tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:/hub_feeds/1786/feed_itemsJeffrey Beall's bookmarks2017-01-07T11:46:32-05:00TagTeam social RSS aggregratortag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22099212017-01-06T08:08:47-05:002017-01-07T11:46:32-05:002017 list of ‘predatory’ science journals published, hundreds claim to be Canadian | Ottawa Citizen<p>"The annual list of the world's shaky and outright fake science journals is out, and Canada figures prominently, with hundreds of new entries calling themselves the Canadian Journal of one thing or another. This is not a category where Canada wants to aspire to global leadership...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22069992016-12-03T10:33:24-05:002016-12-03T10:33:24-05:00Predatory publisher expands control of Canadian science journals | Ottawa Citizen<p>OMICS International, a “predatory” publisher of fake and low-quality research, has bought another Canadian science publisher — its third this year.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22068512016-12-01T11:41:05-05:002016-12-01T11:41:05-05:00Bogus conference organisers preying on meetings industry<p>Academics and professionals among conference-goers duped by websites demanding high fees and paid speaking slots. Martin Donovan reports from ICCA Congress in Kuching.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/22009392016-10-30T08:37:00-04:002016-10-30T08:37:00-04:00Accusations of Plagiarism Rock China's Academia<p>(Beijing) Allegations that some Chinese authors copied each other's medical research papers do not surprise ghostwriter Shen Nan. Editors of a U.S.-based anti-plagiarism blog, Plagiarism Watch, made the allegations last month.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21983102016-10-17T16:59:47-04:002016-10-17T16:59:47-04:00The Changing Nature of OA Journals: Helping Scholars Identify the Good, the Bad, and the Political<h4>Abstract</h4>
<p>When the Open Access (OA) movement began at the beginning of the 21st century, librarians and select scholars saw it as a way to level the playing field by disseminating scholarly work freely, by easing the financial burden placed on rising subscription costs, and by offering alternatives to the traditional publishing model. Predatory and opportunistic OA publishers were quick to arrive on the scene, however, leaving faculty and researchers scrambling for a new and updated vetting process for selecting their publication targets. Jeffrey Beall’s blog and Beall’s List, along with other important publication directories, have become an important part of the effort to provide oversight and information to scholars about OA publishers. This paper will discuss OA controversies and review sources and opinions on the transformation of academic publishing efforts in the context of OA issues. Recent trends in librarianship demonstrate the need to educate authors on how to comprehensively research journals before submitting manuscripts to them, how to avoid predatory OA publishers, and where scholarly communication is going in terms of oversight and reputability of OA journals. This paper will briefly summarize many of the possible roles of the librarian, as well as discuss and evaluate the impact of Beall’s List on both the publishing world and librarianship.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21979122016-10-10T11:25:45-04:002016-10-11T16:29:05-04:00Of fake degrees and journals - The inconvenient conversation African universities must have - Ghana Business News<p>"The ongoing discourse on the credibility of some doctoral degrees and the credibility of the institutions that confer them has exposed the vulnerability of our institutions—especially our educational institutions and their administrators to substandard academic practices, manipulation of academic processes, and the outright use of subterfuge by some individuals to buy space in our academic environments."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21979022016-10-10T07:40:41-04:002016-10-10T07:40:41-04:00Publishing Scam Mimics Legitimate Philosophy Journal - Daily Nous<p>When Chris Kramer, associate professor of philosophy at Rock Valley College in Illinois, learned that a paper of his had been accepted to the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, he was excited. And then suspicious.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21958882016-09-30T15:10:52-04:002016-09-30T15:10:52-04:00Alleged predatory publisher buys medical journals | CMAJ News<p>One of the world’s most well-known “predatory” publishers has bought two commercial Canadian publishers of about 16 medical specialty journals. But one former owner says during the purchasing negotiations the new publisher agreed not to use predatory practices.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21957562016-09-29T06:36:28-04:002016-09-29T10:22:27-04:00Canadian medical journals hijacked for junk science | Toronto Star<p>"Indian company OMICS is being sued by the U.S. government for deceptive publishing practices that undermine scientific research"</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21886882016-09-01T14:22:19-04:002016-09-01T14:22:19-04:00Federal Trade Commission Files Charges Against OMICS Group<p><span>For the first time, the Federal Trade Commission is going after what it considers to be a predatory publisher of scientific journals. The agency is charging</span><span> OMICS Group, an India-based, Nevada-incorporated conglomerate — along with its president and director, Srinubabu Gedela, and two affiliated companies, iMedPub LLC and Conference Series LLC — with misrepresenting the legitimacy of its publications, deceiving researchers, and hiding publication fees.