Publishers can appeal the inclusion of their journal or publisher on this blog’s lists. If you believe that your journal should not be included on the list, please send an email to the blog’s owner, Jeffrey Beall, at jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu.
In the email, please state the reasons why you believe your publisher or journal should not be included. The email will be forwarded to a four-member advisory board. The board will then review the publisher’s website and conduct on the publisher’s operations. The board will then advise the blog’s author to retain or remove the listing. Appeals are limited to one every 60 days.
2013-03-11
I went through the criteria for the inclusion of journals in your list, and I wonder why some are on the list. Kindly state with precision, why International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research is on the list.
1. There is the regular occurrence of plagiarism among the articles. For example, one of the journal’s articles contains this passage, without any attribution:
“Variability in CD4+ LCs among healthy HIV seronegative adults has been widely reported and has been attributed to biological, ethnic group influences as well as differences in the methodologies used for T-cell enumeration.”
That passage originally appeared here:
http://intl-cvi.asm.org/content/11/5/930.full
2. Much of the authors’ guidelines is copied from other sites.
3. The journal has a very broad coverage to attract more author fees, and there are already many journals with a similar coverage — there is no authentic need for this new journal. It’s just being done for the profit.
4. The journal claims to be indexed is services that are not abstracting and indexing services.
5. There no indication of the journal’s digital preservation policies.
6.. There is no indication of the journal’s policies regarding retraction.
etc.
Can You explain to me, why IISTE.ORG on the list, and how the JournalofComputing.org
I indeed want to know what makes IISTE.ORG to be in your list.
I see the following problems:
1. Bogus grants program (possibly designed to fool people)
2. Possible use of fake names
3. Rapid review: “Fast publication: The average time between submitting a draft to the final publication is less than 30 days” In a different place it says, “Rapid review: The average review cycle is around 15 working days.”
4. Claims its journals are indexed by services that are not A&I services.
5. Contact us information includes P.O. boxes for US and UK addresses — likely no physical presence there.
6. A fleet startup with many journals.
7. Many grammatical errors on main website pages.
8. Journals all have broad coverage / titles.
9. Very few editorial board members from the west despite claiming to be “International”
10. Licensing data not included on article PDFs.
11/ APC not prominently stated.
Dear Doc. I indeed appreciate your good work. Thank you very much. Dr. Obadara, O.
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I found your blog very useful today as i was thinking to attend a conference from omics group. I have submitted an abstract to European conference on sustainability, Energy & Environment 2013, organized by IAFOR and planning to attend it in Brighton, UK. Please tell me is it a authentic organizer
It is not.
Because you also provide answer about conference, what do you think about this conference:
20th ICE Conference – IEEE TMC Europe Conference
23-25 June 2014, Bergamo, Italy
link: http://www.ice-conference.org/
I don’t know. I would refer this question to scholars in this field. Is this a legitimate conference?
Firstly, I think we are getting off the topic of Appeals here and we can’t expect Jeffrey Beale to check out every journal and conference on the planet for our benefit.
That said, I did attend the ICE conference in 2013 and quality-wise it was top class as one might expect from an event running for many years and with high calibre affiliations and organizers.
Just out of curiousity, is it safe to say that journal indexed by elsevier or thomson reuters and have an impact factor of more than 0.5 are not predator journal?
I’m submitting my journal to “Indian journal of Applied research” which is under “theglobaljournals.com” and i do not see both the publisher nor the journal is on your list of predatory.
To your first question, no. There are some journals indexed in Scopus and that have an impact factor that are on my list; the criteria are diffrerent.
The Global Journals is indeed on my list; it’s filed under G not T.
In other words, is it OK if I submit a paper in a journal indexed in Scopus but the publisher is listed as predatory publisher? Thank you.
No, not in my opinion. When I add a publisher to my list, I add it for good reasons, and I believe that scholars should not submit papers to journals belonging to publishers on y list.
Dear Dr. Beall
I recently came across your effort to prepare a list of predatory journals. I really appreciate your effort and research in this area to help researchers in deciding to publish their work as well as to decide about their affiliation to the Editorial board of such journals.
I went through the whole list and I also consider that most of the journals listed do not meet all the criteria to be not included in the list. However, I noted some journals that are in fact not open access in true sense and are listed on your website. For instance, the Indian Journal of Social Science Researches that appear on your list is a print journal and to the best of my knowledge they made available the content of some of the back issues on website freely hosted by 110mb.com to make the journal visible to scientific community. This site is perhaps deleted as it is not accessible.
Further, they also do not charge printing cost except a mandatory reprint charge of Rs. 1000 against which they provide 10 reprints and one copy of the journal to each author of a given article. Thus, around 60 to 70% of the reprint charges would be used in sending the journal and reprints to the authors. In view of this I think the reprint cost in itself is not even enough to get the journal printed as in India the printing cost of around 100 pages journal is about Rs. 40000/ for 400 copies and thus if the publisher would publish around 40 articles per issue then only they can meet the printing expenses. I have not seen any issue of this journal that has published more than 20 articles. Thus, I hope the publisher meets the printing cost. I find that this journal also meet other criteria mentioned on your website.
However, if you have listed it on your site then it is sure that you might have noted some thing that makes this journal to be listed here. But, these points may be very minor and rectifiable. Thus, if the publisher of this journal is made aware then such issues may be clarified or rectified.
One problem that I noted that some part of the instructions to authors is similar to some other journals but this is an issue that may be rectified if the publishers are made aware of it.
Would you please give the specific criteria that is violated by this journal so that it appears in your list.
You’re right; the link I had for this journal no longer works, so it has disappeared. I have indicated that on my list. Thanks.
Dear Dr. Beall
Thanks for your prompt reply and action. However, I am still of the opinion that this journal does not meet the criteria led by you for predatory open-access journals. .
If you also have the same opinion now, then it would be better to remove this journal from your list of “Potential, possible, or probable predatory scholarly open-access journals”.
If you need further information or clarification to do so, it would be better to contact the publisher or managing editor of the journal.
What is your connection with the journal?
I was on the Editorial Board of this Journal
I was on the Editorial Board of this journal
Thanks for your kind reply…Can u please explain more about IAFOR (International Academic Forum) as it looks decent organizer. I have submitted an abstract and it is accepted in ECSEE-2013 to be held in Brighton, UK during 4-7 July, 2013. Should i go to attend it from India. I did not find many reviews about this.
Why did you mention Asian Research Consortium on the list? This website included 4 journals; and 1 new journal has been added recently. I think you should analyze this publisher again. This publisher has changed dramatically. You can submit one paper and see how rigorously they review the paper.
Okay, will do.
I would like to include Auricle Technologies Pvt. Ltd. international journal IJRITCC to your site.
I will investigate this. Can you tell me why you think it deserves to be included on my list? Thanks.
I wonder why the publishing biggies didn’t make it to the list, as far as I know Elsevier has ridiculous subscription charges, which I suppose is predatory to the tax payers money. More over they have a history of sponsored journals in the past and who knows how many of them would be sponsored under the table.
Another thing, I see that all the publisher’s are from developing countries that means we all should submit our work only to Elsevier, Wiley, Springer etc, that seems too much of a recommendation.
As a researcher I would summit my work in any of the PubMed/Medline Indexed journals but definitely not the biggies, wont add a pie to the billion dollar clubs but would be happy to see a highly competitive scenario where all my fellow scholars are benefited.
It’s completely false that all the publishers on my list are from developing countries. If your research is as bogus as your statements above, then I doubt that any of the larger publishers would want to publish it anyway.
With due respect Librarian,
There are a few of them from developed as well, we are talking about your list’s majority here.
Plus, what is your opinion on the sponsored journals? For your reference : http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/27383/title/Elsevier-published-6-fake-journals/
The community expects an over all analysis on the publishing business not limited to Open Access.
And as far as my research works are concerned, I do spend an ample amount of time on analyzing the journal before submitting the manuscript, so please do not raise questions on that!!
In your earlier mean comment you said, “I see that all the publisher’s are from developing countries,” and now you have changed your story. I can research anything I want to research and exclude anything I want. Others are covering the traditional publishers quite well and don’t need my analysis on them. I limit my work to OA scholarly publishers.
Who are you to say “The community expects an over all analysis on the publishing business not limited to Open Access” No one made you a representative of the community.
Who are you anyway? I found nothing by you in Google Scholar.
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
Can you please inform how a journal which is not open access is added on your list of scholarly open access journal . reply urgent
The intent of my list is to include OA publishers and OA standalone journals only. However, sometimes publishers change their models and it takes a while for me to catch up with that. Moreover, some publishers publish using the hybrid model, which includes both open-access and toll-access articles, including sometimes within the same journal.
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I was waiting for your reply to my earlier post regarding Indian Journal of Social Science Researches.
Would you please let us know why this journal appear in your list when it is not charging money for printing of articles except a very small amount to meet the charges to send 10 reprints and the copies of the journal to the concerned authors.Further, as I mentioned that it also does not meet any of the criteria (to the best of my knowledge) of predatory journal (as specified on your webpage).
Would you please accede to my earlier request to review this journal again and remove it from the list (if you find it so).
The link is dead (404). I have indicated that on my list. When this happens, I leave it on my list and re-analyze it when the link gets fixed. If you know that the journal has a new URL, can you please tell me what it is? Of if you have any other useful information about the journal, please let me know. Thanks.
Dear Dr. Beall
Thanks a lot for your reply
You are correct that link is dead and I also informed you earlier about it.
To the best of my knowledge the webpage was created on using the free server space of f110mb.com just to enhance the visibility of the journal to the academic community. As a result some back issues were made available for free access on the said website.
Since the journal does not follow the open access policy, no further attempt was made to create new webpage. Further, the reason for using free space was the lack of financial support as the journal printing cost itself is largely met by the publisher and partially from the mandatory reprint charge received from the authors. As I mentioned earlier, the larger potion of the nominal reprint cost (Rs. 1000/) is spent in sending the 10 copies of the reprint and one copy of the journal to each author.
Thus, at present there is no website/webpage of this journal and the earlier one is not functional.
I think that since this journal is not open-access journal, it may be removed from your list if you consider so. Further, if you want to review the hard copy of the journal then I may try to get the email address of the publisher/current editors.
I once again thank you for your readiness to re-review this journal to evaluate whether it meets the criteria of predatory journal.
best regards
Okay, I take your point and have removed the journal from the list.
Dear Dr. Beall
Thanks a lot for taking my point and removing the “Indian Journal of Social Science Researches” from your list of predatory journals. I am falling short of words to express my sense of gratitude towards you.
This gesture shown by you is highly appreciable and is a strong evidence against the fake charges made by some publishers/journals that you bargain with them to remove the journals from the list.
This case is an example where you have removed a journal from the list on the request of a person who is not the publisher of the journal.
