Comments on: OA Publisher Gratuitously Uses Other Groups’ Logos to Feign Legitimacy

By: Roddy MacLeod

Roddy MacLeod — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 20:49:08 +0000

An extract from an article in a recent IOSR journal “Using open source journals are very much needed by the all kind users from students, Research scholar, Library professionals and other academicians. Present days it plays crucial role in the libraries to satisfy the users demand in all field of knowledge.” http://iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol8-issue3/B0820709.pdf

By: Mayuresh

Mayuresh — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:55:37 +0000

Look at the email id of IOSR:
iosr@gmail.com

By: Open and Shut: #OpenAccess around the web | Open Science

Open and Shut: #OpenAccess around the web | Open Science — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:42:44 +0000

[...] OA Publisher gratuitously uses other groups’ logos to feign legitimacy [...]

By: RAHIM KHAN, INDIA

RAHIM KHAN, INDIA — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:00:33 +0000

Another disturbing misinformation that this publisher is giving is “International Organization of Scientific Research (IOSR) is a registered independent Organization, a unit of CSIR delivering supports and services to education professionals and researchers around world, especially those from the developing countries.”

Now CSIR(Council of Scientific and Industrial Research) is the apex scientific research body of Government of India and I sincerely doubt it has any link to this bogus publisher.

By: Ninth Level Ireland » Blog Archive » OA Publisher Gratuitously Uses Other Groups’ Logos to Feign Legitimacy

Sat, 15 Sep 2012 08:44:43 +0000

[...] “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 …” (more) [...]

By: Yurii

Yurii — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 01:21:42 +0000

Curiouser and curiouser… In the Associate board list there is a Russian. Being Russian for the past 40 years the name of this person looked rather suspicious. His first name, Rasoul, is legitimate, his last name, Valfitaf, is not. In fact it is linguistically impossible. So, I did a search for this last name and Goolge returned… exactly TWO hits. Both of these hits belong to the site of this “publisher”. Now, ladies and gentlemen, even the most paranoid of us in Academia have a non-zero internet presence, and this presence is MORE than 2 hits. So, my guess is that this Russian is a fake.

Another “unconventional” name is Alejandra Plamer – a member of the Editorial board from Italy. Indeed, search for this combination produced whole 9 hits. The first four belongs to this “publisher”; two to a polish forum where two users, “Plamer” and “Alejandra”, were engaged in some discussion; two more belonged to the USA Census bureau that confirmed my suspicion that this combination is rather unconventional and the last was a Facebook search engine that actually did not produce any further links beyond just a name. So, my guess is that this Italian is a fake too.

I suppose that verifying other names would produce similar results but I am satisfied with my random sampling :)