All jesting aside.
IJEST is the International Journal of Engineering Science and Technology, published by ENGG Journals Publications in Madras, India. The site also lists an address in Singapore. The journal has published monthly since October, 2009. Some of its articles contain plagiarism.
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One of their journals … with a title that appears to be lost in translation.
Virtually all the publishers on my list of predatory publishers maintain a website for the publisher with links to, among other things, their predatory journals.
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Mostly Cloudy — two competing Journal of Cloud Computing cover images. The one from IBIMA Publishing is on the left; the one from SpringerOpen is on the right.
One of the advantages of online journals is the low barrier to starting one up. That is to say, unlike print journals, which required a large investment to establish and operate, online journals can be set up easily, quickly, and cheaply.
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A laugh a minute.
We recently added the journal International Journal of Applied Research & Studies to our list of stand-alone predatory journals.
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Harvard approved.
One of the tricks that the International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR) uses to convince authors that it is legitimate is to flash logos of legitimate organizations on its main page.
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Not really from Maryland.
I am currently researching an organization called the Maryland Institute of Research. It publishes two open-access journals, the International Journal of Business and Social Research, which began in 2011, and the Journal of Arts and Humanities (JAH), which just published its first issue in August, 2012.
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“To blindly peer review, where no man has peer reviewed before.”
IJSAT, the International Journal of Science and Advanced Technology, is engaging in a spam email campaign to solicit manuscripts, and it offers a bonus for authors: quick publication.
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Two print journals that didn’t have websites have had their identities completely stolen.
Unknown persons have created impostor websites using the identities of the journals Wulfenia and Archives des Sciences. The fraudsters have created new websites and have copied the titles, ISSNs, and even the mailing addresses of the established journals. The bogus websites have also prominently displayed the impact factor values that the legitimate journals earned, claiming them as their own.
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