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List of Predatory Publishers 2014 | Scholarly Open Access

Scholarly Open Access Critical analysis of scholarly open‑access publishing

List of Predatory Publishers 2014 By Jeffrey Beall Released January 2, 2014 The gold (author pays) open‑access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts. There are two lists below. The first includes questionable, scholarly open‑access publishers. Each of these publishers has a portfolio that ranges from just a few to hundreds of individual journal titles. The second list includes individual journals that do not publish under the platform of any publisher — they are essentially standalone, questionable journals. In both cases, we recommend that researchers, scientists, and academics avoid doing business with these publishers and journals. Scholars should avoid sending article submissions to them, serving on their editorial boards, reviewing papers for them, or advertising in them. Also, tenure and promotion committees should give extra scrutiny to articles published in these journals, for many of them include instances of research misconduct. There are still many high‑quality journals available for scholars to publish in, including many that do not charge author processing fees. An additional option is author self‑archiving of article postprints in discipline‑specific and institutional repositories. The author is grateful to the many colleagues who have shared information about potential predatory publishers. Last year’s list included 225 publishers, and this year’s has over 477, evidence of the continued rapid growth in the number of predatory journals and publishers. The table below details the growth of questionable publishers since 2011. Year

Number of predatory publishers

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18

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2013

225

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477

This list will be updated throughout the year at the blog Scholarly Open Access, http://scholarlyoa.com (http://scholarlyoa.com/). Please refer to the blog rather than the lists below because the lists below will not be updated. The criteria for inclusion in the lists can be found here (http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria‑for‑determining‑predatory‑open‑access‑publishers‑ 2nd‑edition/). The author’s email address is: [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]). List 1: Questionable Publishers 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.

Abhinav (http://www.abhinavjournal.com/index.aspx) A M Publishers (http://ampublisher.com/index.html) Academe Research Journals (http://www.academeresearchjournals.org/) Academia Publishing (http://academiapublishing.org/index.htm) Academia Scholarly Journals (http://www.academiascholarlyjournals.org/index.htm) (ASJ) Academic and Business Research Institute (http://www.aabri.com/) Academic and Scientific Publishing (http://acascipub.com/) Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/) Academic Journals and Research ACJAR (http://www.acjar.org/index.html) Academic Journals, Inc. (http://www.academicjournalsinc.com/) Academic Journals Online (http://www.academicjournalsonline.co.in/) (AJO) Academic Publications, Ltd. (http://www.acadpubl.eu/index.html) Academic Research Journals (http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/index.htm) Academic Research Publishing Agency (http://www.arpapress.com/) Academic Scholars Publishing House (http://academic‑publishing‑house.com/) Academic Sciences (http://www.ijaponline.org/) Academic Star Publishing Company (http://www.academicstar.us/index.asp) Academic World Education & Research Center (http://www.world‑education‑center.org/) AcademicDirect (http://ph.academicdirect.org/) Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (http://airccse.org/index.php) (AIRCC) Academy Journals (http://www.academyjournals.net/) Academy of IRMBR International Research in Management and Business Realities (http://www.academyirmbr.com/) Academy of Knowledge Process (http://akpinsight.webs.com/) Academy of Science and Engineering (http://www.asesite.org/Default.aspx) (ASE) Academy of Science and Social Science (http://www.asss‑web.com/) (ASSS) Academy Publish (http://www.academypublish.org/) Access International Journals (http://www.accessinterjournals.org/) Ada Lovelace Publications (http://www.ada‑lovelace.co.uk/) Advance Research Publications (http://www.adrpublications.com/index.html) Advanced Research Journals (http://www.advancedresearchjournals.org/) Advanced Science and Engineering Technology Institute (http://www.asetrc.org/) (ASET) Advancement and Development in Technology International (http://aditisci.com/index.php) (Aditi) AENSI (http://www.aensiweb.com/index.html)


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African Research Review (http://afrrevjo.net/) (AFRREV) AgiAl Publishing House (http://www.agialpress.com/) Aizeon Publishers (http://www.aizeonpublishers.net/aboutus.html) Akademik Plus Publication (http://www.akademikplus.com/) AkiNik Publications (http://www.akinik.com/) American Academic & Scholarly Research Center (http://aasrc.org/) (AASRC) American Association for Science and Technology (http://www.aascit.org/home/index) (AASCIT) American Scientific Research Journals (http://www.americanscientificresearchjournals.org/) American Society for Science and Engineering (http://www.as‑se.org/) American V‑King Scientific Publishing (http://www.vkingpub.com/Index.aspx) Annex Publishers (http://www.annexpublishers.com/) ANSINetwork (http://www.ansinet.com/) Antarctic Journals (http://www.domainsmoon.com/) Aperito Publications (http://aperito.org/index.php) Apex Journal (http://www.apexjournal.org/) Apex Journals (http://www.apexjournals.org/index.html) Applied Science Innovations (http://www.applied‑science‑innovations.com/) Archers & Elevators Publishing House (http://www.aeph.in/) ARPN Journals (http://arpnjournals.com/) Ashdin Publishing (http://www.ashdin.com/) Asian Academic Research Associates (http://www.asianacademicresearch.org/index.html) Asian Economic and Social Society (http://www.aessweb.com/index.php) (AESS) Asian Online Journals (http://www.ajouronline.com/) Asian Research Consortium (http://www.aijsh.org/?task=index) Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers (http://www.theaceee.org/) (ACEEE) AstonJournals (http://astonjournals.com/) Atlas Publishing, LP (http://www.atlas‑publishing.org/index.php) Austin Publishing Group (http://www.austinpublishinggroup.org/) Australian International Academic Centre Pty. Ltd. (http://www.aiac.org.au/) Avens Publishing Group (http://www.avensonline.org/) Avestia Publishing (http://avestia.com/) Avicena Publisher (http://www.avicenapublisher.org/) Basic Research Journals (http://basicresearchjournals.org/index.html) Bell Press (http://bellpress.org/) Bentham Open (http://www.bentham.org/open/) Better Advances Press (http://www.bapress.ca/index.html) Biohelikon (http://biohelikon.org/site/index) BioInfo Publications (http://www.bioinfopublication.org/) BioIT international Journals (http://bipublication.com/index.html) Biological and Chemical Publishing (http://www.bacpl.org/) BioMedSciDirect Publications (http://www.biomedscidirect.com/aboutjournal.php) Bioscience Research & Educational Institute (http://www.bret.ac.in/) [Link dead as of 2012‑11‑ 14] Blue Ocean Research Journal (http://www.borjournals.com/)s BluePen Journals (http://www.bluepenjournals.org/) Bonfring (http://www.bonfring.org/) Bowen Publishing (http://www.bowenpublishing.com/)


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British Association of Academic Research (http://www.bjmhs.baar.org.uk/) (BAAR) British Journal (http://www.bjournal.co.uk/) Business Journalz (http://www.businessjournalz.org/) (BJ) Business Perspectives (http://businessperspectives.org/) Canadian Center of Science and Education (http://ccsenet.org/web/) Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures see CSCanada (http://cscanada.net/) Canadian Science and Technology Press Inc. (http://canadianstpress.com/ojs/index.php) Cardiology Academic Press (http://cardiologyacademicpress.com/) Center for the Development and Dissemination of Knowledge (http://www.cddk.org/index.html) Center for Enhancing Knowledge (http://www.cekinfo.org.uk/) (CEK), UK The Center for Innovations in Business & Management Practice (http://www.cibmp.org/) Central Research Insight (http://cri.ideainfinity.pk/?p=1) Centre For Info Bio Technology (http://www.cibtech.org/index.htm) (CIBTech) Centre for Promoting Ideas (http://www.cpinet.info/) Centre of Excellence for Scientific & Research Journalism (http://www.centreofexcellence.net/)(COES&RJ) Centre of Promoting Research Excellence (http://cprenet.com/home/) (CPRE) Cloud Journals (http://cloud‑journals.com/) The Clute Institute (http://www.cluteinstitute.com/index.html) Columbia International Publishing (http://www.uscip.org/) Comprehensive Research Journals (http://www.crjournals.org/) Computer Science Journals (http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/home.php) CONFAB Journals (http://www.confabjournals.com/) Congress Press (http://www.congresspress.com/Journals/index.php/index/index) Contemporary Research Center (CRC), Australia (http://www.crcenter.info/) Cosmic Journals (http://cosmicjournals.com/) CREST Journals (http://www.crestjournals.com/) Crown Journals (http://www.crownjournals.org/) CSCanada (http://cscanada.net/) Cyber Journals (http://www.cyberjournals.com/) Design for Scientific Renaissance (http://www.sign‑ific‑ance.co.uk/index.html) DISA Publication Group (http://www.disa.org.in/DPGroup/index.html) (DP Group) Discovery Publishing Group (http://www.discovery.org.in/) David Publishing (http://www.davidpublishing.org/) Deccan Pharma Journals (http://www.deccanpharmajournals.com/) DeNovo Scientific Publishing (http://www.denovojournal.com/) Discourse Journals (http://www.resjournals.org/) DRUNPP Sarajevo (http://www.drunpp.ba/) (Society for Development of Teaching and Business Processes in New Net Environment in B&H) E‑International Journals of Academic & Scientific Research (http://eijasr.com/index.php) (EIJASR) E‑International Scientific Research Journal Consortium (http://www.eisrjc.com/) (E‑ISRJC) e‑journals (http://www.shankargargh.net/index.php) e3Journals (http://www.e3journals.org/index.php) Ebioscholar (http://ebioscholar.com/ojs/index.php/index/index) eCanadian Journals (http://www.ecanadianjournals.com/ecanadian/) Econjournals (http://www.econjournals.com/index.php/index)


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124. Edorium Journals (http://www.edoriumjournals.com/) 125. EDUGAIT Press (http://www.edugait.com/) 126. EISRJC Journals (http://www.eisrjc.com/) (E‑International Scientific Research Journal Consortium 127. eLearning Institute (http://www.theelearninginstitute.org/) 128. ELVEDIT.COM (http://elvedit.com/) 129. Elewa Bio Sciences (http://www.m.elewa.org/index.php) 130. Elite Research Journals (http://www.eliteresearchjournals.org/) 131. eJournals of Academic Research & Reviews (http://www.ejarr.com/) 132. Electronic Center for International Scientific Information (http://ecisi.com/) 133. Elmer Press (http://www.elmerpress.com/) 134. Elyns Publishing Group (http://www.elynsgroup.com/Default.aspx) 135. Engineering and Technology Publishing (http://www.etpub.com/index.htm) 136. Engineering Journals (http://www.enggjournals.com/) (Engg Journals Publications) 137. Enliven Archive (http://www.enlivenarchive.org/) 138. Erudite Journals Limited (http://eruditejournals.org/ejb/index.htm) 139. ESRSA Publication (http://www.esrsa.org/)– Engineering and Science Research Support Academy 140. ETA Maths Journals (http://etamaths.com/) 141. Euro Asia Research and Development Association (http://www.euroasiapub.org/) 142. EuroJournals (http://eurojournals.com/) 143. European‑American Journals (http://ea‑journals.org/index.php) 144. ExcelingTech Publishing Company, Ltd. (http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/) 145. Far East Research Centre (http://www.fareastjournals.com/) 146. Ficus Publishers (http://ficuspublishers.com/Home.php) 147. Genexcellence Publication (http://gpublication.com/) (G Publications) 148. Global Advanced Research Journals (http://garj.org/) 149. The Global Journals (http://www.paripex.in/) 150. Global Journals, Inc. (US) (http://globaljournals.us/) 151. Global Openaccess (http://globalopenaccess.com/) 152. Global Research Journals (http://www.globalresearchjournals.org/) 153. Global Researchers Journals (http://www.grjournals.com/) 154. Global Research Online (http://www.globalresearchonline.net/) 155. Global Research Publishing (http://www.grpjournal.org/) (GRP) 156. Global Scientific, Inc. (http://globalpublication.org/index.html) 157. Global Technocrats & Intellectual’s Association (http://www.gtia.co.in/) (GTIA) 158. GlobalOpenJournals.org (http://globalopenjournals.org/index.html) 159. GlobalSkope Publishing Society (http://globalskope.com/ijesr/index.html) 160. Green Earth Research Network (http://www.gejournal.net/index.html) 161. Green Global Foundation (http://www.ggfagro.com/) (GGF) 162. Greener Journals (http://www.gjournals.org/Index.html) 163. Growing Science Publishing Company (http://growingscience.com/index.html) 164. Herald International Research Journals (http://heraldjournals.org/index.htm) 165. Herbert Open Access Journals (http://www.hoajonline.com/) 166. Hikari Ltd. (http://www.m‑hikari.com/) 167. Horizon Research Publishing (http://www.hrpub.org/) 168. Human and Sciences Publications (http://www.humanpub.org/) (HumanPub) 169. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (http://hrmars.com/index.php? page=our%20journals%20f) (HRMARS) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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IBIMA Publishing (http://www.ibimapublishing.com/) IJRCM (http://ijrcm.org.in/) iMedPub (http://imedpub.com/) = Internet Medical Publishing Impact Journals (http://www.impactjournals.us/index.php) (Tamil Nadu, India) Indian Society for Education and Environment (http://www.iseeadyar.org/index.html) (ISEE) IndianResearchJournals.Com (http://indianresearchjournals.com/Default.aspx) Indus Foundation for Education, Research & Social Welfare (http://www.indusedu.org/aboutus.html) Infinity Press (http://infinitypress.info/publisher/) Infonomics Society (http://infonomics‑society.org/) Inforesights Publishing (http://inforesights.com/) Ingenious Enterprises International (http://ingenin.org/) (INGENIN) Innovare Academic Sciences (http://innovareacademics.in/) Innovative Space of Scientific Research (http://www.issr‑journals.org/) (ISSR Journals) INREWI (http://www.inrewi.com/home) Insight Knowledge (http://insightknowledge.co.uk/index.php) Institute for Research and Development India (http://www.irdindia.in/) (IRD) Institute of Advanced Scientific Research (http://www.i‑asr.com/journals.aspx) Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (http://www.theides.org/) (IDES) Institute of Electronic & Information Technology (http://www.ieit‑ web.org/apscj/editorialboard.html) Institute of Language and Communication Studies (http://www.inlcs.org/) Institute of Research and Journals (http://iraj.in/index.php) (IRAJ) Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (http://www.theired.org/)(IRED) Institute of Strategic and International Studies (http://www.isisworld.org/) InTech Open Access Publisher (http://www.intechweb.org/) – Mirror site (http://www.intechopen.com/) Integrated Publishing Association (http://www.ipublishing.co.in/) Integrated Science Publications (http://indianscience.in/pubs/journals/) Intellect Journals (http://www.intellectjournals.org/index.html) Intellectual Archive (http://www.intellectualarchive.com/) Intercontinental Electronic Journals (http://www.intercontinentalresearchjournals.org/) Interdisciplinary Publications (http://www.idpublications.org/) Intermedcentral (http://www.intermedcentral.hk/) InternationalJournals.co.in (http://internationaljournals.co.in/) International Academic Journals (http://www.inacj.com/) International Academy of Business & Economics (http://www.iabe.org/) International Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (http://international‑ aset.com/index.html)(International ASET) International Academy of Science , Engineering and Technology (http://www.iaset.us/index.php)(IASET) The International Academy, Research and Industry Association (http://www.iaria.org/) (IARIA) International Advances for Research (http://www.intlafr.com/index.html) International Association for Engineering & Technology (http://www.iaetjournals.com/) International Association for Engineering and Management Education (http://www.iaeme.com/about.asp) (IAEME) International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology (http://www.iacsit.org/) (IACSIT Press)


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211. International Association of Journals & Conferences (http://www.iajc.org/overview.html) (IAJC) 212. International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (http://iasir.net/index.html) (IASIR) 213. International Association of Technology Education & Industry (http://iatei.org/) 214. International Center for Business Research (http://icbr.net/) 215. International Centre of Culture Inventory (http://www.icoci.org/) 216. International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.icgst.com/) 217. International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (http://idosi.org/index.htm) (IDOSI) 218. International Educative Research Foundation And Publisher (http://www.ierfinfo.com/) 219. International Foundation for Modern Education and Scientific Research (http://infomesr.org/en/home) (INFOMESR) 220. International Foundation for Research and Development (http://www.ifrnd.org/) 221. International House for Academic Scientific Research (http://www.ihasr.org/) [Link dead as of 2013‑01‑02] 222. International Indexed Refereed Research Journal (http://www.ssmrae.com/) 223. International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (http://www.iiste.org/Journals/)(IISTE) 224. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (http://www.iiis.org/) 225. International Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research (http://www.iisir.org/) 226. International Invention Journals (http://internationalinventjournals.org/index.html) 227. International Journal Publishers Group (http://www.ijpg.org/) 228. The International Journal Research Publications (http://www.theinternationaljournal.org/ojs/index1.htm) 229. International Journals of Engineering & Sciences (http://www.ijens.org/) 230. International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy (http://www.ijmra.us/) 231. International Journals of Scientific Knowledge (http://www.ijsk.org/index.html) (IJSK) 232. International Journals of Scientific Research (http://ijscience.com/default.htm) (IJSR) 233. International Network for Applied Sciences and Technology (http://www.inast.org/) 234. International Network for Scientific & Industrial Information (http://insii.com/index.php) 235. International Network for Natural Sciences (http://www.innspub.net/) (INNSPUB) 236. International Online Knowledge Services Provider (http://www.ioksp.com/index.html) (IOKSP) 237. International Organization of Scientific Research (http://iosrjournals.org/index.html) (IOSR) 238. International Recognition Multidisciplinary Research Journals, Monthly Publish (http://lsrj.in/) 239. International Recognition Research Journals (http://www.lsrj.in/) 240. International Research E‑Journals (http://www.oiirj.org/) 241. International Research Journals (http://www.interesjournals.org/)(Lagos, Nigeria) 242. International Research Journals (http://resjournals.com/) (Accra, Ghana) 243. International Research Organization of Computer Science (http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/home.php) (IROCS) 244. International Scholars Journals (http://internationalscholarsjournals.org/) 245. International Science Congress Association (http://www.isca.in/) 246. International Scientific Academic Corporation (http://isacorporation.org.in/) 247. International Scientific Engineering and Research Publications (http://iserp.org/) 248. International Scientific Publications (http://www.scientific‑publications.net/) 249. International Society for Zoological Research http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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(http://iszr.org/Jrs/index.php/index/index) (ISZR) International Society of Universal Research in Sciences (http://www.isurs.org/) (EyeSource) Internet Medical Publishing (http://imedpub.com/) Internet Scientific Publications (http://www.ispub.com/) Interscience Journals (http://interscience.org.uk/) Interscience Open Access Journals (http://www.interscience.in/) iProbe (https://www.iprobegrp.com/) Group (IROSSS (http://www.irosss.org/)) International Research Organization of Sciences and Social Sciences ISISnet (http://www.isisn.org/) ISPACS (http://ispacs.com/) (International Scientific Publications and Consulting Services) IRED International Journals (http://theired.org/organizer.html) Ivy Union Publishing (http://www.ivyunion.org/) JET Publishing (http://www.jetpublishing.org/index.html) Journal Issues (http://www.journalissues.org/index.php) Journal of Comprehensive Research (http://jupapadoc.startlogic.com/compresearch/) JournalsBank (http://www.journalsbank.com/) JScholar Journals (http://www.jscholaronline.org/list‑of‑journals.php) JSciMed Central (http://www.jscimedcentral.com/) Jyoti Academic Press (http://jyotiacademicpress.com/) Kaleidoscope Journals (http://www.kjournals.org/) KEJA Publications (http://www.kejapub.com/) Key Research Journals (http://www.keyresearchjournals.org/) (KRJ) Kindi Publication (http://www.kindipublication.com/home.html) Knowledgebase Publishers (http://www.knowledgebasepublishers.org/) KnowledgesPublisher (http://www.knowledgespublisher.com/) Knowledgia Scientific (http://www.knowledgia.net/) (formerly Knowledgia Review) KY Publications (http://www.kypublications.com/) Leena & Luna International (http://www.ajssh.leena‑luna.co.jp/) Lifescience Global (http://www.lifescienceglobal.com/) Literati Scientific and Publishers (http://www.literatipublishers.com/index.php) (Literati Publishers) Longbridge Publishing Company (http://www.lbrpublishing.com/) Lorem Journals (http://loremjournals.com/index.php) Macrothink Institute (http://www.macrothink.org/) Meghana Pubilcations (http://meghanapublications.com/index.html) Management Education & Research Consortium Global (http://www.mercglobal.org/) (MERC Global) Management Journals (http://www.managementjournals.org/index.php) Marsland Press (http://www.sciencepub.net/) Mary and Sam Research Academia (http://www.marynsam.co.uk/) Maryland Institute of Research (http://miredu.org/) Maxwell Scientific Organization (http://maxwellsci.com/jlist.php) MASAUM Network (http://www.masaumnet.com/) Medical Science Journals (http://medical.sciencejournals.cc/) [Link dead as of 2012‑11‑14] Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (http://www.mcser.org/) (MCSER) Medwell Journals (http://www.medwelljournals.com/home.php) Mehta Press (http://www.mehtapress.com/) Merit Research Journals (http://meritresearchjournals.org/index.htm)


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MNK Publication (http://www.mnkjournals.com/index.htm) Modern Scientific Press (http://modernscientificpress.com/) Moksha Publishing House (http://www.mokshaph.com/) Muhammadon Centre for Research and Development (http://www.muhammadon.org/index.php) (MCRD) Mustang Journals (http://mustangjournals.com/index.html) Narain Publishers Pvt. Ltd (http://www.npplweb.com/) (NPPL) National Social Science Association (http://www.nssa.us/) (NSSA) Natural Sciences Publishing Corporation (http://www.naturalspublishing.com/index.asp) Nauk Publication (http://www.naukpublication.org/) Net Journals (http://www.netjournals.org/) New Ground Research Journals (http://www.newgroundresjournals.org/) New World Sciences Academy (http://www.newwsa.com/) Nexus Academic Publishers (http://nexusacademicpublishers.com/) (NAP) NobleResearch Publisher (http://www.nobleresearch.org/home.aspx) Noto‑are (https://www.notoare.com/) Novus Scientia Journals (http://novusscientia.org/index.php) North Atlantic University Union (http://www.naun.org/wseas/cms.action) Nuclei Online (http://nucleionline.org/) OA Publishing London (http://oapublishinglondon.com/index.php) Oceanic Journals (http://oceanicjournals.org/) OMICS Publishing Group (http://www.omicsonline.org/) OneCentral Press (http://www.onecentralpress.com/) Online Journals Management System (http://onlinejournals.oscij.com/index.php/index/index) (OJMS) Online Research Journals (http://onlineresearchjournals.org/index.htm) Open Access Science Research Publisher (http://openaccessscience.com/)(OASRP) OpenAccessPub (http://openaccesspub.org/index.php) Open Research and Science Library (http://www.orslib.org/index.html) (ORSlib) Open Research Network (http://www.openresearchnetwork.org/) Open Research Society (http://www.open‑knowledge‑society.org/) Open Science (http://www.openscienceonline.com/) ORIC Publications (http://www.oricpub.com/) Ozean Publications (http://ozelacademy.com/) Pacesetter Online Publishers (http://pacesetteronlinepublishers.org/) Pak Publishing Group (http://www.pakinsight.com/) PBS Journals (http://pbsjournals.com/index.php) Peak Journals (http://www.peakjournals.org/index.html) Pelagia Research Library (http://pelagiaresearchlibrary.com/index.html) Pharma Intelligence (http://www.pharmaintelligence.org/index.html) Pharma Professional Services (http://www.phaps.com/pubs/) Pharmaceutical Research Foundation (http://pharmresfoundation.com/) Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide (http://phcog.net/) PharmaInfo (http://www.pharmainfo.in/) PharmaInterScience Publishers (http://www.pharmainterscience.com/) Photon Foundation (https://sites.google.com/site/photonfoundationorganization/) Pinnacle Journal Publication (http://pjpub.org/) Praise Worthy Prize (http://www.praiseworthyprize.com/) Prime Journals (http://www.primejournal.org/index.html)


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Priyanka Research Journal Publication (http://www.prjpublication.com/index.html) Progressive Science Publications (http://www.pscipub.com/MWP/) Prudence Journals (http://www.prudencejournals.org/index.htm) Purple Journals (http://www.purplejournals.org/) [Link dead as of 2013‑10‑19] Quazzy Journals (http://quazzyjournals.org/index.htm) R & S Publications (https://sites.google.com/a/randspublications.org/randspublications/home) [Link dead as of 2013‑07‑04] Recent Science (http://recentscience.org/) RedFame Publishing (http://www.redfame.com/home/) Research and Reviews (http://www.rroij.com/) (An International Journals) Research Online Publishing (http://www.ronpub.com/) (RonPub) Research Publish Journals (http://www.researchpublish.com/) Research Publisher (http://researchpub.org/index.html) Research WebPub (http://www.researchwebpub.org/) RG Education Society (http://www.rgsociety.org/) (RG Journals of Scientific Research) Rising Vision (http://www.risingvision.org/index.html) (RV) Ross Science Publishers (http://rossscience.org/index.php) RS Publication (http://rspublication.com/) Sacha International Academic Journals (http://www.sachajournals.com/index.php) Sai Om Publications (http://www.saiompublications.com/) SAMANM Group of Research Publications (http://www.samanmjournals.org/) (SGRP) SAVAP International (http://www.journals.savap.org.pk/) Savvy Science Publisher (http://savvysciencepublisher.com/) Scholar Journals (http://www.scholarjournals.org/) [Link dead as of 2013‑04‑20] Scholar People (http://scholarpeople.org/) Scholar Science Journals (http://www.ssjournals.com/) Scholarlink Resource Centre Limited (http://scholarlinkresearch.org/) Scholarly and Academic Research Journals (http://www.sarjournals.org/index.html) (SARJ) Scholarly Journals (http://scholarly‑journals.com/index.htm) Scholars Research Library (http://scholarsresearchlibrary.com/) Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (http://saspublisher.com/) (SAS Publishers) ScholarsHub.net (http://www.scholarshub.net/) Scholink (http://www.scholink.org/Home.html) Sci Edit Publications (http://sci‑edit.net/edit/) SciDoc Publishers (http://scidoc.org/index.php) Sciedu Press (http://sciedu.ca/web/) Science & Knowledge Publishing Corporation Limited (http://scik.org/) Science Academy Publisher (http://www.sciacademypublisher.com/) Science Alert (http://scialert.net/index.php) Science and Education Centre of North America (http://www.todayscience.org/) Science and Education Publishing (http://www.sciepub.com/portal/Home) Science and Engineering Publishing Company (http://www.seipub.org/) The Science and Information Organization (http://thesai.org/) (SAI) Science and Technology Publishing (http://www.scitecpub.com/) Science Education Foundation (http://www.ejournalnet.com/) Science Instinct Publications (http://www.sciipub.com/) Science Journal Publication (http://www.sjpub.org/) (SJP) Science Park Journals (http://scienceparkjournals.com/)


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Science Publications (http://www.thescipub.com/) Science Publishing Group (http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/home/index.aspx) Science Publishing Corporation (http://www.sciencepubco.com/) Science Record Journals (http://www.sciencerecord.com/) Science Target (http://www.sciencetarget.com/) Science Web Publishing (http://www.sciencewebpublishing.net/) ScienceDomain International (http://www.sciencedomain.org/) ScienceHuβ (http://www.scihub.org/index.html) Scienpress Ltd. (http://www.scienpress.com/Default.asp) Scientific & Academic Publishing (http://www.sapub.org/journal/index.aspx) Scientific and Academic Publication (http://www.sapublications.com/) Scientific Advances Publishers (http://scientificadvancespublishers.com/) Scientific Journals (http://www.scientific‑journals.co.uk/) Scientific Journals International (http://www.scientificjournals.org/) Scientific Online Publishing (http://www.scipublish.com/) Scientific Perspectives Publishing (http://waprogramming.com/index.php) (Scipers) Scientific Research Publishing (http://www.scirp.org/) (SCIRP) Scientific Viewers (http://www.scientificviewers.com/) Scigmoid (http://www.scigmoid.com/index.php) Sciknow (http://www.sciknow.org/) SciTechnol (http://scitechnol.com/) ScottishGroup Education and Testing Services (http://scottishjournal.co.uk/) Scribes Guild (http://www.scribesguildjournals.org/journals.html) Segment Journals (http://www.segmentjournals.com/) SETScholars (http://www.setscholars.org/) Seventh Sense Research Group Journals (http://www.internationaljournalssrg.org/index.html) Signpost e Journals (http://www.journals.academicpursuits.us/) Silicon Valley Publishers (http://www.svpublishers.co.uk/) SPIRI The Global Research (http://www.spiri.org/) SJournals (http://www.sjournals.com/) Sky Journals (http://skyjournals.org/index.html) SmartPub (http://smatpub.com/Journals.php) (International Academy of Energy, Minerals and Materials) Society for Science and Nature (http://scienceandnature.org/index.php) Society of Business Research (https://www.sbrconferences.com/Home.html) Society of Engineering Science and Technology (http://www.sestindia.org/) (SEST India) Sphinx Knowledge House (http://sphinxsai.com/) Spring Journals (http://www.springjournals.net/) South Asian Academic Research Journals (http://www.saarj.com/index.html) Southern Cross Publishing Group (http://www.sciencej.com/submit.html) The Standard International Journals (http://www.thesij.com/) Standard Research Journals (http://standresjournals.org/index.html) STM Journals (http://stmjournals.com/index.html) Stringer Open (http://www.stringeropen.com/) Suryansh Publications (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/www.suryanshpublications.inf) Swiss Journals (http://www.swissjournals.org/) Symbiosis (http://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/index.php)(Symbiosis Online Publishing) Synergy Publishers (http://www.synergypublishers.com/)


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T&S Journal PUblications (http://tands‑journal‑publications.com/) Technical Journals Online (http://www.technicaljournalsonline.com/index.html) Technopark Publications (http://technoparkpublications.com/) Textroad Journals (http://www.textroad.com/) Thavan E ACT International Journals (http://www.thavan.org/) TI Journals (http://waprogramming.com/) Time Journals (http://www.timejournals.org/) Tomas Publishing (http://tomaspubs.com/) Topclass Global Journals (http://www.topclassglobaljournals.org/) Trade Science, Inc (http://www.tsijournals.com/) Trans Stellar (http://www.tjprc.org/index.php) (Transstellar) Transaction Series on Engineering Sciences and Technologies (http://www.tsest.org/) Transnational Research Journals (http://universalresearchjournals.org/) (formerly Universal Research Journals) TSPublications (https://sites.google.com/a/tspublications.org/tspublications/home) [Link dead as of 2013‑08‑23] U.S. Science Press (http://usspress.com/) Unique Research Journals (http://www.uniqueresearchjournals.org/index.htm) Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers (http://uacee.org/)(UACEE) Universal Association of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineers (http://uamae.org/) (UAMAE) Universal Research Publications (http://urpjournals.com/contactus.php) Valleys International (http://valleys.co.in/) VBRI Press (http://www.vbripress.com/aboutus.aspx) Whites Science Journals (http://whitesscience.com/Default.aspx) Victorquest Publications (http://victorquestpub.com/) Watch Plus (http://www.watchpub.org/index.htm) We‑Together to Save Yourself Society (http://www.sospublication.co.in/index.php) Wilolud Journals (http://www.wiloludjournal.com/page.php?3) Wireilla Scientific Publications (http://wireilla.com/) World Academic Journal of Business & Applied Science (http://wajbas.webs.com/)s (WAJBAS Publishing) [Publisher] World Academic Publishing (http://www.academicpub.org/) World Academic Union (http://www.worldacademicunion.com/default.html) World Academy of Research and Publication (http://www.warponline.org/) World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (http://www.waset.org/publications.php) (WASET) World Business Institute (http://www.wbiworld.org/) Also here: http://www.wassco.org/ (http://www.wassco.org/) World Journal of Publisher (http://www.wjp.co.in/) (WJP) World Open Access Journals (http://www.woaj.org/) World Scholars (http://wscholars.com/) World Science Publisher (http://www.worldsciencepublisher.org/index.php) World Science Research Journals (http://www.wsrjournals.org/) (WSR Journals) World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (http://www.wseas.org/) (WSEAS) World Standard Organization (http://standard.org/) Wudpecker Research Journals (http://www.wudpeckerresearchjournals.org/) Wyno Academic Journals (http://www.wynoacademicjournals.org/index.html)


