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New Publisher “South Pacific Journals” Launches with Two Subaltern Journals
Trouble in paradise. I recently learned of an abysmally low-quality open-access publisher with the name “South Pacific Journals.” . There’s no website for the publisher itself, just websites for each...
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Is JoVE Just Another Spammer?
Scientific spammer. JoVE, the Journal of Visualized Experiments, is an innovative video journal. However, the journal is mercenary and demonstrating at least a couple characteristics of predatory...
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OMICS International Totally Sucks
Victimizing researchers since 2008. Greetings for the day! I am writing this blog post as yet another reminder that the open-access publisher OMICS International completely sucks. The stark language...
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More Rubbish from Hyderabad: Peertechz
A complete fake. Peertechz is another Hyderabad, India-based open-access publisher that is completely counterfeit. It’s a massive spammer, and although it has journals in various fields, it chiefly...
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Bogus Organization Publishes Over 300 Open-Access Journals
Another bogus organization that wants your money. The International Organization of Scientific Research and Development (IOSRD) launched recently with 3.94 x 102 journals. It’s a bogus organization...
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More Fringe Science from Borderline Publisher Frontiers
He’s back ! The scandal-plagued, Switzerland-based publisher Frontiers has just published a chemtrails conspiracy theory paper by the same author whose earlier article was published and then retracted...
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Just-Published Article Evaluates Some Spammy OA Publishers
Worth a read … An article just published in the University of Toronto Press’s Journal of Scholarly Publishing details a test of several scholarly publishers that sent spam emails to the author. She...
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Do Most Open-Access Journals Require Copyright Transfer?
All rights reserved. Scholarly open-access publishing was designed to be both gratis (free to access online) and libre (free to re-use with proper attribution). However, in my experience, many — if not...
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New Open-Access Publisher Has Great Graphics, Lousy Journals
Great graphics, but rubbish journals. There’s a new open-access publisher with a great name — Science Research Library — and with great graphics on its main page. However, the rest of the publisher’s...
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Two New Completely Fake Impact Factor Companies
The sparc has gone out. Two new fake impact factor companies have appeared: SPARC Indexing and Root Indexing. They are both counterfeit metrics companies, in my opinion, and any journal that displays...
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OA Journal Disappears Then Reappears as an OMICS Journal
Bad management. I learned recently that the domain name for one of the publishers on my list had expired. In investigating this, I learned that the publisher’s lone journal has been sold, apparently,...
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About Those Manipulative Spam Emails from Internal Medicine Review
Complete rubbish. You have probably received a clever, personalized, and manipulative spam email from a journal called Internal Medicine Review. The email includes a purported email exchange between...
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Does Everyone in India Want to be a Scholarly Publisher?
Bad management. The number of scholarly open-access publishers and standalone journals based in India is skyrocketing. Everyone there — it seems — wants to get in on the open-access gold rush. Here I...
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New “Swedish” OA Publisher Launches with 23 Journals
Fake meatballs Here’s a new scholarly open-access publisher that exploits the name of Sweden: Swedish Scientific Publications. Predatory publishers often commandeer the names of countries to make their...
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Open Access is Giving Taxonomy a Bad Name
Do-it-yourself taxonomy. A Peru-based open-access journal devoted to plant taxonomy is bulldozing its way into the field. The “Scientific Editor” and co-author of most of its published articles are one...
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Predatory Publisher Exploits Einstein, Debases Science
Relatively awful A new, India-based predatory publisher has emerged — Einstein International Journal Organization. The publisher gratuitously uses the name of one of one of history’s greatest...
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Ongoing Questions about PLOS ONE’s Peer Review
Good, cheap, fast: choose one. Scientific spammer PLOS ONE is an ongoing source of amusement. Its peer review is regularly called into question, with the journal accepting unscientific papers. PLOS ONE...
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August’s Harvest: Three Wretched Open-Access Publishers
The rubbish publishers keep on appearing. This blog post profiles three new scholarly open-access publishers added to my list in August, 2016. The names cover the alphabet from A to Z: American...
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Article on Fallacious and Pseudoscientific Thought Worth a Read
Definitely worth a read. I subscribe to several saved-search, citation, and table-of-contents alerts, and through these, I learn of 10-20 newly-published scholarly articles each week that match my...
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USF Associate Dean is Tied to Dozens of Predatory Journals
Can’t say no. An associate dean from the University of South Florida (USF) is the editor-in-chief of six questionable, open-access journals and serves on the editorial boards of dozens more. He lists...
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