This is an open exchange between you and me regarding removal of the said journal and all the dialogues between us is open and available on this blog for all (including the critics of your pious and pro-academic mission and efforts).
I thank you once again for your positive gesture and removal of the said journal from the list.
I forgot to mention in my earlier post that this is also an example where you have removed a journal from the list that is published from a developing country “India”.
Thanks a lot. I salute the gesture shown by you.
best regards
Sir,
Whether you Assessed Asian Research Consortium; or you were too busy with your own works.
regards.
That publisher has been on my list for a long time. Please see my blog post about it.
Sir,
Thats why I asked you whether you assessed the publisher recently or not. You please read your blog spot one more time and compare your text with the present status of the publisher. You will see you are wrong. As you know, to survive in today’s global competitive market, any organization should adopt itself to new changes. Asian Research consortium follows this procedure and became a well-indexed publisher. You please update your lists by assessing your list annually. I insist that you will remove this publisher from your list, if you assess it one more time.
Regards.
Okay, thanks for that clarification; I will have another look.
Please would you provide me the information of accreditation of The International Journal of Social Sciences (TIJOSS) ? Is it accredited by ISI, SCOPUS, or Open Access Journals? Or perhaps in any other accreditation system?
Many thanks for your help at this matter….
Can you send me the URL of the journal you are talking about? There are several with the same title.
Please note that ISI and Scopus do not “accredit” journals.
Dear Jefferey Beall,
Please inform me the results of your assessment about Asian Research Consortium. Please inform me by email, or post a comment, here.
Regards
http://www.tijoss.com/MainVolume.html
Yes, that journal is on my list.
So…its mean, that the journal is OK…??
No, the journal is not OK. Find a better journal.
Dear Jefferey,
I am waiting for your comment.
ACADEMIC ATLAS
If there were a Nobel Prize for PATIENCE (NPP) and for answering queries from around the world succinctly—no matter how strangely some of those requests are phrased and how menacing some of those legal threats can be—that award would have to go to Dr. Jeffrey Beall of the University of Colorado Denver.
Jeff, I salute you and only wish we had more researchers and librarians around the globe with your highly developed sense of ethics and your willingness to check and measure regularly each star to see whether it still orbits genuinely around the scholarly universe of open-access publishing or whether it is nothing but an artificial satellite that flashes by in the night and charges princely sums for the privilege of shining with vanity before it disappears into some black hole.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Asteroid_2004_FH.gif
I am sure that you, while looking up the heavens of research possibilities, are aware of each step up that steep hill of academic expectations, each entry carrying a heavy weight of responsibility on your shoulders. I have a sense that your middle name most likely will remain Atlas, the Titan who carries and endures the sky upon his shoulders: genuine, gigantic, but also vulnerable.
http://thepoliticizer.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/atlas_rotated.jpg
Don’t give up your good work, no matter how many lawyers from overseas come knocking at your door.
Jeff, I salute you, half a continent away from Colorado.
Henrik Eger
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Thanks, Dr. Eger! I really appreciate that! –Jeffrey
Dr. Beall,
I noticed that SciDoc publishers was on your list. I must admit, when they emailed me to be an editor I was flattered, but I keep thinking it’s a scam but have no real proof. Why are they on the list? I am uncomfortable being involved with shady academic scams so I want to make sure that disassociating myself from the company is the best course of action.
Thank you.
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Can you take a look at Iamure.ph journals? One of them is ISI but the others seem to be too colourful to be considered as an academic journak.
I think you mean http://www.iamure.com/ no? I have looked at them, and have not found that they meet the predatory criteria at this time.
Fraud committed by IAMURE seems funny, like giving awards to people affected by the trap and then be photographed to be promoted as an advertisement at the next annual event. You will not find the name of the award recipient Indonesian researchers in Scopus journal indexed or Google Scholar (like Tatik Suryani, a professor who became victims see http://issuu.com/iamure/docs/wrf2012_awardees). I think, IAMURE also a predatory publisher with many fake journals.
I wish to reply to rivai that he drags well meaning people like dr tatik suryani as a victim of his irresponsible act. I checked the link he gave and she was not even there. The page rivai referred to was part of the book of abstracts for the wrf event in cebu city, which dr suryani did not attend. We do not use winners to advertise our events.Dr. tatik suryani is a recognized educator and researcher in this part of Asia. Iamure awards for researchers require a citation track record as evidenced by an h- index. Our leadership awards do not require an h-index because these are intended for people who lead and manage research endeavors to push the frontiers of quality. Nominees go through a process of cv submission, essay and independent background check on their involvement. We validate publication list in google scholar, then we send documents to researcher judges in different continents for review and judgement. We keep records of such judgments.I wish people avail first of services and complain first hand to merit a valid complaint . I am sure rivai is not a client because if indeed he is, he could have complained through our customer satisfaction survey as part of iso 9001:2008 procedure. So far our records show our conferences have been rated excellent and have earned very good comments because we follow our iso certified conference protocols. I have high regards for the blog of dr beall and i do not wish this to become a venue to smear the reputation of people and organizations.
I was thinking about sending my paper to “International Organization of Innovative Research and Development IJIRD” or “International Organization of Scientific Research IOSR ” or to a conference “ICBEE” International Conference of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering” What do u think?
I think you should find better alternatives to the first two, the journal and the publisher. I don’t know enough about the third one, the conference, to comment on it.
What about Science Pubisher Group? What’s the criteria there?
Beall, can you kindly tell me how to recognize a reputable journal and if a journal is new, cant one publish with them?
Where did you go to graduate school?
Dr. Beall:
What is your opinion about journal published from:
a) savvysciencepublisher.com
b) Inder science publishers: http://www.inderscience.com
c) Sciencedomain .com
Please advise.
Thanks,
Esmaeil
Regarding, Savvy Science Publisher, this is the first time I’ve heard of it, so I have no opinion at this time. I will analyze it, so thank you for letting me know about it.
Regarding InderScience, this publisher is not open-access, and I limit my research to OA, so I have no opinion on this one.
Regarding Science Domain, this publisher is on my list, so I recommend finding a better publisher.
Thanks again.
Dear Sir,
as you have mentioned in this reply, you limit your research to OA journals.
So, can you explain me why Praise Worthy Prize Publishing House is in your list, since it doesn’t publish any Open Access journals, such as InderScience?
Regards
Anna
Good question. It appears that this publisher has changed to a subscription model. I will re-evaluate. Thanks for this information.
Mr. Beall thank you very much for your fast answer.
So I’m waiting for your re-evaluation and consequent resuts as soon as you should provide it.
Regards
Anna
Dear Sir,
I’m still waiting for your reply about the re-evaluation of Praise Worthy Prize Publishing House. It seems there are no open access journal in their catalogue and their model appears to be a subscription model, as you indicate in your last reply.
So I don’t understand why it is still in your list.
Thank you very much for your kind reply,
Anna
I want to keep it on my list at this time.
This may be a trick to get me to remove it.
Dear Mr. Beall,
please could you take a quick glance on this journal:
http://komejournal.com
They do not collect author fees but you have said somewhere on this blog that this is not a guarantee for a journal not being predatory.
This journal looks excellent to me.
I would be curious to know about InderScience, too. Many ppl from my country publish there and domestic universities accept it as a legit publisher but somehow it seems to me that they are more like a business venture than a scientific publisher.
It’s not an open access publisher.
I noticed on Inderscience website they have an open access option for authors and they is publication fee for the option
Thanks. This is called “hybrid open access.”
Dear Dr. Beall,
Thank you very much for your great effort to make us aware about the journals worldwide. It is really helpful for potential authors for publication of their scholarly articles in appropriate journal. I want to submit my article to the journal “Journal of Research in Agricultural Science” (http://journals.khuisf.ac.ir/jras/index.php?sid=1&slc_lang=en).
Could you please take a quick glance on this journal and comment on it and give me your valuable suggestions.
Thanks
With best regards
I have examined this journal before and did not find it to be a predatory journal. It is not perfect — there are some problems with English, and a few other minor problems, but I think this is an honest attempt to publish a scientific journal. Still, it’s not a top-tier journal. Always try to publish your research in the best journal possible — not the easiest one.
I am concerned about predatory journals and get many editorial board invitations that I decline. I have found Hindawi journals to have poor practices. They recruit papers during free limited times and reject without explanation but then refer you to another one of their journals that does not have a free access period, conduct limited review etc. I now advise my graduate students to avoid them.
However,I see Bentham Open is one your list of predatory journals. I have been on on of their editorial boards for a long time. (before i had to worry about things like above, since open access was just emerging). I am on Open Orthopedics and noted that the editorial board does stringent reviews, that papers do get rejected and that the publishers does seem to enforce good practice. I recently edited a special issue and was required to recruit 2 internationally recognized and independent reviewers for each manuscript. They reviewed these and were prompt and professional in reviewing the papers -finding a couple of references issues than the reviewers has missed. It is listed in PuBMed (many of their journals are not). It seems like this journal at least is a good one.
Thank you for this helpful comment.
I found this website that I felt should be included in your list:
http://www.sjournals.com/
Apologies! I see it is is already listed.
What do you think of “Agriculture & Food Security” (http://www.agricultureandfoodsecurity.com/)? They charge quite high fees ($2235) but they are not on the list, so I’m not sure what to think about them.
That journal is published by BioMed Central, and that publisher is not on my list. I agree that the APC is high. I expect the higher-quality journals to continue to increase their article processing charges. It’s the new serials crisis.
Dear Beall,
I am planning to attend a conference organized by World Academy of Science Enginerring & Technology (WASET). ICAMAME 2013 is the conference name and the location is Zurich, Switzerland or Dubai (Jan 2014). Could u please say whether it is Worth attending the conference as I have to spend some 350 euros for registration alone. Is it a GENUINE one?
Dear Jeffrey,
I forsee a new trend in naming new journals.
The letter I received yesterday:
“Sir
We have started an international, open access, peer reviewed online journal “Annalen der chemischen Forschung” with ISSN number-2321-1725. We have already published the first issue of our journal. We would like to index our journal in your esteemed database”, etc., etc.
One may suggest that Justus Liebigs Annalen der Chemie (1875-1978) and Fortschritte der Chemischen Forschung (1949-1973) were the predecessors of the journal:)
The Editorial Office of the journal is in India, the editors reside in India, Botswana, etc., but noone in Germany.
“We assure you that we are committed to keep our open access publication charges at a minimum level” says the “Article Processing Charges” page. The minimum level is not specified.
Dear Jeffrey
I have gone through the journal. Compared to other journals, this journal is quite okay as it carries out the paper editing in satisfactory manner. But i dont see any merit in commenting on naming of journal. As it is the discretion of publisher to name the journal.
Dr.R.Nagendra rao
Just a beautiful statement:
“It is the only journal in the world which publishes research papers, review papers, review articles, technical reports, mini review and short commutations in all aspects of all fields of Chemical Sciences like Organic Chemistry,” etc., etc.