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Academic Exchange Quarterly (http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/) Academicus International Scientific Journal (http://www.academicus.edu.al/) Academy of Contemporary Research Journal (http://aocrj.org/)(AOCRJ) Acta de Gerencia Ciencia (http://www.cagena.com/) (CAGENA) Advances in Forestry Letter (http://www.afl‑journal.org/index.aspx) Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences (http://ajms.alameenmedical.org/) (AJMS) American Journal of Advanced Drug Delivery (http://www.ajadd.co.uk/) American Journal of Advances in Medical Science (http://www.arnaca.com/) (ARNACA) American Journal of Engineering Research (http://www.ajer.us/index.html) American Journal of Pharmacy and Health Research (http://www.ajphr.com/) (AJPHR) American Journal of PharmTech Research (http://www.ajptr.com/) (AJPTR) American Journal of Phytomedicine and Clinical Therapeutics (http://www.ajpct.org/) American Journal of Social issues and Humanities (http://www.ajsih.in/index.php/ajsih/index) American Research Journal (http://www.abrj.org/) Anglisticum (http://www.anglisticum.mk/index.php): International Journal of Literature, Linguistics & Interdisciplinary Studies Archives Des Sciences Journal (http://www.sciencesarchive.com/) Archives of Pharmacy Practice (http://www.archivepp.com/) ARNACA American Journal of Advances in Medical Science (http://arnaca.com/) Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.jbiopharm.com/index.php/ajbp) Asian Journal of Health and Medical Sciences (http://www.ajhms.org/) Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (http://ajhss.org/) Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences (http://www.ajbms.org/index.php) (AJBMS) Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (http://ajphs.com/) Asian Journal of Pharmacy and Life Science (http://www.ajpls.com/index.html) Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care (http://jprhc.in/index.php) (AJPRHC) Australasian Journal of Herpetology (http://www.smuggled.com/AJHFP1.htm) Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (http://www.ajbasweb.com/) Australian Journal of Business and Management Research (http://www.ajbmr.com/index.php) (AJBMR) Ayupharm: International Journal of Ayurveda and Allied Sciences (http://www.ayurpharm.com/) The Bioscan (http://www.thebioscan.in/index.htm) Bioresearch Bulletin (http://bioresonline.org/) Bioscience Discovery (http://biosciencediscovery.com/index.html#gsc.tab=0) Biosciences, Biotechnology Research Asia (http://www.biotech‑asia.org/) (BBRA) British Biomedical Bulletin (http://bbbulletin.org/) British Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences (http://www.ajournal.co.uk/BJEFM.htm) British Journal of Science (http://www.ajournal.co.uk/index.htm) Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences & Applications (http://www.bmsa.us/index.php) Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Research (http://journal.appconnect.in/)


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39. Bulletin of Society for Mathematical Services and Standards (http://www.jsomass.com/index.php) 40. Calodema (http://www.calodema.com/) 41. Canadian Chemical Transactions (http://canchemtrans.ca/) 42. Case Studies Journals (http://www.casestudiesjournal.com/) 43. Chemical Science Transactions (http://www.e‑journals.in/) 44. Computer Science Chronicle (http://www.cschronicle.org/) 45. Computer Science Journal (http://comsj.org/) 46. The Criterion: An International Journal in English (http://www.the‑criterion.com/) 47. Current Biotica (http://www.currentbiotica.com/) 48. Current Discovery (http://www.ijcdi.com/) 49. Current Trends in Technology and Sciences (http://www.ctts.in/) (CTTS) 50. Direct Research Journals (http://directresearchjournals.org/index.html) 51. E‑Library Science Research Journal (http://lsrj.in/Default1.aspx) 52. ExcelingTech Publishing Company, Ltd. (http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/) 53. Elixir International Journal (http://www.elixirpublishers.com/) (formerly Elixir Online Journal (http://www.elixirjournal.org/)) 54. FOREX Technical Journal Library (http://www.forexjournal.co.in/Index.aspx) 55. Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering (http://www.fae‑journal.org/index.aspx) 56. Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (http://www.galaxyimrj.com/) 57. Global Journal of Management Science and Technology (http://gjmst.com/index.htm) 58. Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health (http://www.gjmedph.org/) 59. Golden Research Thoughts (http://www.aygrt.isrj.net/) 60. Indian Journal of Applied‑Basic Medical Sciences (http://www.themedicalacademy.in/) 61. Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Research (http://ijpbr.in/) (IJPBR) 62. Indian Journal of Research Anvikshiki (http://www.anvikshikijournal.com/) 63. Indian Journal of Research in Pharmacy and Biotechnology (http://www.ijrpb.com/) (IJRPB) 64. Indian Journal of Scientific Research (http://www.ijsr.in/index.php)(IJSR) 65. Indian Streams Research Journal (http://www.isrj.net/Default.aspx) 66. Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (http://www.iajpr.com/) 67. Indo‑Global Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://iglobaljournal.com/) 68. Innovations in Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacotherapy (http://www.innpharmacotherapy.com/Default.aspx) (IPP) 69. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business (http://ijcrb.webs.com/) 70. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business (http://www.idjrb.com/index.php) (IDJRB) 71. International Ayurvedic Medical Journal (http://www.iamj.in/) (IAMJ) 72. The International Asian Research Journal (http://www.tiarj.com/)(TIARJ) 73. International Design Journal (http://www.journal.faa‑design.com/index.htm) 74. The International Interdisciplinary Journal of Education (http://iijoe.org/) (IIJE) 75. International Journal of Advanced Engineering Applications (http://fragrancejournals.com/) 76. International Journal of Advanced Research (http://www.journalijar.com/index.php) 77. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering (http://www.ijarcce.com/) (IJARCCE) 78. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering (http://ijarcsee.org/index.php/IJARCSEE) (IJARCSEE) 79. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering (http://www.ijarcsse.com/) (IJARCSSE) 80. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science & Technology (http://www.ijarcst.com/index.html) (IJARCST) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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81. International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering (http://www.ijareeie.com/) (IJAREEIE) 82. International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Research (http://www.ijater.com/) (IJATER) 83. International Journal of Advancements in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering (http://www.ijamae.uamae.org/editorial_board.html) 84. International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology (http://www.ijoart.org/) (IJOART) 85. International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (http://www.ijaet.org/) (IJAET) 86. International Journal of Advances in Power Systems (http://www.ijaps.org/Index/)(IJAPS) 87. International Journal of Agriculture and Crop Sciences (http://ijagcs.com/) (IJACS) 88. International Journal of Agricultural Management & Development (http://www.ijamad.com/) 89. International Journal of Agronomy & Plant Production (http://www.ijappjournal.com/) 90. International Journal of Applied Biology and Pharmaceutical Technology (http://www.ijabpt.com/index.html) (IJABPT) 91. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature (http://www.ijalel.org/Default.aspx) 92. International Journal of Applied Research & Studies (http://www.ijars.in/) (iJARS) 93. International Journal of Applied Research & Studies (http://www.ijars.in/) (iJARS) 94. International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology (http://ijasbt.org/)(IJASBT) 95. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Mechatronic (http://www.ijaim.org/)s 96. International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research (http://ijapr.in/) 97. International Journal of Bio (http://www.ijobio.com/) (IJOBIO) 98. International Journal of Biomedical Science (http://www.ijbs.org/HomePage.aspx) 99. International Journal of Business and Commerce (http://www.ijbcnet.com/) 100. International Journal of Bussiness and Management Invention (http://www.ijbmi.org/index.html) 101. International Journal of Business and Social Research (http://www.ijbsr.org/) 102. International Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.ijcps.com/) (IJCPS) 103. International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security (http://www.ijcnis.org/) (IJCNIS) 104. International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (http://www.ijceronline.com/editorial‑board.html) 105. International Journal of Computer & Electronics Research (http://ijcer.org/) (IJCER) 106. International Journal of Computer and Information Technology (http://www.ijcit.com/) (IJCIT) 107. International Journal of Computer Applications (http://www.ijcaonline.org/) 108. International Journal of Computer Application and Engineering Technology (http://www.ijcaet.net/) (IJCAET) 109. International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Sciences (http://www.caesjournals.org/) (IJCAES) 110. International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics (http://www.ijcsbi.org/index.php/ijcsbi) 111. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/) 112. International Journal of Computer Science and Network (http://ijcsn.org/) (IJCSN) 113. International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (http://ijcsns.org/)(IJCSNS) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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114. International Journal of Computer Science Engineering (http://www.ijcse.net/index.php) (IJCSE) 115. International Journal of Computer Science Issues (http://ijcsi.org/index.php) 116. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (http://www.ijcmas.com/) 117. International Journal of Current Research (http://www.journalcra.com/) 118. International Journal of Current Research and Academic Review (http://www.ijcrar.com/) (IJCRAR) 119. International Journal of Current Research and Review (http://www.ijcrr.com/current_issue.html) 120. International Journal of Current Science (http://currentsciencejournal.info/index.html) 121. International Journal of Development and Sustainability (http://isdsnet.com/ijds/)(IJDS) 122. International Journal of Development Research (http://www.journalijdr.com/) 123. International Journal of Drug Development and Research (http://www.ijddr.in/) (IJDDR) 124. International Journal of E‑Computer Science Evolution (http://www.ijecse.com/) 125. International Journal of Economics and Research (http://www.ijeronline.com/) 126. The International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment (https://sites.google.com/site/tijepa2012/home) 127. International Journal of Electrochemical Science (http://www.electrochemsci.org/) 128. International Journal of Electronics and Computer Research (http://www.ijecr.com/) (IJECR) 129. International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering (http://www.ijecce.org/) 130. International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Technology (http://www.ijecct.org/index.htm) (IJECCT) 131. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (http://ijes.info/index.html) (IJES) 132. International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering (http://www.ijetae.com/index.html) 133. International Journal of Energy & Technology (http://www.journal‑enertech.eu/) 134. International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (http://www.ijeat.org/) (IJEAT) 135. International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (http://eaas‑journal.org/) 136. International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science (http://www.ijecs.in/) (IJECS) 137. International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (http://ijeit.com/index.php) (IJEIT) 138. International Journal of Engineering and Management Research (http://www.ijemr.net/) (IJEMR) 139. The IJES: The International Journal of Engineering and Science (http://www.theijes.com/) 140. International Journal of Engineering and Science Invention (http://www.ijesi.org/index.html) (IJESI) 141. International Journal of Engineering Inventions (http://www.ijeijournal.com/index.html) 142. International Journal of Engineering Research (http://www.ijer.in/ijer/) 143. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (http://www.ijera.com/index.html) 144. International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (http://www.ijerd.com/) (IJERD) 145. International Journal of Engineering Research and Science & Technology (http://www.ijerst.com/index.php) (IJERST) 146. International Journal of Engineering Science & Advanced Technology (http://ijesat.org/) 147. International Journal of Engineering Science and Innovative Technology http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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148. 149. 150. 151. 152. 153. 154. 155. 156. 157. 158. 159. 160. 161. 162. 163. 164. 165. 166. 167. 168. 169. 170. 171. 172. 173. 174. 175. 176. 177. 178. 179.


(http://www.ijesit.com/) (IJESIT) International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology (http://www.ijest‑ng.com/) International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology (http://www.ijesrt.com/index.html) (IJESRT) International Journal of English and Education (http://ijee.org/) International Journal of English Language & Translation Studies (http://eltsjournal.org/) (IJ‑ ELTS) International Journal of Farming and Allied Sciences (http://ijfas.com/) International Journal of Fundamental & Applied Sciences (http://www.bma.org.in/IJFAS.aspx) International Journal of Governance (http://www.ijgovernance.com/) International Journal of Health Research (http://www.ijhr.org/) International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (http://www.ijhsr.org/) International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (http://www.ijhssi.org/) (IJHSSI) International Journal of Humanities, Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://ijheps.org/) International Journal of Information and Communication Research (http://www.ijicr.com/) International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research (http://esjournals.org/index.php) International Journal of Information Technology & Business Management (http://www.jitbm.com/) International Journal of Information Technology & Computer Science (http://ijitcs.com/) (IJITCS) International Journal of Innovative Ideas (http://www.publishtopublic.com/) International Journal of Innovative Research and Development (http://www.ijird.com/) International Journal of Innovative Research and Studies (http://www.ijirs.com/) International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering (http://www.ijitee.org/) (IJITEE) International Journal of Inventions in Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.ijips.net/)(IJIPS) International Journal of Language Learning and Applied Linguistics World (http://www.ijllalw.org/) International Journal of Latest Research in Engineering and Computing (http://www.ijlrec.com/) (IJLREC) International Journal of Life science and Pharma Research (http://www.ijlpr.com/) International Journal of Life Sciences Biotechnology and Pharma Research (http://www.ijlbpr.com/index.php) (IJLBPR) The International Journal of Management (http://www.theijm.com/) International Journal of Management and Business Studies (http://ijmbs.com/) (IJMBS) International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences (http://www.ijmess.com/index.php) (IJMESS) International Journal of Management Research and Business Strategy (http://www.ijmrbs.com/) (IJMRBS) International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research (http://www.ijmsbr.com/) (IJMSBR) International Journal of Mathematical Research & Science (http://www.ijmrs.org/) International Journal of Mathematics and Soft Computing (http://www.ijmsc.com/index.php/ijmsc/index) (IJMSC) International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health


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(http://www.ijmsph.com/) (IJMSPH) International Journal of Medical Sciences and Health Care (http://www.ijmshc.com/) (IJMSHC) International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (http://ijmrhs.com/)(IJMRHS) International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research (http://ijmbr.com/index.php) International Journal of Medicine and Biosciences (http://www.ijmbonline.com/) International Journal of Medicobiologial Research (http://www.ijmedres.com/) International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (http://www.ijmer.com/) (IJMER) International Journal of Novel Drug Delivery Technology (http://www.scopemed.org/? jid=15) International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences (http://www.ijpbs.net/index.html) (IJPBS) International Journal of Pharmaceutical & Research Science (http://www.ijprsjournal.com/index.html) (IJPRS Journal) International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research (http://www.pharmscidirect.com/) International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Phytopharmacological Research (http://www.eijppr.com/) (eIJPPR) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (http://www.ijprd.com/) (IJPRD) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Science Invention (http://www.ijpsi.org/) (IJPSI) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research (http://www.ijpsdr.com/index.htm) International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (http://www.ijpsr.com/index.html)(IJPSR) International Journal of Pharmacy (http://www.pharmascholars.com/) International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology (http://www.ijptonline.com/) (IJPT) International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences (http://www.ijpaes.com/) International Journal of Power Electronics Engineering (http://www.ijpee.com/index.php/ijpee) International Journal of Recent Scientific Research (http://www.recentscientific.com/) International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (http://www.ijrte.org/) (IJRTE) International Journal of Recent Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering (http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑ journals/International%20Journal%20of%20Recent%20trends%20in%20Electrical%20&%20Electron International Journal of Research and Innovation in Computer Engineering (http://www.ijrice.com/) (IJRICE) International Journal of Research Development (http://forefrontcorpo.wix.com/ijord)(IJORD) International Journal of Research in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (http://www.ijrame.com/) (IJRAME) International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy (http://www.ijrap.net/) International Journal of Research in Computer Science (http://www.ijorcs.org/) International Journal of Research in Computer Technology (http://www.opusinfo.in/ijrct/index.php/ijrct/information/readers) International Journal of Research in Engineering and Advanced Technology (http://www.ijreat.org/) (IJREAT) International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology (http://ijret.org/)(IJRET) International Journal of Research in Medical and Dental Sciences (https://edas.info/web/ijrmds/index.html) International Journal of Reviews in Computing (http://www.ijric.org/index.php)


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212. International Journal of Science and Advanced Technology (http://www.ijsat.com/) (IJSAT) 213. International Journal of Science and Technology (http://ejournalofsciences.org/) 214. International Journal of Science Commerce and Humanities (http://www.ijsch.com/journaluk/Publisher‑69) (IJSCH) 215. International Journal of Science Innovations and Discoveries (http://www.ijsidonline.info/) 216. International Journal of Sciences (http://www.ijsciences.com/) (IJSciences) 217. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research (http://www.ijstr.org/) 218. International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (http://www.ijser.org/) (IJSER) 219. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (http://www.ijsrp.org/) (IJSRP) 220. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology (http://ijset.com/ijset/) 221. International Journal of Scientific Research and Application (http://ijsra.com/) (IJSRA Publishing) 222. International Journal of Scientific Research in Education (http://www.ijsre.com/) 223. The International Journal of Social Sciences (http://www.tijoss.com/index.html) (TIJOSS) 224. International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (http://www.ijsce.org/) 225. International Journal of Sport Studies (http://ijssjournal.com/) (IJSS) 226. International Journal of Technical Research and Applications (http://www.ijtra.com/index.php) (IJTRA) 227. International Journal of Trends in Economics Management and Technology (http://www.ijtemt.org/)(IJTEMT) 228. International Journal of Universal Pharmacy and Bio Sciences (http://www.ijupbs.com/Home.aspx)(IJUPBS) 229. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication (http://ijritcc.org/) (IJRITCC) 230. International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (http://www.irjes.com/) (IRJES) 231. International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences (http://www.irjabs.com/en/) (IRJABS) 232. International Research Journal of Applied Finance (https://irjaf.com/) 233. International Research Journal of Pharmaceutical and Applied Sciences (http://www.irjpas.com/) (IRJPAS) 234. International Researchers (http://iresearcher.org/index.html) 235. Journal der Pharmazie Forschung (http://www.rapsr.com/) (RAPSR) 236. Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine (http://www.aimjournal.org/index.php) 237. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (http://www.jpands.org/) (JPANDS) 238. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences (http://www.m.elewa.org/JAPS/) (Nairobi, Kenya) 239. Journal of Applied Pharmacy (http://japharmacy.com/master/Default.aspx) 240. Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science (http://www.japsonline.com/index.php) 241. Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacy (http://jbclinpharm.com/default.aspx) [Link dead as of 2013‑05‑06] 242. Journal of Behavioral Sciences in Asia (http://www.joursa.com/) 243. Journal of Bio Innovation (http://www.jbino.com/index.htm) 244. Journal of Business Management and Applied Economics (http://jbmae.scientificpapers.org/) 245. Journal of Business Research (http://isarder.org/eng/) (İşletme Araştırmaları Dergisi)0 246. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://jchps.com/) 247. Journal of Computing (http://www.journalofcomputing.org/) 248. Journal of Coastal Life Medicine (http://jclmm.com/) 249. Journal of Cosmology (http://journalofcosmology.com/) 250. Journal of Current Pharma Research (http://www.cpronline.in/) 251. Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences (http://cisjournal.org/) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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252. Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics (http://www.jeltal.com/) (JELTAL) 253. Journal of Environmental Hydrology (http://www.hydroweb.com/journal‑hydrology.html) 254. Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (http://www.jgrcs.info/index.php/jgrcs) (JGRCS) 255. Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary (http://www.jiarm.com/home.html)(JIARM) 256. Journal of International Management Studies (http://www.jimsjournal.org/index.html) 257. Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology (http://www.scientificpapers.org/) 258. Journal of Medical Research and Practice (http://jmrp.info/index.php/jmrp) (JMRP) 259. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (http://www.jpbms.info/) (JPBMS) 260. Journal of Science Editing (http://journalofscienceediting.org/) 261. Journal of Scientific Theory and Methods (http://journalofscientifictheoryandmethods.com/) 262. Kashmir Economic Review (http://ker.ajku.edu.pk/) 263. The Macrotheme Review (http://macrotheme.com/home) 264. Mathematical and Computational Applications (http://mcajournal.cbu.edu.tr/) (MCA) 265. Modern Behavioral Science (http://pwriters.com/index.php/mbs/index) 266. The Modern Journal of Applied Linguistics (http://www.mjal.org/index.htm) (MJAL) 267. National Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (http://njbms.com/) 268. National Journal of Medical and Dental Research (http://njmdr.org/) 269. 270. Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology (http://www.computerscijournal.org/) 271. People’s Journal of Scientific Research (http://www.pjsr.org/Home.html) 272. The Pharma Research (Journal) (http://www.thepharmaresearch.info/) 273. Pharmacologia (http://pharmacologia.co.uk/) 274. PharmacologyOnline (http://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/front) (PhOL) 275. PHARMANEST: An International Journal of Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.pharmanest.net/) 276. Plant Digest (http://plantdigest.co.uk/index.php) 277. Reef Resources Assessment and Management Technical Paper (http://behaviorsciences.com/) 278. Research Directions (http://researchdirection.org/Default.aspx): International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (Research Directions Journal 279. Research in Biotechnology (http://www.researchinbiotechnology.com/home) 280. Research Inventy: International Journal of Engineering and Science (http://www.researchinventy.com/index.html) 281. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences (http://www.rjpbcs.com/index.html) (RJPBCS) 282. Researchers World – Journal of Arts Science & Commerce (http://www.researchersworld.com/index.html) 283. Review of Research (http://www.ror.isrj.net/) 284. Reviews of Progress (http://reviewsofprogress.org/) 285. Romanian Biotechnological Letters (http://ebooks.unibuc.ro/biologie/RBL/index.html) 286. Science International (http://www.scienceinternational.com/) 287. Science Park (http://www.scienceparks.in/Default.aspx) 288. Science Research Reporter (http://www.jsrr.in/) 289. Science Reuters (http://www.sciencereuters.com/) 290. Scientific World (http://scientificworld.co.uk/) 291. Seventh Sense Research Group Journal (http://ssrgj.blogspot.com/) 292. South Asian Journal of Mathematics (http://www.sajm.com.nu/index.htm) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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293. Tactful Management Research Journal (http://tmgt.lsrj.in/) (TMRJ) 294. Technics Technologies Education Management (http://www.ttem.ba/index.html) 295. Universal Journal of Applied Computer Science and Technology (http://uniascit.in/index.php) 296. Universal Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Technology (http://www.unicse.org/) (UniCSE) 297. Universal Journal of Pharmacy (http://www.ujponline.com/) (UJP Online) 298. Weekly Science International Research Journal (http://www.weeklyscience.org/Default.aspx) 299. World Applied Sciences Journal (http://www.wasj.org/) 300. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (http://www.wjpr.net/) (WJPR) 301. World Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.wjpps.com/fromeditordesl.php) (WJPPS) 302. World Journal of Science and Technology (http://worldjournalofscience.com/) (WJST) This entry was posted on Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 at 9:26 AM and is filed under article processing charges, Scholarly Open‑Access Publishers, Unethical Practices. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

1,067 Responses to List of Predatory Publishers 2014 Samir Hachani says: January 2, 2014 at 9:33 AM Quite an impressive list indeed !!! Jeffrey is too modest: he has almost single handedly uncover these so called publishers. His work is simply great !!!! I find in his list an incommensurable source.Keep up the good work , Jeff and happy new year debunking the falsies !!!! i Rate This

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Reply rbb says: January 2, 2014 at 5:55 PM Still, most the “big name” or established scientific journals charge a lot. This is due to production by publishers that make a profit (not a bad thing yet fees seem high). These lists are helpful but many review committees etc may not have them handy. To me (a senior scientist), I would assign a value of zero to some of these titles. Thus, if I was reviewing a colleague for promotion, tenure and the like, I would give higher value to established journals and those that appear legit (have anonymous peer review). http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply John says: January 2, 2014 at 6:55 PM Thanks for your work.

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Reply Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin says: January 2, 2014 at 9:33 PM Thank you Jeffrey Beall for your continued efforts to establish order in publishing articles. Wish you a very Happy New Year 2014! I like to publish this post in my website,www.connecttask.com for further dissemination.I hope you will accord permission to publish. I will publish the full article with your name and cite the link in my website. Best regards, Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 3, 2014 at 6:35 AM Sure, feel free to copy the post. Happy New Year. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin says: January 3, 2014 at 10:59 AM You are welcome,dear friend. i Rate This

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Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin says: January 3, 2014 at 12:15 PM The post has been published in my website,www.connecttask.com at the following link: http://connecttask.com/blog/2014/01/04/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014‑by‑jeffrey‑ beallpublished‑for‑further‑dissemination/ Zainul i Rate This

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Dr Abou Togola says: January 6, 2014 at 12:21 AM Dear JB let me wish you a happy new year 2014. Thank you so much for your useful job. Could you tell me if the Journal of Insects is a good journal or a predator (http://www.hindawi.com/journals/insects/ ) Have a nice day. i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: January 6, 2014 at 7:07 AM That journal is not listed as a predatory journal. Happy New Year http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Uche E says: February 20, 2014 at 7:22 AM Good day, Jeffrey. If I have already published an article in any of the predatory open‑access journals, what do I do?

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Botto d’inizio anno – Ocasapiens ‑ Blog ‑ Repubblica.it says: January 3, 2014 at 1:34 PM […] Beall ha pubblicato il nuovo elenco dei predoni dell’Open […] i Rate This

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Reply Ogwo says: January 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM Thanks for this update. Indeed, from the questionable publisher list, it is clear that this has become a growth industry. What a shame! Is it possible to be further guided with a list of fairly acceptable publishers, in the general area of Business and Management Studies? i Rate This

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Reply Bhaskar says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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January 3, 2014 at 11:59 PM Thanks Jeff. This is the my first visit to your list… Mixed feelings! I have two papers with publishers that feature on this list, viz. Academic Journals and Medwell Journals. Could it be possible (being optimistic) that some of the journals (lets say those that published my papers) by these publishers are not as malafide? I published one paper with Medwell Journals in ‘Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances’ that claims to have an IF=0.39. The manuscript underwent rigorous review; I was asked to include more statistical treatment of my data and add more papers to the discussion and even re‑format some of the references cited. However, when they published it, they misspelt one of the table legends as ‘Tabel No. 1′. The other paper in ‘African Journal of Mirobiology Research’ did not ‘bother’ me much; they simply asked me to explain few points and justify my conclusions in greater detail. This journal also claims to have an IF = 0.7; in fact, they do not claim but I found this IF for the journal on ResearchGate. Moreover, both these journals have a very fair metric (6.8 and 7 out of 10, respectively) in the NAAS journal index maintained by National Academy of Agricultural Research, India – the source from where I learnt about these journals and also the major reason why I submitted to them. I shall be happy to know your views on these two journals. Thanks again.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 4, 2014 at 8:07 AM I have heard that Thomson Reuters, the publisher of Journal Citation Reports, has removed the impact factor for the Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances. Also, I do not see the African Journal of Microbiology Research as having an impact factor at all. I looked this up in JCR and present here a selection from their list. The journal would fall here if it were on the list: AFRICAN INVERTEBRATES AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE African Journal of Psychiatry AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines African Natural History http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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I still recommend that researchers not submit any papers to the journals published by Medwell Journals and by Academic Journals. Thanks.

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Reply Joris says: August 26, 2014 at 8:27 AM When looking at impact factor, ResearchGate is not a good source. In fact, although I’m on ResearchGate I found already quite some flaws in their system and the information they give. If you look at the golden standard we use (i.e. the Web of knowledge), there’s no reference to either journal. The impact factors we take into account here, are those reported by Web of Knowledge. If a journal is not mentioned there, it’s not considered a scientific peer‑reviewed journal.

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Reply Victor says: October 7, 2014 at 4:30 AM Joris, you are wrong. You are wrong when you say “if a journal is not indexed in Web of Knowledge, it’s not considered a scientific peer‑reviewed journal”. I know a handful of quality peer‑reviewed journal indexed in PubMed, Scopus, DOAJ, Informit, etc but not in web of knowledge or science. i Rate This

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Corey Allen says: January 4, 2014 at 2:28 AM Hey Jefferey, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Thanks for the update. However there are several predators you have missed. SciHub (scihub.org), they first used an address of Lasani Town, Faisalabad Pakistan but when I questioned them to confirm, they changed their contact details to a PO Box in connecticut. They also have major grammar errors and their website doesn’t work properly. Another is AENSI web (aensiweb.com) they were first called INSIpub, then they changed to AENSI. They have a series of conferences which if you see are definately not authentic (they dont even have a url). We have plenty like eSci Journals Publishing (escijournals.net). From the address you can see this is a scam. It is in a house in a town in Islamabad Pakistan. You can also judge from the quality of the website. I also did a bit of a research on Bentham. They are actually based in Pakistan and the person behind it is Atta‑ur‑Rehman.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 4, 2014 at 8:14 AM Hello, thanks for your comment. I do have ScienceHuβ on my list — I listed them under their full name that appears at the top of their website. I also have AENSI on my list as well, check here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I would love to hear more about your research on Bentham! If you could share your sources with me that would be great. Thanks.

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Reply Corey Allen says: January 4, 2014 at 5:06 PM Thanks for your comment. Well I attended one of Bentham’s conferences in Dubai and one of their employee showed me a Pakistani man sitting on the stage and told me that’s the person who runs Bentham. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeanne A. Pawitan says: January 16, 2014 at 4:57 AM Hello Mr Beall, I have once publish with Bentham, not the open access option. They did real peer review and ask for a lot of changes. Then my article got accepted, and typed set, and I received the galley proof. After I sent back the galley, they asked me whether or not I would like my article to become highlighted article, etc. Here I attach their offer: 1. RECENT HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES: Authors may opt to publicize their abstracts under the relevant research subject at a cost of US$ 600 for 3 months and US$ 800 for 6 months. 2. IMAGE ON THE FRONT COVER OF THE JOURNAL: Charges for having an image from your article on the front cover of the journal are US$ 800. 3. BANNER AD ADVERTISING – For your article or a job vacancy: Institutions/universities can publish online banner advertisements at US$ 800 at the journal home page for 2 months. (please contact [email protected] for details). 4. COMPANY/SPONSORSHIP LOGO: Company logos can be published on the journal cover page in sponsored issues at a cost of US$ 800. 5. E‑MAIL ADVERTISING: If you want to promote your article through a certain number of emails sent to a targeted audience (for rates please contact [email protected]). From their offer I know that highlighted articles are highlighted because the author pays, not due to merit. I refused their offer, and you know what? 3 days after my refuse, they sent me a letter, that my article contained many grammatical errors, and should be handled by an editing house, and they suggested one, and for that, I have to pay the editing house. I refused their offer, and told them that the 1st reviewer said that the language was OK, and I said them, that if language revision is needed, I prefer to use our own editing house; so I scrutinized the article and found some minor errors and corrected the errors, and sent them back the article, and finally it was published. My conclusion: Bentham tries to make authors pay, though we did not opt for open access. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: January 16, 2014 at 8:08 AM Thank you — this is helpful information. i Rate This

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marioskyriazisMarios Kyriazis says: February 23, 2015 at 4:39 AM I published a ‘Hot Topic’ (9 participating authors) with Bentham Science, in the journal Current Aging Science, here: http://benthamscience.com/journal/contents.php?journalID=cas&issueID=123116 The topics included contributions from respected academics, and the peer review was rigorous. The publication process was as I would expect, rigorous and detailed, including plagiarism checks and other appropriate details. The papers have been published in PubMed first as ePub ahead of print, and then as normal printed publications. There was an option for the author paying for the paper to remain online as an open access but I did not take it. Following this, I accepted their invitation to join the editorial board. Although I receive general emails from time to time about publishing open access papers on payment of author’s fees, I personally don’t see this as a problem. I have no other association with them and don’t know the owner of the publication. i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: February 23, 2015 at 10:48 AM Very good. Bentham Science, a subscription publisher, is not on my list. Bentham Open, an open‑access publisher, is. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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caddisfly2002 says: January 4, 2014 at 10:25 PM Can anyone provide information as to what it is about “Austin Publishing Group” that got them on the list…. PLEASE.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 5, 2014 at 7:15 AM This publisher is deceptive — it claims that it’s from Australia when it’s really based in India.

