Comments on: New Journal Claims to be “The Ultimate Online Journal Publishing House”

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:25:32 +0000

Seconding that request!

By: Peter Matthews

Peter Matthews — Sat, 18 Aug 2012 05:14:49 +0000

Some of the ‘scam artists’ may be sincere in their intentions, but given the vast number of redundant and nonsensical journals being created, they have to make some real effort to distinguish their attempts to assist research communication.

At the same time, the research community in each country, discipline, and internationally needs to make some effort to make the screening and rating of new journals fair, informative, and effective. The present blog is just one small step in this direction.

New journals should not make any claims about reputation, and sincerely-managed journals that are new, and that can potentially offer a useful service to researchers and readers, should not be punished for not yet having a reputation.

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 07:58:33 +0000

Interesting blog. Just one request (if possible) – when you add a journal / publisher to the list it would be useful if you can add links showing why they have made the list and not just a link to the journal / publisher website. For example, I am interesting in why WSEAS is on the list. I spent some time searching your blog but may have missed that blog post. Google searches provide very few relevant hits on this topics and for a layman (in any particular field) one cannot reach a clear conclusion. This makes your blog potentially very important in providing the information to aid ones judgement. For example the plus.math.org link (and links therein) for your article on Mohyud-Din is very authoritative and thus useful when adding that journal or publisher to the list for future easy reference.
Lastly, what can scientists do about closing these journals/ publishers besides informing our peers and perhaps even compiling names of the people involved? Now that Open Access is getting more recognition as an alternative publishing model, APCs which often comes from a university department makes it more profitable for these scam artists. They also seem to be well organized and have some fairly professional websites, eg. Canadian Center of Science and Education as compared to Medwell.

By: Radha Krishna Reddy

Radha Krishna Reddy — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 08:41:18 +0000

Thanks for your kind information, its more useful to rectify the Errors .

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