IJCPS – International Journal of Chemical and Physical Sciences
The journal is published in India.
I am wondering about The Clute Institute. I published a paper with them a couple of years ago on the suggestion of my co-author. The paper was peer-reviewed, or so we were told, but there were no reviewer comments sent to us, and the paper was accepted as is, and rather quickly. Since then I found a couple of minor errors — typos — and realize the paper was probably not copy-edited. I was shocked to find out that we had to pay $40 per page to publish. I had never heard of paying to publish but am told, especially by business professors, that it is increasingly common. One professor at our university published 84 articles in one year. My colleague says he did it with Clute.
What do you think about Clute? And is paying for publication usual in OA journals?
I just looked up Clute again, in case I was being rash in my opinion. Now they want $60 to review a manuscript, and $600 to publish a paper of 10-15 pages. Colleagues and I argue about the movement and wonder if this is becoming a normal practice.
Just now found your query, Liza. The Clute Institute is a notorious pay-to-publish for-profit operation that does not provide peer review. Any department or tenure committee that counts publications in any of their journals should be investigated for either incompetence or corruption. Sadly, there are some that do.
Thanks for your effort. I would like you to revisit American Journal of Operational Research- AJOR (Scientific and Academics Publishers) and determine whether they deserve to be on the list. I sent my paper and their review process is so rigorous. I also checked the editorial board’ s affiliations they really exist. The editorial board of this journal are found nowhere else under SAPS except under AJOR. I feel it should be investigated further and help me decide.
Would you share the title of the paper you submitted? What is SAPS? Why do you need further help deciding if you have already decided to submit a paper to them?
Hi Dr. Beall,
Would you check on iamure.ph as part of your predatory publishers? Many thanks.
Efren
Sorry, it should be iamure.com
Dr. Beall,
I visited one site from your list:
http://www.ijhssi.org/publication-fees.html,
and I found it similar in several aspects (e.g. paper processing fee, indexing, authorship certificate) with:
http://iosrjournals.org/manuscript-publication.html
I would be grateful if you could examine the latter journal and share your opinion.
.
Dear Jeffrey, please kindly check this journal
http://aocrj.org/
many thanks,
Bagoo
I will be adding this journal to my list. Thanks for letting me know about it.
Dear Jeffrey,
Can you please comment on the following:
http://www.ijssh.org/list-17-1.html
I searched and did not find it in your list or it already is.
Dear Jeffrey,
I would like to give some ideas as follow;
1) As I ve seen some curiosities/ commences about some journals you named as a predatory. Therefore, I would like to propose the idea of making a one page of conclusion table (checklist) for all named journals and publishers with the reasons why they were put into predatory list. I believe this will be faired for all parties.
2) I would like you to have a “recommended journals/ publishers to publish with”. Thousands of publisher are emerging every minute and honestly speaking that I dont want to know much about them, I just only want to find reliable journal to publish with. I do strongly believe this section will help thousand of scholars not to take risk of spoiling their names. (Nowaday, I am very worried to publish, even the publishers who are not listed in yours because I dont really know one day it will be listed or not and that for sure will wound my name therefore it is much better to submit to the one you suggest)
Thank you,
Bagoo
thanks Jeffrey for your very helpful blog.. when I found out that Global Journals Inc (U.S) is in the lists of predator publishers, I e-mailed them telling that I am withdrawing the publication of my research article. based on the journal’s previous e mail to me “they say” that it is ready for printing and that within 20 working days, I will receive my only one hard copy where in fact, I have not sent them yet the publication fee in the amount of 300 USD. through the journal’s website, I saw the online copy of the publication with my article and five others. it is very attractive!! but what I noticed is that it did not undergo proofreading and I think, review because it’s 100 % the same with the original!!
do they have the rights to “publish” it because I told them that I am withdrawing the publication of my article….
and can I still publish my research article to other publication?
thanks!! your blog help me a lot..
This is a difficult question. The situation is messy. I recommend being completely transparent with the next journal you submit the paper to. Tell them what happened. That way you protect yourself.
Jeffrey Global Journals is I think, a “big” publisher. what can you say about them…
If you mean “Global Journals, Inc. (U.S.),” then I think you should avoid them.
Dear Jeffery
I want to know about “International Journal of Computational Bioinformatics and In Silico Modeling”. I have published one paper recently.
Even can u pl recommend some of good bioinformatics journals with low article processing charges.
Thanx & Regards
Awantika
Well, that journal is published by Aizeon Publishers, a publisher that is included on my list of questionable publishers. I recommend that you talk to respected senior colleagues in your field to determine the best journals. Thanks.
dear Jeffrey,
sad to say, Global Journal, Inc. (US) is until now, does not yet reply on my demand for explanation…it just proves what and who really they are…
thanks..
Hello Mr Beall,
Is it possible for a journal to be fake but also indexed in international databases? For instance MCSER journals are on your list and I have checked them and they appear in DOAJ, Index Copernicus and EBSCO. I am really confused about this…
I don’t normally use the term “fake.” I generally say questionable or predatory. DOAJ does not sufficiently screen for quality, Index Copernicus accepts pretty much everything, and EBSCO wants to increase the number of journals it indexes in order to compete better with other A&I services.
Many thanks for your reply. Well, in terms of scientific quality. they are totally fake in my opinion. Anyway, this journals seems very weird to me: http://www.ejst.tuiasi.ro/ Would you kindly check this out? it claims an ISI index but there is no such journal in Arts and Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) and Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE). In addition, the title seems really odd: European Journal of Science and Theology…Hmmm..a paradoxical association of terms.
Actually, the impact factor information this journal provides on its webpage is correct. It has an impact factor of 0.389. I don’t find that this journal meets the criteria for being a predatory publisher at this time.
Mr. Beall, is this publisher in your list? I couldn’t find it on your blog. http://www.centreofexcellence.net/centreofexcellence/HTML%20PAGES/JOURNALS.htm
Dear Sir
Can u plz tell me that “International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) ” is in your list or not?
Thanx
Awantika shrivastava
It’s not on the list at this time, but I have not heard of this journal before, so please give me some time to have a look at it (a week at least). Thanks.
Dear Bell
Can u plz list out good journals for publication which don’t have article processing charges?
Regards
Awantika Shrivastava
Dear Dr.Beall,
Please kindly ensure me whether “International Journal of English and Education” is a valid journal? Its link is http://ijee.org/
Thank you.
I think it’s a very low quality journal, and I would recommend that anyone considering submitting a paper there choose a better venue.
Dear Dr.Beall,
Thank you so much for your kind investigation. Therefore, it is NOT a predatory journal but its quality may not be high. Am I correct? I have my paper published in that journal as I thought there are a board of reviewers from all sorts of academic institutes. However, I will be more aware of it next time. Thnak you for your wise collection of predatory publishers and journals.
It is questionable, if not predatory, and I recommend that researchers find a better venue than this one.
Sir, may i know why you include International journal of computer application (IJCA) journal……www.ijcaonline.org/
This journal uses deceit. It claims to have an impact factor when it really doesn’t. Also, The journal says it’s published by a bogus foundation and headquartered in New York: Foundation of Computer Science, 244 5th Avenue, # 1526, New York, NY 10001, USA — This is likely a mail forwarding service. There are additional reasons. I think the journal is really based in India.
Dear Dr. Beall,
What do you say about the journal “journal of ethnobiology and traditional medicine”. http://www.ethnobiomed.com/. Is it not a predatory journal? They ask for a very hefty publication fee; if you commit to pay, then they process the ms. Or simply being from BMC group, it is not predatory and fine. Please comment.
Hesam
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 17:58:47 +0000
To: hesamramezani@hotmail.com
I think it is a very fine journal.
Is being based in India the reason. Or is it really deceitful. I see many profiles having IJCA in their publications list. I also got recently published. Can you be more elaborate on listing IJCA.
why is CPI included in your list?
If you mean the Center for Promoting Ideas, I recommend that you read this:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/420731.article
Dear Dr.Beall,
Please kindly ensure me whether the journals and conferences form http://www.waset.org/ are valid.
Best regards
I recommend that researchers find a better place to publish their research than in WASET journals and conferences.
Dear Dr. Beall,
please receive the following response from International Office of Iceland University regarding a clone of Jokull Journal (see http://www.jokulljournal.com).
”The jokulljournal.com webpage is a fraud, designed to make money on false
services. The web hosts have stolen the identity of Jökull and the editor.
The webhost claims not to be responsible and is not willing to close the
false webpage. We are establishing our own site which will be launched soon.
The journal Jökull is published by the Glaciological and Geological
Societies of Iceland. Jökull publishes research papers, notes and review
articles concerning all aspects of the Earth Sciences, not Life Sciences.
The journal is primarily aimed at being an international forum for
geoscience research in Iceland.”
I’ve received the same response from an active Editorial Member of Jokull Journal (the ~original~) (who is not listed on http://www.jokulljournal.com).
So http://www.Jokuljournall.com and http://jkljournal.org/en/ fake.
Best regards,
Mihai
Dear Dr. Beall,
why Romanian Biotechnological Letters is on your fake journal list?
Mihai
please reply about the status of jokull journal. Is it fake or not?
please review this journal http://www.galaxyimrj.com. The one man editor publisher has got another journal http://www.the-criterion.com. please see.
I have added this journal to my list.
Dea Dr.Beall,
Is IUP Journal of English Studies a predatory journal?
http://www.iupindia.in/english_studies.asp
Thanks,
Kenny
I don’t think it’s an open-access journal, and I limit my work to OA journals.
Please review this network of journals http://www.gtia.co.in. Congrats on your great works.
Completed. This publisher is the Global Technocrats & Intellectual’s [sic] Association. I have added them to my list.
Dear Dr. Beall,
Is IGI Global a reliable publisher? http://www.igi-global.com/about/
It’s not an open-access publisher. I generally limit my analyses to OA publishers. Having said that, though, this publisher has lots of journals in my field, but I have never submitted any work to them nor do I plan to.
Dear Jeffrey, what do you think about Hindawi journals? Thank You, Franco
None of Hindawi’s brands is on my list at this time.
Sometimes Hindawi journals publish good science. I receive many complaints about their spamming. I personally would not publish in any of their journals, even though I have received many invitations from them to do so.
Hello, I am regularly getting spams from these two sites: FOREX publications (http://www.forexjournal.co.in/Subject.aspx) and Blue Ocean Research Journals (BORJ) (http://www.borjournals.com). I think they need to be on the list. Thanks
Bidesh, sorry this has taken me so long. I have added the publishers Forex and Blue Ocean to my list. Thanks.
Sir, Please consider making a country-wise (origin of publication) list of questionable predatory journals.
I don’t know the true origin of many of the publishers/journals on my lists because they effectively conceal their headquarters locations.
:D Truly. Many include false location and regular address.