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Reply Justin Keogh says: July 13, 2014 at 8:12 PM So do you still include Austin Publishing as predatory? I just got an invitation to join the editorial board of one of its journals which is now listed as being in the USA. Austin Publishing Group 3126 Riverside Station BLVD Secaucus, New Jersey 07094 USA Tel: 201‑655‑7075 Email: [email protected] Thanks Justin http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 14, 2014 at 5:07 AM Yes, this publisher is still on my list. I think it is based in India, despite its claiming to be based in Australia previously. I find that its website is currently down, a good thing. i Rate This

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william says: July 18, 2014 at 11:10 PM now Austin publishing group says that they registered in usa . We got and invoice stating to pay and before i got Australian account number and now usa account number . I couldn’t estimate this scientific damage done by these publishers. i Rate This

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Tony says: November 14, 2014 at 10:34 AM They now have a USA address which is actually an apartment building in New Jersey part of a larger apartment complex called xchange. The address is also used for the “SM Group” http://esciencemedicine.com/ebooks/contact.php# which is a supposed science ebook publisher. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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SJ says: August 19, 2014 at 6:01 AM Here is where Austin Pub Group comes from Domain Name:AUSTINPUBLISHINGGROUP.ORG Domain ID: D169444531‑LROR Creation Date: 2013‑08‑16T02:15:36Z Updated Date: 2014‑08‑13T10:50:38Z Registry Expiry Date: 2015‑08‑16T02:15:36Z Sponsoring Registrar:Crazy Domains FZ‑LLC (R1789‑LROR) Registrant ID:R‑013734258‑SN Registrant Name: Ashok Kumar Kata Registrant Organization:Exports And Imports Registrant Street: 1‑63/1 Oppicherla Post, Guntur District Registrant City:Guntur Registrant State/Province:andhra pradesh Registrant Postal Code:522614 Registrant Country:IN Registrant Phone:+91.8790410011 Registrant Phone Ext: Registrant Fax: Registrant Fax Ext: Registrant Email:[email protected] Admin Email:[email protected] so it seems to be based in India

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Reply Manousos Kambouris says: January 23, 2015 at 6:33 AM they are crooks. they sent invitation to publish, when we asked on the fee they said 900$ but due to invitation‑entitled discount just 125$ and after 6 months, without ever sending galley proofs, they contacted the only author of the group based on another city and ask for 620$ (that is 5 times more, without keeping their part of the bargain, which is a publication entailing the proper steps (galley proofing included). http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Andreas says: January 5, 2014 at 2:57 AM Thanks Jeffery for this update. You are surely doing a formidable job that needs to be encouraged. My questions: – With about 477 predatory publishers and 303 predatory journals, are we not heading for a situation where all open access journals will be predatory? It will thus become very daunting for researchers to find an appropriate journal with acceptable ethical standards to publish their findings, if clear guidelines are not set up and published to guide for the choice of a good journal or publisher. – Some publishers are cited as predatory, and not all of the journals they publish are predatory. How then can a choice be made from a journal not cited as predatory but published by a publisher cited as predatory? – In an earlier post here the ‘African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines’ was cited as predatory whereas it is indexed in PUMED which is the most reliable international platform of medical publications. How can this paradox be explained? Happy New Year, and continue in the same direction with the same strength in 2014. Andreas Yaounde‑ Cameroon

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 5, 2014 at 7:20 AM I think there will always be some good quality OA journals. The African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines is not included on my list. i Rate This

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Reply Nana Yaw says: January 5, 2014 at 12:06 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ 33/378 It is quite interesting to note this list again. Well, I have mixed feelings about such list. First,

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It is quite interesting to note this list again. Well, I have mixed feelings about such list. First, this list does what western social science does so well: creation of binary opposites in which the category that is associated with established western institutions is deemed correct/better/standard. Second, OA journals (I mean those that do not charge authors processing fee and still make their articles publicly available) particularly from non‑western societies seem to challenge the old opinion that English, French, and German and their institutions are the epistemic centres for knowledge production and production (this is probably unknown to many young western scholars and the older ones who have taken everything they find in academia for granted as what ought to be or ordained by providence) . Indeed, they have challenged the old view that scientific knowledge production is lower in non‑western societies relative to western societies. Unknown to many western scholars, these journals are springing up in reaction to the view that to be recognized one must publish in western journals. What you don’t realize is that many of them have national reputation and are a reflection of their national self‑ determination. Again, the use of language as one of the criteria of assessment worries me. If you are a native speaker of English , pray that what happened to Latin does not happen to English and Chinese takes over as the next so‑called international language. My English may not be as good as that of a native speaker and I won’t apologize for it. Now I see why Russia and other BRICS countries have their own national citation index; I believe many more separate national citation indices will appear just for simple reason of national self‑determination. And one thing that is also certain is that Jeff’s list will get longer and longer each year because people are just tired of this academic imperialism and want academic independence. Note that many of these journals are part of the calls to indigenize the social sciences and as much as the indigenization fire burns, Jeff you will have a great deal to do. Indeed, things fall apart (Chinua Achibe); the centre can no longer hold and must give way for multi‑epistemic centres of knowledge production and dissemination. So do you think any western journal will publish such style of writing? We know to be published in “Jeff’s acceptable journals”, one must be a “good boy” and not challenge anything but “bad boys” must also publish so the OA journals proliferation. Posterity in their own nations will judge the worth of their work.They represent part of a long struggle for mental emancipation from the shackles of the colonial mentality of reduced self‑esteem and dependency. Well, these are my thoughts. You will want to read Claude Ake’s “Social Science Imperialism” and Kwesi Yankah’s “Globalization and the African Scholar”. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply caddisfly2002 says: January 5, 2014 at 8:16 PM It is very easy to see that you missed the entire point of the blog page and its purpose. This has nothing whatsoever to do with academic or social imperialism. It’s about ethics. If you have to lie and be deceptive in order to gain approval and acceptance in the international community when it comes to “scholarly” activity your sense of “self‑ determination” seriously needs help. That’s a rather twisted view perspective on becoming self‑actualized and/or self‑determined.

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Reply Lincoln says: January 6, 2015 at 1:19 AM I agree with Caddisfly2002 I have today seen the “peer review report” of one of the paper submitted to one of the publishing group in list, the revew is a mak 1‑5 given for attributes, and all is “4” and telling “now pay $xyz and get your paper published in 5 days! My point is there is no issue of imperialism, its between fraud and real. i Rate This

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caddisfly2002 says: January 5, 2014 at 8:44 PM It greatly appears that you missed the entire point of why this list was created to begin with. This has nothing whatsoever to do with academic imperialism or implying that one society is better than another. It’s about integrity and ethics. If you have to lie and be deceptive in order to gain acceptance and approval for what you deem “national self‑determination”, you have some serious issues and you need to get help. With regard to the use of language as being part of the criteria, whatever happen to being responsible and accountable for one’s own work? If a journal or publisher is wanting to be recognized and taken seriously, don’t you think that producing work that is grammatically correct and void of spelling errors is a necessity regardless of the language that it is


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publishing in? That’s what editors are for!!!!! If you don’t have an adequate command of the language in which you are publishing the document then hire an editor who is fluent in the language. It’s NOT that difficult. If those on the list want to be recognized, approved, and legitimized, then they need to stop doing those things that are considered unethical. They should meet the same requirements as any other organization that seeks to thrive in the field of publishing… i.e., conduct themselves in an ethical and professional manner. As far as authors go, if your work is so substandard that you cannot publish in a legitimate journal with a a legitimate publisher and you are not willing to polish your work and do what it takes to make it better, then perhaps you should not be publishing at all. There is plenty of garbage out there for the world to read. We don’t need anyone adding more garbage to the already existing pile. Lastly, keep in mind that when we use the word “academic” we are implying quality and a high standard. Unfortunately, there are way too many people that simply don’t have the ability and are not willing to do what is necessary to foot the bill.

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Reply Nana Yaw says: January 6, 2014 at 2:07 AM Interestingly surprising! Well, I do agree with you about ethics and quality. I do agree that it is annoying to read a paper full of mistakes and false claims. But who defines the standard of ethical behaviour and quality? I was questioning who determines the criteria and based on whose standards. You may not appreciate whatever I said because probably you take most things you came to meet on this earth as given. By my submission, I wanted to draw attention to the fact that there are varied reasons for the proliferation of OA journals: some want to cheat academics who want promotion and others do set up these journals because they want a forum where their academics can engage in discussion about issues of national interest. And these issues are less likely to be of adequate universal interest (where universal is what is of interest to home‑country academics of many of the established journals). So Jeff’s list must distinguish between pay‑and‑publish‑subscribe journals from publish‑and‑subscribe journals. Again, a team should work on such lists as peer review that those journals are accused of not carrying out equally exists; that said, there is the risk that the list may be scientific and “useless”. This is because it doesn’t follow the research protocols that can give users assurance of accuracy and lack of bias. If we claim that We love what Jeff is doing, let’s encourage him to share the methodology used (not a list of criteria) and data by way of publication. Postmodernist philosophy and critical realism question views that empirical world is the real world. Underneath the empirical world is the real world and that needs deconstruction. No wonder critical realists describe the positivist reality as naive realism. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Nana Yaw says: January 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM “Other examples of hidden institutional ethnocentrism can be found in the channels of academic communication, such as journals. Howitt and Owusu‑ Bempah (1994) report that they ‘have been told by white journal editors that the language we use in academic papers is unacceptable and has to be toned‑ down or removed as a condition of acceptance for publication’ (p. 136). Asking for a change in tone, streamlining arguments and other revisions can be used as an instrument to censor papers that use a different voice. This is not censorship in a crude way but it expresses the ‘repressive tolerance’ of Western academia, according to which papers are accepted as long as they are palatable to the mainstream.” Teo and Febbraro (2003) http://www.yorku.ca/tteo/Teo2003Feb.pdf

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Eko Suyono says: January 5, 2014 at 9:47 PM Very important information that We should know..Please always up date the list… tks bell… i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply Jaap Timmer says: January 6, 2014 at 3:57 AM Reblogged this on Culture Matters and commented: Here’s an interesting list of allegedly predatory journals, but even more interesting is the troll of comments below the list. While I tend to agree with those who talk in favour of open‑ access forums, I would, when searching for a journal to publish my article, check this list and of course do some careful research on the journals that attract my attention. i Rate This

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Reply Akademik Ketenpere: Bilim diil Yayın yapalım mıııı? « Benan Eres says: January 6, 2014 at 6:14 AM […] Liste: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/#more‑2846 […] i Rate This

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Reply Erick says: January 6, 2014 at 2:01 PM Have you heard anything about a publisher called “Research Trends.” I got an invitation to submit an article for what I think is an annual “Current Trends in Neurology.” I had an unpublished review article (from my diss. that my advisor let languish) and I figured I’d see if I could dust it off and get it published. After several rounds of emails, I found their manuscript submission to be strange (“send an email to email id: [email protected]“), and I could not locate academic credentials of anyone listed on their editorial board. I DID see a few publications from the journal in PubMed, though. Very strange experience and I ended up not submitting the article to them, but probably wasted a lot of time.


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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 6, 2014 at 2:15 PM Yes, but I don’t think this is an open‑access publisher, so I haven’t fully analyzed it. I do regularly receive emails asking about this publisher, an indication that some at least find it questionable.

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Reply Jeffery Beall Releases “List of Predatory Publishers 2014″ | LJ INFOdocket says: January 6, 2014 at 2:03 PM […] The 2014 list (actually two lists) were posted by Jeffery Beall (U. of Colorado‑Denver) on his Scholarly Open Access blog late last week. There are more than 477 publishers listed. The 2013 list contained 225. […] i Rate This

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Reply Atef Alsarayreh says: January 6, 2014 at 2:39 PM Thanks a lot for all you efforts Jeffery Beall. i Rate This

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Reply Z says: January 6, 2014 at 3:04 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Hi Jeffery,

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Hi Jeffery, Can you please tell me about the status of “International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and Engineering (IJMSE)”. Thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 6, 2014 at 8:03 PM Well, I think this is a very low quality journal. I easily found plagiarism in it. I recommend against submitting papers to this journals.

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Reply Athanase says: August 25, 2014 at 2:31 AM Respected Beall I read your information very interesting. Could you please tell me about the status of – Journal of Renewable Agriculture – Asian Academic Research Journal of Multidisciplinary – Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies – International Research Journal of Horticulture Some of them seem to be located in USA but it seems it is not true. Thanks a lot i Rate This

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Athanase says: August 26, 2014 at 1:42 AM Dear Beall, Thanks a lot for your quick answer. The journals were not included on the list,but the publishers were included on the list. By this I am confused how the publisher is on the list but not the journals. Best regards i Rate This

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bill says: August 26, 2014 at 5:39 AM >I am confused how the publisher is on the list but not the journals Probably because the enormous number of journals appearing each year makes it more practical to give priority to listing publishers. i Rate This

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Shahzad Khan says: January 7, 2014 at 2:36 AM Jeffrey i have two queries about your work. first all open access journals are nor predators, that why i will suggest to do include some paid access journal for example Actual problem of Economics Ukraine based journal has recently removed from JCR. actually one of my paper accepted there but fortunate i came to know on time that it has been removed from JCR. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Secondly there are good journals in open access for example economic insight trends and challenges, Management and Marketing for knowledge society in which i have published my articles they do give a fair double review to articles. well i will suggest that not only criticize open access problems are also exit in paid journals. Please note that i am university lecturer and does not belong to any journal or publisher.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 7, 2014 at 7:25 AM There are many people who are already describing the problems associated with subscription journals such as Actual Problem of Economics. My voice is not needed there. I choose to limit my research and work and commentary in the area of predatory open‑ access scholarly publishers and standalone journals. My goal is to help researchers avoid being scammed by these corrupt publishers.

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Reply Jeanne A. Pawitan says: January 13, 2014 at 10:00 AM Dear Mr Beall, If you only limit on predatory open access, why did you include Trade Science as predatory publisher? Journals from trade science (Biotechnology: an Indian Journal [already vol 7 last year, and already included in scopus], and Biochemistry: an Indian Journal) are not open access. Moreover, they do not charge authors. I have no association with Trade Science or India, You can check it in the editorial board members. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Jeffrey Beall says: January 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM This is a fair question. Thanks for asking it. Trade Science used to be at least partly OA. You are correct that the publisher appears to have switched its model to subscription / toll‑access. It also appears that they have launched a bunch of journals, many of which are mere templates, devoid of any scholarly content. I think an exception is warranted here because I would still like to warn researchers about this publisher. I don’t think it’s a good place to submit good research, and including them in the list will help convey that warning. i Rate This

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Rubin Cohen says: January 7, 2014 at 6:26 AM Hello I follow our website with interest. I would like to share with you the email I had just received. It all looks very legitimate with the publisher’s address being in San Diego. They are “ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research…” Dear Dr XXXXX Greetings for the day! In view of your scientific reputation and trustworthiness in your field, we would like to invite you to submit a short communication/perspective/Research/Review on your research area for publication in our upcoming issue. Clinical Research in Pulmonology is ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research in the fields of Pulmonology & respiration through open Access platform. This open access journal facilitates rapid publication with unlimited dissemination of knowledge to readers. If you are interested, kindly let us know your possible date of submission. Anticipating your kind positive response Sincerely, Mark Victor Editorial Office‑ Clinical Research in Pulmonology JSciMed Central 2952 Market Street, Suite 140 San Diego, California 92102, USA http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 7, 2014 at 7:22 AM Pretty much everything about their email is bogus. The names are fake, and the location is fake. They use a mail forwarding service as their “headquarters.” Their so‑called headquarters used to be in Delaware. I strongly recommend against submitting papers to this bogus publisher.

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Reply Jeanne A. Pawitan says: January 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM Dear Mr. Beall, How did you know that an e‑mail is bogus, and a name or a location is fake? Also, how did you know that their so‑called headquarter is in Delaware, while it is written: 2952 Market Street, Suite 140 San Diego, California 92102, USA? Thank you i Rate This

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Christopher Hekimian says: January 7, 2014 at 12:17 PM I have experience as a contributor with two of the organizations that you list as questionable publishers. First, OMICs Group. I attended and presented at one of their conferences and was very pleased at how professional they were despite their small size. My article was not accepted by their peer review committee. Next, Photon Journal for Public Health. Very professional and did everything they said they would do within the timeframe they promised. They put a lot of good peer‑reviewed comments into my paper and required that I make the changes. They were very professional. Their website needs work. It is difficult to browse articles. In neither case did I find anything questionable about these organizations at all.

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Reply Lynn Pospiech says: January 7, 2014 at 12:58 PM Do you have any insight on the publisher “European Society for Translational Medicine” http://www.eutranslationalmedicine.org/ and/or their journal “New Horizons in Translational Medicine”? The website states that authors can expect a decision or revision request within 2 weeks of manuscript receipt, and also that “After acceptence of manuscript, author will get an invoice for relevant publication/designing charges which should be paid before further processing of the manuscript” but I see no mention of the fees. Their so‑called Executive and Advisory Board lists look suspicious. Thank you for providing this valuable service to the research community!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 7, 2014 at 2:50 PM No, I haven’t heard of this journal before, but your excellent observations certainly have raised my eyebrows. I am going to give this journal a full analysis. They require copyright transfer, yet they charge an undisclosed fee. If you want a PDF of an article you have to pay, but they are available for free on the annoying flash viewer. This is highly questionable. Thanks for letting me know about it.

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Reply fakhariyan says: January 9, 2014 at 2:12 AM Thank you Mr. Beall for your helpful list. Have you heard of the journal Frontiers of Language and Teaching? Is this a predatory journal? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 9, 2014 at 8:10 AM There seem to be several publications with this title. Do you mean the one that is the conference proceedings for the conference with the same name? It appears to be a subscription journal, so I can’t see it, but based on what I can see it looks legitimate.

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Reply Nick H. says: January 9, 2014 at 2:38 PM Thank you for this list. It will be quite the resource for the near future. I have a quick question for you, what about the Journal of Environmental Hydrology makes it questionable (beyond the obvious problems with the website)? Additionally, the have Roger Peebles listed as in charge of the JEH. I am assuming that is the same as the Roger Peebles that is listed on the http://www.gethydrologyjobs.com/ email newsletters and this Roger Peebles https://services.tamu.edu/directory‑search/people/5aa0637f873e8175e9212996acf55feb/ and this Roger Peebles http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/wue/mentor_roger.html? Just interested in your thoughts on this journal and this individual. Thanks.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 9, 2014 at 2:44 PM The journal was added because, at the time of the analysis, the journal required that authors themselves arranged the peer review before submitting the paper to the journal. Additionally, problems were found with duplicate publication and plagiarism. No comment on Dr. Peebles. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Nick H. says: January 9, 2014 at 3:20 PM Thank you for your reply Jeffrey. Good to know that there were problems found of duplication and plagiarism.

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Cuidado com as armadilhas dos periódicos predatórios says: January 14, 2014 at 6:25 AM […] Segundo alguns pesquisadores, existem hoje mais de quatro mil periódicos predatórios sendo publicados, o que representa, no mínimo, um quarto do número de periódicos de acesso livre. Para publicar seus artigos científicos sem muito esforço, são cobradas taxas que variam entre duzentos a três mil dólares. Em muitos casos, os autores só descobrem o “valor da fatura” após a publicação do artigo científico. Uma lista atualizada de títulos de periódicos predatórios é mantida por Jeffrey Beall, bibliotecário da Universidade do Colorado, no blog Scholarly Open Access. […] i Rate This

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Reply Harry Tsapkota says: January 14, 2014 at 9:32 AM Hi Jeff. Could you tell me about International Journal of Forestry Research of Hindawi publication? is it legit???? or predatory??? i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 14, 2014 at 11:01 AM I generally analyze at the publisher level rather than the individual journal level. Hindawi is not on my list of questionable publishers. I do receive complaints about Hindawi, however. They use spam a lot, most of their over 500 journals lack editors in chief, and it seems to be a publisher that focuses just on the authors’ needs and not so much the readers’.

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Reply RMS says: January 21, 2014 at 4:58 PM I had a publication with Hindawi recently published. I felt the peer‑review and copy‑ editing were very professional, so I am satisfied. I am not sure if all journals they publish are the same or not, in my case it was The Scientific World Journal, their largest publication I believe. i Rate This

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RMS says: January 27, 2014 at 5:56 AM I just want to add a few more comments on my experience publishing with Hindawi’s The Scientific World Journal (TSWJ). As I said I am satisfied with the way the paper was handled, especially the speed from submission to publication and the quality of the copy‑editing. I do realize, however, that the peer‑review was a bit “light”. I’ll explain why I feel that way. My co‑authored paper was reporting what can be considered “negative” results, meaning we carried out a series of experiments to test a hypothesis, which turned out not to work. We did this as it had been reported in literature (in a reputable journal), and disseminated in the media, that a new additive would, to put it plainly, make wonders for the reaction I was studying. When we realized that it didn’t work, immediately I started to wonder what journal may be interested in publishing such result. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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I assessed that the more established journal, where I’ve published more “interesting” results, may not be thrilled with this paper. I also imagined that some peer‑reviewers very knowledgeable in the area might give us some trouble with our findings; for example, perhaps disagreeing with our methodology, or giving some other reason why they thought we did something wrong (which we are quite confident we didn’t). Then I received an email from Hindawi, which many people find annoying, but in this case seemed quite inviting. They were offering free publication in TSWJ for all submissions received during one month related to chemical engineering. I looked up the journal and was pleased to see it is indexed in Scopus and has an ISI IF. I also saw that it has a style comparable with PLOS ONE, in that it will publish a wide range of subjects, but even more general. I also liked that subject areas were categorized in the journal, so that all chemical engineering papers, for example, are in their own subdivision. And finally, I was intrigued by the peer‑review model, which is somewhat open (the reviewers names appear on the final paper) and is mainly dependent on reviews by editorial board members. This meant it was unlikely anyone with a vested interest in mineral carbonation (possibly to up the point of a conflict of interest), that could give unnecessary grief over the paper, would review it. So within the month we finalized the paper and submitted two days before the end of the “promotion”. Just over one month later, I got the email with the reviewers’ comments and the editorial decision. It was accepted. So what about the reviewer’s comments? Well, they had a few minor comments (very few in fact, but relevant comments). But the interesting thing was that the decision email said that, and I quote, “changes that you may want to make in order to improve your manuscript before final publication”. The key word is “may”. This apparently means we could have ignored the comments and made no changes. We made the changes, because we saw value, and because we wanted to make sure my published paper was a peer‑reviewed version and not just the submitted manuscript. Not that a submitted manuscript cannot be accepted directly without changes, I actually had two such papers previously published in more established reputable journals. But for this specific paper and journal, I felt we had to do some kind of revision, basically to give reassurance over the negative findings we were reporting. So there you go, my plan to get the negative results published worked, just as I imagined. The conclusion? It appears, from this experience, that TSWJ does not perform as thorough reviewing as some other journals, and does not have a mechanism in place (e.g. a knowledgeable editor‑in‑chief) to ensure that papers get revised according to all the reviewer’s comments. Of course, this is only one paper’s experience. If I submit to them again in the future, I might get another experience. So that’s my two cents on this subject. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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EGPF says: March 25, 2014 at 2:05 AM I have published two papers at Psyche, from Hindawi. I will tell of my experience here. Psyche was a very reputable journal in past decades, especially among researchers working with social insects. Hindawi decided to revive this journal, and spread a good marketing about it, while managing to amass a good list of reputed editors from the field. Also they were good enough to include in their website .pdfs to all papers by Psyche from the old days, all available for free. I thus decided to publish two relevant papers in it as it looked like a very promising growing, open‑acces journal. I was quite satisfied with the quality of peer‑review, and I guess I got reviews from experienced peers in my field. I must mention, however, that they asked me for a list of prospective reviewers, and I do not like this practice by principle. Upon publication problems started to show: there is no editor in chief or handling editor, thus formatting and proofs are made by a series of secretaries with weird names, each at a time, and they kept asking unusual demands on file formats and file names, while including many typos and mistakes in the proofs. This problem hit me when publishing both papers. There was no responsible editor to complain about this, or asking for guidance, only several non‑scientist secretaries. Eventually I managed to publish each paper free of errors, and final quality was good, easy to find, and open‑access. However I must say that my papers did not make the expected impact, suggesting that readers do not really read them or take them seriously enough. I am not sure about the reasons, but maybe because it is an open‑access publisher. After many years since its re‑inauguration, Psyche still does not have an impact factor. In the endpoint, I feel publishing at Psyche from Hindawi was not a good choice. i Rate This

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Psychology researcher says: June 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM I came to this website to see about this journal as I am currently reading a paper from the Scientific World Journal (Hindawi). The study seems good, the results legitimate but I was concerned how well it has been edited/reviewed as the standard of English is awful. The authors obviously do not have English as a first language, but it is unusual to see things published that are this poorly written and hard to follow. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Beall’s 2014 List of Predatory Publishers ‑ Nursing University at Buffalo Libraries says: January 15, 2014 at 7:41 AM […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/ […]

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Reply Muhammad says: January 15, 2014 at 7:30 PM http://www.tesdo.org/Publication.aspx. This is new online publisher, within few months it is completed one year journal publication. It is also showing wrong indexation.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 16, 2014 at 8:08 AM Thank you very much for letting me know about this. I will fully analyze it. i Rate This

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Reply Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun says: January 16, 2014 at 10:05 AM Dear Mr. Beall, Thanks for your outstanding works. I am a tea scientist and want to publish a research article in Journal of Tea Science Research http://bio.sophiapublisher.com/index.php/jtsr/index. Could you please inform me about the journal?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM That journal is published by Sophia Publishing Group Inc., and this publisher is NOT on my list. I think this journal is okay, and it’s nice to see a specialized journal like this. I think it’s better to have a journal like this one than to have a journal title such as the Journal of Plant Science Research.

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Reply Lindy Orthia says: November 14, 2014 at 12:42 AM This journal has now disappeared from the internet and my brief look at the publisher website did not inspire confidence, since none of the ‘staff’ are listed by name, only by position. Perhaps it is worth another look for your list. Incidentally some articles from this journal are retrievable in Google Scholar, adding weight to your argument about its flaws as an academic search engine. I’ll be adding your argument to my annual lecture to undergraduates on the perils of relying on Google Scholar as anything other than a last resort. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Jeffrey Beall says: November 14, 2014 at 5:47 AM Thank you!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 20, 2014 at 5:57 PM No — this is a highly questionable publisher. Its name is Progressive Academic Publishing, UK, and it launched recently with ten journals. I recommend that you NOT submit papers to any of its journals. Thanks for letting me know about this new publisher. i Rate This

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Reply Engjell Imeri says: February 11, 2015 at 1:34 PM Are you sure mr. Beall that this publisher is a Predatory Publishers ? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Les Biesecker says: January 21, 2014 at 9:02 AM Hi all As others have stated, kudos to Mr. Beall, his work is exemplary! I have a suggestion for you all that I have taken up in support of Mr. Beall. Every time I receive one of the endless spam solicitations for one of the companies listed by Mr. Beall, if they claim to have editors with academic affiliations, I look up the editor’s emails and send them the following message and copy the company: Dear Doctors/Professors, I am writing to you regarding your affiliation with XXXX publications. As you may know, this publisher has been designated as a predatory publisher by Mr. Beall, of the University of Colorado. http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls‑list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2013/ There was also a recent exposé of these publishers in Science magazine, demonstrating that many of them will publish worthless manuscripts. I urge you to consider whether your association with this publisher reflects well on your excellent scientific reputations. Les Biesecker P.S. to XXXXX publications – each time you send me this spam, I will write to the editors. I get responses from maybe 1 of 5 of the named scientists – most often to decry that they have no affiliation with the publisher and that they will work to get their name removed. I also copy the company and have received one reply from a publisher claiming that their listing by Mr. Beall is undeserved and that they are appealing. If we make our colleagues aware that we look poorly on such affiliations, this may discourage bogus claims of legitimacy. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 21, 2014 at 9:41 AM This is great!

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Reply John Hilton (@JHeditor) says: January 22, 2014 at 5:50 PM You refer initially to the “gold (author pays) open‑access model”, but gold open access simply means publishing in open access journals, which may or may not involve author payment. I am just interested to know whether all the journals and publishers listed here require payment (the obvious incentive for a predator) or whether there are predators that seek something other than money. (I can imagine that newer efforts may not charge for early articles just to gain some content, to attempt to demonstrate credibility.)

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 22, 2014 at 6:11 PM John, my definition of gold open‑access is different. I recognize the gold OA model (free to readers, authors pay an article processing charge) and the platinum OA model (free to readers and free to authors). I generally try to limit my list to gold OA publishers and journals, following the definition I give here. I agree with your last statement, that new gold OA publishers frequently waive fees just to get some content, and unfortunately, it’s usually pretty bad. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Binder Jose says: January 23, 2014 at 6:22 PM Is “International Journal of Electrochemical Science” really a predatory publication? The ISI impact factor was 3.7 in 2011…

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 23, 2014 at 6:32 PM The current impact factors are the 2012 ones. While that journal may have had an impact factor in 2011, ISI journal citation reports does not list an impact factor for it now. Here are the closest entries, where it would fall: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS It is not uncommon for predatory publishers/journals to lie about having an impact factor. They do this to attract more article submissions.

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Binder Jose says: January 23, 2014 at 6:52 PM Thank you for your response. This journal has lost its impact factor or it was suspended only in 2012?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 23, 2014 at 7:01 PM It may be for just this year, or it may be forever. That will be up to Thomson Reuters, the company that publishes the impact factors. The 2013 impact factor data won’t be published until June, so we won’t know until then. i Rate This

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Reply BASUDEB DALAL says: January 24, 2014 at 4:27 AM Dear Dr, Beall, I have published some papers in Photon Foundation Journals. During sendind, I was not judicious about organization. However, out of Curiosity, I sent a letter to Photon Foundation this morning which is as Follows:

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To the Editor in Chief (s), (1) The Journal of Toxicology and Health (2) The Journal of Public Health (3 ) International Journal of Biochemistry (4) The Journal of Applied Biochemistry Photon Foundation Dear Sir, It is to draw your kind attention that myself has published papers in the above named journals. However, it is not clear to me that what is Impact Index ? Even it is not included in standard directory like Scopus, Pubmed etc. Please clarify the following no. What is the relation of Impact Index and Impact factor? Why the jounals have no ISSN number ? When the letters from various responsible persons used to come to me , it looks like foreigner Name, but the bank account no (0355104000045119) of IDBI of photon where I used to send the processing fees is at Rajasthan, India. It is not clear to me What is the address from where the journals are published? Please clarify it to remove my anxiety. During processing, it has been repeatedly observed that same format in same colouration has been used, even without need, during editing for all the aforesaid journals. Moreover, every respected journals clearly mentions the name and address of the Editor in chief whereas none of the above mentioned journals have this thing. All this aforesaid matters created hazy impression about Photon foundation Journals. Hope you will kindly clarify the points which I mentioned in my letter. An earliest response will help me to send articles faster. With regards B. Dalal Consequently, in reply I receieved a letter from them which is as follows: Dear Dr. Basudeb Dalal Welcome at Photon. Scopus / Pubmed and Photon both are different organizations. We do not govern over Scopus / Pubmed. Published articles are internationally indexed at Photon with a facility to download freely across the world. The Journal of Toxicology and Health: Impact Index: 4.72. The Journal of Public Health: Impact Index: 3.93. International Journal of Biochemistry: Impact Index: 4.52. The Journal of Applied Biochemistry: Impact Index: 2.12. Photon is adapted to next generation Impact Index system, which maintains far superior quality than Impact Factor at global scale. Impact Factor is biased with journal’s self citation tendencies. Various prestigious journals with impact factor are illegally involved in favoring even poor research articles, if they cite their journal. Members of societies / academy find blind / http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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favored acceptance for their research article publications on their own Journals. Impact Factor has commercial business interests in favor of it’s financial investors, instead of academicians. There is no place for such activities in high standards of academics. Quantitatively Impact Index is equal to Impact Factor. ISJN: International Standard Journal Number. ISJN is next generation Universal ID. The Journal of Toxicology and Health, The Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Biochemistry, and The Journal of Applied Biochemistry are published by Photon Foundation. Photon ensures completely blinded review and keeps the process unbiased at every level. With Best Wishes Editorial Office Photon https://sites.google.com/site/photonfoundationorganization/ Now tell me (1)Quantitatively Impact Index is equal to Impact Factor. (2) ISJN: International Standard Journal Number. ISJN is next generation Universal ID. The Journal of Toxicology and Health, The Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Biochemistry, and The Journal of Applied Biochemistry are published by Photon Foundation. Statement (1) & (2) are true or false. With regards B. Dalal Scientist Kolkata India

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 24, 2014 at 8:41 AM False. This publisher invents its own metrics to trick authors. I recommend against submitting papers to David Publishing. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Craig McBride says: January 21, 2015 at 10:39 AM I agree. I checked out David Publishing, and they do in fact charge large fees for papers to be published. All of their journals (and they have a LOT) are scams.

