The original article.
The prank article.
Somebody copied a scholarly article, slightly changed the title, replaced the co-authors’ names, and submitted it to the predatory journal African Journal of Agricultural Research (published by Nigeria-based Academic Journals), where it was accepted and published (of course) after the author fee was paid. Read the rest of this entry »
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Based in Tehran
We have observed the appearance of a new publisher: Swiss Journals. The publisher offers 16 journal titles in the fields of engineering, applied sciences, and health sciences.
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Journal of Doping
The editor of the Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies, Senthil P. Kumar, wrote an editorial in the journal that contains passages that appeared in three previously-published articles.
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![International Research Journal [sic]](http://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/irj.jpg "International Research Journal [sic]")
Really, really strange journal names.
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SciD@T@, a company that services spammers.
There are companies that harvest and sell the directory information — including email addresses — of scientists, researchers, college and university faculty, and many others.
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Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Don’t be fooled by this publisher.
The gold rush continues with IBIMA Publishing. By “gold rush,” I refer to the rush to set up gold (author-pays) open-access publishing sites that can make their owners easy money.
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Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Today I am publishing a list of the criteria I use for determining predatory open-access publishers. The document is available as a PDF at the link below, and the blog post contains the full-text of the criteria. Thank you to OASPA, COPE, and STM for their leadership in establishing scholarly publishing industry standards.
Criteria for Determining Predatory Open-Access Publishers [PDF]
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Veterinary sciences in buffaloes?
We recently discovered a new Pakistan-based, hybrid, open-access publisher called LifeScience Global. The site lists 15 journal titles, including the Journal of Buffalo Science.
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