Recently launched, and with 66 brand-new journals, Horizon Research Publishing Corporation carefully hides its headquarters location on its website. The “contact us” page does not list any location. [Update, 2013-06-08: The website now lists this address: Horizon Research Publishing 506 N GARFIELD AVE #210 ALHAMBRA CA 91801 USA].
New Open-Access Publisher Launches with 66 Journal Titles
May 2, 2013
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The Onslaught of Questionable Open-Access Journals Persists Unabated
April 30, 2013On April, 8, I was quoted in a New York Times article about questionable open-access publishers and questionable conferences. Since that day I’ve been happy to receive many emails, some with suggestions about possible publishers and standalone journals to add to my lists.
Below are three publishers and two standalone journals that I added to my lists after completing an analysis of each. For each I’ve listed the name, a representative image, a selection of the reasons for including the publisher / journal on my list, and a short discussion.
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Hindawi’s Profit Margin is Higher than Elsevier’s
April 4, 2013
House of spam: the Hindawi Office in Cairo, Egypt.
Hindawi Publishing Corporation is one of the world’s largest scholarly publishers — and one of the most profitable.
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Article Acceptance Letter Reveals a Bogus Peer Review
April 2, 2013
Don’t trust their peer review.
Sometimes, we are able to gather direct evidence of how predatory publishers operate. In this case we received primary information about the operation of the Journal of International Management Studies.
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Trying to understand “ACADEMIC JOURNALS & CONFERENCES”
March 21, 2013
Dr. Turan Senguder and some of his conference co-attendees.
We recently learned about a publisher and conference sponsor called Academic Journals & Conferences. Based in Florida, the company appears to be a one-man operation. The man is Dr. Turan Senguder, who is apparently originally from Turkey.
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Hundreds of Articles Disappear as Publisher Changes Model from Open Access to Toll Access
March 19, 2013
Gone but not forgotten.
The publisher EUROJOURNALS has apparently decided to change its publishing model from open access to toll access. This Seychelles-based publisher — which is included on my list of predatory publishers — has removed most all of its content from the open internet. Read the rest of this entry »
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New Term: MOAMJ = Multidisciplinary Open Access Mega Journal
March 5, 2013
Open Access
IEEE has just announced that it will be starting a new gold open-access mega-journal to be called IEEE Access. In launching the journal, the publisher has also coined a new term for the journal’s genre: Multidisciplinary Open Access Mega Journal (MOAMJ).
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OA Journal Pays Authors for Their Work — $2,500
December 28, 2012
A selection from the journal’s website.
This is the story of the Journal of CENTRUM Cathedra (JCC): The Business and Economics Research Journal (a journal with a subtitle). This is a relatively new business and economics journal published out of a ritzy suburb of Lima, Peru. The publisher is CENTRUM Católica, otherwise known as the Centro de Negocios de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
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Publishing Pseudo-Science
December 13, 2012
A threat to honest science.
When I write about predatory publishers, I often mention that their lax or non-existent peer review allows pseudo-science to be published as if it were authentic science. Read the rest of this entry »
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Scholarly Journals for Winos
November 26, 2012
Don’t drink this stuff
In American English, the term “wino” refers to a person who drinks a lot of wine or some other form of alcohol. Thus when I first became aware of WYNO Academic Journals, I had a good laugh. Read the rest of this entry »
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