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Imran Omer says: January 24, 2014 at 12:59 PM What about international journal of multidisciplinary and current research ijmcr

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 24, 2014 at 1:39 PM This journal has many serious problems and I am adding it to my list.

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Reply Iftikhar Ahmed Khan says: January 25, 2014 at 8:04 AM What to do, if you have already published some research in the listed journals. Can we publish this some where else? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 25, 2014 at 8:17 AM Generally, no. Usually the best thing to do is accept it as a learning experience and do some new research and write a new article.

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i Rate This Reply pongthep says: January 27, 2014 at 9:51 PM Please check Advanced Materials Research too.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 28, 2014 at 6:50 AM Can you provide the link? i Rate This

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Reply Tahir says: April 24, 2014 at 8:41 AM here is the link http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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http://www.ttp.net/1022‑6680.html

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Tahir says: April 24, 2014 at 8:46 AM Forgot to mention that I am bit confused. On one hand it is published by TransTech publication (http://www.ttp.net/1022‑6680.html) and on the other hand ICMST (http://www.icmst.org/) is publishing their proceedings in the same journal.

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Jeffrey Beall says: April 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM Tahir, Trans Tech is not open‑access. I have not analyzed this publisher. If you find it questionable, then I would trust my instincts and not publish in its journals.

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Yeti says: October 20, 2014 at 12:26 AM I’ve just got an e‑mail from something called International Conference on Materials Science and Engineering Technology which promises publication in Advanced Materials Research. The e‑mail is full of hidden random text (using display:none), so someone was trying to get through Bayesian spam filters. Scam, obviously. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 28, 2014 at 6:54 AM Arben: That journal is published by Innovative Space of Scientific Research (ISSR Journals). This publisher is on my list. I consider the GIF and the ICV to be meaningless metrics. Questionable publishers often waive article processing charges when they first get started, in order to get articles into their empty journals. I recommend that you not submit any papers to this publisher’s journals. Good luck. –Jeffrey

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Reply arben says: January 28, 2014 at 9:30 AM Thank you very much for a prompt response on this matter ! i Rate This

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damodar paudel says: January 28, 2014 at 7:21 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal,

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Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal, could you please tell me about the Global journal of health science?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 28, 2014 at 7:25 AM I recommend that you find a better journal than that one. That journal’s publisher is on my list.

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What about this journal “International Journal of Business and Management Science, ISSN: 1985‑692X”. Is it ok to publish? What is your first impression. Thank you ? i Rate This

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Reply aiman says: January 31, 2014 at 10:36 PM Dear Mr. Beall, I suggest you to investigate “Indian journal of clinical practice” ISSN 0971‑0876 and include it in your list. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Science pathologique : Séralini en remet une couche. | Les caves du Dr Moreau says: February 2, 2014 at 5:46 AM […] Corporation. Ne connaissant pas ce journal, ni cet éditeur, je me suis rendu sur la liste de Jeffrey Beall recensant les « éditeurs prédateurs » afin de vérifier qu’Hindawi ne faisait pas partie de cette liste. Apparemment non, mais voici ce […]

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Reply Siti Azizah says: February 2, 2014 at 3:52 PM Dear Mr. Beall, can you tell me about the status of premier Publishers? I want to submit my article to http://premierpublishers.org/ijaee/submit‑manuscript, however I need the status of the journal before I do that. Thanks a lot. You have aver good job!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 15, 2014 at 12:41 PM This publisher is included on my list, and I recommend against submitting papers to its journals. Good luck. i Rate This

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February 3, 2014 at 2:57 AM Dear Dr. Beall, Do you know much about this OA publisher New World Publishing LLC (http://www.newworldpub.com/) ? Its journals have no editorial board nor content. BTW, thank you for the terrific job you have done here!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 8, 2014 at 8:02 AM That link is not working … I will keep trying. Please help me remember to check this! Thanks!

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i Rate This Reply Binder Jose says: February 5, 2014 at 6:03 PM Dear Mr. Beall, Can you tell me about “SPIE” publications? http://spie.org/x94788.xml Thank you very much. Binder i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 8, 2014 at 7:50 AM It is a respected society publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 8, 2014 at 7:43 AM This publisher is on my list of questionable publishers. I recommend that you not submit papers to any of its journals. Instead, I recommend that you find a higher‑quality publisher.

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Reply Tyler says: February 10, 2014 at 6:01 AM Reblogged this on Sonic Geography and commented: Happy Monday, everyone. I will have the Knoxville Country megapost up here sometime within the next few days, but I just wanted to share this item that I received in a note from a colleague this morning. Everybody has heard of predatory lending, but did you know about predatory publishing? Take a look. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jan Szczepanski says: February 10, 2014 at 6:44 AM What about Progressive Academic Publishing, UK in Birmingham? http://www.journalsgate.com/journalsgate/index.php?route=product/category&path=59 Jan

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Reply Jeff says: February 11, 2014 at 8:55 AM This is an outstanding, helpful list, but I noticed very few Psychology‑related journals (even in sub‑discplines like Development or Biopsychology or connected fields like Neuroscience). Is this to suggest most open‑access journals in the field are acceptable? If no, is there another area where I can find info on open‑access Psych‑related journals? Thanks for your time and efforts with this ever growing problem

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 11, 2014 at 9:09 AM Most of the predatory publishers go where the money is, and that is in fields where research is typically funded by grants, like the biomedical sciences. Still, if you look closely at the predatory publishers’ journal portfolios, you will see a good number of psychology journals. I don’t think it’s safe to conclude that most OA psychology journals are acceptable. You have to analyze each one — such a generalization can be dangerous. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeff says: February 28, 2014 at 1:29 PM Thanks for the reply. I’ll look deeper into the actual publishers to get a more comprehensive list (to be honest, I only looked at the publisher names and the names of the journal list, I did not look further into the publishers). I agree the assumption that OA journals are acceptable is dangerous. Thank you for spear‑heading the process of ensuring the integrity of research in all disciplines!

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M. M. Khan says: February 11, 2014 at 10:27 AM Dear Jeffery Beall! What about this Journal: http://www.ejbss.com/

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Reply M. M. Khan says: February 12, 2014 at 12:26 AM Dear Beall! Waiting for your opinion about the mention Journal. It will help us a lot in possible avoid of this journal. i Rate This

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Reply John says: February 11, 2014 at 12:45 PM Dear Bill, thank you for your good work. Is the journal of chemical biological and physical sciences predatory?Its website is here:http://www.jcbsc.org/index.php http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Steve Kezzler says: February 12, 2014 at 7:23 AM This kind of reminds me of the Human Fund… “money for people.”

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Reply Cleve Smith says: February 13, 2014 at 1:20 PM How about MDPI journals?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM Excellent question; I can tell you that I am re‑evaluating this publisher at this time for possible inclusion in my list. Please stand by. i Rate This

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Reply Lachezar Filchev says: February 20, 2014 at 2:51 PM I submit to MDPI two years ago – and since then I told myself I will not repeat it again. Everything was OK – the journal was brand new, without an IF and of course with the appealing waiver of publicaton fees for the first year of the existence of the journal. My editor was a Chinese (I will not reveal his name unless someone want this), who was very kind and welcoming at the point of acceptance of our paper. We had our paper formally accepted but after we refused to pay 200 Euros for proofread to a company of their choice we were rejected straight away. Of course our work got published where it deserved but ever since I ask myself what is the OpenAccess all about? If it is only about making profits from authors, then it has to be made clear so anyone who want to get into the trap – to get with the conscious that this his/her choice. P.S. The issue with MDPI is the poisonous mix of quality papers published by them, good looking and sophisticated publication system, and of course luring offers such as publication fee waivers etc., which at the end are just not true. i Rate This

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Reply rizal says: November 27, 2014 at 6:08 AM This is my catch on MDPI. Because there were so many cluster in MDPI, it is difficult to generalize. Some clusters have good quality. They were indexed by good databases (PubMed, Scopus, Thompson,). Some clusters are not even reach 1000 or more publications (still new and maybe the reviewers expertise too).


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Reply Dr. Abdul Md Mazid says: February 13, 2014 at 11:52 PM I would also like to know about your opinion on MDPI. recently i have reviewed an article for MDPI as they requested me and i found it’s a standard paper. This paper has been published by MDPI on open access mode.That journal, its mentioned, has Impact Factor nearly 2. i am thinking to send some paper/s as well to MDPI. I would appreciate any comments on MDPI before i upload the paper. I have briefly explored website of ORIC publisher, They are proposing, i guess, a few journals including one in Science and Engineering. Scope of this journal includes many fields of engineering. their journals do not show yet ISSN. But my initial impression is that they are well organised and methodical.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 14, 2014 at 6:43 AM I am increasingly receiving complaints and inquiries about MDPI. Many complain about the low quality of some of the published papers, while others point out the increasing attention being paid to the firm’s owner, who has become involved in international politics. I recommend that you find a better publisher than MDPI, and this shouldn’t be too hard. Regarding ORIC Publications, I recommend that you not submit any papers to this publisher; it is included on my list of questionable publishers. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Benn says: February 14, 2014 at 2:14 PM Most Western Journals are not accessible to African and Asians who need this information for their development. I have published articles in ‘good’ journals but that information is not freely available to Africans and Asians who generally cannot afford subscription fees. I have also published in one OA journal in the list provided but I was surprised that a local investor had actually accessed the OA information and used it. He did trace me to ask follow up questions about the technology we proposed. Publishing an open access paper in a ‘good journal is also very expensive. The question I will like to ask is how can the knowledge generated be freely accessible by all for human development? If Beall can answer that question, then the list of OA ‘predatory’ journals will start to shrink. If not, then let him be prepared to hit the 1000 mark his list by Jan. 2015. However, if these OA journals come together to improve on the quality of their publishing, then it will be time to start tolling the knell for those so called ‘good’ journals that lock up information for a price. I will rather pay a moderate cost for my paper to be freely available than lock up information in a system that cannot be accessible to the community that I come from. Thank you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 14, 2014 at 4:08 PM You don’t know what you’re talking about. The Research4Life program has distributed many subscription journals to academics in developing countries for a long time. OA journals are not the only means for the wide dissemination of science and technology. Science will never be cost‑free. On the contrary, unaffordable APCs are denying many developing country scholars the opportunity to publish their research findings. More information is not better information. The predatory publishers don’t care about quality; that’s the whole point. i Rate This

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koi smith says: May 6, 2014 at 11:13 AM Benn, OA journals are a way for the publishers to scam the authors, and the authors to scam their respective institutions and funding sources. They are also a sinkhole for naive and inexperienced researchers, and the best way to insure the invisibility of your work.

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Reply John says: February 16, 2014 at 4:12 AM Dear Beall what about this journal?http://www.jcbsc.org/index.php

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 16, 2014 at 9:41 AM What is your opinion of the journal? Have you had any experience with it? Are you associated with it? Have you published any papers in it? If so, please let me know what you experience was like. i Rate This

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Reply John says: February 17, 2014 at 3:01 PM No, I am not associated with it but I have published a paper in it. In afct I am a young junior researcher , it was my first paper and don’t know if it is a good or not. I would like to know if I shall not be ashamed of listing that paper on my publication list in next years.I payed publication fees but it seems that it is a good journal.What is your opinion.Thank you. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Kelechi says: February 20, 2014 at 7:34 AM I would like to know if “International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research”, “International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering” and “IJET Publications” should be added to your list. Thank you. i Rate This

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Reply Matteo says: February 20, 2014 at 4:45 PM Dear Prof. Beall, I noticed that this list is not updated, some publishers are added or removed from your updated list..I think you must update this list or remove it from this page because this may cause confusion with the updated list (sorry for my english) i Rate This

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Reply Cleve says: February 22, 2014 at 12:13 AM Hello Jeffrey, You are doing an excellent expertised job for all. I would like to know your evaluation on the following journal(s): American International Journal of Social Science ISSN 2325‑4149(Print), ISSN 2325‑4165(Online)

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Is “social science” in the journal name itself a proper term? Their website also lists 5 other journals, two of which have the same term. Thank you!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 22, 2014 at 3:38 PM This journal is published by a bogus publisher called the Center for Promoting Ideas . This publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you not publish in any of its journals. The title sounds okay, but I think most legitimate journals would say “social sciences.”

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Jan, I had not heard of this new publisher. It launched with about 20 broad journals. For a good laugh, read its ‘management team’ page. I’ve added it to my list. Thanks for letting me know about it.

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Reply Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin says: February 22, 2014 at 9:21 PM The predatory journal factory appears to be very productive. They tend to outshine honest publishers for unethical profit and deception.

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lisaamartin says: April 29, 2014 at 10:02 AM LOL! Mr Dr James Watson…educationally unqualifiied…he’s a she! Gracious me.

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 22, 2014 at 12:32 PM This one is more sad than funny. I have added this one to my list also. Thank you for letting me know about it.

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Reply Owho Joni says: February 23, 2014 at 12:08 AM LIST THE CRITERIA FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR GOOD FOR PUBLICATION. WHICH QUALITIES MAKE JOURNALS PREDAtORY? I SUSPECT MISCHIEF AND PERSONAL MISCONDUCT ON D PART OF THE AUTHOR. hOW CAN YOU TELL REVIEWERE AND EDITORS NOT TO REVIEW FOR JOURNALS YET YOU CALL THEM PREDATORY. ARE YOU A RESEARCHER AT ALL? REPLY TO [email protected] i Rate This

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Reply Suhas says: February 23, 2014 at 8:44 AM Sir, I wish to know about the predatory status publisher EM international Pune India? i Rate This

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February 23, 2014 at 9:53 AM Can you send me the link, please?

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Reply Suhas says: February 23, 2014 at 8:48 AM Sir, Please find this link for http://www.envirobiotechjournals.com/index.php

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 23, 2014 at 9:25 AM That looks like it is not an open‑access publisher.

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Reply Suhas says: February 23, 2014 at 10:04 PM Sir, Are you only adding open access journals in your list? This journal is not open access but charge for paper publication. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 24, 2014 at 5:31 AM Which journal?

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This is a comprehensive list. Impressive! How about The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation? Is this a predatory journal or one of the good ones? It says in their website (www.ejise.com/about.html) that it is “one of 5 academic journals published by Academic Conferences Limited.” It is also listed as one of the e‑journals published by ACPI (http://academic‑conferences.org/ejournals.htm). I just wanted to know a little more information since they contacted me to be a peer reviewer. Many thanks, RF

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 26, 2014 at 7:36 AM I don’t think this publisher meets the criteria for inclusion on my list. If you disagree, please let me know why. Thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Farzana Nipu says: February 27, 2014 at 1:21 PM please give us the list for trusted one…..

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Reply dumcho wangdi says: February 28, 2014 at 6:38 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, I am Dumcho Wangdi, a teacher from Bhutan, South Asia. I hope you must have heard of my country. I wish you happy new year on behalf of my country mates. I have heard of those predator publishers but failed to find the exact list of it. You have done an extraordinary job. So, can I have your permission to duplicate it into my blog at http://dumchowangdi.blogspot.com/ so that I and my friends who visit my blog can use it for the reference. Remember the source and your phenomenal work will be always acknowledged. Please kindly allow me to let thousands of my innocent immature friends realize of your phenomenal work. Thank you

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 28, 2014 at 7:02 AM Yes, you are welcome to copy the list. Please send my best regards to all the researchers in Bhutan, and I hope the list helps them avoid publishing in the predatory journals. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply kharang says: February 28, 2014 at 7:38 AM Thank you so much for your permission to save it on my blog. I will ensure my mates to know about your splendid job. Thank you.

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i Rate This Arben says: March 1, 2014 at 5:20 PM Dear Dr. Beall

Are all the journals listed under DOAJ (http://www.doaj.org/) LEGIT ?! Can I find a journal on this directory and publish my work. Thank you for your opinion.

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i Rate This Reply Peter Anthony Smith says: March 5, 2014 at 5:35 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall,

Thankyou for your wonderful work in naming and shaming these destructive publishers and journals. Just wondering, since you mentioned them separately in another post but I’m not seeing them on this list – are you going to include the Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF) based in Singapore? I was recently deluded into submitting a paper to one of their journals and asked for $300 to publish (previously not mentioned in any of their conditions), and their submission process was a complete mess. I’m happy to provide email proof if it would help others to steer clear and not be burned like I was. Cheers! i Rate This

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Reply Bustomi Rosadi says: March 6, 2014 at 12:42 AM I mean, Journal of Agriculture Engineering and Biotechnology (JAEB)? Is this a predatory journal? i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 6, 2014 at 6:38 AM There is a journal with this title published by Bowen Publishing. This publisher is on my list, so I recommend that you find a better journal. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply paul says: March 6, 2014 at 7:22 AM Thank you for information but what is your criteria for terming some of the publishers as questionable? I have read some of their works and they seem ok. Is it on a case by case or is it a blanket condemnation that they are questionable?

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Reply Arun says: March 6, 2014 at 9:37 AM Dear Beall Thank you for the list. Is the “Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems” published by “American Scientific Publishers” legit? By going through the website,I did not think so. However, it is not included in your list, but is part of DOAJ website, so I am not sure if this is predatory journal. I would like to know your opinion. Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems ISSN: 2326‑3008 (Print); EISSN: 2326‑3024 (Online) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 6, 2014 at 6:13 PM Arun: I limit my analyses to open‑access journals and publishers. This publisher is not an open‑access publisher, so I have not analyzed it and cannot comment on its quality. Still, I did look at the journal you mentioned. When I clicked on it I saw this: “Buy & download fulltext article: Price: $113.00 plus tax.” That is very expensive for a single article! If you publish your article in this journal, you risk having very few people read it.

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Reply Onah says: March 6, 2014 at 12:51 PM Please, why is ScienceDomain International included in your list of predator publishers? We sent our work to one of their journals (British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research) and it took about 5 months of rigorous reviews and corrections before the paper was accepted. I am confused here. i Rate This

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Reply sylvanus says: June 18, 2014 at 6:31 AM I do not understand how sciencedomain could be included in this list. this is because it me many months of correction and sending and resending before my paper was accepted. there must be something else being pursued. it difficult for me to accept. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 18, 2014 at 7:30 AM I see that you have many, many articles published in this publisher’s journals. Perhaps it’s time for you to aim higher.

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Would you please confirm if the international journal of marine sciences (sophia group) is a predatory journal or not? http://bio.sophiapublisher.com/index.php/ijms/ They invite me as a reviewer and I see they charge 1200 per publication although they say to me that since I am reviewing an article I can publish free of charge within 6 months. Thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 10, 2014 at 9:10 PM That journal’s publisher, BioPublisher, is not on my list. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply naelil says: April 29, 2014 at 8:05 AM Dear Mr. Bell and Mr. Gorka I think here Mr. Gorka and my professor face of same case. My professor has submitted the article to International Journal of Marine Science, published by Sophia Publishing Group. Now the article has published in International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). But suddenly we got an information from our university that IJMS is kind of predatory journal. But they do not have any enough reasons to explain of that matter. Now, i search on many information according predatory journal, and found this website. Would you mind to reconfirm of IJMS whether is it predatory journal or not? In your opinon, is it recommended journal to submit or not? According on your database, do International Journal of Marine Science has impact factor? And if the journal is not on your list so that it can be accepted unpredatory journal? I am very sorry for the questions and thank you very much for your response Mr. Bell and nice sharing MR. Gorka. i Rate This

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http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Dear Mr. Beall

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Dear Mr. Beall Thanks for this information. Actually Mr. Gorka and my professor have almost same question about International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). My prof’s manuscript has been published since the begining of April. Since it has been published then my university told us that IJMS is kind of predatory journal, even do not have enough reasons of this matter. So that i’ m join to this website. Would you mind to answer my questions, Mr. beall. Is this journal has good reputation? And does it has an impact factor? According your opinion, is that true IJMS as unpredatory journal and why? how IJMS doing until now espicially for publication? And am I right to submitted manuscript,in IJMS.? Thank you very much, Mr. Beall for your informarion. It will be very helpful to us. i Rate This

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naelil says: April 29, 2014 at 6:19 PM The link http://bio.sophiapublisher.com/index.php/ijms/ i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: April 29, 2014 at 6:55 PM This journal is published by BioPublisher. This publisher is not on my list of questionable publishers. I cannot answer all your questions. You need to make your own decisions about where you submit your work. If your university is not happy with the journal or publisher, please talk to your university about that. i Rate This

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naelil says: April 29, 2014 at 7:10 PM Thank you very much Mr. Beal for the answer and advice. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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oceandaniel says: May 19, 2014 at 1:43 PM This is Daniel Smith, the editor of International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). I was somewhat excited to see our journal was mentioned here. I knew many publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money, their ridiculousness makes me proud, but they also make a hard time for the newly OA journals, especially when the journal doesn’t have any background. Nevertheless, we march unswervingly, no matter how long the way will be. i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: May 19, 2014 at 1:49 PM Mr. Smith, on the journal’s website, you are listed as the “Publishing Manager,” not the editor. Can you explain this discrepancy? i Rate This

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oceandaniel says: May 19, 2014 at 2:48 PM I was the editor, for three years, and now I am planning and shaping of the journal’s publishing programme, its aims and scope, etc.. So I always think I am the editor. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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tauseef ahmad says: March 10, 2014 at 9:13 AM http://www.ijarcsse.com/ can you please let me , know about this journal , and about he impact factor of this journal , is this impact factor fake.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 10, 2014 at 9:20 PM This journal is on my list. It does not have a legitimate impact factor. I recommend that you not submit any papers to this bogus journal.

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Reply tauseef ahmad says: March 12, 2014 at 12:49 PM sir , i had already submitted the paper , but i was not knowing the fact, Don’t we have any laws so that these can be banned, for cheating scholars, academicians and researchers. what you suggest me further to do? i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: March 12, 2014 at 1:10 PM The laws vary by country, but in most cases there are no laws against predatory publishing. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jan Szczepanski says: March 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM I would appreciate your opinion about the publisher Society for Science and Education http://scholarpublishing.org/wp/ Jan

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 10, 2014 at 8:06 PM I consider this a questionable publisher. It is on my list, and I recommend against submitting papers to this publisher’s journals and against agreeing to serve on its editorial boards.

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Reply Dr. Olokooba Saka says: March 11, 2014 at 5:53 AM Dear Beall, I really commend your work. When i saw the 2014 list i was very sad but at the same time i was happy. The reason for my sadness was that, i have published some of my very good papers in some of those journals which amounted to wastage. However, my happiness now is that i am better informed of the publishing outlets i should use. This is a learning experience, though, a bitter one. Please keep the good work going. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 11, 2014 at 8:41 AM Thanks — I appreciate this. Good luck with your future research.

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Reply ify says: March 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM I want to commend you. You are really doing a great work, keep it up. My questions are (1) is it possible for journals or publishers on your list to mend their ways by improving on quality and correct their mistakes and thus be removed from predatory list. (2) can you please give us list of good journals in biomedical science Thanks From. Ify

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM Yes, I do remove publishers and journals from my lists. This is not uncommon. No, I do not supply lists of good journals, sorry. i Rate This

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Reply Siti Azizah says: March 14, 2014 at 4:38 PM Please be careful of JAERD! I did a mistake by sending my article there!!! I sent my article there in 2011 and I paid $300. Then they ask me to pay again $600 today.. This is a kind of […] act! i Rate This

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Reply Just Ishaq says: March 15, 2014 at 2:19 AM Dear Prof. Beall, What a great job you did! I would like also to ask your opinion regarding this publisher: Global Science Research Journal (http://globalscienceresearchjournals.org/). I have no connection at all with the publisher. I received several emails from it, invite me to submit manuscript. But, their emails came to spam folder. Thank you very much. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 15, 2014 at 8:42 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Imran Omer says: March 15, 2014 at 7:57 AM http://southasiajournal.net/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 15, 2014 at 8:55 AM Oh no, another journal using a blog platform as its publishing platform. This seems mostly to be a popular journal rather than a scholarly journal. It also appears that they sell print subscriptions, and that these contain more content than the online version. I don’t want to add this journal to my list at this time. It’s really more of a magazine. i Rate This

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Reply Kevin J. Black, M.D. says: March 17, 2014 at 12:12 PM

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 17, 2014 at 12:20 PM Sure, this publisher used to be on my list. They made many improvements and asked me to have another look. I did and removed them from the list.

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Reply Kevin J. Black, M.D. says: March 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM Thank you. i Rate This

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Nilo Bugtai says: March 17, 2014 at 8:05 PM hi Jeff, Please tell me about this journal/publisher Thomson Scientific ISI Web of Knowledge. They told me that if my paper will be accepted I will pay USD 1200 for the publication. Thank you very much. – Nilo http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 17, 2014 at 8:49 PM Nilo, What publisher do you mean?

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Reply Mellissa Bortz says: March 22, 2014 at 4:05 AM Hello Jeffrey In your 2014 list I dont see any listing for Scholars’‑press.com a trademark of AV Akademikerverlag GmbH& Co. KG. Does this mean then that they are not predatory? With grateful thanks Melissa Bortz

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 22, 2014 at 7:46 AM It means they’re not open‑access. I limit my lists to open‑access publishers; this one charges for the books it sells. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply shingirai sikomwe says: March 24, 2014 at 6:40 AM thank you Jeffrey , kindly assist me why IISTE is regarded as dubious. I had three papers accepted, they claim to have good impact factor and referenced in a number of publishers

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Reply popof says: March 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM hi, what do you know about future medicine publishing (http://www.futuremedicine.com/)? do you think they’re predatory too?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM I haven’t analyzed it because it does not market itself as an open‑access publisher. Still, I recommend extreme caution with this publisher. i Rate This

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Reply Annabelle Fairest says: March 26, 2014 at 8:14 AM Hi Jeff, I work in the subscriptions team here at Future Medicine Ltd. I am interested to know why you would recommend caution?

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Reply Aamer Hanif says: March 31, 2014 at 3:14 AM Kindly comment if the 4 journals given in following link are recommended for publishing papers. Thank you. The publisher is: The International Journal Research Publications Pte. Ltd., Singapore http://www.theinternationaljournal.org/ojs/index1.htm

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 31, 2014 at 5:35 AM I strongly recommend against publishing in those journals. i Rate This

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March 31, 2014 at 4:04 AM Hi Prof. Jeff, My paper was receive in ICIMER 2014 (International Conference on Information Management and Education Research) in Shanghai Cina, april 17‑18 2014. All accepted paper will be published by Atlantis Press and be online available in full text via the publication platform, then be submited for indexed to Thomson ISI, WOS, Scopus. But I was doubt to follow in this conference because I am not sure if the conference indexed by Thomson ISI, WOS and Scopus. Are you recommended me to follow? I will be waiting for your information. Thank you very much.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 31, 2014 at 5:30 AM Sorry — I limit my analyses to scholarly journals. I don’t know whether this conference is legitimate or not. I recommend caution, especially if you are unfamiliar with the conference.

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Reply Zohrain says: April 3, 2014 at 4:31 PM Hi! I found the information here very useful. I was browsing and found this predatory journal: http://valleyinternational.net/index.php Im guessing they changed the website address as one of the similar name ‘valleys international’ is already included in your questionable publishers list.. Thanks for all the good work! i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Corrado Giuliani says: April 4, 2014 at 7:01 AM I was wondering why DOAJ keeps in the lis the Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering which is a SCIRP Journal that i guess to understand that is a predatory company. Any explanation would be appreciated. Thanks for your work, you make my group avoid publishing on the Open Biomedical Engineering Journal by Bentham Science i Rate This

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Reply jane says: April 8, 2014 at 4:47 AM This is a wonderful page… practically the “don’ts” of where to publish (and I look forward to the “do’s” – which open access journals are trustworthy…!). I would like to ask if you know anything about Open Journal of Ophthalmology (http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojoph/). My university has encouraged us to publish in this journal, as they have arranged for a discount on publishing in the next two months. However, I can’t seem to find out anything about it. Is it worthwhile to send articles here, or would you advise caution? I worry about being biased because it seems to be a new journal, but everyone has to start somewhere, after all. thank you very much/ http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Deepak says: April 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM Dear Mr Beall, Is this predatory too. No personal experience but found a mail from them in my inbox: Welcome to El Mednifico Journal! El Mednifico Journal (http://www.mednifico.com/index.php/elmedj) is an open access, quarterly, peer‑reviewed journal that aims to publish scientifically sound research across all fields of medicine and public health. It publishes researches as soon as they are ready, without waiting to be assigned to an issue. These articles are then proofread, copyedited and arranged into four issues per volume and one volume per year. The scope of the journal encompasses: Clinical Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Surgery, Public Health, Dental Surgery, Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Biophysics, Biochemistry, Health Policy, Global Health, Medical Education and other allied fields. All submissions receive the following benefits: Quick and efficient peer‑review; rapid publication after acceptance Submissions are judged according to the content and methods employed All articles are published as open access; no submission or processing fees Articles are deposited at various indexing and archiving agencies upon publication Wide dissemination to readers and researchers throughout the world We have a strict policy against plagiarism. All submissions are screened for plagiarism upon receipt. Any submission found to have plagiarized material will be immediately rejected and the authors will be permanently banned on failure to provide adequate clarification. We invite notable scientists and medical professionals for post‑publication peer‑review and debate on articles published in the current issue. Review reports are published as letters to editor in subsequent issues. We also encourage post‑publication peer‑review over social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Both these features distinguish EMJ from other journals, and enhance the citability of published material. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM I have had a close look at this journal but I didn’t find anything about it that met the criteria for classing it as a predatory journal. I do find the name strange — are they trying to use a play on words with the Spanish word magnífico? Let’s observe how this journal progresses.

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The journal of Biomedical Graphics and Computing (http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/jbgc) is published by Sciedu, which you have included in your list of predatory publishers. Yet, it is listed in the NLM catalogue database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/? term=Journal+of+biomedical+graphics+and+computing) Do predatory journals make it to the NLM catalogue too?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 11, 2014 at 2:58 PM Yes, there is some overlap. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply shiv says: April 11, 2014 at 4:21 AM sir, is this is predatory journal or not. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES http://www.earthjournals.org/ijmas.html

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 11, 2014 at 2:25 PM This journal is published by a company called Earth Journals. I have added this publisher to my list. I recommend that you avoid this journal and find another, better one from a legitimate publisher.

