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, Engineering, Research, Advanced, and Contemporary to create new and unique journal titles. Now predatory publishers are using really dumb words just to create unique titles.
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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 states that it charges researchers to serve on its editorial board.
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Victimizing researchers since 2008.
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A torturous read.
Here is another example of an article in an open-access journal about plagiarism that itself contains plagiarism. The 2016 article, classified as a “short communication” in the predatory International Journal of Health Sciences and Research, has only two pages of text and is barely readable, except for the plagiarized parts.
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Watch out for all of these.
I didn’t get much rest over the Christmas break, as tips regarding questionable new publishers and journals poured in — tips I am grateful for. Over the break I added five new publishers to the list. Four are from India and one is from Nigeria. Below you will find a description of each of the five publishers, accompanied by my sardonic comments. Read the rest of this entry »
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The world’s two newest scholarly publishers, both failures.
Two strange, scholarly open-access publishers recently launched and began spamming for article submissions. While early predatory publishers copied the look and feel of legitimate publishers’ websites, recent launches, such as these, are essentially copies of copies, with each new generation of OA publisher wilder than the earlier one. Here I’ll describe new publishers Everant Publisher Pvt Ltd and WAST.
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A completely inept scholarly publisher.
If you haven’t already, you may soon receive an annoying spam email from an Indian publisher called Global Journals Inc. (US). This publisher misrepresents its real headquarters location in its name and web address. It also provides much additional false and misleading information, all with the aim of getting you to submit your paper and pay the hefty author fee.
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