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More Competition for Crossref?
Oh boy, another one. Another persistent identifier company has emerged: Unique Object Identifier. I learned recently about the launch of a new persistent identifier targeting the scholarly publishing...
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Open-Access Journal Charges People to Serve on Its Editorial Board
Return to sender. The Journal of Scientific Letters is another low-quality, India-based open-access journal that is idiosyncratic, non-standard, and appallingly unprofessional. The journal’s website...
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Two More Scholarly “Super Achievers”
Shahaboddin Shamshirband (left) and Dalibor Petković: clever guys with a plan. Here are two researchers — one from Iran and currently working in Malaysia, and one based at Serbia’s University of Niš —...
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Bogus Conferences Warning: Avoid All SGEM Conferences
The plague arrives in Vienna. Here’s a conference organizer I think everyone should avoid: SGEM. They don’t explain what their acronym means, and they are not transparent about other things as well....
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OA Megajournals Running Out of Unique Titles, Now Using Dumb Ones
Just precious. There are so many megajournals being published now that they are running out of unique titles. I mean, there is a finite number of ways that you can re-arrange terms such as Science,...
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Does This Michigan Tech Prof Use Wikipedia to Attack Others and Self-Promote?
Wikipedia as a weapon, and a tool. Here’s the story of a professor at Michigan Technological University who appears to be very active on Wikipedia. He apparently tried to get the article about me...
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Amateurish New OA Publisher Claims Association with Elsevier
Not likely. There’s a new open-access publisher that claims it is cooperating with Elsevier, but I think the claim is highly unlikely. The publisher — Qingres — claims it’s based in the UK, another...
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Scam Publisher OMICS International Buying Legitimate Journals
To the Dark Side. Hyderabad, India-based open-access publisher OMICS International is on a buying spree, snatching up legitimate scholarly journals and publishers, incorporating them into its...
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Everything’s Bogus at The Journal of Nature and Science
Bogus peer review. If you haven’t already, you may soon receive a spam email from the predatory Journal of Nature and Science (JNSCI) — I just got one myself. The spam email will praise one of your...
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Four New Sketchy OA Publishers from September, 2016
This blog post describes four new open-access publishers I added to my publisher list in September, 2016. Two of them may be ghost brands from OMICS International, continuing in its strategy to...
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Allied Academies: Bad Business Decisions, Misdirected Blame, and a New Name
New name, same old poor management. The owners of Allied Academies have made some truly incompetent business decisions, including associating with the notorious Indian publisher OMICS International —...
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Bogus British Company “Accredits” OMICS Conferences
Accreditation for sale. Notorious open-access publisher OMICS International operates a scholarly conference division called Conference Series LLC. I learned recently that a London-based corporation...
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Don’t Use PubMed as a Journal Whitelist
Proceed with caution. PubMed is not MEDLINE. I recommend against using PubMed as a list of quality journals for the purposes of finding a journal to publish in, evaluating academic performance,...
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Journal Offers Authors “Research Paper Royalty Scheme” for Getting Citations
Fake. A completely bogus, India-based, open-access journal is offering authors money if their papers published in the journal get cited a certain number of times in a fixed period. The journal is the...
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Reviewer to Frontiers: Your Review Process is Merely for Show — I quit
Equal opportunity for junk science. A senior researcher recently forwarded me a copy of an email he sent to the controversial Switzerland-based open-access publisher Frontiers. In the email, the...
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Strange, New OA Publisher: BIOHOUSE
Outhouse. BIOHOUSE PUBLISHING GROUP is a bizarre new open-access publisher that launched recently with ten broad-scoped open-access journals. The publisher’s website makes it very clear that it’s based...
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MedCrave Update: It’s Still a Dangerous, Predatory Publisher
Watch where you step. I first wrote about the Hyderabad, India-based, open-access publisher MedCrave soon after it launched in April, 2014. Since that time, the publisher has grown and continued to...
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A Pakistani Publisher to Avoid: Academic Research Publishing Group
Keep a safe distance. Whenever an open-access publisher uses the phrases “Academic Research” or “Publishing Group” in its name, researchers should be very wary. Here’s a low-quality, rent-seeking,...
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Three New Open-Access Publishers from October, 2016
Red alert. Here are three new open-access publishers I learned of and added to my list of questionable publishers in October, 2016. Each is strange is its own special way. They are True Scholar,...
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