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Reply pr singh says: May 15, 2014 at 10:20 AM our journals was indexed by chemical abstract,index corpenicus, why you say like that kindly clarify i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply DR Page says: February 7, 2015 at 4:17 PM I went through the author process with SOP, and I found them to be very friendly, happy to make corrections when they occur, and found the reviewers I had to be very helpful in improving my manuscript. My work was recently published in “SOP Transactions on Applied Mathematics”. From the experience of an author, though paying a fee (in exchange for open access), they are very new, but welcome to input. I didn’t find really anything predatory about them during the process, but I know I did receive the e‑mails you were discussing at first (I found them later on when trying to find an appropriate journal, and thought my work would go great in a new journal). http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply ajay kumar says: April 14, 2014 at 4:01 AM thank you Jeffrey Beall Sir. Please also suggest me some respectable journal in field of pesticide toxicity. i Rate This

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Reply ALLI L. A says: April 14, 2014 at 5:55 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, I will like to know why ScienceDomain publisher is included as a predatory publisher. The publisher has many journals under their publication. Do you mean all their journals are predatory or some. Please kindly explain further. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 14, 2014 at 7:01 AM I analyze at the publisher level whenever possible, so I recommend that you find a better publisher than Science Domain. Here’s a review I wrote that included this publisher: http://eprints.rclis.org/17051/

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Reply Roland says: April 14, 2014 at 9:58 PM Dear Jeffrey, Could you explain me what is according to your point of view wrong with Avens Publishers. I saw they moved the editorial office from LA to Northborough, NY. Thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 15, 2014 at 6:16 AM I plan to publish a blog post about Avens on Thursday. I think both their Los Angeles and Massachusetts addresses were/are dishonest. The Massachusetts one is a house. This publisher operates out of Hyderabad, India. i Rate This

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Reply Javed Iqbal says: April 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ 107/378 I receive a lot of requests from the editors to review a sent to their journal. This list will help

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Reply Sajib says: April 15, 2014 at 10:26 AM About Scientific Online Journal (SOP), not much experiences were shared by people including authors & reviewers. I wonder if the list shown here on the Predatory Journals is well justified! I Meanwhile, was bit happier when I got an offer yesterday through an email of SOP containg information such as, among others, ” As a new Open Access publisher, Scientific Online Journal (SOP), dedicates to providing high quality publishing services for authors. From 01/04/2014 to 30/04/2014, all your submission will be reviewed, formatted, proofread and published without any fees. It’s totally FREE.” Truely, there were very few reasons that could make me feel wrong about SOP, yet I did feel and came across this blog ultimately; worthy to be here, aint it? Adios! i Rate This

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Reply muafipaciran says: April 16, 2014 at 8:14 PM Hi Prof…what’s your opinion about “Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management (IJIKM)”. http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/ijikm/indexed In web was written that this journal indexed by ‘ Indices and Directories Listing this Journal Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Computer Science and Business Info Systems Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Technology & Library Science Cabell’s Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management Compendex Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Dr. Md. Shazedur Rahman says: April 17, 2014 at 12:58 AM OMG..they are in plenty…there should be an online screening authority for us to check before submission….will anyone volunterr this please! i Rate This

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Reply Kesatebrhan Haile says: April 21, 2014 at 9:52 AM Dear The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research is free journal i.e. has no any publication charge. Moreover, it has 4.57 impact factor. So why is it consider as predator publisher in the list 2? Could you plz explain? i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ 109/378 That journal does not have an authentic impact factor. It is lying to you, and to others.

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Reply Ambika says: June 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM Hi Friends, They are a fraud company who have been using my Texas address as their business location and doing a fraud business in India. Kindly I’d like to report the same to whoever is interested in them. I can personally prove it that it is not legitimate business. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 23, 2014 at 7:57 AM Yes, InTech Open is on my list, and I recommend that you NOT submit a chapter to their book.

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Reply sneha says: April 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM Dear Mr. Beall, I want to know wether the journal “ACADEMIC http://www.academicscience.co.in/index.php is authentic or not!! Could you please inform me about the status of this journal? Thanks


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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 23, 2014 at 12:16 PM Academic Science appears to be a new publisher — I have not heard of it before. I don’t have time to analyze it now, so I’ve added it to my backlog. The publisher appears to be claiming that its journals have authentic impact factors, which they do not, so I recommend that you find a better publisher than this one. This one looks very suspect. i Rate This

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Reply Mitch Balish says: April 25, 2014 at 8:24 AM Jeff, What can you tell me about Jacobs Publishers (http://www.jacobsitsolutions.info/)? It looks about as shady as you can get, but I don’t see it on your page here. I received this: Dear (x), Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers! We introduce ourselves as Jacobs Publishers have initiated a Journal Called Clinical Journal of Microbiology and Pathology; Jacobs Publishers is an Open access journal publishes peer‑ reviewed novel research related to Cancer Science. Our journal focuses on the current research in Pathology, Clinical microbiology, Hematopathology, Transfusion medicine, Molecular Genetics Pathology, Immunopathology, Veterinary Pathology, Virology etc. Clinical Journal of Microbiology and Pathology welcomes qualified researchers and experts as Editorial Board Members from Microbiology and Pathology research scientific world. Based on your proficiency and immense contributions to Microbiology and Pathology research, we would like to invite you as Editorial Board Member. We are also planning to initiate “Inaugural Edition” and seeking quality submissions from qualified Scientists, Researchers and Experts of Microbiology and Pathology research for Inaugural Edition. You may please forward your updated CV, Biography, recent photograph and manuscripts to [email protected] Manuscript formatting details are available on http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/books‑2/author Anticipating your support and response in this regard to enable us to enhance the sharing of knowledge in the scientific community. Thank you very much. Regards http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM Mitch: I added this publisher to my list last week. I think it is extremely questionable, and I advise scholars to avoid it. I am wondering if it is connected to the publisher JSciMedCentral in any way — the “J” in the logo matches on both publishers’ websites. But perhaps this new questionable publisher just stole the logo from the older predatory publisher. Thanks, Jeffrey Beall

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Reply Deepak says: April 26, 2014 at 1:11 PM Poetic justice, when one predator poaches the logo of another! http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Paige lacy says: July 9, 2014 at 12:24 PM Jeff, I also received an email from Jacobs Publishers as follows: Jacobs Publishers – Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology – Editorial Board Invitation Dear Dr. (x), Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers! We introduce ourselves as Jacobs Publishers have initiated a Journal called Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology; Jacobs Publishers is an Open access journal that publishes peer‑reviewed novel research related to Allergy & Immunology. Our journal focuses on the current areas of allergy, experimental immunology, including innate and adaptive immunity, inflammation, host defense, clinical immunology, autoimmunity and more. Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology welcomes qualified researchers and experts as Editorial Board Members from Allergy and Immunology research scientific world. Based on your proficiency and immense contributions to Allergy and Immunology, we would like to invite you as our Editorial Board Member. Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology, also planning to initiate “Inaugural Edition” and seeking quality submissions from qualified Scientists, Researchers and Experts of Immunology research for Inaugural Edition. You may please forward your updated CV, Biography, recent photograph and manuscripts to [email protected] Manuscript format details are available on http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/books‑2/author Anticipating your support and response in this regard to enable us to enhance the sharing of knowledge in the scientific community. Thank you very much. Regards Moses Isabel Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology Jacobs Publishers 900 Great Hills Trail # 150 w Austin, Texas 78759(Travis County) E‑mail: [email protected] Thank you for posting this comment as I would never have guessed that this was a dubious publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Regards,

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 9, 2014 at 12:29 PM Sure, and thanks for sharing this email you got from them. i Rate This

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Elsebeth says: September 18, 2014 at 4:10 AM Did you remove the publisher again, or just not add it? I don’t seem to find it on your list, if you refer to the above list. I received a similar email from them today. i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: September 18, 2014 at 6:21 AM Jacobs Publishers is on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Thanks. i Rate This

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Jernej Polajnar says: November 5, 2014 at 3:17 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jernej Polajnar says: November 5, 2014 at 3:23 AM Also, at least their FAQ section is copy‑pasted from Symbiosis Online Publishing, another one from your list.

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Jacobs Publishers – Journal of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience Dear Dr. Rebecca Holman, Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers! We introduce ourselves as Jacobs Publishers initiated with a motto to serve scientific community. It’s an Open access publishing group publishes peer‑reviewed articles related to different aspects of Medical, Life Sciences, Pharma, Chemistry and Engineering. We have initiated a Journal called Journal of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience. All the manuscripts/Articles submitted are run through a detailed review by our eminent panel of Editorial Board who contribute their valuable time to review those articles. It’s our honour to invite eminent scientists/personalities, like you, to publish quality research work in the form of manuscripts/Articles to support global scientific community. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Being Jacobs publishers is in to Open Access; authors are requested to pay 499 USD after completing peer review process and accepted by our esteemed editorial board members. Article Types: Original Submissions, Review Articles, Case Reports and Short Reports etc. Manuscript format details are available http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/author‑guidelines‑in‑foremostlinks Regards Mathew Stevens Journal of Neurology and Clinical Neuroscience Jacobs Publishers 900 Great Hills Trail # 150 w Austin, Texas 78759(Travis County) E‑mail: [email protected]

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Reply Benno von Bormann, MD says: April 28, 2014 at 4:10 AM I was invited by OMICS group to contribute for the Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion, either via website or sending the manuscript attached to an Email. I did the latter after a lot of work with the title, ‘Does Preoperative Anemia Deteriorate Patients postoperative Outcome or about the Difficulty of Comprehension.’ After peer review with some minor remarks the manuscript was eventually accepted, and up to that point the whole process was professional. Sending the final file for proof reading they surprisingly added an invoice of an amount of 1,500,‑ $ for publishing, something I of course denied. In response to my wondering letter they indicated that the conditions for publishing are described in their website. However, submitting the manuscript directly via mail, as offered, I didn’t have this information. Because I will never pay for being published the paper was retracted by me and my co‑author. These organizations are money‑collectors. Their prey are people who are in desperate need for publication(s) due to rules of their affiliation (uiniversity, company). It’s an industry. A positive example as yet is the Baishideng Publishing Group. They asked for a case report emphasizing from the beginning that there will be no costs at all. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Benno von Bormann, MD says: April 28, 2014 at 10:48 PM Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion: In fairness I have to add, that the paper was published today with a quite professional layout including all essential informations, without payment of course. Not bad, and therefore no problem for us. Unfortunately the Journal is nowhere listed (PubMed etc.) but can be found easily using Google. i Rate This

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Reply Thomas says: August 22, 2014 at 10:08 AM “Their prey are people who are in desperate need for publication(s) due to rules of their affiliation (uiniversity, company). It’s an industry.” I would argue that the same apply to well known journals like Science or Nature just to name those 2. When you’re a non‑tenured faculty at Harvard or Stanford, you’re somewhat required to publish in those journals. The “prestigious” publishers know it, and make their “preys” pay a huge fee to publish, far exceeding the 1500$ you mention. In fact, I personally had quite an unpleasant experience with 2 famous journals from Oxford University press, which would be considered a good publisher. The service wasn’t very professional as the editors introduced typos in the text (which they refused to correct), the final layout was questionable (misaligned parts) and figure colors were ridiculously flashy. Not to mention that the paper was actually published/printed more than one year after it was accepted… i Rate This

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Reply lihachtel says: April 28, 2014 at 3:58 PM Dear Beall, I really commend your work. It is quite helpful. Recently I got an email from Scholars’ Press (Germany) would like to publish my PHD thesis. One of the conditions is shown as below, how do you think of this publisher !? will it be added on your 2015 list !? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ “The Author transfers to the Publisher

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“The Author transfers to the Publisher without limitation of place the exclusive right of reproduction and dissemination (Publisher’s right) of the work for the duration of statutory copyright including all additional bibliographical texts and/or images supplied by the Author (e.g. cover text, biographical details) for all print and electronic editions (e‑book) and for all print runs without limit of units and in all language versions. In the case of works which have already been published by other publishing houses, a non‑exclusive right of use shall be transferred. The Author shall continue to be the copyright holder of his work.”

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: April 29, 2014 at 9:10 AM This is not an open‑access publisher. They want you to sign over copyright to them, and then they will try to sell copies of your thesis. There’s nothing wrong with this, but you may be better off publishing your work in an open‑access venue, and keeping your copyright. It is your decision.

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Reply FUKUSHIMA UPDATE | Fukushima Health Effects in North America? says: May 1, 2014 at 4:49 AM […] The journal publisher is on Beall’s “List of Predatory Publishers 2014″ : http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/ […] i Rate This

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Reply sunith says: May 2, 2014 at 7:03 AM Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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could you please tell me about the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Research and Development (IJCSERD) http://www.prjpublication.com/IJCSERD.ASP Thank you

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 2, 2014 at 7:15 AM This journal’s publisher is Priyanka Research Journal (PRJ) Publication. This company is on my list, so I recommend that you not submit papers to any or its journals.

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Reply Robot paper retracted for stealing from doctoral thesis | Retraction Watch says: May 2, 2014 at 7:30 AM […] InTech, the publisher of the journal, is on Jeffrey Beall’s list of questionable and potentially predatory publishers. […] i Rate This

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Reply WHY ISʹNT MSM REPORTING ON THE escalating DANGERS of Radiation, UPDATED ‑ Page 34 ‑ ALIPAC says: May 3, 2014 at 7:29 PM […] The journal publisher is on Beall’s “List of Predatory Publishers 2014″ : http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/li…blishers‑2014/ The two studies critiqued Mangano J, Sherman J, Busby C. (2013). Changes in confirmed plus […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Alerte Fukushima:les radiations auraient faites plus de 14,000 victimes en Amérique du Nord | Michelduchaine says: May 3, 2014 at 10:06 PM […] L’éditeur de journal qui a refusé la publication, est sur la ʺListe des prédateurs Publishers 2014ʺ Beall:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/ […]

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Reply Mathew Peet says: May 4, 2014 at 12:08 PM Possble typo, 420. Smartpub links to smatpub.com (which exists) smartpub.com seems to be domain name sitters.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM I’m sorry — I am not seeing the problem. Which page has the bad link? i Rate This

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Alerte Fukushima:les radiations auraient faites plus de 14,000 victimes en Amérique du Nord | Michelduchaine | Enjeux énergies says: May 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM […] L’éditeur de journal qui a refusé la publication, est sur la ʺListe des prédateurs Publishers 2014ʺ Beall:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/ […] i Rate This

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Reply Alerte Fukushima:les radiations auraient faites plus de 14,000 victimes en Amérique du Nord | Philippehuaʹs Cellule 44 says: May 5, 2014 at 3:26 PM […] a refusé la publication, est sur la ʺListe des prédateurs Publishers 2014ʺ Beall:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/ Les deux études scientifiques les plus critiquées sont: Mangano J, J Sherman, Busby C. […] i Rate This

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Reply Fukushima Health Effects in North America? | VicIoUs wOrlD says: May 6, 2014 at 9:51 PM […] The journal publisher is on Beall’s “List of Predatory Publishers 2014″ : http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/lis… […] i Rate This

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Reply Lukman says: May 8, 2014 at 12:06 PM Dear Mr. Beall http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Thank you for the list that you created and always updated.

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Thank you for the list that you created and always updated. Last month, my manuscript was published in http://thescipub.com/ajas.toc. The publisher have two full address in Australia and the United States. Is my manuscript published will be useless? Best regards.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 8, 2014 at 3:39 PM This publisher does list an Australia and a New York City address as you indicate; this tells us for sure that the publisher is not based in either Australia or New York. Your research will not be useless, but in the future, I think you should find a better publisher. Good luck.

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Reply Dart says: May 26, 2014 at 4:52 AM Dear Mr. Beall, Just for good purpose, i think this company is really based at least in Australia, because their bank account are in Australia with the same name of company…but this is just my opinion,tell me if i’m wrong i Rate This

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Mustafa says: May 8, 2014 at 12:20 PM Dear Beall,

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Thanks for your effort here. Actually, I think it is better to check out the publisher “SOCIETY FOR SCIENCE AND NATURE”. I think it is somewhere in Africa. Have you checked it before? If so, did you find any doubt about it? Please let us know about it. Mustafa

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 8, 2014 at 3:37 PM Hi, Mustafa: Thanks — I do have this publisher on my list. Please see my list here. I recommend that you find a better publisher than this one for your research. Thanks, Jeffrey

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Reply Mustafa says: May 9, 2014 at 6:53 PM Thank you so much. I am sorry, I wasn’t aware of the name, and I found it now in your list. Sure, I’ll not throw my paper in such journal, but I wondered how could they have DOI for their publications or even ISSNs for all of those journals if they don’t have real publishers? Could anybody do that easily? Thank you Mustafa http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Jeffrey Beall says: May 9, 2014 at 7:55 PM Oh, yes. Standard numbers such as the ISSN and DOIs are often given out without regard for quality. i Rate This

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Mustafa says: May 10, 2014 at 11:51 AM Sorry for bothering again, but have you looked at this website? http://arepub.com/Journals.php They describe themselves as: American Research Publications is USA based publications and American Research Publications are covering all kind of subjects such as General Science, Engineering Science, Science & Technology, Environment & Earth Science, Computer & Information Science, Commerce & Banking, Business & Management, Agricultural Science & engineering, Medical Science & Public Health, Energy & Power, Arts & Social Science, and etc. American Research Publications is an open access publications. American Research Publications is inviting to you submit your valuable research work to your desire journal. i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: May 10, 2014 at 11:56 AM Yes, this publisher is on my list. Most definitely, do not submit any papers to its many journals. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This ayodele says: May 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM Sir, I just published with textroad journal, and this is freed of charges after a 3 months thorough review and scrutiny. Do you still believe this is questionable?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 9, 2014 at 7:07 AM Yes, I think you made a mistake. i Rate This

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Reply AlexH says: May 9, 2014 at 8:14 AM I think that a convincing rebuttal of Mr. Beall’s evaluation must start with making available the (anonymized & full‑text) peer reviews for, let’s say, all articles published in the last 3 issues. I’ve seen something similar at http://www.sciencedomain.org , where the first published reviews under the “peer review history” seems genuine and (most of the times) written by experts who were able to make substantial comments and critiques. However, it is still dubious whether final acceptance decisions was made based on the expert’s comment or not, or if the company tried to “balance” negative expert peer evaluations with positive non‑expert or even “fake” reviews or not. Maybe its worth to reevaluate this publisher sometimes in the future. (disc. I’m not affiliated with sciencedomain or any of its journals) http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Sue says: May 9, 2014 at 1:20 AM Dear Jeffery, Thanks for your efforts. In fact, a friend of mine has just assigned a contract as an assistant manager in one of the listed journals. He knew that the journal that he accepted to work for has been Q4 ranked without an impact factor or index in the PubMed for eight years. I recommended him to skip it, but he believed that he can do the change and make it really a reputably journal. Do you think he can withdrew it from the list in one year or two?. Is that feasible?. Thanks.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 9, 2014 at 7:06 AM Yes. i Rate This

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Reply Jan Szczepanski says: May 9, 2014 at 7:29 AM Hi Jeffrey, Found this in the German EZB Titel: International Journal of Scientific and Innovative Mathematical Research (IJSIMR) RSS Icon Verlag: Academicians’ Research Center (ARC) Open Access Policy des Verlages in SHERPA/RoMEO suchen Fachgruppe(n): Mathematik Schlagwort(e): Allgemeine Mathematik E‑ISSN(s): 2347‑3142 P‑ISSN(s): 2347‑307X http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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ZDB‑Nummer: 2737668‑0 erste Volltextausgabe: Jg. 1, H. 1 (2013) Homepage(s): http://www.arcjournals.org/ijsimr/ijsimr_home.php I got bad vibrations but Academicians’ Research Center is not on your list. What do you think? Jan

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 9, 2014 at 8:08 AM Thank you — I will give this one a full analysis. At first glance, I see some significant problems. It launched with nine, broad journals. They even launched without ISSNs. Everything was quickly created with a template, and this shows that you can create a new scholarly publisher is about a day, and immediately start collecting money from researchers. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM Hi, Jan, Thanks for sharing this information. I have analyzed this publisher and added it to my list. Thanks again, Jeffrey. i Rate This

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Reply Mari says: May 11, 2014 at 1:17 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Hello Doctor Could you please let me know if these following journals are in the BLACK list or not? are they ISI? 1) The scientific world journal 2) Indian Journal of Scientific Research (IJSR) Thanks a lot Mari

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 11, 2014 at 7:44 AM The Scientific World Journal is not on my list. It is not a predatory journal. The Indian Journal of Scientific Research is indeed on my list. It is a questionable journal, and I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to it. Good luck.

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Reply Cuidado com as revistas e editoras predadoras ‑ Enago Brasil Blog says: May 12, 2014 at 4:34 AM […] proteger os pesquisadores de tais editores, foi criada uma lista de periódicos questionáveis que é atualizada todos os anos. É recomendado que pesquisadores, cientistas e acadêmicos evitem […] i Rate This

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Benno von Bormann says: May 13, 2014 at 6:36 AM Dear Jeffrey, I’m a retired Anesthesiological Prof. working as a scientific adviser in Asia. This part of the world has great potential, and is consequently in great need for publication, the more as acceptance by the established Journals is increasingly difficult to achieve. Your list is extremely helpful to avoid traps and pitfalls. I didn’t find the following dubious(?) company on your list: SciMed Central. They catched me for the Editorial Board because I found some reputable names already in it. Strangely they changed from Herald Scholarly Open Access to SciMed Central. Sounds not convincing. The final hint is the submisson process: One file (word or PDF) to an Emailaddress. Can you confirm? I consider to cancel my cooperation. Thank’s in advance, Peter

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 13, 2014 at 7:13 AM Sir, sorry for the confusion. I do have this publisher included on my list. It is listed as JScimed Central, so it is listed under “J”. I agree it is dubious, and I do recommend that you not work with them.

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Reply Heru says: May 13, 2014 at 10:52 PM Mr. Jeff……. I am Heru from Indonesia….. please give me several names of —–CLEAN JOURNALS, that publish the researches about INFORMATION SYSTEMS Thank’s Sir. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 14, 2014 at 6:21 AM Sorry — I limit my work to warning people about questionable publishers. I cannot recommend the best journals in each field.

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Reply wakhid jauhari says: May 14, 2014 at 12:51 AM Could you tell me if the Advances in decision sciences and advances in operations research (Hindawi publisher) are good journals or a predatory journals

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Reply Dr khan says: May 14, 2014 at 10:40 AM Hello Beall, Could you please check the following. its a pakistani journal.. International Journal of Basic Medical Sciences and Pharmacy (IJBMSP) Link: http://www.ijbmsp.org/index.php/IJBMSP/index http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 17, 2014 at 7:10 AM I have added this journal to my backlog. Thanks.

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Reply Niloofar says: May 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM Dear Mr. Beal, Thank gou very much for providing us with useful information. The problem is that I needed a journal which gives quick response and I could not wait for a long time. I sent my paper to international journal of English language and translation studies. It is accepted. I don’t know what to do now. I couldn’t find a good journal which gives an early response. How about Asian EFL journal? Is it good or better than IJ‑ELTS? Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM I don’t know which are the most and least respected journals in fields outside my own. Quick acceptance and high quality usually don’t go together in scholarly publishing.


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i Rate This Reply Kevin J. Black, M.D. says: May 28, 2014 at 9:17 AM “Quick acceptance and high quality usually don’t go together in scholarly publishing.” — This is probably true in general, but I think it is less true now than it used to be. Here are a few rather different examples: (1) Elsevier journals post their median review times online for each journal, and they get the unedited submitted manuscript online very quickly after acceptance, with edited proofs following quickly. (2) There have always been journals aiming at fast publication times, like Neuroscience Letters, and the new, highly selective journal eLife aims to do something similar. I have also been quite impressed with PeerJ, which is much like PLoS One; it’s too new for an impact factor but publishes accepted papers quite rapidly. (4) I think there is a place for the mildly radical publishing model of F1000Research (publish first, review second, revise as needed; indexed in PubMed only after positive reviews), both for work that is not at all groundbreaking but deserves to see the light of day and for work for which you need a citable publication before submitting an NIH grant application. Since it may matter to the discussion, I do have a good bit of experience with scientific writing. i Rate This

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Reblogged this on Ressources électroniques des bibliothèques de lʹUQAM and commented: Bonjour, Voici une liste bien intéressante…la liste des éditeurs Open Access au comportement prédateur. Beall inclut même les critères permettant de déterminer si un éditeur ou un périodique est prédateur. Bonne lecture !

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Reply Sven says: May 17, 2014 at 7:09 AM Dear Mr. Beall, Recently I got two invitations to be part of the editorial board (http://www.indianalytics.de/p). The second one was from Austin Publishing Group, which is on your list. So I ignored it. However, the first one was from VRJ Publishers (http://www.vrjpublishers.com) for the Journal of Bioinformatics Research Studies (http://jbrsonline.com). It is not on your list but it seemed suspect to me. Can you provide an opinion/assessment on this publisher/journal? Thanks! Regards, Sven

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 17, 2014 at 9:26 AM I have added this publisher to my backlog here: http://wp.me/P280Ch‑Ov There are too many journals/publishers emerging out of India for me to analyze. In the meantime, I recommend finding a better publisher.


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Reply Said Bin M S says: May 18, 2014 at 6:45 AM Sir, What do you say about the authenticity of “AIMS International Journal of Management”? AIMS – Association of Indian Management Scholars

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Jeffrey Beall says: May 18, 2014 at 7:39 AM I haven’t analyzed it. It’s a subscription journal. I limit my analyses to open‑access journals.

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May 18, 2014 at 4:11 AM Dear Mr Jeffrey, Thank you very much for this kind work you are doing! Well! After that, I have one special request (advice) to you for us. I found that most of journals I came across on internet are in your list, really I feel headache on that. I don’t know which one is not included there, so it take long to observe every journal for authenticity. MY REQUEST: Apart from popular publishers like ELSEVIER, I request you to add another page here on you web reading like “HONEST/RELIABLE JOURNALS/PUBLISHERS” this will help us focusing on them so as can save our time searching for a ‘good’. When you are reviewing journals and publishers, and found that one is honest just put it on for us. Thus is all for now from me, hope is clear, understandable and taken for consideration. Thanks

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Reply saleem says: May 18, 2014 at 11:05 PM Dear Mr Jeffrey, What about this journal. “International journal of photoenergy”. IS it ok??? Link:‑ http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 19, 2014 at 6:14 AM Yes, it is OK. Its publisher, Hindawi, is not on my list.


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why these two journals in your list? both are ISI indexed. 1. Research Journal of Recent Sciences 2. International Research Journal of Biological Sciences Kindly, tell me the reson so i’ll satisfy to others. Thanks.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 19, 2014 at 6:45 AM Both of these journals are published by a highly questionable and even dangerous publisher called International Science Congress Association. This publisher is on my list and I recommend that scholars avoid all of its many journals. Please document that these journals are “ISI Indexed.” I do not see this. Send a URL that confirms this; I think it is false.

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Reply Kousar says: May 19, 2014 at 10:44 PM Dear Jeffrey, Both were in ISI indexed but just min before i checked one isn’t appeared in indexing but check this URL: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: May 20, 2014 at 5:46 AM You’re right — thanks — it is indeed there. I think ISI is making a mistake by including this vapid journal.

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Benno von Bormann says: May 19, 2014 at 3:23 AM Dear Mr. Beall, my I ask your opinion about the ‘World Journal of Clinical Cases’, (http://www.wjgnet.com) which is one of many open access Journals of a group called ESPS, Baishideng Publishing Group, 8226 Regency Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA. They ask for submitting a manuscript as a single word file, something that strikes me odd. Thank you for your effort.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 19, 2014 at 7:16 AM Baishideng Publishing Group is not included among the publishers on my list, but I do find it borderline in some aspects. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Hamid says: May 19, 2014 at 11:32 AM Dear Dr. Beall, Warm greetings of the day, “International journal of English language and translation studies” is on your list. This journal accepted my manuscript. I thought it is an ISC journal. Now I don’t know what to do. Isn’t it ISC? In general, what is your opinion of ISC journals. Thank you in advance for your consideration.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 19, 2014 at 12:41 PM I don’t recommend that the ISC list be used as a criterion in judging journals.

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i Rate This Reply Kurniawan Dwi Irianto says: May 19, 2014 at 10:00 PM Dear Dr. Beall,

Could you please tell me about Journal of Advances in Computer Networks (JACN). Is it fine? the link is http://www.jacn.net/. Many thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 20, 2014 at 5:50 AM I’ve added this to my backlog. I’m sorry — I don’t have time to analyze all the new standalone journals appearing in South Asia.

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Reply Iftekhar Saeed says: May 20, 2014 at 7:41 AM Dear Sir, What about European Academic Research? i Rate This

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Reply Simone Galina says: May 20, 2014 at 1:08 PM Dear Dr Beall, May I know your opinion about ´Academic Publishing Platforms´ and especifically PERSPECTIVES OF INNOVATIONS, ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS? Thank you in advance. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 23, 2014 at 6:32 PM I am not sure what that is. An aggregator? A journal management system? I will do an analysis, thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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May I know your opinion of Journal of Knowledge Management Practice and Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management ? Are they legitimate journal or not? Thank you very much

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 23, 2014 at 6:23 PM I haven’t analyzed the first one. I am not sure that it qualifies as a true scholarly journal, so I don’t want to spend any time evaluating it. Based on my quick look, I would advise looking for a more mainstream journal — publishing in this journal is not going to help your career, in my opinion. I have not analyzed the The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management either. i Rate This

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Reply Steve says: May 22, 2014 at 1:18 AM Hi Jeffrey, I would like to have more information about Symbiosis. For example Journal of Nutritional Health & Food Science is a new journal and already several international groups have contributed to this journal. There is an Editorial Board. So it seems OK to me, Thank you, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 23, 2014 at 6:16 PM Can you send the link, please?

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Reply H. K. Das says: May 23, 2014 at 10:04 PM What’s about American Journal of Operations Research? Is it good to publish a paper in Scientific Research Publishing? In which quality it maintain?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 24, 2014 at 5:54 AM This journal is published by a publisher called Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP). This publisher is included on my list, so I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this journal. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply muafipaciran says: May 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM Dear Mr Jeffrey, What about this journal. “International journal of research studies in Management indexed by Microsoft Academic Search (MAS)?”. Are this journal indexed by MAS? I will be waiting for your information. Thanks Prof. [email protected]

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 24, 2014 at 7:21 AM This journal is published by a firm called Consortia Academia. It is not on my list.

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could you please tell me about the International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS) http://www.mecs‑press.org/ijitcs/index.html Thank you i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM I am conducting an analysis of this publisher. It will take some time. The publisher is: MECS Publisher (Modern Education and Computer Science Publisher) = http://www.mecs‑press.org/ Thanks for your patience.

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eSci Journals Publishing is a publisher in Pakistan that I would appreciate your opinion about. Jan

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: May 24, 2014 at 10:53 AM Good question. This publisher used to be on my list. They appealed, and my appeals board recommended that I remove them. This occurred about a year ago. I am increasingly receiving inquiries like this one asking about this publisher, an indication to me that some find it fishy. Perhaps it’s time for another analysis. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Debarchana says: May 25, 2014 at 6:31 AM Respected Sir, May I know your opinion of the following three journals? Are they legitimate journal or not? I would really appreciate your opinion about them.Thank you very much in advance. 1.Journal of Microbiology & Experimentation (JMEN) by Medcrave Publishers http://medcraveonline.com/JMEN/ 2. International Trends in Immunity (ITI) by Research Publisher http://researchpub.org/journal/iti/iti.html 3. SOJ Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (SOJMID) by Symbiosis. http://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/microbiology‑infectiousdiseases/ i Rate This

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Reply Benno von Bormann says: May 27, 2014 at 7:26 AM Dear Dr. Beall, between others who contacted me during the last days (‘warmest greetings from…’) I didn’t find these two groups in your list. I think they are suspicious, as they both have tons of OAJ in their portfolio and proper information about the members of the various Editorial boards and their affiliations are often lacking. At least they do not hide that they expect payment. 1. Jacobs Publishers, http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php 2. Frontiers in medicine, http://www.frontiersin.org/ May I have your opinion. Thank you very much. Benno i Rate This

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Reply Beware of predatory publishers | Rufaida Honor Nursing Society says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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May 27, 2014 at 8:07 AM […] people are taken in to make the venture worthwhile. If you have any doubts then there is a useful list of predatory publishers that you may consult. It is regularly […]

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Reply May says: May 27, 2014 at 3:40 PM Hi Jeff, Any thoughts on these 2 open access journals? 1) Progress in Biomaterials (http://www.progressbiomaterials.com/about/privacypolicy). Here is their copyright policy: (http://www.springeropen.com/authors/license_spr) 2) Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta‑pharmaceutica‑sinica‑ b/). Here is their copyright policy: (http://www.elsevier.com/journals/acta‑pharmaceutica‑ sinica‑b/2211‑3835/open‑access‑journal) #1 is from Springer Open and #2 from Elsevier (but I couldn’t find it on Elsevier open access journal list). Your feedback is much appreciated. Also, a big thanks for this list‑ it is has helped so many researchers. Kind regards.

