A very dangerous medical publisher.
I am writing this blog post to warn researchers about the open-access publisher SMGroup. It also uses the name SM Open Access Journals. This is a deceptive and exploitative open-access publisher, and all honest researchers should decline to submit papers to its journals or associate with it in any way.
Leave a Comment » | 
Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | 
Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Crossed signals.
I was recently forwarded a very suspicious spam email from Nature’s Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, a journal co-published by the West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Here’s the highly questionable spam email:
17 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, spam email | Tagged: Nature | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
One of their four broad-scoped journals, each with a fake impact factor.
The Institute of Research Advances is a backward open-access publisher based in Chandigarh, India. Like the Clute “Institute,” It’s not really an institute in any honest sense of the term. Instead, it’s a sole proprietorship aimed at separating researchers from their money.
9 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Meta junk.
I learned recently of the launch of Meta Research Press, a New Delhi-based publisher of 64 extremely low-quality, open-access journals. I’m told this new imprint is the effort of Research India Publications (RIP), a greedy and unprofessional publisher that has been on my list for some time. Read the rest of this entry »
11 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Tagged: fleet startups, India | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
[This is a guest blog post. The author has asked to remain anonymous.]
Quick and easy publishing.
I would like to talk about my experience as a co-author in a paper that was submitted to Aging, a journal listed in Beall’s list as “potential, possible, or probable predatory.” Unlike many other journals in this list, Aging has a high, legitimate impact factor (6.432) and is listed both in Pubmed and MEDLINE.
11 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
This publisher stinks.
This is a renewed warning to all researchers to refrain from submitting any work to — or associating with — Juniper Publishers. Juniper is a deceptive publisher, a scam designed only to get money from honest researchers.
15 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Danger: OMICS
It appears that Hyderabad, India-based OMICS International has bought another Canadian scholarly publisher, but in this case, they have bought up a very low-quality, Saskatoon-based, open-access publisher and expanded it from three open-access journals to nine.
15 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers | Tagged: Canada, OMICS International | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