Another spam from WULFENIA (ISI Indexed; Impact Factor: 0.267). http://multidisciplinarywulfenia.org claimed to be from Austria. It seems we will have journal revolution soon. We need more people like Mr. Beall to unmask the imposters.
Can you please forward me a copy of the spam? jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu
There is a good Wulfenia and a bad Wulfenia. The journal has been hijacked by online hoodlums. The good one still publishes only in print, I think.
I am including it here. I suspect it because of the line: “The review team aims to make decision on rejection or possible acceptance of submitted papers in a 10-days time.”. Please find the content here. If you want you may delete or edit.
Dear Dr. Beall,
Why is International Journal of English and Education on your list?
Regards,
kenny
It has a very spare website that provides very little information to authors and readers about the publication and needed policies. For example, it provides no information on its digital preservation policies, if any. The headquarters location is not listed, so readers and authors have no idea where this journal is from; this shows a lack of transparency. The website also has several pages that are “under construction.” This journal requires copyright transfer; for an OA journal this is becoming increasingly non-standard. The journal claims to be indexed in services that are not A&I services. Also, the articles are of low quality and some contain plagiarism.
Thank you very much for your informative response.
What should I do with my paperpublished in that journal then? Anysuggestions? How about Journal of Language Teaching and Research?
http://academypublisher.com/jltr/
Academy Publisher is not on my list, but I personally would not publish in any of their journals.
I checked the site and it is awful. Just made for making quick money. How can they include hundreds of articles in a single issue? These shameless people from India are tarnishing the academic image of the country. These people need to be punished severely.
Hello Jeffrey,
First of all, thanks for all your hard work. The Scientific Community owes you much gratitude.
I’d like to know your opinion on IADIS (http://www.iadisportal.org/). I’m not sure whether it is OA or not. If not, can you please point out another blog that talks about non-OA publishers?
Thanks!
Hi, Juliano,
Thanks for your comment. I think this publisher has only two journals, and neither is an open-access journal. I limit my work to OA journals. Still, I find this organization strange and suspicious and questionable, so I personally would not attend their conferences or submit papers to them.
–Jeffrey
Thank you very much for your prompt reply, Jeffrey!
HELLO sir
Can u plz let me know about ” Journal of Applied Environmental and Biological Sciences (JAEBS)” ASAP?
Regards
Awantika Shrivastava
That journal is published by Textroad Journals, and this publisher is on my list. I recommend that you find a better journal/publisher.
Dear Sir
Plz let me know about “Journal of Basic and Applied Scientific Research” ?
Regards
Awantika shrivastava
Dear Dr. Beall,
Thank you for your valuable works. Could you please check the following journal and comment on its quality and merit?
“Archives Of Phytopathology And Plant Protection” (http://www.tandfonline.com/action/newsAndOffers?journalCode=gapp20#.UhIBv9I3Dz4)
That journal is not an open-access journal (although it is a hybrid journal). I normally limit my analyses to OA journals and publishers. Having said that, I think this is a fine journal.
Dear Dr Beall,
Thank you for your great work.
I would like to know why World Academic Publishing (no 235) has been included on the list of predatory journal. Please advise.
AjAyo
1. The publisher harvests email addresses and then sends personalized spam, praising a researcher’s earlier work and inviting another, without mentioning the fees and with the use of fake names (Ms. Ivy)
2. Many of the journal titles are unidiomatic. Examples include Global Perspective on Engineering Management (should be Perspectives) and Review of Psychology Frontier (which makes no sense in English). If the publisher chooses to publish in English, then it needs to hire consultants to make its webpage have correct usage. Otherwise, this sends a signal to potential contributors that the site does not care about quality and may accept all papers that are submitted
3. Presence of plagiarism in the articles (email me for details).
4. The article template seems to be largely copied from a template available on the web called, “Word template for the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Research in Engineering & Technology (ICARET-12)”. Also, it appears that the publisher is using the “IEEE Paper Template in A4 (V1).” Did the publisher get permission to copy and use these templates?
5. It is unclear what the difference in the roles between the editorial board members and the reviewers is.
6. What is the publisher’s relationship with American V-King Scientific Publishing?
7. Unclear who owns the operation or whether it’s for profit or not.
Dear Dr Beall,
Many thanks for this well job
Please, I would like to know if “International Journal of Advanced Research” is predator or no. I would like to submit it a research article.
link: http://www.journalijar.com/index.php
Augustin
Thank you, Agustin. I have not heard of this journal before. I will conduct a full analysis. I am very suspicious because this journal has only published a few issues, yet it’s main page says, “Impact Factor: 1.659.” This is not possible, and I think they are being deceptive. Thanks again, Jeffrey Beall
Dear Dr Beall,
Well received, Please I hope your full analysis about this journal.
Augustin
I recommend against submitting papers to this journal. I have added it to my list.
I was hoping to see your comment to my post on your site. I see the message has been deleted.
Dear Sir, Do you have any idea about the services offered by this site http://www.citefactor.org? Is it dependable or not? Please enlighten. Regards
This is new. I need to analyze it. One other person kindly let me know about it also. Thank you very much.
–Jeffrey Beall
Thank you. I am doing some analysis and I will keep you updated.
hello sir, i recently came across your list
thanks for spreading knowledge about journal publishing
can you please evaluate the following journals
1) pharmacology online
2) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
3) The Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
4) Al ameen Journal of Medical sciences
1) pharmacology online
I need to know the exact URL of this resource before I can say anything about it.
2) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
I have not heard of this journal before, so I need to conduct a full analysis. This may take me some time.
3) The Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences
I have not heard of this journal before, so I need to conduct a full analysis. This may take me some time. My first impression is that it looks okay.
4) Al Ameen Journal of Medical sciences
I have not heard of this journal before, so I need to conduct a full analysis. This may take me some time.
Thanks.
Sir, I want to know about Plos One.
It is NOT a predatory publisher.
Sir, How about Dove Press? We had recently submitted a paper for consideration, but one of our friend informed cautioned us about the publisher. We are confused after learning about it in the internet and your blog.
That publisher is not on my list. It’s not a predatory publisher, but I personally would never submit a paper to them.
Dear Mr. Beall,
please can you check & add to your list Post Academic Publications’s International Journal of Science Commerce and Humanities (IJSCH), ISSN 2052-6164 ?
http://www.ijsch.com/journaluk/Publisher-69
I think it is at least a very obscure publihser but maybe i am wrong.
Yes, actually, I have that one on my “standalone journals” list under the journal title. Thanks.
Does your standalone journal list imply that this is a predatory journal.
Not necessarily. Please see the definition at the top of the page there.
Dear sir…
I want to include our journal ‘Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Journal’ to Scholary Open Access. Kindly visit our website ‘www.journal.appconnect.in’ for more details.
Waiting for your reply…
Thanking you…
Dr. Rajiv Dahiya
Editor-in-Chief
editorbpr@gmail.com
You sure?
don’t know how to react to a request by Dr. Rajiv Dahiya
cant they just see its predatory list
anyway URL to pharmacology online
http://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/front
I think it is another journal. The journal which have Dr. Rajiv as EIC is http://journal.appconnect.in
and it seems to me that it may have a chance to be listed on the appropriate section of scholarlyoa. An Universal Impact Factor of 0.7851 is a good start for considering…
Amusing
Kindly include WASES name in your listing, also do let me know if further information required.
Warm Regards
AALOK DUBEY
Secretary,
World Academy of Science, Engineering & Space
Email – info@wases.org
This site says “under construction.” [http://wases.org] Please let me know when it is ready. Thank you.
Dear Dr Beall,
Thank you for your continuing efforts. I was wondering if you could look in to the journal ” European Journal of Agricultural Sciences” (http://bellpress.org/Journals/index.php/EJAS/index) and comment on its.
With regards,
Dastogeer
Bell Press — I have not heard of this publisher, so thank you for bringing it to my attention. I will do a fully analysis. It looks very suspicious at first glance. Thank you again. –Jeffrey Beall
Dr. Beall,
Please take a look at this journal. I need your expert judgement whether or not it is a fraudulent journal, which I think it is. Here is the link:
http://asian-efl-journal.com/about/
Thanks for your hardwork, Dr. Beall.
Please take a look at the Academic Scholars Publishing House (http://academic-publishing-house.com/). I believe this is fraudulent, predatory.
In the Asian EFL Journal (http://asian-efl-journal.com/), one of the journals it publishes, it is said that the publishing house is in Sydney, Australia, but there is no clear contact or address at all listed on its web. Another this that makes it suspicious is they are using free yahoo mail for correspondence. The last point that makes me wonder is this publishing house publish TESOL Law Journal, which is completely hilarious, I think. I completely understand that TESOL and Law are completely different fields and there is no way that one would publish articles from those two different field in one journal.
I hope you would investigate this publishing house as well as the journals it publishes and prove me right.
Thanks for letting me know about this publisher. I have analyzed it and found that it meets the criteria for inclusion on my list. So, I have added it to my list. Thanks again.
Are you sure about this publisher? Some of what Arif mentions is incorrect – the publisher does not use Yahoo, but uses an email address @asian-efl-journal.com, as you would expect. In addition, although the Journal of Law and Linguistics is somewhat questionable, does this really qualify it as predatory?
I say this because the Asian EFL Journal is a well-respected journal in my field (TESOL), coming high up on the list best journals in TESOL, so I’m surprised to see it on the list.
Keep up the great work!
Dear Dr. Bell,
Is Journal of Agriculture Science and Technology (http://www.davidpublishing.com/) categorized as one of the academics publisher that you mentioned above?
Thank you.
Yes, David Publishing is on my list. I recommend finding a better publisher.
Dear Dr.Beall,
Please kindly check this journal.
http://www.asian-esp-journal.com/index.php
Thank you.
James,
This journal is published by the Academic Scholars Publishing House. This publisher is on my list. Therefore, I recommend finding a better publisher/journal.
I am interested in accessing free or cheap online manuscript submission and web hosting platform for a newly proposed peer-reviewed to be hosted in a Sub-Saharan African country. We’d conducted a needs assessment which confirmed the need for the journal, and because we want it to be freely accessible to the readers especially in Africa, an online platform we feel would be more sustainable and cheaper to maintain, and for sustainability and visibility purposes under the Creative Commons model of open access.
Dear, Dr.Beall
Can you explain why (IJSER) is on your list……and how bad can it be to publish in it…..
Here are two reasons: 1. It boasts an impact factor on its main web page, but it does not really have a legitimate impact factor. This false information may trick authors into submitting papers thinking they are submitting to a legitimate journal with a valid impact factor. 2. The site uses a Houston, Texas, USA mailing address but it is not really based there. It is trying to look like an American journal when it is not. This is evidence of deception, and I think all serious scholars should avoid any connection with this journal.