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Reply May says: May 30, 2014 at 10:51 AM Hi Jeff, Could you please tell me if these 2 journals are good places to submit academic research? I googled and couldn’t find much information on these journals. I would appreciate your input and advice. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 1, 2014 at 5:24 PM These two journals do not meet the criteria as predatory journals. I think they are fine.

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Reply May says: June 1, 2014 at 7:51 PM Thank you Jeff. I really appreciate your help.

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Lomax says: May 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM Hi, I would like to know about the journal. European Scientific Journal, Portugal. I cannot imagine they accepted an article within less than two (2) weeks. And publication fee is 97euros. They publish between 3 or 4 volumes in a month. Impact Factor is quoted as 8.25. Still shaking my head. http://www.eujournal.org/index.php/esj i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply AlexH says: May 27, 2014 at 9:39 PM They are doing editorial review, not external peer evaluation: “Authors can publish their articles and thesis, after a review by our editorial board.” It is possible to make a decision within a few weeks if they use editorial reviewing.

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Reply Rick says: June 3, 2014 at 2:27 PM What do you think about the “Frontiers in” journals? Seems to me that they are predatory for a variety of reasons. Just wondering if they are new enough that they haven’t made your list. It’s interesting how certain names seem to pop up on editorial boards of many of these predatory journals. Not even sure that these are names of real people, but that should be a giveaway itself. If you google the name of an editor and it comes up as an editor of numerous shady journals. Thanks for your excellent work compiling a list like this. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 5, 2014 at 10:03 AM I do not think that the Frontiers journals meet the criteria for being classified as predatory. Still, I do receive many inquiries about the publisher, an indication to me that many find it … questionable.

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Reply Kevin J. Black, M.D. says: June 12, 2014 at 9:24 AM That is awesome … considering that they are now published by Nature Publishing Group (more or less). http://www.nature.com/press_releases/npgfrontiers.html

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SAOIM 14: Papers presented on day 1‑ a summary | SAOUG says: June 5, 2014 at 1:50 AM […] paper delivered by Dr Carina van Zyl from the CSIR on Predatory publishers. There are tools such as Beall’s list of predatory publishers that libraries can use to stay safe from these Predatory publishers, Beall can be followed on […] i Rate This

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Reply 該怎麼防範詐騙吸金學術期刊？ ‑ Enago英論閣部落格：論文撰寫與科學研究發表支援 says: June 5, 2014 at 5:31 AM […] 2014詐騙吸金期刊列表 […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply A says: June 11, 2014 at 9:36 PM please see this https://sites.google.com/site/photonfoundationorganization/home/international‑journal‑of‑ biotechnology

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 12, 2014 at 4:45 AM I recommend: Do not submit any work to anything published by the Photon Foundation.

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Reply A says: June 11, 2014 at 9:44 PM please verify this journal 1. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research 2.International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering(http://ijirae.com) i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM I’m very sorry — I don’t have time to properly analyze these journals at this time. I have added to my backlog here: http://wp.me/P280Ch‑Ov There are just too many megajournals such as these appearing. I don’t have time to review them all. I would suggest that, if you find these journals questionable, you seek a higher quality place to publish your work. Thank you.

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Kindly tell me about the “Journal of Life Sciences (ISSN 1934‑7391), USA, David Publishing Company, http://www.davidpublishing.com. However, the name of David Publisher is on your list. But they claimed that they have ISSN number and their impact of 2009 and 2011 as 3.3 and 5.2 respectively. Furthermore, I could not found Impac of 2012 and 2013 through Google. I am confused now. Please tell me about this journal and the company.. Best Regards

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 12, 2014 at 9:18 AM Rafat: I don’t see on their website where they say their journals have impact factors. Nevertheless, this publisher is on my list, and I strongly recommend that you not submit a paper to any of its journals. I recommend finding a better publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Aliah says: June 13, 2014 at 7:55 AM Very informative! I would like to follow this post.

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Reply Stephanie says: June 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM Any thoughts on BioMed Research International? (formerly titled Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology) claims impact factor of 2.88

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM Right, this journal, Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences (RJPBCS), does indeed make a lot of claims. It (falsely) claims to have an impact factor of 0.35, for example. As you indicate, it may claim that it will be cataloged (not indexed) in the NLM online catalog soon, but this is not a measure of quality. I find this broad‑scope journal to be amateurish and recommend that scholars find a more professional venue for their work.

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Reply rplimaye says: June 22, 2014 at 7:46 AM Thanks for this detailed response. Unfortunate that I read your article late.Thanks anyway. I will refer the list before I make any future mistakes.

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Tilahun says: June 17, 2014 at 4:28 AM Any comment on International Journal of Insect Science, Journal of Entomology and Nematology, Journal of Applied Biosciences, and Biopesticides International? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 17, 2014 at 6:58 AM Regarding the International Journal of Insect Science, this is published by a company called Libertas Academica. This publisher is not on my list, but many find this to be a questionable publisher. Regarding the Journal of Entomology and Nematology, this is published by the Nigerian publisher Academic Journals, which is on my list, so I would generally advise people to seek a better entomology journal than this one. The Journal of Applied Biosciences is published by Elewa Biosciences, which is on my list. The journal Biopesticides International is not open access, so I haven’t analyzed it.

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Reply The antivaccination cult’s idea of what constitutes “peer‑reviewed” | Skeptical Raptorʹs Blog says: June 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM […] does occasionally land on the list of “predatory publishers,” that is, a publisher who demands money to publish. Which Hindawi does for all of its […] i Rate This

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Reply M. M. Khan says: June 18, 2014 at 6:49 AM Dear Jeffry! Really a commendable work and very informative for researchers and contributors. Can you share your analysis about IGI Global publishers: http://www.igi‑global.com Thanks in advance! http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 18, 2014 at 7:20 AM IGI Global is not an open‑access publisher, so I have not fully analyzed it. Because it is not an OA publisher, it is not eligible for my list.

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Reply Another antivaccination cult ʺpeer‑reviewedʺ paper–SIDS and vaccines says: June 18, 2014 at 4:27 PM […] the notorious (not exaggerating) publisher Bentham Science. Bentham is accused of being a predatory publisher, meaning they charge the author to publish an article, probably because the article can find no […] i Rate This

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Reply Normah Mohd Ghazali says: June 18, 2014 at 10:27 PM Dear Jeffry,How about Praiseworthy Prize Publisher with a publication fee of ~USD200. My student submitted his paper to the journal (I.R.M.E.) and I was happy for him until I read some of the abstracts. Maybe I am wrong but e.g. a short abstract written in 2 paragraphs with related issues presented. It seemed odd. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply Professor Martin Fiebert says: June 19, 2014 at 10:56 PM I have published a number of articles in the International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities. I have been pleased with peer review process and editing. the cost is reasonable (no more than well established journals like Psychological Reports or Perceptual Motor Skills) and the turn around time is also reasonable. I know the journal is relatively new and is located in India. Publication is both online and in hard copy. I am interested in your thoughts.

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Reply Aliah says: June 20, 2014 at 4:36 AM I have submitted and paid quite a big amount of money for my article’s publication in December, 2013, to Pensee Journal (http://www.penseejournal.com/archive.html). At that moment I didn’t have an idea at all about the existence of such kind hilacked journals! Now of course the Ministry of Science did not consider it as publication…i just wanna know why this journal is still continuing its crime?? Just look at the latest archive (http://www.penseejournal.com/archive.html)…It is a profitable business of course. Basically authors are from non english countries and they do not have information about that at all. Are there any ways to punish those people??..

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 20, 2014 at 4:44 AM Excellent questions– I wish I had some good answers. I am just trying to warn people about this and other scholarly publishing scams. I’m not sure what else I can do.


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i Rate This Jeffrey Beall says: June 21, 2014 at 8:27 PM This journal is on my list, and I recommend that scholars not publish there. How long was the turn around time for each article? Are you willing to share the peer reviews with me? How many times did you have to revise and resubmit each article? Or, what was the extent of the changes the reviewers asked you to make? How many articles in total have you published there?

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Reply Aliah says: June 20, 2014 at 5:01 AM Dear Mr Jeffrey Beall, thank you very much for your help for the authors! I wish I had seen your blog much earlier, but this is a good lesson for me of course, and i am going to warn my colleagues as well to be very very careful. I think it is just a question of time and… unfortunately money. I strongly beleive your blog must be speaded to each Ministry of Education and Science around the world especially to non english‑speaking and developing countries! i Rate This

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Reply Professor Martin Fiebert says: June 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM Professor Beall in response to to questions of June 21: Over the past 3 years I have published 7 articles in the International Review of Social Science & Humanities (IRSSH). The articles ranged from an historical/psychological examination of Black‑Jewish relations, to a approach to Gestalt therapy as well as a series of studies conducted by myself, colleagues and students exploring Facebook Behaviors. The turn around time for articles ranged from 2 to 5 months. The articles themselves have been viewed, cited and download from RESEARCHGATE. The cost of publication has been quite reasonable averaging about $200.00. The Journal itself has been consistent in is publication schedule (I think 3 times a year) and is available open access as well as in hard copy. As you may infer I am quite pleased with the policies & operation of http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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IRSSH and would encourage researchers who have had terrible experiences with other journals to consider publishing in IRSSH. I myself am a full professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach starting my 50th year of teaching. If you check out my webpage or RESEARCHGATE you will note that I have published 59 articles in peer‑ reviewed journals..

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Reply Ghias says: June 25, 2014 at 12:09 AM Jeffrey Beall What you say about “World Applied Sciences Journal”. We have already published some papers in this journal. last year This journal mentioned its impact factor but now removed from the website.Kindly also inform that Thomson Reuters, if removed, the name of a journal from the master list, does they can include again. or removed forever. thanks and regards Ghias

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 25, 2014 at 8:36 AM This journal is published by a company called IDOSI. This publisher is on my list, so I recommend against submitting papers to this journal or the others published by this company. This journal used to be indexed by Scopus, but the index decided to prospectively drop the journal. Please, find a better publisher. Good luck. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply M says: June 25, 2014 at 5:19 AM Hi i had published 3 paper on Academic Journals on 2009‑2010. my papers have not any worth now?!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 25, 2014 at 8:48 AM The value of articles is measured differently than the value of journals. How many citations have your papers had, for example?

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Reply M says: June 26, 2014 at 2:08 PM Dear Jeffrey until now, my papers had had 4 citations. you think it were enough for that and they have valuable for my resume?! thanks a lot for your reply. regards i Rate This

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hamed says: June 25, 2014 at 5:43 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Dear Jeffrey,

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Dear Jeffrey, I have recently sent one of my papers to a journal entitled “http://journal‑of‑biotechnological‑ sciences.darsgah‑e‑ahlebait.com” however I want to ask you about this journal, is that authentic??? I do apreciate your comments on it. thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 25, 2014 at 8:47 AM I had not heard of this journal before. It seems to be published by a company called Dargah‑e‑ahlebait. On their website, they say, “Journal of biotechnological sciences is published by dargah‑e‑ ahlebait (Pakistan). A institute who prefer qualitative scientific work for publication. We have expert international team for evolution.” I will try to make time to fully analyze this publisher (it appears they publish two journals). In the meantime, I would recommend finding a better publisher. This one seems very amateurish. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: June 25, 2014 at 2:54 PM Hi, Hamed, Thank you for your comment. I have analyzed this publisher and added it to my list. How long did your peer review take? The site does not mention anything about article processing charges. Did they ask you to pay anything? I could not find a contact email on the site — only a web form. I would recommend that you find a better publisher. This one seems very amateurish. Good luck. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply hamed says: June 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM actually they don not charge authors at all. moreover they accepted my paper immediately and published it, so I understood that they don’t peer‑review articles. but it indexed by google scholar, is that valuable??? I can see my paper in google scholar and it, somehow, satisfied me. is this good? thanks for your kind help.

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Jeffrey Beall says: June 25, 2014 at 3:54 PM Yes, in fact there is some value in being indexed in Google Scholar. It helps people find your articles easier. It increases visibility of articles.

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Kimberly says: June 25, 2014 at 8:39 AM Dear Jeffrey, I was recently contacted by the Journal of Research on Contemporary Society (ISSN 1998‑ 2607) a new academic journal, which is published by Longbridge Publishing Company Limited, Hong Kong. They are interested in one of my manuscripts based on an abstract they found in a conference abstract package. Can you tell me if they’re credible? Thank you so much for all you do. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Josh says: June 27, 2014 at 12:38 PM Dear Jeffrey, I was recently invited to submit a manuscript to AIMS Neuroscience, a new OA journal listed here: http://aimspress.com/aimsn/ch/reader/view_special_issue.aspx? key_words=&id=20140530121202001 I looked into the editorial board and they appear to be credible scholars who have published their own work in a number of different journals. The AIMS website states that the OA fee will be waived for the first 3 years of the journal in an effort to encourage submissions since this is a new journal. I am eager to hear your thoughts on this OA journal. Best Regards, Josh i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 6, 2014 at 9:37 AM I have analyzed this publisher before, and during that analysis, I did not find that the publisher met the criteria for inclusion on my list. Looking at it again, I reach the same conclusion. If you think I am missing something, i.e., that the publisher should be added, please let me know why. Thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Josh says: July 7, 2014 at 2:02 PM I agree with your conclusion and I appreciate that you took the time to look into it. I value your expertise on issues of OA journals and I wanted to ask you for your professional opinion. I’m glad that our evaluations (that this particular publisher appears valid) corroborated each other. Excellent website, knowledgebase, and resource on OA journals. Kind regards, Josh

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Bijan Ehsanzadeh says: June 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM Dear Mr. Beall, Recently I have submitted my paper on “Open Journal of Geology (OJG)” which is classified as the subset for “Scientific Research Publisher”. It has been accepted, as I thought so. But my very question is that do you find such journals genuine? I mean, I am a student and I have to defend my thesis in two months. I really need to submit my studies. I have been working on them for almost a year. Dose these publishers decrease the validity of my studies? i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 1, 2014 at 4:19 PM Are you referring to the Open Journal of Geology that is published by Scientific Research Publishing? If so, then yes, this publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you find a better quality publisher for your work. This publisher is known for accepting and http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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publishing questionable science, and this could hurt the reputation of your work if you publish in one of their journals. Good luck with your defense.

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Reply Bijan Ehsanzadeh says: July 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM I appreciate your warm and prompt reply.

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Can you please verify whether the “Journal of Electrical Engineering” (website: http://www.jee.ro/index.php) is a predatory journal or is it ok? Thanks in advance. With warm Regards, Arunava.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 1, 2014 at 4:07 PM I haven’t analyzed this journal. I didn’t know about it. I will try to analyze it as soon as I can. Thanks for letting me know about it. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Arunava says: July 2, 2014 at 12:41 AM Thank you for your prompt reply. The Editor and some of the Editorial board members of this journal are eminent researchers and academicians in Electrical Engg. However, they’ve not published in this journal. This looks a bit fishy to me. Also the impact factor is a bit questionable. But I’ve seen it is indexed in Google Scholar. Eagerly waiting for your view. Warm Regards, Arunava

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 6, 2014 at 7:34 AM I’ve added this journal to my list. I observed some serious problems with plagiarism. I would recommend finding a better electrical engineering journal.

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Abd‑Elrahman says: July 2, 2014 at 6:59 AM dear Prof. Beall Can you please verify whether the Journal of Network Biology ISSN 2220‑8879 (http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/nb.asp) is a predatory journal or not? Sincerely, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 2, 2014 at 7:18 PM I had not heard of this publisher (International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences (IAEES)) before, so thank you for letting me know about it. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. I would suggest that you find a better publisher for your work. Thanks again.

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i Rate This Reply Subramaniyaswamy says: July 3, 2014 at 2:50 AM Dear Dr. Beall,

Very useful for finding out predatory publishers. May i know, when the impact factor of the journal will be released by Thomson Reuters.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 3, 2014 at 4:24 AM The new impact factors (the 2013 impact factors) should be released later this month. i Rate This

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Reply Abd‑Elrahman says: July 3, 2014 at 4:07 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Please, tell me how you evaluate its credibility ?

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Reply Abd‑Elrahman says: July 3, 2014 at 8:36 AM It is in master journal list of Thomson Reuters http://ip‑science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi‑bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi? PC=MASTER&Full=NETWORK%20BIOLOGY

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Reply Ahmed says: July 4, 2014 at 2:15 AM Hello Professor May you please let me know if this following journal is in the Fake list or not? It is a SCI? Journal of Plant Pathology & Microbiology http://omicsonline.org/plant‑pathology‑microbiology.php

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 4, 2014 at 5:48 AM Yes, the journal’s publisher, OMICS Publishing Group, is on my list. I recommend that you NOT submit any articles to this journal. Please find a better journal. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Andy says: July 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM OMICS is fake, so i will not expect any journal it produces to be authentic. Jeffrey will confirm!!!!

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Reply Normah Mohd Ghazali, Ph.D says: July 4, 2014 at 8:18 AM Dear Jeffrey, I haven’t seen Praizeworthy Publisher on your list. Can you please check? My colleagues have published many papers here, I.R.E.M.E.)0 is one of them and since it’s scopus‑indexed, publications are used for career promotions. Authors have to pay for publications. The reason I asked is because I wonder about the quality of some of the papers when I started reading some of them – I’m an academician in a public university. Thank you. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 4, 2014 at 8:30 AM Dr. Ghazali, I removed this publisher from my list recently. They changed their publishing model from open access to toll access (subscription model). I prefer to cover only open‑access publishers. Still, I think your observations about this publisher are correct, and I would personally advise scholars to avoid this publisher and find a better one. Thanks, Jeffrey http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 7, 2014 at 7:15 AM I haven’t heard of this publisher before. I will analyze it. I’d appreciate hearing your comments on it and any experiences you’ve had.

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Reply M. M. Khan says: July 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM Thanks for your reply. I haven’t had any experiences with this publishers but came to know of this through some friends who were interested in a book (perhaps) just published by them online. If it is reliable then I would like to recommend and also publish some works with them. I will wait for your analysis. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Jeffrey Beall says: July 7, 2014 at 6:59 PM This publisher does not meet the criteria for inclusion on my list.

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On what criteria you have made this list? Also please mention that do you have proofs against these publishers?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 8, 2014 at 4:51 AM Please find the criteria I use here. There are both subjective and objective components to the judgments and decisions to add or not add to the lists. i Rate This

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Reply Deepak Batura says: July 9, 2014 at 1:00 PM Dear Mr Beall, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Once again, I tap into your expertise for help with this new journal, called “Bladder”. Its a new publication and I am afraid I don’t know who the publishers are. The editorial board is very impressive and there seem there be no incongruities in their call for papers. The website URL is http://www.bladderj.org. Kind regards, Deepak

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM This is a brand‑new journal that looks promising. I don’t see anything wrong with it at this time, and I wish them success.

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Reply N.K. Gunasekara says: July 10, 2014 at 1:12 AM I already know that you are very experienced in what you are doing. Please don’t take me wrong… Out of curiosity…would it be possible that a budding publisher..or a standalone journal which is publishing with good scientific conduct…but lacks the capital to employ all up‑to‑ date systems to process and archive and all..be enlisted as bogus here? Only someone who’s published with them will know about their adherence to ethics. Wouldn’t enlisting someone like that here be “unethical”? Thanks i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 10, 2014 at 4:53 AM A very clever question … if you lack sufficient capital you really shouldn’t start a business in any sector. The overall criteria for adding a publisher or journal to the list are lack of transparency, intentional use of deception, and lack of adherence to industry standards. Your statement “Only someone who’s published with them will know about their adherence to ethics” is false. It is possible to observe unethical behavior without publishing with a particular publisher.

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Reply N.K. Gunasekara says: July 13, 2014 at 1:09 AM Business isn’t my thing either…but isn’t “lack of adherence to industry standards” a common flaw in almost all budding publishers? after the phase of survival as a business, it’s a matter of time when they adhere to business standards…which again guarantees long term survival. But of course in combination with the other two it might indicate fraud. Thank you for your hard work…considering to benefit from it. Like you sir, I am a cautious person too, in fact very… But, I do see a changing world…Don’t you? Would like to know how one…I…could know about unethical behavior‑lack of transparency and intentional use of deception‑ by checking on the publisher’s website. That’s the publisher we would see. (I am an author…not a publisher) What are the main things we should look for? Is COPE membership a must for a publisher? Or..is it a good to have? i Rate This

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Gerek Kanzinski says: July 10, 2014 at 8:34 PM Hi, is Pushpa Publishing House: Advances and Applications in Statistics a predatory journal? I could not determine it from their website, and could not find this journal in your list. Here is the website: http://www.pphmj.com/journals/adas.htm http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 11, 2014 at 4:19 AM It is not on my list because it’s not an open‑access publisher. One has to pay for the articles or subscribe to the journals. I limit my lists to OA journals/publishers. Thanks.

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Reply Kibet Langat says: July 13, 2014 at 2:20 AM Hi Jeff Could you please let me know your comments on Recent Science publisher http://recentscience.org/ I’m considering publishing in some of its Computer Science and Electrical and Electronics journals. i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Leo Odongo says: July 15, 2014 at 5:49 AM How about Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences? Is it really credible?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 15, 2014 at 6:13 AM I focus on the questionable journals. I refer you to your university librarian. I don’t know what the top journal are in fields other than my own (library science).

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What’s your take on Environmental Sciences Europe (ESEU), the journal that republished the retracted Seralini paper without putting it through another review process. Regards, Chris

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 16, 2014 at 4:52 AM Its publisher, SpringerOpen, does not meet the criteria for being classed as predatory. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Homa says: July 16, 2014 at 1:52 AM Dear Beall, Quest Journals Inc. is the questionable journal? or questionable publisher? thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 16, 2014 at 4:54 AM Yes, Quest Journals, Inc. is on my list.

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Reply Mtata Arsla says: July 18, 2014 at 3:12 AM Hi Beall.. please could help me with the publishers and journals related to music .. the questionable ones. Also could you tell me bout the list of journals that are included on http://jifactor.org/contact_us.php are also of same kind? and what bout the publishers like : IJMCR, Discourse Journals, Novikoff A.V., State Natural History Museum NAS Ukraine. It’ll be of great help. Thanks i Rate This

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baishali says: July 19, 2014 at 2:57 AM Intellect Journals are moving in academia rapidly. It’s website addresses are quite perplexing. I found these two web addresses – http://www.intellectbooks.com and http://www.intellectjournals.org/index.html ( from the aforementioned list) . Could anybody help me in understanding their quality ?

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Reply Sae Kitamura says: December 6, 2014 at 5:33 AM Like baishali, I would also like to know more about this publisher. I don’t know much about it, but it seems that the University of Chicago Press distributes some of Intellect’s titles ( http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/publisher/pu3431193_3431196.html#tab‑ author ). And when I attended the annual meeting of The Popular Culture Association of Australia and New Zealand, Intellect had an official stall acknowledged by the association office. I’ve seen some of the publisher’s books, and I didn’t think their qualities were very problematic – for example, see this book review (http://muse.jhu.edu/login? auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/notes/v069/69.2.schwandt.html). As for the journals, however, they publish too many titles and I’ve read none of them. They mostly focus on popular culture, which makes it quite difficult for non‑experts to judge the quality of articles. i Rate This

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Reply Raj says: July 21, 2014 at 7:50 PM check this out – is this suspect? http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/gh/index – it’s got hotmail addresses too in addition to “official” ones. I don’t plan to submit anything there. However, I thought I should let you know. ———‑ This is the email I received from them. BAD ENGLISH! ——‑ http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Dear ….., I read your article titled “——” on the journal —‑ And I know that you have explored deeply in this area. Your new manuscripts are invited to be published in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GH), which is a peer‑reviewed, open access journal published by Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures (CRDCSC). And it is free of charge to publish your new papers for the coming issue of July 2014. Gastroenterology and Hepatology is to provide a forum to share knowledge related to broad range of topics including medical, surgical, radiological, pathological, biochemical, physiological, ethical and historical aspects of the subject areas. Clinical trials are afforded expedited publication if deemed suitable. GH also deals with the basic sciences and experimental work, particularly that with a clear relevance to disease mechanisms and new therapies. Case reports and letters to the Editor are also accepted. We are calling for submission of new papers for the coming issue of July 2014. Please send the non‑published manuscript to our email address listed below. Or you could do online submission at: http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/gh/author/submit/1. If you have any questions, please contact us at the below email address. Attached is Cover Letter, please fill it and send back to us with your manuscripts. It is appreciated if you could share this information with your colleagues and associates. We are also recruiting reviewers for the journal. Please find further details at: http://cscanada.net/index.php/gh, and email your CVs to us. Best regards, Mandy King | Editor (Intern) Gastroenterology and Hepatology ISSN 1925‑9611 [Print]; ISSN 1925‑962X [Online] Publisher: Canadian Research & Development Centre of Sciences and Cultures Address: 730, 77e AV, Laval, Quebec, H7V 4A8, Canada http://www.cscanada.net E‑mail: [email protected]; [email protected] 2014/7/22 i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Raj says: July 23, 2014 at 6:38 AM ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU COLLECTION JEFFREY – THANKS, RAJ http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/journals.php ————————– EMAIL ——‑ LANDMARK RESEARCH JOURNALS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/index.php Introducing!! Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME) Dear Colleague, The Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME) is a multidisciplinary peer‑reviewed journal that will be published monthly by http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/index.php LRJBME is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim of expanding knowledge of the subject. Editors and reviewers LRJBME is seeking energetic, qualified and high profile researchers to join its editorial team as editors, subeditors or reviewers. Kindly send your resume to: [email protected] http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/submit‑manuscript.php Call for Research Articles. LRJBME will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish: ? Original articles in basic and applied research ? Case studies ? Critical reviews, surveys, opinions, commentaries and essays We invite you to submit your manuscript(s): to [email protected], [email protected] http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/submit‑manuscript.php [email protected] [email protected], for publication. Our http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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objective is to inform authors of the decision on their manuscript(s) within two weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a paper will normally be published in the next issue. Guide to authors and other details are available on our website; http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/authors‑instruction.php LRJBME is an Open Access Journal One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access to research publications. Open access gives a worldwide audience larger than that of any subscription‑ based journal and thus increases the visibility and impact of published works. It also enhances indexing, retrieval power and eliminates the need for permissions to reproduce and distribute content. LRJBME is fully committed to the Open Access Initiative and will provide free access to all articles as soon as they are published. The advantages to you of publishing in Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME) ? Full open access: everyone can read your article when it is published ? Publishing decision within 2 week of submission ? Prompt and fair peer review from two or more expert peer reviewers ? Frequent updates on your papers status ? Friendly responsive staff We welcome all your submissions. I hope you will consider Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME) for your next submission. Best regards, Tracy Lucas Editorial Assistant, Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME). E‑mail: [email protected], [email protected] [email protected] http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/index.php — If you do not want to receive any more newsletters, this link To update your preferences and to unsubscribe visit this link Forward a Message to Someone this link powered by phpList2.10.16, © phpList ltd http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 23, 2014 at 6:41 AM Thanks — this publisher is included on my list.

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International Journal of Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biological Sciences http://www.ijpcbs.com/ http://www.ijpcbs.com/currentissue.html http://www.ijpcbs.com/archives.html

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 23, 2014 at 8:30 AM I don’t have time to analyze this right now, so I’ve added it to my backlog. There are literally dozens of pharmaceutical journals based in India. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Raj says: July 23, 2014 at 6:57 AM THE LAST ONE TODAY (FROM ME) TO ADD ON YOUR LIST ! International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research http://www.ijpsr.com/ They have a “letter from Elsevier” – http://www.ijpsr.com/ELSEVIER%20LETTER.jpg They even have their own “Impact Factor” calculated from Google Scholar, “demonstrated by” – http://www.ijpsr.com/IJPSR%20Citations.pdf They even have “good English http://www.ijpsr.com/aboutus.htm

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 23, 2014 at 8:24 AM This journal is already included on my list here. Thanks. i Rate This

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Reply Dickson Mireku says: July 24, 2014 at 11:39 AM Dickson Mireku we are very grateful to you http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jean de Dieu says: July 25, 2014 at 2:43 AM Hello Sir, what about the African Journal of Ecology

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 25, 2014 at 6:53 AM This is not a questionable journal; it is fine, I think.

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Reply Ola says: July 26, 2014 at 10:43 AM My sister was asked by her lecturer to pay $100 to publish her project on international journal of computer science and information security. ijcsis the website address is https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/ can you please confirm that this site is genuine . i Rate This

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July 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM This journal, the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, is on my list. I recommend that she find a better journal for her work.

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Reply Areen Muhammed says: July 27, 2014 at 6:55 AM Dear what about the Journal with the Title of “International Journal of English Literature and Culture” with ISSN of “2360‑7831″ please a quick answer…with the address of: http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJELC/Index.htm

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM The journal’s publisher, Academic Research Journals, is on my list, so I recommend finding a better journal than this one.

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Reply Areen Muhammed says: July 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM thanks for the reply… Dear Mr. Beall what about Journal with the title of “International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research” and ISSN: 2229‑5518… since I published two of my papers, is the one to be Predatory… http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM Mr. Muhammed, This journal is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ Therefore, I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this journal. I recommend that you find a better journal for your work. Good luck. i Rate This

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Areen Muhammed says: July 27, 2014 at 3:51 PM Dear Mr. Beall the given journal can be found in Global Impact Factor, can you tell me a list for those Journals who are not included in your list, or any website which we can check other than your website? How do you know that these Journals are in Black list? Can you give me a website for those Journals who are not Predators? Since I want to publish my works, where should I find? i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 27, 2014 at 4:20 PM I think that the “Global Impact Factor” is a completely bogus metric. No, I do not have a list of all the journals not on my list, sorry. I use these criteria for determining which publishers and standalone journals belong on the list. I am sorry — I do not have a list of journals that are not predators.


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i Rate This Dickson Mireku says: July 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM please check these two journals : International journal for Scientific Research and Publication and Journal of Biodiversity and Forestry Management. Are they good? i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 27, 2014 at 5:23 PM For the first one, I think you mean the International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications. This is a standalone journal, and it is included on my list here. I recommend against submitting papers to this journal. The second one is published by SciTechnol, and imprint of OMICS Publishing Group, and I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal or the others from this publisher. i Rate This

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Dickson Mireku says: July 28, 2014 at 6:41 AM can I know if this one too is a predatory one international journal for multidisciplinary research academy i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 28, 2014 at 7:42 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Areen Muhammed says: July 27, 2014 at 4:51 PM Thanks for your understanding, but sorry for bothering.. do you think the journal with the title of: International Journal of English Literature and Culture. and ISSN: 2360‑7831. is in the Predator list, since I could not find it in your list… http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJELC/Index.htm i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: July 27, 2014 at 5:16 PM There are too many journals (thousands) for me to examine and list individually. Therefore, I complete my analyses at the publisher level and only list the publishers (There are some journals that are “standalone” or individual journals that are not a part of a publisher’s fleet of journals, so I have a separate list for these). In this case, I do have Academic Research Journals on my list, and I think that researchers should avoid all the journals they publish. i Rate This

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obinna says: July 30, 2014 at 9:59 PM Hi Jeff. What is your take on Medcrave Group publishers. Can you advice me on their journal of lung, pulmonary & respiratory research. Thank you. Regards. Obinna http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 31, 2014 at 5:19 AM This publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you avoid it and all of its journals completely. I recommend finding a better publisher. Good luck.

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Reply Khan says: July 31, 2014 at 11:08 AM atest impact factors are released for scientific journals on 30th july 2014. But i couldn’t find the impact factor for ” International journal of photo energy” published by Hindawi. What that means ???. Is that journal has been removed from ISI master list???.I have published article in that journal……… Please help me …I am very worried about that i Rate This

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Reply Khan says: July 31, 2014 at 11:10 AM Latest impact factors are released for scientific journals on 30th july 2014. But i couldn’t find the impact factor for ” International journal of photo energy” published by Hindawi. What that means ???. Is that journal has been removed from ISI master list???.I have published article in that journal……… Please help me …I am very worried about that


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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 31, 2014 at 11:42 AM I cannot find it listed either.

