Comments on: Copying Elsevier

By: Jeffrey Beall

Jeffrey Beall — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:36:09 +0000

Jan, I think you ought to submit one of your papers to them. I am sure they will accept it.

By: Jan Velterop

Jan Velterop — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 17:48:55 +0000

An Indian journal! All the authors Indian! Even an Indian telephone number! Shouldn’t be allowed! And it doesn’t even reach the exalted levels of European or American journals, where you’ll never find any trace of plagiarism because it’s called extended citation or referencing there! C’mon, Jeffrey, this journal may be amateurish, even very amateurish compared to the professional journals of Elsevier and the like, but ‘predatory’? Really? Plunder, pillage, rape?

By: Guido

Guido — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:06:31 +0000

Yes, I think I understood your meaning. As a non-native speaker, I guess I mixed up ‘ironic’ and ‘satiric’. Sorry for the confusion.

By: R.V.Krishnakumar

R.V.Krishnakumar — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:11:04 +0000

Dear Dr.Guido,
I thought I was satiric. Sorry it sounds ironic. Please visit http://www.naasindia.org and you would find a ‘rating’ range from 6.1 to 10 and while IJPBS will get 6.1, PSNA, Nature and Science will be just 3.9 points away with 10.

By: Guido

Guido — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:16:31 +0000

(‘Krishnakumar’ – sorry for the typo)

By: Guido

Guido — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:29:05 +0000

I think prof. Krishnakamur was being ironic…

By: Shawn

Shawn — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:27:30 +0000

I hope you got express written consent from Elsevier to use their corporate logo in that matter. I worked for Elsevier more than a decade ago, and they are pretty aggressive in protecting the “Elsevier Journals” brand.

By: Guido

Guido — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:26:21 +0000

Thanks! That journal’s logo is just hilarious… Also, eight people are listed as reviewers, while the latest issue alone contains no fewer than 76 papers! This is too funny.

By: R.V.Krishnakumar

R.V.Krishnakumar — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:35:44 +0000

For those “ghost busters” or “dragon raiders”, American Journal of PharmTech Research (www.ajptr.com) is a good candidate to find a place in Dr.Beall’s “Hall of Fakes”?!!!?

By: prof. Muthuprasanna

prof. Muthuprasanna — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:01:30 +0000

Thank you Prof .R.V. Krishnakumar sir for your valuable information for getting the journal rated in NAAS. We have also received official invitation letter from the same body for indexing. The process is on and we hope to get the rating very soon. Kinldy keep visiting our site for updated information