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IBIMA Publishing: How NOT to Run a Business
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. This publisher has...
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Scientists’ Email Addresses for Sale
There are companies that harvest and sell the directory information — including email addresses — of scientists, researchers, college and university faculty, and many others. One of these companies is...
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Eleven New Journals from India
International Research Journal[sic] (it should be plural; there are eleven journals) is a new publisher that is the brainchild of Dr. Krishan Bir Sing from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. We found this...
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Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies”
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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Swiss Journals
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. By looking up the domain...
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International Prank Involving Predatory Publishers Makes Headlines in Indonesia
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...
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Two Print Journals Completely Hijacked by Online Hoodlums
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...
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“Peer-Reviewed” Journal Promises Submission to Publication in Four Days
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. And we mean...
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The Maryland Institute of Research, From Bangladesh
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...
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OA Publisher Gratuitously Uses Other Groups’ Logos to Feign Legitimacy
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. There...
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A Journal That Has Everything Wrong with It
We recently added the journal International Journal of Applied Research & Studies to our list of stand-alone predatory journals. This journal stands out because it uses as many tricks, unethical...
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Two Publishers Each Have a Journal With the Same Title
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...
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A Publisher with no Website: Science and Engineering Publishing Company
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. China-based Science and Engineering...
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Shirley, You Jest
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...
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Growing Science — The Pride of Ontario?
For various reasons, Canada is currently a hot location for setting up predatory publishers. My list of questionable publishers includes these with ties to Canada: A M Publishers Bioscience Research...
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Scholarly Open-Access Publishing and the Future of Academic Library...
“The research communications system is in a period of transition towards open access.” [1] “Gold OA could account for 50 percent of the scholarly journal articles sometime between 2017 and 2021, and 90...
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OA Publisher Offers Author Fee Waivers in Exchange for Citing Its Journals
Science Alert is a predatory, scholarly open-access publisher based in Pakistan (despite the publisher’s false claim on its website that it is based in New York and Singapore). Its tag line is “Where...
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A Journal Called Waste
There is a predatory publisher based in India called Discovery Publication (they left off the “s”). This publisher has 26 journals. Many of the journal titles begin with the word “discovery,” as in...
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Copying Elsevier
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the people at Reed Elsevier ought to be very flattered by this imitation of their work. The picture above is from the homepage of the International...
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New Journal Publishes Seven Issues of Bogus Articles to Appear Successful
This is the story of a brand-new scholarly open-access journal from India. The journal is titled International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology and abbreviated as IJERSRT. One...
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