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Reply Khan says: July 31, 2014 at 11:45 AM Dear Mr. Jaffery, So, what does it mean….Is it removed from ISI list???? i Rate This

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This journal hasn’t been included in the 2013 JCR data due to anomalous citation patterns found in the 2013 citation data. These patterns result in a significant distortion of the Journal Impact Factor and rank that does not accurately reflect the journal’s citation performance in the literature. The Journal Impact Factor provides an important and objective measure of a journal’s contribution to scholarly communication. In the interest of fairness and accuracy for all journals, the distortion of the Journal Impact Factor by an excessive concentration of citations gives rise to the need for suppression. The journal “International Journal of Photoenergy” has be suppressed for “Citation Stacking,” where there is an anomalous exchange of citations between two or more journals. You can read more about Journal Suppression here : http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/jcr‑suppression.pdf

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Khan says: July 31, 2014 at 12:00 PM Its 2012 impact factor was 2.66 by Thomson Reuters. But this year i could not found its impact factor. Will it still be listed in ISI master list??. Sorry for bothering you again. Actually i am very much worried about it. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: July 31, 2014 at 12:03 PM I don’t know. Anyone …?

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Reply Mohammad says: August 18, 2014 at 7:56 AM Hi, The ISI impact factor of “International Journal of Photoenergy” in 2013 JCT is reported as 2.663. However, it is an open access journal which means it requires an “Article Processing Charge” (currently being $1200 per article), and also perhaps a much faster and easier publication! Good luck. i Rate This

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Umair Abdullah says: August 25, 2014 at 12:46 AM Dear Khan, It is still listed in ISI Master Journal List. You can check from the following link; http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi‑bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi? PC=MASTER&ISSN=1110‑662X Removal from the Impact factor list is a normal and regular phenomena of ISI to keep the Journals on track. In my view your Journal will regain its impact factor – although not so high – in 2015 or in 2016. Best of Luck http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Andrea says: August 1, 2014 at 2:48 AM Thank you for this resource. I just found this website with a very long list of journals… not sure what to make of it? http://www.rekpub.com

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 1, 2014 at 5:29 AM It’s a very sloppy predatory publisher.

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Jeffrey Beall says: August 2, 2014 at 2:44 PM Sorry, I don’t know. This sounds like a question for the folks at Scimago.

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Reply Tedd Binder says: August 2, 2014 at 9:35 AM Hi, Jeff! “International Journal of Electrochemical Science” has received a new impact factor in 2013 (1.956). Is it really a “predatory publisher”? Thanks,

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 2, 2014 at 9:49 AM This journal had its impact factor suppressed for a year apparently, but now the impact factor has appeared again. I am keeping it on my list. i Rate This

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Reply Mihaly Mezei says: August 4, 2014 at 7:45 PM There seems to be an other damage done by the predatory publishers. I am an editor for the recently started Computational Biology Journal published by Hindawi (not on the 2014 list). They have a nice website, offering a large number of possible reviewers with links to their publications. It turns out, however, that people refuse to review papers submitted to this journal. The last paper I handled was assigned to 10 reviewers, the only one who accepted the task was a fellow faculty member. I ended up being asked to make a decision based on a single review. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Dickson Mireku says: August 5, 2014 at 4:40 AM please what about Journal of Biodiversity Management and Forestry. Is it a predatory journal?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 8, 2014 at 2:12 PM I think so. It’s published by SciTechnol, which is an imprint of OMICS Publishing Group. I strongly recommend that you avoid this journal.

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Mutinta Muleya says: August 5, 2014 at 1:11 PM Dear Mr Beall, A friend of mine submitted a manuscript to one of the journals listed Asian Academic Research association, and in less than five days the paper was accepted for publication, how does this happen. Do they review the papers. I submitted to another journal call international Journal of African Nursing Sciences over a month ago and my paper is still under review.Why the difference i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Shabbeer Hassan says: August 6, 2014 at 8:22 PM Heyya Jeff ! I am being told to consider Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health for my next publication. Is it a suspect? What is suspect however was that earlier it was managed by Savvy Publishers which does feature in your list. Please have a check and write back.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 8, 2014 at 1:53 PM Elsevier publishes a journal called Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. Savvy Science Publisher publishes a journal called Global Journal of Epidemiology and Public Health. The Elsevier journal is not on my list. Savvy Science Publisher, which is anything but savvy, is on my list. I recommend against submitting papers to journals whose publishers are on my list. i Rate This

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August 8, 2014 at 8:48 PM Thanks Jeff !! But the Elsevier journal has a strange editorial board list. I didn’t find any designations being listed along them. Do you think that’s suspicious?

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Jeffrey Beall says: August 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM Yup, the editorial board members are listed without any affiliations. This is non‑ standard and as you say, suspicious. Will you be submitting a paper to this journal?

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Shabbeer says: August 10, 2014 at 9:15 AM Yeah its quite a non‑standard practice not to mention the affiliations of editors. Right now, i have a paper for which i am the first author which one of the senior member in my lab is proposing to publish in Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. But even the editor’s address seems suspect. If one does a google search on the chief editor, no such address pops out. I am in a quandary right now.

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Ashwin F C says: August 7, 2014 at 12:39 AM Kindly let us know if RED FLOWER PUBLICATION PRIVATE LIMITED, Delhi, India http://www.rfppl.org/ is a predatory journal publisher http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 8, 2014 at 4:33 PM Thanks for letting me know about this publisher, which I’ve added to my list. It has a very messy website, with most of the links dead, and an excessive number of grammatical errors, among other serious problems. I recommend finding a better publisher than this one.

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Reply injpn says: August 7, 2014 at 12:56 AM Dear Mr. Beall. I have already submitted one of my hard worked article to a publisher in your list. Now I come to know of predation in academic publications. What should I do now? I worked 3 years on the article and my graduation depends on it. i Rate This

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Reply DM says: August 7, 2014 at 10:17 PM do let me know of IFRSA, who claims an impact factor of 2.545 and author notification after 10 days of submission. i Rate This

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I am assuming you mean the International Forum of Researchers Students and Academician (IFRSA). While I did not see any claims of such an impact factor or quick acceptance notification, I did find that the publisher meets the criteria for inclusion on my list, so I have added it. Its own name is ungrammatical.

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August 11, 2014 at 9:41 PM Thank you so much for the great work. I want to ask for your advice of submitting my paper to the Common Ground Publishing? many thanks.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 12, 2014 at 4:54 AM It’s not really an open‑access publisher, and I generally limit my analyses to OA publishers and journals.

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i Rate This Mohammad says: August 12, 2014 at 9:41 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, Generally speaking, your work and commitment is admirable. There exist some uncertainties about the list and selection criteria, however, as mentioned by others. As an example, could you please give your justification for inclusion of the “Universal Research Publications” in your list? I have not submitted there, but as far as I found, most of their journals have editorial board and make no charge on publication (as appeared from their author guidelines). Is it wrong or fake? Thanks a lot for your consideration.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 12, 2014 at 10:22 AM I try not to use the terms fake or wrong to describe publishers. This one is typical of many questionable publishers. It launched with a large (over 50) fleet of broad‑scope journals. Most of the journals represent disciplines already well‑covered in the literature. Many questionable publishers do not charge at first, and they use the free articles to accumulate a mass of articles that then serve to attract submissions when the APCs are imposed. Researchers need to know which publishers to avoid, and I think this one offers little benefit to researchers with new research to share with other scholars. Why are you asking about this particular publisher? i Rate This

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recommendation against or in favor of a publication will be somehow case‑dependent. In other words, not all researchers get to (or should) always publish in high ranked journals (e.g., in Science, Nature, ACS, etc.). There do are some works which are not so brilliant or massive, do not possess a very attractive topic, are not prepared by highly renowned authors (from the developing countries. e.g.), or cannot wait for a lengthy review process. In such cases, there should be some publishers or journals that more easily publish, but adhere to minimum standards. My question about this publisher was raised from such a point of view. In fact, I wondered if broad scope or repetitive theme are as inappropriate as a publication charge as an index for avoiding a specific publication or not. To sum up, I think it is inevitable that publishers and journals differ in their reviewing standards and also the review pace (ranging from 2 weeks to 2 years according to my observations). Many thanks.

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Dr D B NIKUMBH says: August 13, 2014 at 12:15 AM HELLO DEAR JEFF, WHAT ABOUT THE BELOW WEB AND JOURNAL 1.http://my.ejmanager.com/ 2.JMSCR‑JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND CLINICAL RESEARCH – http://jmscr.igmpublication.org. KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE, REGARDS, DR NIKUMBH

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 13, 2014 at 5:42 AM For 1., this is not a publisher exactly; it is an aggregator. Therefore, it is not appropriate for inclusion on my list. It is a list of journals. For 2., the Journal of Medical Sciences and Clinical Research, this is published by a firm called IGM Publication, which is on my list so I recommend against submitting papers to it. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Suzzane says: August 15, 2014 at 2:17 AM Hello Jeffery! Can you please recommend a journal on electronics and computer science (which is in science citation index list), that can take shorter time to review (say a month). Please help

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August 17, 2014 at 1:13 AM is The International Journal of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering (IJECSE) fake journal, they wrote in their site Call for paper – Last date for paper submission: 25th Aug 2014, Acceptance Notification: With in 7 to 20 working days., Publication Date: With in week after acceptance so 7‑20 days only to review paper and accept it, so it’s fake or not?? Thanks in advanced

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 17, 2014 at 6:12 AM I haven’t fully analyzed that journal, but this quick paper acceptance is very suspicious. Also, a quick look at their site shows they use bogus metrics and they also display logos from many organizations that they really have no connection with. I would advise, based on this, that you find a better journal for your work and avoid this journal.

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Reply omar mohamed says: August 17, 2014 at 4:32 PM Thanks for your fast response second what about this one i want to know acceptance time?, it’s fake impact factor? International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ( IJEEE ); ISSN(Print): 2278‑9944 ; ISSN(Online): 2278‑9952 ; http://www.iaset.us/electronics‑and‑electrical‑engineering‑international‑journals‑ with‑impact‑factor.php i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Abdul says: August 17, 2014 at 10:34 AM Kindly advise about the following Journals: Mycoses, Pharmacologia, Pharmacogosy Journal, Intent impact NDDS (www,inventi.in), Indian J. Pharmacology, Asian J. Medical Sciences, Asian J. Pharmacological, Current Research J. Biological Sciences, J. Global Infectious Diseases, Global J. Molecular Sciences, Global J. Environmental Research, Global J. of Biotechology, and Biochemistry

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August 17, 2014 at 5:11 PM http://www.ciitresearch.org/pdcs.html Thank a lot for your patient finally if you please tell me about this journal it’s fake or not and what is the acceptance time?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 17, 2014 at 5:30 PM Fake and very fast acceptance time. Good luck.

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Reply DR NO says: August 19, 2014 at 8:46 PM I would like to publish an article in this journal. Is it a predatory journal? http://soeagra.com/abr/abr.htm i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 21, 2014 at 6:08 PM Yes. This journal is published by the amateurish “Society of Education.” I recommend that you not submit your article to this journal or to the other two published by this “society.” http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply M. N. Omar says: August 19, 2014 at 9:19 PM I have published several articles in these journals since 2007 but very sad when you included them in your predatory list 2014. I don’t know the reason why these journal are in your list. The journals are indexed in SCOPUS and Thomson ISI. http://scialert.net/current.php?issn=1028‑8880 http://scialert.net/jindex.php?issn=1727‑3048

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 20, 2014 at 5:05 AM What was the peer review process like when you submitted your papers? Did they require revisions, or did they just accept the papers as is? How many citations have the papers received? Scopus and Thomson have different criteria than I have, and they also drop journals from their coverage (especially lately), so a journal included in their coverage may be gone tomorrow. The two journals you mention are Pakistan Journal of Biological Sciences and Journal of Biological Sciences. Both journals cover the same topic and each has a broad coverage. How many other “biological sciences” journals does this publisher have? They have lots because they want to accept all papers and get money from as many authors as possible. i Rate This

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Dear Jeffrey, My sister is going to publish the article on medicine. Her Department advised her this journal http://www.fasebj.org/ , because it has impact‑factor, which our university likes so much. But the publication in this is not free and I am a bit worried about its reputations. Isn’t it fake or some kind of predatory journal, maybe it doesn’t have impact‑factor in Thomson Reuters? Can we beleive them? Thank you very much!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 20, 2014 at 6:09 AM Aliah, Congratulations to your sister! The FASEB Journal is a very respected journal. I would encourage her to complete the submission and publish the article. This is not a fake or predatory journal. You can believe them! Again, congratulations. i Rate This

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Reply Dickson Mireku says: August 20, 2014 at 10:58 AM please find out for me the Associated Asian Research Foundation is a predatory Journal i Rate This

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I think that the Associated Asian Research Foundation is indeed a questionable publisher. It launched recently with ten new, broad journals. It promises a decision on your manuscript in three or six days (depending on which promise you read). It appears to have only a single editorial board for all the journals. I have added it to my list. I recommend against submitting papers to this publisher’s journals. Thanks for letting me know about it.

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I was going to submit a paper to Business Perspectives (Investment Management and Financial Innovations) which is indexed by SCOPUS, but I saw the name of this publisher in your list. it means being indexed by SCOPUS does not necessarily mean that the journal is good, am I right? http://businessperspectives.org/orderform/SCOPUS%20IMFI.pdf http://globalimpactfactor.com/investment‑management‑and‑financial‑innovations/ Thanks in advance,

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Reply braa ogidi says: August 21, 2014 at 11:38 AM how about International Journal of Learning, Teaching and Educational Research http://www.ijlter.org/index.php/ijlter/index are they predatory or i can submit to them. thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 23, 2014 at 3:06 PM I would recommend against submitting papers to this journal. I’ve added it to my list.

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Reply Michel says: August 21, 2014 at 1:58 PM Dear Jeffery Bell what about this journals? http://pjbt.org/contact‑us/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 22, 2014 at 6:03 AM While this is clearly not a top‑tier journal, and while it has some weaknesses, I don’t think it meets the criteria and don’t want to add it to my list at this time. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Thomas says: August 22, 2014 at 9:52 AM Why is The International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA) listed here? I’ve been to some of their conferences, and the organization/quality/fees was certainly comparable to other ACM conferences I’ve been.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 22, 2014 at 10:18 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2013/06/25/publishers‑journals‑boast‑amazingly‑high‑impact‑ factors/

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Reply Victor Privalsky says: August 22, 2014 at 10:04 AM Is this a predator? – Sciences & Engineering Research Publication Website: http://www.scenrp.com Thank you. i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: August 22, 2014 at 11:04 AM Yes.

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Reply alfredachieng says: August 22, 2014 at 12:31 PM Hi Bell, do you know about International Journal of advanced research? http://journalijar.com/current‑issue/

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Reply alfredachieng says: August 22, 2014 at 1:17 PM I have actually seen the journal in your list of Questionable Standalone Journals. A friend has published with the journal and wanted me to publish there too. i Rate This

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i Rate This Reply alfredachieng says: August 22, 2014 at 1:20 PM I have also received an invitation to publish with the journal http://www.lap‑ publishing.com/authors_infos_pdf/gb but I dont know them much. Please help me know more about it. Thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 22, 2014 at 1:25 PM They want you to pay them $3,000 and then they will write up a magazine article about your research. It’s not a scholarly journal in the traditional sense.

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Hi Prof Beall, Whats your opinion about these journal; 1. American Journal of Industrial and Business Management 2. Australian Journal of Business and Management Research (AJBMR) 3. INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY RESEARCH IN BUSINESS I will be waiting for your information. Thank you very much. Regards [email protected]

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 24, 2014 at 3:35 PM I refer you to my lists here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ Kind regards.

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Jeffrey Beall says: August 26, 2014 at 6:44 PM I recommend that you NOT submit papers to this journal; it has many problems. I would recommend that you find a better place to publish your work. I have added this journal to my list. Good luck.

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Reply Suleiman Danladi says: August 27, 2014 at 2:32 AM Sir thank you for your help, please i want to send my paper for publication but i want to send it to good and standard please can you recommend one for me. also i want to know whether these two journals are standards or not Malaysian journal of pharmaceutical science and Pakistan journal of pharmaceutical science. thank you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 28, 2014 at 4:55 AM This journal is published by a firm called Technical Journals Online. This publisher is included on my list here:http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Therefore, I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal.

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Reply alfredachieng says: August 28, 2014 at 1:32 AM Hi Bell, Please help me out to distinguish these two Journals: In your list, you have International Journal of Scientific Research but a friend wanted to send a paper to International Journal of Science and Research..Is the journal credible? Are the two journals one and the same thing? what is your advice about the latter?

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i Rate This Reply Andy says: August 28, 2014 at 1:53 AM Dear Jeff; I just received this e mail from ‘Aperito online Publishing’ inviting me to join the Editorial Board of the journal ‘ Pediatrics and Neonatal Care: Open Access Journal’. They have asked me to send my recent passport sized Photo; CV; Short Biography & Research interests, if I am interested. What do you know about this journal and the publisher? Are they predatory? Many thanks for your advice. Andy

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 28, 2014 at 4:50 AM Aperito Publications is on my list here. I recommend that you ignore this invitation. They want to use your reputation and affiliation to attract manuscript submissions to generate more revenue.

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alfredachieng says: August 28, 2014 at 6:55 AM Thanks Jeffrey… You have really enlightened us What about Croatian Journal of Fisheries?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: August 28, 2014 at 8:55 AM This journal is not on my list. May I ask what made you want to ask about this particular journal?

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Reply Ehsan Monabbati says: January 11, 2015 at 10:22 AM Dear Mr. Beall, I had a submission to “International Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics”. The review process is questionably takes only 8 days!! All reviewer reports have suggested the acceptance of the manuscript. I have withdrew the manuscript. After a deeper look at on accepted manuscripts, I have found that this is a pay‑and‑ publish journal !! Please check it at http://www.ijpam.eu/. i Rate This

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Abhimanyu Sarin says: August 30, 2014 at 3:15 AM Hi Mr. Beall, Thanks a ton for the input. I was not aware of the amount of corruption that existed amongst even scientific journals. It would be awfully kind of you if you could tell why AIRCC (Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center) has a bad name. Also, are the journals published cited as scholarly journals or not ?

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Reply Dr D B NIKUMBH says: September 1, 2014 at 12:20 AM Hello Mr Jeff ,,,,KINDLY TELL ME THE ACTUAL MEANING OF INDEX MEDICUS AND NATIONAL JOURNALS ,,,,,,AS IN MEDICAL PROMOTION IN INDIA/MCI GUIDELINES STATES THIS…..THE PUBLICATIONS IN INDEX MEDICUS OR NATIONAL JOURNALS ……MEANS WHAT??

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 1, 2014 at 5:21 AM Index Medicus was a print index to medical literature that stopped publishing in 2004. It is now essentially replaced by PubMed. PubMed is selective — it does not include all medical journals. Therefore, some look at a journal’s being included in PubMed as a mark of quality.

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Reply Dr D B NIKUMBH says: September 5, 2014 at 3:29 AM thank you very much,,,,,sir….. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Kwaku Ahenkora says: September 1, 2014 at 2:42 PM Could you provide me with information on the credibility of the following open access journals: International Journal of Advances in Management and Economics; International Journal of Business, Management and Economic Research. Thanks in advance

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 1, 2014 at 3:55 PM Can you send the links, please?

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Reply Robert Stanton says: September 1, 2014 at 4:38 PM Dear Jeffery, firstly my sincere thanks for the wonderful work you do. I am sure your work is highly valued by the the acedemic community. Recently I have been invited to join the editorial team for a new journal; International Journal of Sports Medicine and Therapy http://www.journalnetwork.org/journals/international‑journal‑of‑sports‑medicine‑and‑ therapy , hosted by Journal Network. There are not on your list and have not yet received submissions. I wonder if you are familiar with he publisher and their credibility. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 2, 2014 at 6:00 AM Robert, I searched this publisher’s URL in the Wayback Machine and found that it used to be used for a publisher called International Journal Network (IJN). I wrote a blog post about this former “resident” of this URL. So, is this new presentation a re‑branding, a starting‑over‑from‑scratch, or did they sell the URL to another firm that used it to start a new publisher? I will analyze if more fully as time permits. Given that the former publisher launched with 350 journals and this one looks like it’s starting with about as many, it’s reasonable to conclude that the owner is the same. In any event, I would recommend that scholars ignore any invitations they receive from this firm.

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Reply rupesh says: September 3, 2014 at 11:53 AM can you tell me something about International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health i Rate This

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Reply Fred says: September 3, 2014 at 6:48 PM Sir, I’d like to ask: Is this journal authentic and reliable? http://www.primejournalconsultants.com/index.asp? CName=Fred%20Hanz&PVal=1&ft=register I wish you would reply as soon as possible. Thanks a lot:. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 4, 2014 at 9:25 PM No, it is not.

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Reply amit says: September 4, 2014 at 4:25 AM Dear Dr. Beall, I want to know whether the international journal of medical research and review is a predatory journal or not. Because this is not in your list. This journal has three more sister journals. Kindly tell me the same

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 4, 2014 at 9:20 PM I have not analyzed that journal, so I cannot say anything about it at this time. There are very many new, standalone mega‑journals such as this one appearing all the time. I am unable to analyze the all. Try to submit your work to the best possible journal. i Rate This

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Reply amit says: September 4, 2014 at 10:26 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Thanks Dr.,

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Thanks Dr., I will submit my article to other journal originated from any established association or society. I have inquired about this journal as i am receiving mails from the journal to publish the article in their new journals

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I’ve submitted an article to International Journal of Humanities and Social Science – http://www.ijhssnet.com/. It has been accepted – I’ve been sent the reviewers’ report, I’ve paid the publication fee. I’ve been requested to do the final revision. Volume 4 No. 8 was due by August 20, 2014. However, it hasn’t appeared yet. I’ve been writing email to the Chief Editor Dr. J. Sabrina Mims‑Cox; in vain though. Does it mean it’s a predatory and not an authentic journal? Could you please kindly reply as soon as possible?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 7, 2014 at 12:10 PM Being late with a single issue does not make a publisher a predatory publisher. However, regarding the journal you mention, the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, I am afraid that, in my opinion, this is a predatory journal. It is published by a firm with the name Center for Promoting Ideas, which is on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Enrique says: February 1, 2015 at 8:01 PM I have had the same bad experience with IJHSS: I’ve submitted an article in September 2013 and it was very quickly accepted, without modifications and full of compliments by two reviewers. I spent some months to write it on MS Word (the article was originally written in LaTeX). In May 2014 I made the transfer to this guy in Bangladesh, and since then…. Here I am waiting. I have been writing Mrs Mims‑Cox every week and no reply at all (before paying she was very kind though). I searched and contacted some members of the so called “editorial board” and I had 3 replies: one of them told me he asked to remove his name from the editorial board one year ago and nothing happened; other told me IJHSS is not authentic and no one asked her consent to put her name there, other told me IJHSS is just a way to get money for some unscrupulos people. So, don’t submit to this journal!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM It’s published by a firm called “The Global Journals,” which is on my list. I recommend not submitting any manuscripts to this journal. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply NK says: September 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM Dear Jeffrey, Please take note of the journal “INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INNOVATION IN SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS (IJSIM)” Their website is: “http://www.ijism.org/index.php/en/” There are a lot of grammatical errors on their website. For Instance, check this: “ARTICLE PROSSECING FEE”. I believe this is another fake journal.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 7, 2014 at 4:04 PM Agreed — and this journal is already included http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ Thank you.

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Reply SJN says: September 8, 2014 at 1:45 AM Sir, I would like to know if you have any idea regarding impact factor by SJIF. International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR) claims to have an sjif impact factor of 3.358. Is this legit? My paper has been accepted by IJSR and another by International Journal of Engineering Research and Technology. Are either of these scams? i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: September 8, 2014 at 5:19 AM That’s a fake impact factor. I recommend finding a better journal to publish in. If they’re lying about their impact factor, they’re probably lying about other things as well.

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Reply ashley says: September 8, 2014 at 2:16 AM Can you please shed some light on the credibility of JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 8, 2014 at 5:16 AM I haven’t analyzed this journal; this is the first I’ve heard of it.

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Reply ashley says: September 9, 2014 at 3:44 AM This is the link of the site of JOURNAL OF EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE http://www.jebmh.com/index.php please advise. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Andy says: September 9, 2014 at 12:14 PM Dear Jeffrey; Please can you help analyze this journal and tell me whether it is predatory or not : “International Journal of Child Health and Nutrition” Many thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 10, 2014 at 1:34 PM There’s a journal with this title published by a firm called LifeScience Global. This publisher is included on my list, so I would recommend that you find a better publisher.

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Jeffrey Beall says: September 12, 2014 at 6:58 PM I have added this journal to my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ I recommend that you not submit papers to this journal and instead find a higher quality one. i Rate This

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Reply Kwaku Ahenkora says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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September 9, 2014 at 10:02 AM Jeffrey Please find the urls of the journals I mentioned on the 1st of September http://www.managementjournal.info/ http://www.ijbmer.com/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 10, 2014 at 2:37 PM The first one is on my list, and I recommend against submitting papers there. I have not analyzed the second one. I am unable to analyze it at this time.

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HLS Weekly Roundup | hls says: September 12, 2014 at 9:00 AM […] that show the astronomical rise of predatory publishers. A lot of folks are already aware of this incredibly helpful list from CU Denver librarian Jeffrey Beall, but if you aren’t, it’s an excellent resource […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Andre Nel says: September 14, 2014 at 11:57 PM Hi Jeffery I am interested in the journals from the International Institute of Engineers. One of them is “International Journal of Computing, Communication and Instrumentation Engineering.” (http://ijccie.iieng.org/) I cannot find it on the list but it appears from interaction to be quite problematic. I also see that IIE hosts a number of the classical “multi‑conferences” that according to one of their flyers “After publication of Porceedings [sic] selected authors will be allowed to publish one extended paper in IIE Journals FREE of cost.” In itself given the poor reviewing of the conferences this makes publishing in the journals quite worrisome. Your thoughts? regards andre

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 15, 2014 at 5:51 AM This one looks fishy to me; I had not heard of it before. I will analyze it as soon as I can. Thanks for letting me know about it. i Rate This

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I have added the International Institute of Engineers to my list of questionable publishers. Thanks for letting me know about it. I recommend against attending their conferences and against submitting papers to their journals.

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Reply Jack Black says: September 15, 2014 at 3:38 AM Can anybody tell me about the credibility of following journal: International Journal on Electrical Engineering and Informatics http://www.ijeei.org/aims.html

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Reply Vedrana Cemerin says: September 15, 2014 at 9:08 AM Today I got this e‑mail, which I quote in full: “American Journal of Educational Research ISSN (Print): 2327‑6126 ISSN (Online): 2327‑6150 Dear Vedrana Čemerin, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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This is American Journal of Educational Research, a peer‑reviewed, open access journal that provides rapid publication of articles in all areas of educational research. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of educational research. And the Impact Factor for year 2013 is 1.2033. We are very interested in your paper named “Testing and Assessment in E‑learning of English Language: the Case of the GAUDEAMUS Program at the University of Applied Sciences Velika Gorica, Croatia” in 6th Edition of the International Conference “ICT for Language Learning”, November 14‑15, 2013, Italy. If the paper mentioned has not been published in other journals or if you have other unpublished papers, you can submit it to our journal through [email protected] or [email protected] papers are also welcomed. Editorial Positions As a peer‑reviewed journal publisher, we also want to expand our Editorial Board and reviewer team member. There is no charge for publishing Editor’s articles. In recognition of reviewers’ support, any reviewer that returns a full review on time can receive a 30% discount on article processing charges for a paper for which they are the corresponding author. If you are interested in joining us as our Editorial Board Member / Reviewer, please send us your latest CV. We will evaluate your suitability and respond in due course.If you have no interest or no time in reviewing papers, would you please recommend your colleagues or team members to us? Thanks in advance. Aims and Scope: All areas related to educational research fields are covered under American Journal of Educational Research. Subject areas include, but are not limited to the following fields: Academic Advising and Counseling Art Education Adult Education Business Education Counselor Education Curriculum, Research and Development Distance Education Early Childhood Education Educational Administration Educational Foundations Educational Measurement and Evaluation Educational Psychology Educational Technology Education Policy and Leadership Elementary Education Health Education Higher Education Human Resource Development Kinesiology & Leisure Science Language Education http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Mathematics Education Music Education Reading Education Rural Education Science Education Secondary Education Social Studies Education Special Education Student Affairs Teacher Education Cross‑disciplinary areas of Education History Education Article Processing Charges: Science and Education Publishing is an open access publisher. In an open access model, the publication costs of an article are paid from an author’s research budget, or by their supporting institution, in the form of Article Processing Charges. These Article Processing Charges replace subscription charges and allow publishers to make the full‑text of every published article freely available to all interested readers. Article Processing Charges are only made if an article is accepted for publication (There are no submission fees or page charges). From 01/09/2014 to 31/10/2014, we offer discounts on the publication fee. The exact Article Processing Charges of SciEP journals are shown in the table below. For American Journal of Educational Research (ISSN 2327‑6150), authors are asked to pay the publication fees according to the classification if the article is accepted for publication after peer‑review and possible revision of the manuscript. Category Article Processing Charges Low‑income economies – (88) $120.00 Middle‑income economies – (56) $180.00 High‑income economies – (72) $260.00 The amount of article processing charges (APC) will be established in the yearly classification of the World Bank Economies of countries (i.e. Low income countries, Middle income countries and High Income countries). The specific classification could be found on the website at http://www.sciepub.com/journal/Education/Charges. Indexed Databases: ● Google Scholar http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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● World Cat ● Universal Impact Factor (2013 = 1.2033) ● J‑Gate ● CorssRef ● JournalTOCs ● AcademicKeys ● Academia ● Computer Literature Index ● Zeitschriftendatenbank (ZDB) ● Open Access Journals Search Engine ● Elektronische Zeitschriftenbibliothek（EZB） ● Genamics Journal Seek ● Directory of Research Journals Indexing ● Index Copernicus Requirements for the Author: 1. Manuscripts must be in Microsoft Word format only. Please prepare your paper according to the SciEP‑template (click to download). 2. Articles submitted should be written in English. 3. Usually a complete manuscript should be no less than 5 pages and no more than 25 pages (10 pt, double‑spaced, including figures, tables, and references). 4. The title should be no more than 20 words in length. 5. The abstract should be 200‑300 words and 3‑7 key words. Details can be found online at http://www.sciepub.com/journal/Education/Author#Ins. We warmly welcome your submission of original articles and joining our editorial team. Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Thanks for your consideration. Looking forward to your reply. Best regards, Emma Taylor Editorial Office http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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[email protected] [email protected] Science and Education Publishing (http://www.sciepub.com/), USA ” I don’t see them on your list, but there are several things that look very fishy to me: a) they sent me the e‑mail from a gmail account – [email protected], b) I have cancelled my attendance, so the article they are requesting has neither been presented at the conference nor published (nor written, btw :)) and c) as anyone who bothered to do a bit of research knows, selected papers from this conference are published in a volume of conference proceedings, and therefore are not available to be published elsewhere. They seem predatory to me.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 15, 2014 at 9:17 AM Actually, I do have Science and Education Publishing on my list here. Thanks for checking to make sure I knew about it.

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Reply Vedrana Cemerin says: September 21, 2014 at 4:34 AM oh, I missed them when I searched – thanks for pointing this out! i Rate This

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Dear Jeffrey Thanks to your list we were able to prevent a publication from a staff member to a predatory journal in 2012. A colleague has asked my advice on publishing in the International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI) (157 on your second list). Now, thanks to you, we have again been able to easily detect and prevent a potentially embarrassing situation. Thank you for your contribution, greatly appreciated! Henry

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Reply Springer says: September 17, 2014 at 5:53 AM Dear Jeffrey I would like to submit my paper to one of Hindawi journals. Kindly advise.

