’s required is a credit card. The company...
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Open-Access Journal Publishes Review Article with Questionable CoI Statement
Open to anything? An open-access publisher from the United Arab Emirates has published an article with a conflict-of-interest statement that itself may have a conflict of interest. Here’s the...
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Champaign, Illinois-Based Open-Access Publisher Launches with 22 Journals
Open-access publishing finally comes to Champaign. West Green Street in Champaign, Illinois seems an unlikely location for the headquarters of a scholarly publisher with 22 open-access journals in its...
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