Thank you for the reply sir, can you check whether the following journal is good for publishing….http://www.iaeme.com/ijmet.asp
No — this journal’s publisher — International Association for Engineering and Management Education — is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
I recommend that you find a better journal. Thanks.
Dear Sir,
Why is http://the-criterion.com on your list? Please clarify.
It’s on my list for these (and other) reasons:
Non standard licensing (send an email if you intend to use it elsewhere)
The APCs are not mentioned anywhere.
Prominent poor grammar on the site, including the publisher’s “editorial”
Strange, he sells subscriptions ($100) even though the journal is OA.
The editorial board members are listed without any affiliations
It appears to be a vanity press that authors use to get yearly academic credits — From FAQ:
“Q. How many points in API will i get if published in an article in The Criterion?
Ans: For Journals with ISSN you get 10 points but if your article is published in The Criterion you can get 15 points for it is an International, refereed, Indexed and Peer-reviewed Journal (according to UGC guidelines).”
These are minor issues. You should encourage such initiative. Its a new journal and let it go up the learning curve rather than defaming it.
sir,
is there any pubmed indexed journal on your list
I don’t record that data. It is possible that a few such journals are on the list.
sir, why al ameen journal and ijpsr are on your list
kinldy help with details
thanks for the reply sir
sir, can you give a list of actual indexation services, because recently many indexation services have come up like newjour, Capsur, SCOLOAR, Primo Central, ProQuest.
when a journal is considered indexed, is it only if it gets indexed in reputed database like pubmed, scopus and embase. or can it be considered indexed, if it is indexed in other new database also
Hi Jeff,
Any idea about this publishing house http://www.ronpub.com. Tried searching online without much luck beyond their website!
I don’t want to add this publisher to my list at this time. I want to wait and see how they progress. Thanks for letting me know about it.
sir
kindly explain why al ameen journal and IJPSR are on list
Some of the problems with the Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences are these:
1. The journal tries to affect legitimacy by boasting that it is a “US National Library of Medicine enlisted journal.” The fact is that NLM catalogs thousands of medical journals, and it doesn’t necessarilly screen for quality.
2. I easily found plagiarism among the articles.
3. When I examined the journal, I couldn’t find any information about what the APCs are.
Regarding the International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research:
1. This journal displays the Elsevier logo at the top and brags that it is associated with Elsevier; this is an attempt to steal some of the publisher’s legitimacy
2. APC information if any is not prominently displayed
3. . Articles bear a conflicting licensing statement: “All© 2013 are reserved by International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research. This Journal licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License”
4. I had no trouble finding instances of plagiarism among the articles.
sir, kindly check the following journals
1) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research. http://www.ijpsdr.com/
2) International Journal of Pharma Bioscience and Technology http://www.ijpbst.com/
3)International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology http://www.ijasbt.org/
The first one is already on my list.
I analyzed the other two, and I found them to be borderline. I will not add them to my list at this time but will monitor them.
sir, some more journals
1) International Journal of chemical and pharmaceutical sciences http://www.ijcps.com/
2) International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Phytopharmacological Research http://www.eijppr.com/
3) Current pharma research http://www.cpronline.in/
4) International journal of pharmaceutical research and applied sciences http://www.irjpas.com/
I am going to need a couple weeks to finish analyzing these. Thank you.
Thank you the job well done. Please, I want to know why MCSER-Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research is in your list. Thank you.
Dr. Obadara, .O E.
Well, one of the major reasons is the surprisingly high amount of plagiarism and self-plagiarism in the articles they have published.
Mr. Beall, please look into this site. http://www.journalsindia.com
Regards
I examined this site. It is very sloppy. To view the full PDF version of an article, one has to register and login. I do not want to do this. Generally, if one is required to log in to view content, then the journal is not really open-access by definition. Thanks for letting me know about it; I will not be adding it to my list now because it’s not OA.
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
Will you please specify why http://www.the-criterion.com and http://www.galaxyimrj.com are listed here. What i know is the same person publishes two Journals. It would be great help since this person has got ample submissions.
He’s got ample submissions because he accepts virtually anything just to earn the fees. Then the authors get academic credit for publishing in the two journals. Both of these journals are sloppy and unprofessional. I recommend against submitting any papers to either of them.
Who is supporting your works? We think the journals http://www.the-criterion.com and http://www.galaxyimrj.com are the best from India. No other journal publishes so many articles. Can you show an example? You should not poke your nose in things beyond your comprehension. Mr. Beall find some more respectable job other than spreading bad words.
Oh, come on, Shalini, haven’t you noticed the colorful design of the galaxyimrj? At the first sight, it looks like a magazine for children aged 6-12. But that’s not the real issue. Take a look at the Editorial Board section and you will notice the picture of the editor in chief…hilarious. Based on a cursory view, the journal seems cheap and poorly designed. And ‘multidisciplinary’ means mixed disciplines, not mixed fields. There is no semi rational link between linguistics and social sciences that i am aware of. And the most stupid issue: the call for reviewers. Seriously? on what plane of existence a respected journal would ask for reviewers? No, they have a name, they know where to find the right reviewer and they don’t waste time with anonymous scholars seeking for reputation.
Dear Dr. Beall
I would be happy if you could check this journal and comment on it’s merit (http://www.impactjournals.us/about-us.php).
Regards,
Dastogeer
Dear Dastogeer: Thank you very much for letting me know about this publisher. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. Please let me know if you find any others like it.
Sincerely,
Jeffrey Beall
Dear Dr. Beall
Thanks for reply and adding this publisher in your list. However, I would be happy if you could analyse the journal ‘Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences'(http://www.pakjas.com.pk) and let me know your feedback. This journal boasts that it has an impact factor of 1.2.But, I am little bit doubtful as its articles are not of that quality.
Sincerely,
Dastogeer
Hi, Dastogeer:
I have analyzed the Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences before. It claim to have an impact factor of 1.240 is true. I realize its articles are not top tier, but I do not want to add it to my list at this time.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Beall
Dear Dr. Beall,
Could you please analyse the journal “International Journal of Current Science” http://currentsciencejournal.info/index.html and give your feedback.
Sincerely,
Dastogeer
I have analyzed this journal and added it to my list. Thanks.
Dear J Beall,
Please look up this journal and measure the standards. International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology http://ijasbt.org/
Sincerely,
dastogeer
I had analyzed this one earlier. Now I see that the plagiarism problem has increased, including plagiarism even occurring in an editorial. I am adding this journal to my standalone journal list.
Dear Dr. Beall,
Thank you very much for your great efforts. I want to know the status of the journal “International Journal of Agricultural Policy and Research” http://www.journalissues.org/journal_items.php?p=about&&id=1.
Regards,
Dastogeer
Thanks — I have added this one to my backlog. I have too many new journals to analyze and not enough time. It will be some time before I have the opportunity to examine the journal. Thanks for your patience.
Dear Dr. Beall,
i just wanted to draw your attention to a strange organization here in Slovakia.
http://the-science.com/about/
Thomson LTD organizes a bunch of virtual conferences in various fields -and mostly multidisciplinary ones- while also running journals with papers that are more often obscure than not (at least to me). Here are the journals in question:
http://www.sci-pub.com
Please could you investigate them and give me advice? A friend of mine submitted papers to their conferences, and now inviting me to do the same, claiming that they are legit and it it is easy to get accepted. However i doubt that it would serve me good to participate either in their conferences or to publish in their venues.
One last thing: Let’s suppose that i want to apply working overseas as a teacher (this crosses my mind often and already made some steps so it is not really a hypothetic situation). In general, could you tell me what is the standing of virtual conference papers as a publication in your country?
Thank you
Conferences are a little out of my specialty. People are experimenting with online conferences. Personally, I think this is a good idea, and I hope their experiments are successful. I think people here in the U.S. are open-minded about online conferences. I personally am giving some webinars next month. Going to online conferences is probably better than doing nothing, and if you learn something new and make new contacts then it could be a valuable experience.
Regarding the-science.com, I looked at their website, and there is not much content. I did not see any journals, and there sere lots of errors on the page. Regarding http://www.sci-pub.com, this was on my list, but I removed it. It’s borderline, and I don’t like to include borderline publishers on the list. Hope this helps.
sir
what is your opinion on wedmed central and webmed central plus
WebMed Central is borderline. It is not included on my list, despite the fact that they use a name that is similar to the much more legitimate PubMed Central.
They weren’t making enough profits on WebMed Central because authors are reluctant to use its open peer review system, so they started a traditional gold OA brand called WebMed Central Plus. This is new and I want to give it more time before I make any decision regarding whether to list it.
I personally would not submit to a publisher like this one.
sir, waiting for opinion on the two journals
1) pharmacologyonline http://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/front
2) The Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences http://www.ojhas.org/
Dear Beall,
Let me know why you kept aperito.org in List plz let me knw..
This publisher has a serious problem with transparency, among other things. The address it gives is bogus; this is a mail-forwarding service address and not its real headquarters address.
sir, what is your opinion on medknow publications, they publish lot of journals, is there any journal which is predatory
That publisher is not on my list. I analyze at the publisher level, not at the journal level, whenever possible. If I remember correctly, this publisher has been bought by a European publisher, so I expect its quality and adherence to international standards to rise.
thanks for the reply sir
please see JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES http://www.jemds.com/
i think its a predatory journal, the journal publishes articles almost every day.
thanks
Thanks for letting me know about this journal. I agree — they do publish many articles. However, after analyzing this journal, I do not find it to be a predatory journal. If you disagree, please let me know why. Thank you.
sir, i think its a very substandard journal, because of the following points
1) please download the article on jemds,
NEUROFIBROMA OF NASAL VESTIBULE: A RARE CASE REPORT
Dated 27-09-2013 by Satyajit Mishra1, Nirupama Pati2
see reference no 6 and 7, the journal mentions reference should be in Vancouver style, but in the article it is mentioned only single author name followed by et al.
2) on the fist page it is mentioned how to cite the article, although the journal follows Vancouver style, the mentioned style on first page is totally different
3) on the last page of every article, date of submission and date of publishing has a gap around 4-5 days. it is almost impossible to conduct a peer review in just 1-2 days
4) broad coverage including all medical and dental sciences
thanks
I understand. It does have some weaknesses. The coverage is indeed broad, and the title is a bit ungrammatical. However, I found no plagiarism, and it looks like the journal is striving to follow standards. We can continue to monitor it. I am still wondering how they attract so many articles.
ok thanks sir, will check for plagiarism
sir, waiting for opinion on the two journals
1) pharmacologyonline http://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/front
2) The Online Journal of Health and Allied Sciences http://www.ojhas.org/
I do not want to add the second one to my list.
I am still investigating the first one.
Dear Beall,
I am very much happy that you are giving Response to every one You are great Person.
I Have a Silly doubt please don’t mine why these many Publishers are keeping Fake Physical address?