</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21880292016-08-22T10:28:47-04:002016-08-22T10:28:47-04:00Dangerous Predatory Publishers Threaten Medical Research<p>This article introduces predatory publishers in the context of biomedical sciences research. It describes the characteristics of predatory publishers, including spamming and using fake metrics, and it describes the problems they cause for science and universities. Predatory journals often fail to properly manage peer review, allowing pseudo-science to be published dressed up as authentic science. Academic evaluation is also affected, as some researchers take advantage of the quick, easy, and cheap publishing predatory journals provide. By understanding how predatory publishers operate, researchers can avoid becoming victimized by them.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21878232016-08-17T06:37:18-04:002016-08-17T06:37:18-04:00The dodgy academic journals publishing anti-vaxxers and other 'crappy science' [Newspaper article].<p>When HIV/AIDS deniers, anti-vaxxers and chemtrail conspiracy theorists started citing "peer-reviewed" research, Associate Professor Michael Brown smelt a rat.</p>
<p>After a quick Google search, the Monash University astronomer discovered a booming black market ensnaring his profession. [...]</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21875332016-08-09T18:37:19-04:002016-08-09T18:37:19-04:00Medisinsk toppforsker lurt av røvertidsskrift<p><span>Mellom 11 000 og 13 000 open access-tidsskrifter i verden regnes som tvilsomme, hvorav 8000 er aktive. Bak står 1051 forlagshus, de fleste i India, Kina og Midtøsten. Det er en formidabel økning fra 18 forlagshus i 2011, påpeker associate professor Jeffrey Beall på Universitetsbiblioteket ved Universitetet i Colorado, Denver i USA</span></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21871992016-08-03T11:12:23-04:002016-08-03T11:12:23-04:00Taiwan’s great academic rip-off - Taipei Times<h3><span>Predatory conferences, endemic to the nation’s peer review system, prey on the need for academics and students to present and publish their work, while reaping huge profits for the organizers</span></h3>
<h3><span>By James McCrostie / Contributing reporter</span></h3>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21840212016-07-12T11:25:54-04:002016-07-12T11:25:54-04:00New gay parenting study is a dishonest assault on LGBTQ families.<p>Sullins’ most recent study was published in an Egyptian-based open access journal that requires authors to pay for publication, creating a conflict of interest, since publishers who ought to perform quality control have a financial incentive to accept papers, regardless of quality. The journal’s publisher has been criticized for a lax peer-review process that isn't even overseen by a real editor.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21815042016-06-30T18:40:30-04:002016-06-30T18:40:30-04:00‘The Fox and the Crow’ or ‘the Foolishness of Vanity Publishing in Fake Academic Journals’: A Story from the Arabian Gulf<p><em>Fake and predatory academic journals have the potential to do harm. If they promise to provide double-blind peer-review but do not deliver, they are misleading authors. If their carefully-chosen company name suggests they represent an august body of international standing when they are actually operating on a shoe-string out of someone’s bedroom, they are misleading everyone. If researchers are so desperate for publication and international renown that they flock to these dubious enterprises, then many people are being tricked: students, fellow researchers, funding panels, promotion boards. There is the danger that an illusionary pseudo-academic world is being created in which bad research (which has not been properly peer-reviewed by reputable journals) is masquerading as good. This is a particularly serious problem at present as these fake and predatory (but also profitable) journals are spreading rapidly like viruses. This issue is explored here with reference to a particular example from the field of research into English language teaching in the Middle East and with the help of a fable to illustrate the motives of the actors</em></p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21814042016-06-30T10:38:04-04:002016-06-30T10:38:04-04:00How publishing in open access journals threatens science and what we can do about it - Romesburg - 2016 - The Journal of Wildlife Management - Wiley Online Library<h3>ABSTRACT</h3>
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<p>The last decade has seen an enormous increase in the number of peer-reviewed open access research journals in which authors whose articles are accepted for publication pay a fee to have them made freely available on the Internet. Could this popularity of open access publishing be a bad thing? Is it actually imperiling the future of science? In this commentary, I argue that it is. Drawing upon research literature, I explain why it is almost always best to publish in society journals (i.e., those sponsored by research societies such as <em>Journal of Wildlife Management</em>) and not nearly as good to publish in commercial academic journals, and worst—to the point it should normally be opposed—to publish in open access journals (e.g., <em>PLOS ONE</em>). I compare the operating plans of society