If they keep any low income country in Website (there original address) they wont get Revenue in USD ?
Publishers use fake addresses for several reasons. First, many western authors may be reluctant to submit articles to a place they might find suspicious, such as a publisher in Nigeria. Second, Some Asian publishers use fake addresses in large Western cities because they want people to believe that they are actually based there, and they suppose this will attract more submissions/author fees.
Please see the reply I gave some moments ago to the comment listed under your other fake name.
Dear Beall ,
If a Company puts Original address if there any problem
why many people are keeping fake address?
Why omics is kept in your list?
OMICS meets nearly all the criteria of a predatory publisher.
sir, please check
pharma intelligence http://www.pharmaintelligence.org/
Thanks, I’ve added this one to my list. It gives misleading/false impact factor information.
My experience as “OMICS reviewer”
1. OMICS group keep sending mails with requests for reviewing articles in fields that are in no way related to my academic profile.
2. They have never answered to any mail
3. The telephone number seems to be a answering service
4. Looking for the address on google results in a 2 store residential bungalow
5. Reviews does not seem to be taken into account. Manuscript errors are not corrected but published.
6. Negative reviews are met by a kind mail that “your service is no longer needed”
7. Apparently serious researchers are publishing despite that journals are not indexed in Pubmed nor has impact factors.
That’s puzzling
8. I would like to know if the ISSN & DOI numbers are real?
I believe OMICS qualifies to be put on the list
Thank you for sharing your experience with OMICS Publishing Group. I do think they use real ISSNs and real DOIs, but these numbers are not indicators of quality (unfortunately).
sir, please look at the following journals
1) International journal of research in pharmaceutical sciences http://pharmascope.org/ijrps/about-ijrps
2) International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research http://www.ijpcr.com/
Thanks — I have added these to my backlog. I have too many new journals to analyze and not enough time. It will be some time before I have the opportunity to examine these publishers. Thanks for your patience.
sir, include journals from global impact factor and journal impact factor websites. Easy way to get numerous journals. I think most most of them fulfill the predatory criteria
Hi,
A journal titled, “International Journal of Innovative Research in Computer and Communication Engineering” – ijircce.com sent a mail to me to publish my paper and says that it has impact factor. But, just now they are going to publish the Vol. 1. Also, they said impact factor is provided by israjif.org. Is it possible for impact factor within the 1st volume?
Dear Sir, I want to submit my papers to the Journals (www.the-criterion.com and http://www.galaxyimrj.com). But I see you have added it to your list. Will you make a separate post on the journals run by the publisher/editor? It will be very convenient to have your analysis in one place.
Regards
Dear DR. Beall
I found your work very useful for new young academics looking to publish their work, such as myself. I was thinking to attend this International Conference on Advanced Geophysics and Physics ICAGP 2014. I have an abstract ready to be submitted and planning to attend it the conference in Thailand. Can you provide information whether this is an authentic organizer?
Regards
I’m sorry; I don’t know. I don’t have criteria established for evaluating conferences. I think the best thing to do is to talk to experts in this field, and see what advice they may have. Thanks.
sir, this is regarding JOURNAL OF EVOLUTION OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES http://www.jemds.com/, which was on the monitor list
kindly check the following two articles
1) http://www.jemds.com/data_pdf/10_santhosh%20kumar.pdf
2) http://www.jemds.com/data_pdf/anand%20kanaki.pdf
Everything is almost same expect the tables on diclofenac
kindly reply whether it can be added now to predatory list.
Thanks
Yes, this appears to be a case of either self-plagiarism or near duplicate publication.
I don’t want to add a journal to my list due to a single mistake.
I will email the journal to let them know about this error. Thanks.
Come on Alwi,
This one you could have done yourself.
From the front page of the icagp website:
….
International Conference on Advanced Geophysics and Physics
January 18-20, 2014 @ Bangkok, Thailand
Keynote Speaker – Professor Istvan Toth
Topic: Lipoamino Acid Based Dendritic Vaccine Delivery System
…..
Just very broad or innovative geophysical vaccine delivery? Using a drilling rig I presume?
Sir would you check this journal http://euacademic.org? The chief editor is doing massive spam-work herself. :D
That journal is not currently on my list.
Hi Mr. Beall,
Excellent job so far and well validated by ScienceMag sting. I would like to know about this journal: Journal of applied pharmaceutical science. Thanks
I’ve added this journal to my list. Thanls.
Dear Jeff,
What can you tell me about this publisher? http://royalsocietypublishing.org/
Thanks, best
Well, I can tell you it’s not a predatory publisher.
sir kindly check
1) International Journal of Bioassays http://ebioscholar.com/ojs/index.php/ijb/index
2) International Journal of Universal Pharmacy and Bio Sciences http://www.ijupbs.com/Home.aspx
The first one is published by ebioscholar, a publisher that is already included on my list.
The second one I just analyzed, and I added it to my list. Thank you for letting me know about it.
would you please tell the criteria used to inlcude the International Organisation for Scientific Research. I want to know more about it
Dear Bell
I am a research scholar and just want to share my experience with BJAST journal. I have submitted my article 4 months before. After 30 days I have received comments from 4 reviewer about my article. Among them two of them have even given the line number where they want more justification. After my first correction I have sent them back . This process continues till 4 times and now I got final acceptance.
So I think it should not be a predatory journal.
What is your opinion?
Thanks and Regards
Awantika Shrivastava
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I am an MBA student from Kenya and I sent my research paper to JIARM for publishing, however before I went to send my payment for publishing I came across it in your list of stand alone journals that are possibly predatory. Could you kindly tell me why you feel that way about this particular journal so that I do not run the risk of publishing my work in a journal that is not credible.
Your feedback will be highly appreciated.
Regards,
Zeyana M. Abdullah
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
Please tell me whether this journal- International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (ISSN 0974-0635) – is a good journal or not. I am going to publish my article in it.
Can you also suggest some good refereed journal to publish my paper. Many i visited are demanding heavy charges ( of springer, elseveir etc), though i am interested without charges in springer or elsevier. please suggest.
That’s a subscription journal. It’s not a very good one in my opinion. Is this journal asking for a fee from you? Unfortunately, I can’t recommend any good journals. I focus on pointing out the bad ones. I recommend talking to scholars in your field about the best journals in it, or talk to your librarian.
dear mr bell,
sorry for disturbing..but, could you explain again about The International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE)? Because i found it on EBSCO database
http://www.ebscohost.com/titleLists/aci-coverage.htm
I don’t recommend using inclusion in the EBSCO database as a proxy for quality. EBSCO wants to have as many journals as possible in its index so it can brag that it covers more journals than its competitors. In my opinion, it does not sufficiently screen for quality.
IISTE is on my list for many resons, including these: Use of fake names, suspiciously short review period, use of US and UK addresses on the site to make people think it has offices there (it doesn’t), and very few editorial board members from the west despite claiming to be international.
Dear Sir,
to mo my great astonishment I noticed that our company is listed by you as being a (probable or potential) “Predatory Open-Access Publisher”. I consider this as quite a grave insult to our activities. Atlantis Press is a serious scientific publisher, and fyi we do not even publish ‘gold’ open access journals. We do publish some journals allowing for OA submissions (‘hybrid’) (at very reasonable prices), but none of our journals is dependent on OA revenues, in fact 99% of our papers are not-paid for papers!
Atlantis Press was initially set up as an OA publisher as we adhere to the idea. Yet, we have returned to the more traditional business model as the OA model did not work out. Yet, the fact that you mention our company in your list does serious harm to our business and reputation. FYI, I found your list through my university’s website.
You must be very careful as this sort of listings is destroying business for young publishing companies like ours that really support the ideas of OA! This way you are achieving exactly the contrary of what you are aiming for….
I would therefore request you to delete it from the list unless you give me a very good reason why Atlantis Press is there. Without reply from you within a week we will have to chose other means to protect our business.
Sincerely,
Zeger Karssen
Atlantis Press
Paris, France
Dear Mr. Beall,
May I know why the journal IJCA (Intl. Journal of Computer Applications) is included in the list. Also in the publishers list, you have included Cosmic journals(www.cosmicjournals.com) but not included it’s one of the 5 publications namely IJCST(Intl. Journal of Comp. Science & Tech.) So, may I know why this journal is also included in the list.?
Hi Jeff,
I wonder if the journal is not listed in your standalone list but it’s published by potentially predatory publishers, will that journal be considered as a predatory journal? For example, Asian Social Science is published by Canadian Center of Science and Education (in your list of publisher); yet, this journal is not listed on your standalone journal list and it is also listed on Scopus with an impact factor. What do you think?
Most of the time. I try to analyze at the publisher level whenever possible. There are just too many journals to analyze individually.
Hi Jeff,
I wonder if this service is valid and reliable or another way to make money?
http://www.journalsconsortium.org/Article%20fee.html
Thank you.
That is a proofreading service. Unfortunately they have a lot of grammatical errors on their website.
Dear Mr. Bell Is EUROJOURNALS is on your list, because it is on thomson reuters and scimagor list
Yes. I strongly recommend that you not submit any papers to this publisher.
Dear Dr. Jeffrey,
Can you please advise for David Publishing, particularly: Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture
I strongly recommend that you NOT submit papers to any of the David Publishing journals. Please find a better publisher.
http://www.scientificviewers.com is not an open access journal. Check it
Right, if you want to view an article, you are forced to send an email to the publisher and request it. This is a ridiculous model, and I want to warn scholars away from it, so that’s why it will remain on my list.
Thanks for your valuable remarks,
I am associated with the http://www.scientificviewers.com now I want to improve the same, can you please suggest me.
I suggest that you hire a consultant who’s an expert in scholarly publishing.
Dear Dr. Beall,
I have been contacted through (spam) email by “Scholars’ Press” several times, basically for any publication I have sent to a conference and even for my not-yet finished PhD thesis. I noticed they are not in your list, but I expect them to be a predatory publisher (just based on their method of acquisition), but then not for articles, but for complete theses or books. Their site is http://www.scholars-press.com. Their mail indicates that Scholars’ Press is a trademark of OmniScriptum GmbH & Co.KG – thus there might be more names attached to this company. Do you have any guidelines for such publishers as well, and/or will you add such publishers to the list too?
Thank you very much.
This publisher is not eligible for my list because it’s not a publisher of open-access journals. Scholars’ Press wants to get researchers to sign over the copyrights on their theses/dissertations to them, and then they try to sell copies of the works online. I generally recommend that people not accept these offers. You may be better off depositing your thesis in an open-access repository.
Will you please verify whether Landes Bioscience is non predatory?
Dear Dr. Beall,
I really appreciate your work towards bringing awareness for researchers. Is it possible to have global research publication policy to stop such predatory publishers?
Some journals do not charge for publication but still in your list. Why? Can you exclude the journals which do not charge for page charges or other publishing fee.
Vivek
Some of the publishers on my list SAY they do not charge, but predatory publishers frequently do not tell the truth. The two main overall reasons I add publishers to the list are deceit and lack of transparency. Some are deceitful when they say they don’t charge.
Dear Dr. Beall,
I am the editor of Oxidants and Antioxidants in Medical Science. We have communicated approx. 6 month ago but you did not removed our Journal from the list.
Yet, a total of 6 issues including 66 articles are already published. A new issue will be finalized within a few days. The e-mail addresses of the corresponding authors are to see on all papers. You can contact any of these authors and ask them for their experience with our Journal, the peer-review procedure, whether they had to pay for anything at any step, etc.
Of course, as being a relative new periodical, we have some difficulties, and sometimes some mistakes, made by our associate editors or even by myself, may happen. Most of us have many additional tasks including research, education and/or administrative missions at our university/academy.
There are so many really predatory journals in your list (and also a lot of which are not listed); I feel it is not fair to be listed together with them. I hope, this time you’ll handle with more common sense and remove OAMS from this list.
Regards
I wrote you in April and explained the reasons for inclusion:
1. The editorial board doesn’t list affiliations, and it’s not very impressive.
2. Portions of the author instructions are lifted from Springer without attribution.
3. The journal states that the mean time to an accept/reject first decision is 14 days; this is confirmed by some acceptance statements: “Received February 29, 2012 Accepted April 13, 2012.”
4. GESDAV tries to position itself as a non-profit organization but is really for profit. Also, it’s unclear if the journal is even really an initiative of GESDAV; it may be an individual endeavor and the individual is just using the GESDAV affiliation to make the journal look more authentic.
5. The editor of this journal is also the editor in chief of the Journal of Experimental and Integrative Medicine, a journal which seems to have died, and which is also run by GESDAV.
6. The journal’s website doesn’t say anything about digital preservation, retraction policy, and the like.
7. There are numerous instances of borderline plagiarism, as if the authors are making sufficient thesaural substitutions just to keep the detection software happy.
I haven’t really seen any improvement in the journal, just the making of excuses.
sir, please have a look at
1) Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences http://jchps.com/
2) National Journal for Basic Medical Science http://njbms.com/
I have added both of these journals to my list. Thank you for letting me know about them.
Dear Jeffrey Beall
Thank you very much for creating and frequently updating your list. In February 2010 and July 2013, I reviewed papers for the “Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics” (JDAE) and the “Greener Journal of Agricultural Sciences,” respectively. Both of the papers had many serious flaws, particularly in the methodology and the interpretation of the results, and the authors derived incorrect conclusions. In my referee reports, I clearly highlighted these flaws and suggested to reject the papers but I just found out that both of the papers were published without any (relevant) changes! Hence, I wasn’t surprised to find the publishers “Academic Journals” and “Greener Journals” on your list. Today, I was asked to review a paper for the “International Journal of Agricultural Subsidy and Rural Economics” (published by “International Scholars Journals”). A quick look at your list prevented me from wasting time on a review that would have been disregarded anyway. Thanks a lot!
Kind regards,
Arne Henningsen
Thank you!
When I searched for the title of the paper that I reviewed for the JDAE at the journal’s website, I was directed to a published version of the paper that was virtually identically to the version that I reviewed (and suggested to be rejected). However, I did not notice that the search on the JDAE’s website directed me to a paper that was published in the International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology (IJSA, published by the same publisher, Academic Journals). This paper was even published in the IJSA several months before I reviewed it for the JDAE. Hence, it was a severe case of (self?) plagiarism. Unfortunately, I did not notice this plagiarism but fortunately, the editor of the JDAE rejected the paper — probably influenced by my negative referee report. Hence, it seems that the peer review worked satisfactorily for the JDAE. Sorry for my mistake!
Jeff,
Your work is extremely valuable to faculty, tenure committees, and administrators. When a journal or publisher appears on your lists, that helps validate our determination that they are not truly peer reviewed. Administrators in particular seem to appreciate the CYA benefits of third-party confirmation. I just wish you had the budget and staff needed to handle the wave of new offenders popping up.
Here are some business-oriented publishers that aren’t yet on your list, but are clearly worth investigating. They put out too many journal titles to list here:
Academy of Business Research (ABR)
International Academy of Business and Public Administration Disciplines (IABPAD)
International Academy for Advancement of Business Research (IAABR)
Thanks, and keep up the great work.
Tom Thomas
San Francisco State University
College of Business
Thanks much. I shall have a look.
I am interested to upload our Journal on your listing.
Dear Mr. Beall.
In your list released on 14 December 2012, Greener journals appeared, but couldn’t not be found in this list. have you cleared them?
No, Greener Journals should still be on my list.
Dr. Beall,
Many thanks for your valuable works.
Could you please check the following journals and comment on its quality and merit?
1) ”International Organization of Innovative Research and Development IJIRD” – http://www.ijird.com/
2)“International Organization of Scientific Research IOSR” http://www.iosrjournals.org/
Yes, both of these are included on my lists. The first one is included on my list of questionable standalone journals; the second one is included on my list of questionable publishers. In both cases, I recommend finding a higher quality venue. Thanks.
Dear Jeffrey Beall
Did you already take a look at the publisher “Science and Education Centre of North America” (http://www.todayscience.org/). One thing that made me suspicious is that they registered their domain through “DomainsByProxy.com” in order to hide their identity.
Thanks a lot for your great work,
Arne
Yes, and I do have this publisher included on my list. I agree that hiding the domain name registration data is suspicious. Thanks very much.
Dear Jeffrey Beall
Thanks a lot for such a great work. This will be really very helpful for the research scholar. As I want to send my article in IJAST(re publication), could you please help me to determine the credibility of this jounal on urgent basis?
Thanks a lot…
International Journal of Applied Science and Technology (IJAST) is published by the Center for Promoting Ideas, and this publisher is on my list of questionable publishers. I strongly recommend that you NOT submit your paper to this journal.
Dear Jeffrey Beall
I feel very happy to work with you in disseminating the list of preadatory publishers through my website,www.connecttask.com and some social media.I am very glad to notice that many visitors read your list from my site everyday.
I have a suggestion to you.Could you make a list of genuine non-paying and paying journals?If such lists are published the scientists/researchers can submit their articles safely without any risk.
I hope to hear from you soon.
Best regards,
Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin
http://www.connecttask.com
I have just come across your list for 2014, and I wish I had done so earlier. I have published 2 articles recently, one in “Advances in entomology”, and another in “International j of entomological research”.
Could you please let me know if these are predatory, so I wont publish there again?
Thank you so much, and keep up the good work.
Best wishes.
Chua TH
Yes, Advances in Entomology is included on my list of questionable publishers. However, International Journal of Entomological Research is published by a firm called eSci, and this publisher is not on list.
What do you think about Common Ground publishers? They require payment, not necessarily attendance, at their conferences to get manuscripts published. I emailed to ask about submissions and was told I must register for a conference. I did this once. There were 40 people at the conference; I did not submit my paper. But I’ve read many negative blog posts (Chronicle of HE). All of their journals are edited by the same 2 people. I have a colleague who always publishes with this press — never had an article turned down. And she “presents” virtually at conferences held all around the world — Greece, Spain, Mauritius…
I think the publisher stinks. However, it does not meet the criteria for inclusion as a predatory publisher. It’s run by a husband and wife team. They must be making a ton of money. I regularly receive inquiries about their operation, an indication that some find it questionable.
This publisher started these Journals with impact factor from inaugural issue. their news updates as well as domain suggests that this is Journal is from US but its Indian Publisher from Tamilnadu
Predatory Journals URL: http://www.impactjournals.us/
Faking to be http://www.impactjournals.com/
Domain reveals all for us : http://www.whois.com/whois/impactjournals.us
Please inform for this journal its regular or not. African Journal of Biotechnology
I recommend against submitting papers to this journal.
Sir,
Could you please give me your thoughts about
http://www.smartscitech.com/index.php/CCM/about/editorialTeam
Thannk you.
This is a publisher called Smart Science and Technology. I not think this publisher meets the criteria for being a predatory publisher. To me, it looks like an honest new publisher.
I have already published two papers with IJMER. I honestly did not know about these issues-problems. My query is: Since you consider this as predatory, it means the publication of papers are not valid. Can I resubmit the same papers, originally as they are (have been published) to any other legitimate publisher, or ti will be considered as plagiarism.
Generally, you cannot submit the papers to another journal. This problem happens to a lot of people, and I recommend that you write new papers (without copying the earlier ones). If you resubmit, it will be considered duplicate submission and will hurt your career.
Please, notify me about International Journal of Energy and Environment IJEE. I do not see this in your list. Can I consider as authentic for publications.
Regards
Please, tell me about International Journal of Energy and Environment IJEE. I do not see this in your list. Can I consider as authentic for publications.
Regards
I’m curious about your comments on IBIMA publishing, when in fact it is ISI, EBSCO and SCOPUS indexed, It also seem to be ranked by ARC ERA in 2010.
Thanks for the clarification
I recommend against publishing with IBIMA. It’s a one-man operation that uses a UPS store as its main address. It is not a member of OASPA. Publishers should be transparent; this publisher is not.
Just a disclaimer, I have no association with IBIMA, and haven’t ever published with them, but as an advisor to numerous research students I’d like to teach them a good publishing practice – hence was planning to refer them to your list, however, this publisher’s example made me curious.
See their statement on Ethics at:
http://www.ibimapublishing.com/ethics.html
Looking forward to hear soon,
Frada
Big publishers also have Open Access journals, let me know why Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences published by Elsevier is not in your list? their papers are very poor and low quality..
How about common ground publisher? cgpublisher.com? Will you recommend to submit journal article on them? Because I read some article that claimed they were a scam publisher. Thanks
http://www.sciacademypublisher.com/ appears to be out-of-business now.
dear jeffrey beall, i congratulate you on the hard work you have put in. how do you propose to continue this blog or work after you and me have passed away (which i frevently wish does not happen too soon). is there any reason why i dont see the names of referral board members who will advise you? also some where i see your comment ‘not enough editorial members from the west even though the journal claims to be international’. is being a person from the west the criterion for deciding the integrity of him / her / the journal associated with him or her? i am an indian and do hope that we indians too can be considered honest enough- though the current socio-political situation in my country leaves a lot to be desired.
Does your computer not allow you to use upper case letters?
Dear Sir,
I would like to know your views about Novel Science, Inc. http://www.nvlscience.com/. They are on open access but some of its journals don’t have ISSN. Thanks.
I have added this publisher to my list.
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your prompt response.
Can you give me specific reasons why Novel Science, Inc. a questionable publisher? Many thanks.
Here are some of the reasons:
Lack of standard numbers (ISSNs)
The journal pages are garnished with logos from many legitimate organizations
No clue where this is based; they don’t give any location information
I cannot find information about the APC
Thanks for your patience Sir. Greatly appreciated.