journals and open access journals based on 2 features: the quality of peer review they provide and the quality of debate the articles they publish receive. On both features, the quality is generally high for society journals but unacceptably low for open access journals, to such an extent that open access publishing threatens to pollute science with false findings. Moreover, its popularity threatens to attract researchers’ allegiance to it and away from society journals, making it difficult for them to achieve their traditionally high standards of peer reviewing and of furthering debate. I prove that the commonly claimed benefits to science of open access publishing are nonexistent or much overestimated. I challenge the notion that journal impact factors should be a key consideration in selecting journals in which to publish. I suggest ways to strengthen the <em>Journal</em> and keep it strong</p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21813712016-06-29T13:49:57-04:002016-06-29T13:49:57-04:00Strange journal invitations popping up in my inbox every day<h2>Unless you are incredibly lucky, your mailbox will regularly be flooded by spam. By the early 2010s, academia had acquired its very own type of spam: emails soliciting the respondent to submit a paper to the journal mentioned in the email. Unfortunately, spam filters don’t seem to have caught up with this very targeted type of spam yet</h2>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21807572016-06-16T10:29:17-04:002016-06-16T10:29:17-04:00New rector of the University of Prishtina promoted suspiciously - Prishtina Insight<div>
<p>One of the scientific works of the University of Prishtina rector Marian Demaj was published in a suspicious Indian journal, for which many experts and different scientific evaluation platforms say that it is fraudulent. <span>University of Prishtina, UP, rector Marian Demaj was promoted from associate professor to full professor after publishing in a journal that is suspected to be fraudulent, an investigation by Prishtina Insight has revealed</span></p>
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tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21793662016-06-09T05:58:19-04:002016-06-11T17:15:37-04:00Scholarly Open Access Publishers: Beware the bad apples - TeleRead News: E-books, publishing, tech and beyond<p>"Many, myself included, have embraced scholarly open access publishing as an antidote to the ills and exploitative practices of mainstream academic, scientific, and scholarly publishing. However, not all scholarly open access publishing is necessarily good...."</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21793842016-06-09T10:30:16-04:002016-06-09T10:30:16-04:00Why It's Not Such a Good Idea to Publish with Research & Reviews - The EdLib ReportThe EdLib Report<p><strong>Recently an open access journal </strong>called the <em>Journal of Educational Studies</em> invited users to publish in their journal. There are a lot of red flags one can see in their solicitation that should make researchers suspicious. The first is that they promise a quick turnaround time from submission to publication. In this case, the publisher, which is Research & Reviews, tells you that if you submit something by June 30th, 2016 your article will appear in their journal by August 5th.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21770892016-05-28T16:21:59-04:002016-05-28T16:21:59-04:00The dark side of open access | Ørjan Grøttem Martinsen | Journal of Electrical Bioimpedance<p>Every day – with no exceptions – I get e-mails from editors wanting me to publish my research in their journals. Just a few years ago, I got no such e-mails at all. What happened? In my opinion, this phenomenon is unfortunately symptomatic of a new and very unfortunate trend in international research.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21769922016-05-26T11:49:18-04:002016-05-26T11:49:18-04:00Predatory Publishing, Open Access, and the Costs to Academia <p>As publishing demands increase, so does the availability of open access predatory publishing options masquerading as reputable peer-review outlets. This article cautions against the broader consequences of predatory publishing and suggests means to control their influence. </p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21741792016-05-12T06:30:58-04:002016-05-12T06:30:58-04:00'Predatory conferences' stalk Japan's groves of academia | The Japan Times<p>‘Predatory conference” organizers now stalk Japan’s groves of academe, preying on unsuspecting researchers. These conferences are inferior events that contribute little to the field of academic knowledge but generate plenty of revenue for organizers’ bank accounts. Academics, some simply naive but others willingly participating, risk hurting their wallets and reputations by presenting at such conferences and helping to organize them.</p>
tag:tagteam.harvard.edu,2005:FeedItem/21739992016-05-09T07:11:08-04:002016-05-09T07:11:08-04:002015 OA Journal Ranking Reports have been released! 开放获取论文一站式发现平台<p>2015 OA Journal Ranking Reports have been released! Now the 2015 GoOA: OA Journal Rankings has been released! You could find both the complete OA journal ranking list and your journals’ ranking result in the attachment. GoOA: OA Journal Rankings 2015 presents Top OA journals of 18 disciplines in 2015. The OA Journals Ranking published by GoOA, aims to drive more scholarly OA journals to develop in the orientation of high quality, powerful influence and wide openness</p>