Dear Sir,
I would just like to take some of your time to look at these journals/publishers and to know your views about them.
1. Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management – a journal published by American Scientific Publishers.
2. Industrial and Systems Engineering Review – no information about the publisher but the website is in Binghamton University domain.
3. Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering – no information about the publishers but is under Hashemite University
4. International Journal of Research in Management, Science and Technology – no information about the publisher.
Many thanks Sir.
1. Advances in Industrial Engineering and Management – a journal published by American Scientific Publishers.
I analyze at the publisher level rather than the individual journal level whenever possible. In this case, the publisher is not on my list.
2. Industrial and Systems Engineering Review – no information about the publisher but the website is in Binghamton University domain.
This journal is not eligible for my list because viewing the content requires the creation of a login and password and signing in. Therefore, the journal does not meet the definition of open-access.
3. Jordan Journal of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering – no information about the publishers but is under Hashemite University
This journal does not meet the criteria for listing as a predatory journal.
4. International Journal of Research in Management, Science and Technology – no information about the publisher.
This appears to be a new standalone journal from South Asia. I will add this to my backlog of unanalyzed journals. Because there are so many standalone journals appearing from South Asia, I lack the time to analyze them all.
Thanks for your time in answering my requests Sir. Now, I have a couple of questions about some characteristics of predatory publishers/journals.
1. Some open-access journals with sufficiently questionable information (such as the “contact us” info, spelling and grammar problems, etc) explicitly provide assurance of no APC on their websites. Now, do they qualify as predatory journals? And if not, what are most likely their intentions?
2. In addition to my previous set of questions, can you please take a look again on American Scientific Publishers (http://www.aspbs.com/)? This publisher has a wide array of journals in various fields. I really doubt about their address as indicated in their website. I try to search it in Google but can’t find one.
3. Yes, you are correct that Industrial and Systems Engineering Review needs one to have log-in info. But logging in their website doesn’t need one to have subscription fee. Do they still not qualify as open access?
4. International Journal of Research in Management, Science and Technology which is, as you said, a stand-alone journal in South Asia indicates that they are supported by Prannath Parnami Universe, a university in Haryana, India. Their address also is co-located with the University’s address. They also indicate in their website that they have no APC. What are your views on them? Do they qualify as a predatory journal?
Thanks ahead Sir.
1. The question is, If a journal says there’s no APC, then it can’t be a predatory journal, right? The answer: no, not always. Many corrupt publishers waive fees at first because they quickly want to populate their journals with articles, articles that in turn will help attract other articles and their accompanying APCs.
2. I haven’t analyzed this publisher; it’s not an open-access publisher.
3. No, by definition, if you have to create a login and password and then sign in to access content, it’s not open access.
4. I don’t know. There are too many standalone journals like this one (megajournals, warehouse journals) emerging out of South Asia for me to analyze — around ten new ones a week. I am no longer able to keep up with them. I have started a backlog, which I’ll make available soon.
Thank you Sir for answering all my questions. Keep up your good work. You’re really an eye opener to the academic community.
Sure, thank you.
Dear Sir,
I would like to know views about Omniascience (http://www.omniascience.com/). They are on open access with 4 journals. I tried to take a look at one of its journals which is the Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (http://www.jiem.org/). They don’t have a “Contact Us” info and they don’t also charge APC on authors. Thanks ahead.
Lanndon, It is too early to judge this one. It probably launched too early — the journals don’t even have ISSNs yet. I would avoid it — it’s clear they are not ready. I have added it to my backlog and will examine it again in the future. Thanks.
Dear Sir,
Please check out the following from a single publisher:
Predatory List
1. http://theglobaljournals.com/paripex/
2. http://theglobaljournals.com/ijsr
3.http://www.theglobaljournals.com/ijar
4. http://theglobaljournals.com/gra
Waiting for your views….
That publisher, “The Global Journals,” is on my list of questionable publishers. I recommend against submitting papers to its journals.
This publisher is particularly dangerous because it claims its journals have impact factors when in fact they do not.
Dear Sir,
I would just like to know your views on the publisher Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (http://www.iaesjournal.com/). They are said to be based in Indonesia but some of their journals have questionable indices (e.g. DOAJ, Index Copernicus, Elsevier (which is not an indexing services company), etc.). Thank you.
This publisher is not on my list. When they say they are indexed by Elsevier, they probably mean Scopus, which is owned by Elsevier.
Thank you so much sir. Yes, they probably mean Scopus. One question. Is it acceptable to have two journals from different publishers with exactly the same name? Please a look at this. The journal International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management (http://section.iaesonline.com/index.php/IJIEM) published by Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science has the same title with the journal published by Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad (http://www.iim.ftn.uns.ac.rs/ijiem_journal.php). Thanks.
In most countries, you cannot copyright a journal title, but you can trademark one. So, unless one of these journals has trademarked the title, there is no legal problem. Of course, it is generally bad business practice to start a scholarly journal with the exact same title as another publisher’s journal.
Dear Beall
Thank you for your valuable work to warn the scientific community from the bogus journals. Please look up the journal ” European Environmental Sciences and Ecology Journal” (http://www.eesej.eu/) and add it to your list if you deem it falls in to predatory category.
Thanks for letting me know about this journal. I have added it to my list.
Please consider this case of journal making: http://www.academicjournalsonline.co.in
Thanks — this appears to be a subscription publisher.
Another one if not already listed: http://ijar.in/
Smith and Franklin claim to charge no fees of any sort, neither for authors nor readers. See here:
http://smithandfranklin.com/faqs
You include them on your list. Are there hidden costs? Or should they be removed?
I am preparing a blog post that will answer this question.
Dear Sir/Madam,
Please include our IJDRA Journal in your list of journals.
International Journal of Drug Regulatory Affairs: IJDRA is a Quarterly open access Journal of Regulatory Affairs, Intellectual Property Rights and Pharmaceutical Sciences and intended to be of interest to a broad audience of pharmaceutical professionals. IJDRA was launched in May, 2013 to provide the quality information on the latest cutting-edge technologies of pharmaceutical industry. Content in IJDRA will reflect global initiatives understanding of the Pharma Regulatory Affairs, Intellectual Property Rights & Pharmaceutical Development. IJDRA now ideally placed to serve the needs of their readers and advertisers related to pharmaceutical field.
URL: http://www.ijdra.com
Are you sure? This is a list of questionable journals.
Haha maybe they want you to backlink to their website. :) It would give them some visibility.
Initiation should always be appreciable. I’m Dr. Jitendra Badjatya, Founder of IJDRA Journal. Is it not enough that it is free access Journal & got above 65 Indexing in only 6 months with Impact factor 3.9 & help the RA person without any demand.
I don’t understand what you are trying to say.
I can tell you this: the IJDRA journal does not have an authentic impact factor; it has one from a counterfeit impact factor company. Scholars: don’t be fooled — this journal is using bogus metrics to promote itself.
Can you please comment why SciKnow was included.
One of the reasons is that it uses this address to make it appear (deception) that it is based in New York, when it really is not:
228 PARK AVE SOUTH #85556
NEW YORK, NY 10003 USA
Dear Sir,
It’s me again. Please take a look at this publisher if it qualifies for a predatory publisher: International Press Corporation (http://inpressco.com/). They have launched 5 journals with “Global impact factor” ratings. Many thanks.
Thank you for letting me know about this publisher. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. I recommend that researchers not submit papers to its journals.
You’re very welcome sir. This site is really a big help for scholars. Recently, in our university, I managed to call up the attention of our Research Office after they announced (through our official .edu.ph email) a call for papers for a certain journal whose publisher is under your list. I endorse this site and good thing they retract their former announcement.
Dear, Sir
Few days back I saw ‘Science Publishing Group’ in your, but no longer exist! Why you decided to remove it?
Science Publishing Group is still on the list.
Dear Jeffrey,
what about “Research Journal of Recent Sciences”. the journal must be in this list because the quality of their papers are so worst and they will accept all the papers just for getting money.
Well, this journal is published by the International Science Congress Association. I do have this publisher on my list. This journal is not recommended.
Dear Jeffrey,
Thanks for your great efforts. But my question is that, there are some journals listed here are recognized and ranked by other professional bodies such as the Australian Business Deans Council or ERA. Can you explain how such bodies recognized these journals and you listed them as predatory journals? Thanks
I’m certain that it would be much easier for Dr. Beall to respond to such questions if you could identify specific journals that appear in the ABDC or ERA lists. Given that he has so far been willing to answer journal-specific enquiries, let’s try to help him do this invaluable work as efficiently as possible.
No, I cannot explain this. I am perplexed why they recognize these journals. I kindly refer you to the bodies themselves.
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good job but how do one identify good journals with all these fraudulent journals?
Read widely in your field; network; attend conferences; join scholarly societies in your field and become aware of their journals; talk to senior colleagues; consult with an academic librarian; examine journal metrics, read some more.
An earlier post of Jeffrey’s could also be useful:
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/07/01/need-help-finding-a-good-journal-for-your-next-paper-try-these-resources/
Dear Mr Beall, I appreciate your effort to improve the publishing practice.
Have you check “Ivy Union Publishing”? (http://ivyunion.org/index.php/index/index)
Best regards,
PJS
Thank you. Ivy Union is on my list here, so I recommend that you not submit any papers to their journals. I recommend that you find a better publisher.
Ok, thank you very much.
What do you think about Hindawi Publish Corp? (http://www.hindawi.com/) They are not in your list.
Thanks in advance,
PJS
Hindawi is NOT on my list, correct. It is not a predatory publisher.
Sir, why is IJCSI included in your list of predatory journal starting in 2013 when this journal was not in your list before 2013? I am concerned because I have a few articles published in this journal in 2011 and 2012 but after it appeared in your list I stop submitting my research outputs for publication in this journal because of this negative publicity. Thank you.
Are you referring to the International Journal of Computer Science Issues? If so, I probably didn’t have this journal on my list earlier because I had not learned of it earlier. One major concern with this journal that I have regards its claiming to have an impact factor when it really does not. Its website states, “We are pleased to announce officially our 2011 Impact Factor which is evaluated at 0.242.” In fact, if you read closely, they calculated their own “impact factor” using Google Scholar. It’s not official in any honest sense of the term. I think this is deceptive.
Yes, I am referring to that journal. Anyway, I cannot do anything with my researches published in this journal. I will just avoid publishing again in this journal.
If you do not mind, can I ask your opinion about this OA publisher, http://www.mecs-press.org/?
Thank you.
That publisher is not on my list. I did analyze it but didn’t find that it met the criteria.
Can you please comment why Academic Publications, Ltd. was included.
When I analyzed it, I found plagiarism in the articles, and the editorial board members were listed without any affiliations and with initials: A. Baker (USA), among other problems.
I would like to index Nepalese heart Journal in your system