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Reply chudamani says: September 17, 2014 at 6:22 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Dear jeffrey, I have submitted manuscript on journal of animal science advances by Global researchers journal and open journal of animal science by scientific publishing group ….. are they fake or genuine journals

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 17, 2014 at 7:04 AM Can you send the link, please? I am not sure exactly which journal you are talking about.

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Reply Kwara says: September 18, 2014 at 12:23 AM Dear Jeffrey, Can you please analyse the following journal: International Journal of Current Business and Social Sciences (ISSN 2312‑5985): http://www.ijcbss.org Thank you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 18, 2014 at 6:23 AM Yes, I am a little backlogged right now but will get to it as soon as I can. Thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 20, 2014 at 7:26 AM I have analyzed this journal and added it to my list. I do not recommend submitting your manuscripts here, as this is a minimalist and amateurish‑looking journal. I would recommend finding a more professional venue.

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Keith Fraser says: September 18, 2014 at 10:09 AM Do you have any information on the Journal of Advances in Physics ( http://cirjap.com/ojs/index.php/jap/index )? Someone representing it has made a promotional post on a LinkedIn group I belong to and (more significantly) ‘liked’ several posts about incoherent pseudoscience. Thanks. i Rate This

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September 18, 2014 at 12:15 PM It’s published by a predatory publisher called Council for Innovative Research. I strongly recommend that you not submit any papers to it. The publisher is included on my list.

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Reply Keith Fraser says: September 21, 2014 at 1:09 PM I did eventually realize the publisher was on your list. I wasn’t planning on submitting anything to a journal that engages in spam‑like behaviour, but it’s good to know my instincts weren’t wrong!

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farimah says: September 18, 2014 at 10:41 AM Dear Jeffrey, I have submitted manuscript on International Journal of Psychology and Behavioral Science. Can you tell me about the credibility of this journal, PLease.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 18, 2014 at 12:18 PM This journal is published by a company called SAP, or Scientific & Academic Publishing. It’s on my list, and I recommend that you withdraw your manuscript and find a better publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Couldn’t help to give a funny example from their publication ethics: “All the submitted manuscripts should be written in Good English” followed by “Before the inclusion of a case details or images or patient images or personal details in the manuscript author must be obtained permission or an approval from the appropriate parties.” Contact me if you want an e‑mail I received to become an Editor.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 19, 2014 at 4:41 AM Actually, this publisher is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Thank you for letting me know about it, however.

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Reply Sethunath says: September 20, 2014 at 9:13 AM Dear Dr. Jeffrey, your lists of journals is really helpful. Thanks a lot for this compilation. i Rate This

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Reply Thomas Lawrence Long says: September 21, 2014 at 6:39 AM Today I’ve received three different invitations from three different names to submit a ms to the American International Journal of Contemporary Research, published by an entity calling itself the Center for Promoting Ideas. However, thinking ahead to my retirement, I’m considering starting the Center for Thinking Thoughts, which will publish the open access International American Journal of Outdated Research (a home for all those old data people never published). Want to join me? i Rate This

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Reply OA says: September 22, 2014 at 9:56 AM Dear Dr. JB: Do you have a list of legitimate OA journals? This would be even more beneficial. Thank you. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 22, 2014 at 12:53 PM I do not. But you may wish to use the membership list of the Open‑Access Scholarly Publishers Association as a white list. Please see here: http://oaspa.org/membership/members/

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Reply fred says: September 22, 2014 at 1:31 PM I would like to know if International Journal of Computer Applications (IJCA), http://ijcaonline.org/ is fake or not. Thanks alot.

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Hello Dr. JB: Thanks for your response. My manuscript was recently accepted by the International Journal of Pharmacy–in fact I’m about to make the payment for the processing fee. I felt that I search them with diligence prior to submitting to them. To my surprise, I found them on your list. Could they have changed? Please advise on what to do at this point. Also, I received a request to submit a manuscript to the International Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy. I didn’t find the journal on your list, but the publisher was listed. —‑how do you feel about that? Thanks..

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 23, 2014 at 1:40 PM If the publisher is on my list, then I recommend that you not submit papers to all of the journals it publishes. Regarding your experience with the International Journal of Pharmacy, can you tell me what your peer review experience was like? Did they require that you make revisions to the paper, or did they just accept it with no changes?

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OA says: September 23, 2014 at 2:58 PM Also, they requested the payment with via Western Union or transfer to their bank in india.

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Reply #OA = Open Access | Gotta Love Cells says: September 25, 2014 at 9:12 AM […] information available on the internet. To counteract this trend Jeffrey Beall regularly updates a list of journals that are […]

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Reply Jioe Wallach says: September 27, 2014 at 6:55 AM You may also want to check one called “Journal of Earth Science Research” Just got that one today, which automatically went straight into Spam.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 27, 2014 at 8:56 AM There are several journals with very similar titles, but I think you probably mean this one published by Bowen Publishing. I do have Bowen Publishing on my list, and I am happy to hear that the spam filter is working so well. Thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply bill says: September 27, 2014 at 9:15 AM This may have been pointed out previously, but it is notable that Bowen and World Academic appear to be working from the same webpage template. Bowen: http://www.bowenpublishing.com/jesr/Publisher.aspx WA: http://www.academicpub.org/ijeme/PeerReview.aspx

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Jeffrey Beall says: September 27, 2014 at 9:53 AM Thanks for catching that. I am starting to realize that many of the questionable OA publishers have multiple “brands” or imprints. But because they are so intransparent, it is hard to always know who owns whom.

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Ainiqz says: September 28, 2014 at 8:46 PM Dear Mr. Beall my colleague and I are planning to submit a paper to Scholar Academy Journal of Pharmacy which is published by SAS Publishers and i found that SASpublishers is on your list. the journal itself has an IC value (http://saspublisher.com/sajp/). do you think it is still unsafe for us to submit our paper to the SAJP? Thanks http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 29, 2014 at 6:19 AM I don’t know. I am unable to access their website — it seems to be down. Not a good sign, if their website is broken.

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Reply Chih How says: September 29, 2014 at 2:20 AM What about journal published by AICIT, Korea (Since 2005)? Url at http://www.aicit.org/ijiip

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 29, 2014 at 6:18 AM I have analyzed this publisher. I did not find that it met the criteria for inclusion on my list, so I did not add it. i Rate This

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Reply CYG says: September 29, 2014 at 1:54 PM

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Do you mind if you can check these 2 journals?

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Do you mind if you can check these 2 journals? 1. World journal of cardiology? (baishideng) 2. Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology (libertas academia) If possible, I would like to know more about credibility the journals itself, and also the publishers.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 29, 2014 at 4:48 PM Because there are so many individual journals, I perform my analyses at the publisher level whenever I can. For these two journals, neither publisher is on my list. I do however, receive many inquiries about each of these two publishers, an indication that some find them questionable.

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Reply Rodger Hayes says: September 30, 2014 at 9:28 AM I have recently sent my work through to the IJHSS (published by CPI – listed as a predatory publisher). I found their “review” highly suspicious, as well as their request to send money to Bangladesh and their lack of a physical address, and my suspicions led me to your lists. Now they have my work, name, and contact info, but not my money. Should I still follow the standard procedure of withdrawal and inform them? Or am I better to cut all contact? How can I minimalize damage done at this point? Thank you for all your hard work. The criteria you found is extremely helpful to the academic community. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 30, 2014 at 9:35 AM I recommend sending them an email asking that your paper be withdrawn.

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Reply Sunday B. Akpan says: September 30, 2014 at 9:37 AM Hello prof. please kindly provide us with the lists of authentic journals and publishers in agricultural sciences. Thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: September 30, 2014 at 9:43 AM I’m sorry, I only list the questionable publishers.

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Reply Sunday B. Akpan says: September 30, 2014 at 9:57 AM Thanks Prof. Please advice us. we want to submit our ongoing manuscripts to the following journals: (1) Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics (2) Journal of agriculture and environmental sciences and (3) JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN AGRICULTURE Please we need your recommendation. Thanks http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: September 30, 2014 at 11:38 AM Summary: I recommend that you avoid submitting your work to all three of these journals. In each case the publisher is on my list. The Journal of Development and Agricultural Economics is published Academic Journals (Lagos), and this publisher is on my list. The Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences is published by the so‑called American Research Institute for Policy Development, and this publisher is on my list. The Journal of Advances in Agriculture is published by the so‑called Council For Innovative Research, and this publisher is on my list. i Rate This

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Tomasz Grzyb says: November 5, 2014 at 5:19 AM I’m not sure if you are aware that Council for Innovative Research calculates their own Impact factor – http://cirworld.org/if In my opinion it’s not only unethical – it should be illegal. i Rate This

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Acceso abierto: ¿Qué tienes que tener en cuenta antes de publicar? | Campus de Gandia Ciencia says: October 1, 2014 at 1:39 AM […] Nunca publicar en las llamadas editoriales depredadoras, editoriales que basan su modelo de negocio en la publicación de artículos pero sin ofrecer garantías mínimas. Se puede consultar un listado actualizado. […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Azin says: October 1, 2014 at 3:03 PM Dear Dr. Jeffrey Please inform me about the quality of this journal. http://www.theijbm.com/ Kind regards, Azin

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Reply Azin says: October 1, 2014 at 3:27 PM And how about this one: http://www.ijbmer.com/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 7:46 AM I have not analyzed this journal, so I cannot say anything about it at this time. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Assem says: October 2, 2014 at 1:19 AM i sent two manuscripts to medcrave group and I want to withdrow I do not know how I sent more than 5 e mails to tell but no answer what to do?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 2, 2014 at 4:17 AM It is very difficult to withdraw manuscripts from low‑quality publishers. Sorry.

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Reply Sunday B. Akpan says: October 2, 2014 at 7:23 AM Hello Prof. Please Friends Science Publishers (JASS) are they genuine? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 8:13 AM I think this is not a strong publisher. It’s on my list, and I would recommend that you find a better one.

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Reply Sunday B. Akpan says: October 2, 2014 at 7:35 AM also journal of economics and development studies

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 8:15 AM There is a journal with this title published by the American Research Institute for Policy Development. This publisher is on my list, and I recommend against submitting work to all the journals they publish. i Rate This

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Reply Raj says: October 3, 2014 at 1:32 AM

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ How about this‑ http://pub.iapchem.org/ojs/index.php/admet/index#

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How about this‑ http://pub.iapchem.org/ojs/index.php/admet/index# ADMET & DMPK ADMET & DMPK (ISSN:1848‑7718) is an international, peer reviewed open‑access Journal aiming for rapid dissemination of orginal research articles, review papers and comments in the broad areas of absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion, toxicology and pharmacokinetics of drugs. The emphasis is on rapid publishing of articles of high scientific quality and make them freely available to researchers worldwide.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 10:06 AM Not sure. I have added this one to my backlog. I am unable to analyze it at this time. What is your opinion of it? How did you hear about it?

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Reply Raj says: October 9, 2014 at 1:39 AM BY EMAIL – I get bombarded at the rate of at least one a day – I have never submitted to solicitations (except for one to the Nature group for THEIR highlights), and intend NEVER to – HOWEVER I AM KEEN TO CONTRIBUTE TO YOUR LIST for the benefit of others, as I have seen many succumb to email solicitations. I always check to see if the soliciting journals/ groups are on your list JUST TO ADD THEM TO YOUR LISTS, in case they haven’t. i Rate This

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Mars says: October 4, 2014 at 1:51 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Hi Jeff!

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Hi Jeff! i read in your above communication that http://www.aicit.org/ijiip/global/aip.html? jname=IJIIP is not predatory. well! my query is that is it right to submit my paper in any of the AICIT journal?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 8:16 AM It is not predatory, but it is borderline. However, I don’t add the borderline ones to my list. I would recommend that you try to find a better and stronger publisher than this one if possible.

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Reply maria says: October 4, 2014 at 3:29 AM this journal http://thesai.org/Publications/IJACSA is in your list, may i know why?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 8:25 AM When I analyzed it, I found plagiarism in the published articles. They use a New York and London address but are really based in India. At one time, the advertised a bogus impact factor. There are many problems with this publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Kunal says: October 4, 2014 at 5:28 AM Hi! I submitted my paper to ICNIT 2014 conference organised by IACSIT on 10 Sept 2014. On 2 Oct I got the mail for acceptance stating only changes in references and format, given the fact that my paper has a mistake in results section (found later). What to do now? IACSIT is on your list of predatory publishers. Please guide me what shall I do next? Shall I ask for withdrawal of my paper? Will there be any problem if I ask for withdrawal? Please help.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 4, 2014 at 7:43 AM Yes, I recommend that you ask that your paper be withdrawn. Explain the problem to the publisher. Unfortunately, the predatory publishers do not act according to ethical standards, so this may be a difficult situation. i Rate This

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Reply anj says: October 5, 2014 at 1:59 AM Dear Jeff, I very much appreciate your exhaustive database on the list of predatory journals.I am a regular visitor to your site from past 5 months and I am also suggesting others to this site. I am research scholar from India and am quite confused after publishing my first research article in IJMIE with ISSN 2249‑0558.I request you to kindly let me know if this journal is in fake list. I have my second research article ready to submit and looking at the below list of journals. Please share your expertise suggestions..This would be a great help to me and my research study. 1. Indian Journal of Research‑ISSN – 2250‑1991 http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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2. International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research (IJMER) ISSN :2277‑7881 3. ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research ISSN : 2231‑5780 4. International Journal of Research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management ISSN 2320‑8724 5. ijmrr.com Regards, Anj

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 5, 2014 at 9:48 AM Regarding the Indian Journal of Research, I have not analyzed this journal. Regarding the International Journal of Multidisciplinary Educational Research (IJMER), I have not analyzed this journal. Regarding the ZENITH International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, I have not analyzed this journal or its publisher. Regarding the International Journal of Research in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, this is published by the so‑called Asian Research Consortium, and I have this publisher included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Regarding the International Journal of Management Research and Review, I have not analyzed this publisher. I get the sense that you are examining a bunch of obviously low‑quality journals hoping I will tell you that it is okay to publish in one of them. Please don’t do that. Please try to find the best possible journals for your work. Talk to senior colleagues about which journals are the best in your field.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 5, 2014 at 9:51 AM Correction: The Indian Journal of Research is published by a firm called The Global Journals, and I have this publisher on my list. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: October 5, 2014 at 10:22 AM Another correction: Zenith is not an open‑access publisher. To access the full content, one must subscribe. They also charge authors, so they make money both by publishing content and by selling it, a very greedy policy, in my opinion.

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Benno von Bormann, MD says: October 7, 2014 at 6:51 AM Dear Dr. Beall, May I ask your opinion about SciDoc Publishers – http://www.scidoc.org/index.php I didn’t find them on your list, but they send the usual dubious mails. Thank you!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 7, 2014 at 12:17 PM Dr. Bormann, actually, SciDoc Publishers is on my list here. Perhaps you were searching in the standalone journal list? Sorry for the confusing website. I do recommend avoiding this publisher. Kind regards. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply milena says: October 7, 2014 at 7:28 AM Dear, Mr. Beall, if you put a journal on a list of possibly and probably predatory journals, does it mean that the journal can be defined as a predatory one? Thank you in advance.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 7, 2014 at 11:13 AM It means that I recommend that researchers avoid the publishers on my list and submit their work instead to higher quality journals and publishers. My aim is to help researchers avoid being victimized by questionable publishers.

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Reply Yantyati Widyastuti says: October 7, 2014 at 9:42 PM Dear Jeffrey, I appreciate your great job. May I ask your opinion about : 1. American Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology (Science Pulications) and 2. Food Nutrition Sciences (Scientific Research). Thank you i Rate This

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October 11, 2014 at 7:15 PM Yantyati, the publishers of both of those journals are on my list. I recommend that you not submit your work to these two journals and instead find a better publisher to work with. Good luck.

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Reply Yantyati Widyastuti says: October 12, 2014 at 10:39 PM Dear Jeffrey, Thank you for your information. However, both journals are not in the list of ‘standalone journals’. Would you please give any comment of this situation, since we have published our papers on those journals. Regards, yantyati i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: October 13, 2014 at 5:20 AM Right, they are not on the standalone journals list because they are not standalone journals. The publishers are on the publishers list, and I do my analyses at the publisher level whenever possible, for there are too many individual journals. If you have already published in the journals, it’s too late, and I would recommend finding a better quality journal for your next paper. i Rate This

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ismail ismail says: October 13, 2014 at 6:45 AM Yesterday i asked Global institute for research and publication to withdraw my two papers which were in final publication process and this is what they replied back. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ “Dear Author Please check attached Galley proof of your paper thoroughly. If 259/378 any

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“Dear Author Please check attached Galley proof of your paper thoroughly. If any change is required, please do the changes in the attached MS word file and send the same file back as early as possible. After receiving consent from you, your paper will be published. After publishing paper, no change will be possible.”

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Jeffrey Beall says: October 13, 2014 at 10:57 AM I recommend that you send them another email, and make sure they understand your withdrawal request.

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I would like to know the standing of International association of Engineering and Management Education India (IAEME). Thank you Prof

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 8, 2014 at 6:22 AM I have the International Association for Engineering and Management Education (IAEME) included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I recommend that you find a better quality publisher to submit your work to. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Mark P. Kamau says: October 8, 2014 at 9:09 AM Dear Jeffery Kindly check for me this journal. I see it is not in your list. International Journal of Information Technology http://www.iteejournal.org/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 12, 2014 at 5:58 AM Mark: I have analyzed this journal and added it to my list. Thanks.

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Reply Mark P. Kamau says: December 9, 2014 at 1:59 AM Hi Jeffrey I don’t think I have seen it in the list. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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knl says: October 8, 2014 at 5:51 PM Is Common Ground publishing predatory?

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Reply Raj says: October 9, 2014 at 6:02 AM Is IOS Press ( http://www.iospress.nl/journals‑list/ ) and STM Publishing house related to STM Journals ( http://stmjournals.com/index.html ) ?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 12, 2014 at 6:06 AM Sorry — I don’t know.

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Reply Ismail Ismail says: October 12, 2014 at 3:21 AM Thank you Jeffrey Beall, is the Global Institute for Research and Education journals in that list? i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply alex says: October 12, 2014 at 11:05 AM Dear Jeffery Kindly provide me genuine international journal list asap…urgent!

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Reply Jamila Mariam says: October 12, 2014 at 11:22 PM Hello Beall You did a great job for the scholars worldwide. What about TRANSSTELLAR and American International Journal of Contemporary Research? Can you please suggest me some authentic international journals of English language and literature? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 13, 2014 at 5:17 AM Jamila, Trans Stellar (Transstellar) is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ The American International Journal of Contemporary Research (AIJCR) is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ I would recommend that you not submit your work to this publisher and this journal and instead find better ones.

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Reply Katelyn says: October 14, 2014 at 5:58 AM Hi Jeffrey, thank you for putting this together. A colleague recommended we submit our manuscript to one of the publishers on your first list (because they solicited her via email) and I received a poorly written email response with spelling and grammar mistakes. This was a red flag to me and I wanted to look into it more, which is how I stumbled upon your list. I’m nervous now that we’ve essentially sent them a preliminary copy of our manuscript — what course of action do you recommend at this stage?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM Communicate with them that you want to withdraw the manuscript. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Baba sa says: October 14, 2014 at 10:17 AM Jeffrey Beall , In this competitive era, it is not possible for OA journals to charge more. You say to send the papers to most journals, but Most quality journals like[INDEXED in ISI] are very specific in selection . They also dont accept if so many papers are sent to them.Asian countries have large population so more papers are generated . So most quality papers will be accepted by most quality journals, but what about the medium to low quality papers? how to publish such papers by students/researchers in journals? Everybody cannot work on MARS. What about the papers from developing countries?

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Reply Charles says: October 14, 2014 at 12:39 PM Dear sir Jeffrey Beall, I really do appreciate your commendable job you are doing now. Actually I submitted a paper to the ‘International Journal of Indigenous Medicinal Plants’ publishing by “Recent Science, publishing house”, as they show an Impact Factor of 3.5, which claim its headquarter in UK (London) with their branches around the world. They are charging a processing fee of 150 USD. However, I became apprehensive after I receive their acceptance reply with my another paper which I have not submitted to them but uploaded in http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Academic.edu (OA) journal. Therefore, I want to know how reliable is the journal published by Recent Science publishing house. And please suggest me a trustworthy a standard journal where I can submit my manuscript which focuses in the area of ‘Ethno‑medicine practices certain tribes of India’. I shall be very grateful for your valuable feedbacks. Thanking you Warm regards

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 14, 2014 at 2:53 PM Recent Science is a highly questionable publisher, and I recommend that you not publish your work with this company. I have included this publisher on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Their journals do not have legitimate impact factors. If the publisher claims its journals have impact factors, they are counterfeit. I regret I cannot make journal recommendations.

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I am thinking to publish a research paper in Environmental field…..Can you please suggest me some good journals having good impact factor….i am very confused…. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 14, 2014 at 2:56 PM I cannot make journal recommendations, but here is a free service that may help you: http://www.edanzediting.com/journal_selector

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I need your opinion. Recently my supervisor name was put on a journal editorial list as a regional editor and he received some of the hard copies of the recent publications. My supervisor suggested me to submit a paper to this journal but I have just checked that this publisher is in your first list. The journal is “Trends in Applied Sciences Research” from “Science Alert”. Can you please give me some more details about this publisher. why is it included in this list? Thanks a lot.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 15, 2014 at 5:00 AM Perhaps it is time for a new supervisor. This publisher has been on my list for a long time. It is a very large publisher that publishes dozens of broad‑scoped journals. It claims to be based in New York City, but this is false. It offers quick and easy publishing. It is more of a vanity press than a publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Inam says: October 21, 2014 at 1:27 AM Oh new supervisor is not an option for me. I am in 3rd year of my PhD and moving towards my final stages. According to information on the website, it is an ISI indexed journal and have been publishing since 2006.

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Ismail Ismail says: October 15, 2014 at 8:11 AM Hi Jeff, after series of massages to Global institute for research and education asking them not to publish my paper which were in final process, they responded by not included it in their current issue. basing on your experience, can i publish in other journals?NOTE: i have already paid and signed a copyright note.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 15, 2014 at 12:50 PM If you have transferred your copyright, then this is a big problem. You no longer have the right to give another publisher the right to publish the paper. I recommend that you ask for a letter from the publisher re‑assigning the copyright back to you. i Rate This

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Reply Deepak says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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October 15, 2014 at 8:32 AM Dear Mr Bealle, Any advice on this publication? Urology & Nephrology Open Access Journal at MedCrave Group

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 15, 2014 at 12:49 PM MedCrave (dumb name for a publisher) is on my list. I recommend finding a journal from a better publisher.

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Reply Deepak says: October 15, 2014 at 3:04 PM Dear Mr Beall, Many thanks for the quick response. Very valuable piece if information indeed, and most grateful for all that you do for us. Was also wondering if you had any information on The European Medical Journal and all it’s avatars. i Rate This

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Kwara says: October 15, 2014 at 1:59 PM Dear Jeff, Once a paper is published by a fake journal, can one withdraw it to publish in another journal?. I need your advice on this.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 15, 2014 at 2:50 PM It depends on the publisher and on any copyright transfer agreement you might have signed. In most cases, the best thing to do might be to use it as a learning experience and write a new and better article and submit it to a respected journal. i Rate This

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Reply Bo Zhang says: October 15, 2014 at 2:18 PM Dear Mr Bealle, Thank you for your efforts. I finally resigned from the editorial board of one of OMICS Group’s journals today. I have served on the board for 4 years, and tried to make it better. It’s time to look forward. I plan to launch my own OA journal, and would be happy to have you evaluate it in the future. Thanks again. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 15, 2014 at 2:51 PM Are you sure another OA journal is needed?

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Reply Bo Zhang says: October 15, 2014 at 3:48 PM This is a good and complex question. Since my university only purchased ScienceDirect and partial Wiley database, OA seems useful. Are there enough OA j? I’ll read OASPA’s publications during this weekend, and they should have an answer. During last 6 years, I have seen good OA journals, but few. Here gives a long list of publishers that we should not work with. The rest options are big publishers who charge $2000 APC, and some small new publishers that I cannot recognize. In my opinion, making a good journal is only related to the quality and efforts of the editorial team. The quality of published papers is related to the quality of the writers attracted by the editorial team. An OA journal is always associated with huge APC. But my calculation tells me the cost per year is around $1000. Most money will go to CLOCKSS, DOI, OASPA, DOAJ, maybe more. My thought is if a journal is run by scientists, we don’t need to charge too much APC at all. I apologize that my thoughts are not always logical. Doing too much research makes me feel that business is very confusing. i Rate This

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John Rai says: October 19, 2014 at 8:00 PM Isn’t this crazy? Here is what my friend found when she asked the AERA open journal editor why AERA started this type of journals…. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Thank you. Those are excellent questions. All journals require funding to operate. They are typically funded by either subscription fees or author fees. Though author fees are imperfect, subscription fees also have serious limitations. They cost universities huge amounts of money, and restrict access to readers around the world. Author fees are becoming another common model of scientific and scholarly publishing. As you point out, there are a good number of predatory journals, but it is also the case that most high quality refereed science journals now charge author fees. These include, for example: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: $1,700 per article Neuroscience: $2,200 per article Brain and Behavior: $2,500 per article PLOS ONE: $1350 per article In other words, the majority of the most prestigious scientific journals in the US now charge author fees. Tenure and review committees in the sciences have long understood the distinction between predatory journals and high quality peer reviewed open access journals. Committees in other fields will need to make those distinctions as well. Fortunately, that should be easy in the case of AERA Open, which is published by the leading educational research association in the U.S. Thanks for your comments and interest– Mark Mark Warschauer Professor of Education and Informatics Associate Dean, School of Education University of California, Irvine Education 3225, Irvine, CA 92697‑5500 work: (949) 824‑2526 fax: (949) 824‑9103 [email protected]; http://education.uci.edu/markw twitter: @markwarschauer i Rate This

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Reply “Are you sure another OA journal is needed?” | Future Energy Service and Publishing says: October 20, 2014 at 8:06 AM […] When I said that I’ll launch my open‑access journal (OA j), Mr. Bealle asked me to think it again. I understand that he’s tired to see another greedy and irresponsible publisher. This is very complex question, my original answer was http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Fred says: October 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM How about “Information and Knowledge Management”? http://www.iiste.org

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 20, 2014 at 4:09 PM That journal is published by this firm: International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE) (International Knowledge Sharing Platform) … and this firm is on my list, so I would recommend that you find a better journal.

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Good work you are doing there. If a journal claims to be indexed in Scopus, is it always a surety that it is a good journal (like this one here http://jestec.taylors.edu.my/)? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: October 21, 2014 at 9:09 AM Some use listing in Scopus as a “white list.” However, there are a few titles/publishers in Scopus that are also on my list.

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Reply Ismail Ismail says: October 21, 2014 at 12:18 PM I was wondering to see “http://www.iiste.org” in your list, this journal has helped in the promotion of many senior lecturers in developing countries and it is among the trusted journals…i think we have a mountain to climb. i Rate This

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Reply Fernando Cardona says: October 21, 2014 at 10:42 PM What about Discoveries? In your list I saw discovery but not discoveries http://www.discoveriesjournals.org/ i Rate This

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October 22, 2014 at 10:54 AM I will monitor this publisher. I don’t want to add it to my list at this time. Did you observe anything unprofessional about it?

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Reply Yantyati Widyastuti says: October 27, 2014 at 8:31 PM Dear Jeffrey, I am wondering of these journals 1. International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences 2. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical Science Are they in your list? Thank you. Regards, Yantyati i Rate This

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Reply Bill Williams says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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October 28, 2014 at 7:54 AM Links for the 2 journals you mention? > International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences > Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical Science

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Reply Charles says: October 29, 2014 at 9:49 AM Dear Jeff, Do you have any idea about Academic Journal, is it under your observation list?

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Jeffrey Beall says: November 14, 2014 at 1:05 PM The first journal you list, the International Journal of Research in Pharmaceutical Sciences, is published by Pharmascope.org (JK Welfare & Pharmascope Foundation), and I have this publisher on my publisher list. The second one, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Bioanalytical Science, I had not heard of before. I have analyzed it and added it to my list. I would recommend finding a stronger journal than this one to publish in. i Rate This

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Reply To publish open access or not… | Population and Environment in the Middle East says: October 28, 2014 at 4:15 AM […] the review process again, or to pay the additional publication fees. Fortunately, there is a list of “questionable publishers” at the Scolarly Open Access blog by Jeffrey Beall, where you can search for journals and publishers […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply williamc says: October 28, 2014 at 7:18 AM IIRO Journal has highly dispersed and qualified review board to ensure academic quality of journal. i Rate This

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Reply Peter Buzzacott says: October 30, 2014 at 8:36 AM Today I received an invitation to submit to the Journal of Exercise, Sports & Orthopedics. I followed the link and found it is published by Symbiosis. Their vision statement boldly claims: “Symbiosis” is a visionary Global organization devoted to empower the masses with rich scientific resources and technologically advanced products.” Curious, I checked and Symbiosis is on your list of predators. So, I looked at their list of journals to see if I recognise any and, oh no, Neurology is listed. I couldn’t believe it, I was sure it had an impact factor of 8 when I reviewed an article for them last year. I clicked on the link and the actual journal page calls it SOJ Neurology. Different journal – that’s a relief. For fun I looked at their “Support Us” page, which starts with: “Academic Institutions are welcome to support Symbiosis Open Access by offering monetary support.” I’ll bet they are – ha ha i Rate This

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Reply Saima Bashir says: October 31, 2014 at 10:34 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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How about Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology A & B http://davidpublishing.org/journals_info.asp?jId=619

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 10, 2014 at 7:15 PM David Publishing is on my list. Please do not submit any papers to its journals.

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Reply Krishna says: November 2, 2014 at 11:29 PM Hi What is your view of BICEAS‑Bangkok International Conference on Engineering & Applied Science. i Rate This

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Reply MANUEL GONZÁLEZ PÉREZ says: November 5, 2014 at 10:35 AM Dear Jef: Why not make a similar study with Thompson magazines. JCR http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Pedro Pereira Leite says: November 6, 2014 at 10:40 AM Reblogged this on Heranças Globais – Memórias Locais. i Rate This

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Reply Pact Perera says: November 7, 2014 at 9:16 AM Sir, Can you please explain me why the journal “Insight Knowledge” is in the predatory journal list? i Rate This

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Reply Seyi says: November 7, 2014 at 2:54 PM I will like to commend your effort in tracking down predatory publishers and journals. Please is Journal of Biosystems Engineering a predatory journal. I want to have more information about this journal. I need your help. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 7, 2014 at 3:04 PM Do you mean the Journal of Biosystems Engineering that is published by the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery? No, I do not think this is a predatory journal. If you are referring to a different journal, please send the link. Thanks. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 8, 2014 at 4:38 AM I recommend against submitting papers to all the Science Alert journals, including this one. i Rate This

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Reply Bassey says: November 8, 2014 at 9:53 PM Sir, we are suspecfting that International Journal of Contempary Scientific Research is a predatory journal that is out to extort money from members of the public. We published a paper with them some months ago and uptill now, the paper has not been uploaded online


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in google. We are tired of their excuses. The worst is that they are no more replying our mails. So please kindly conduct a search on their activities and publish it online for authors to be aware. Thanks.

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Reply hangsik says: November 9, 2014 at 7:06 AM How about ‘American Scientific Publishers’?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 9, 2014 at 3:36 PM That’s not an open‑access publisher, and I limit my work to OA. I do receive many inquiries about this publisher, and this tells me that many find it questionable.

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Reply zale says: November 10, 2014 at 8:16 PM I was informed by the Academic Star Publishing Company that they are interested in publishing my paper. I searched their site for more info. This is also how I came to read your blog and found the said publishing company included in the predatory list. Comment please. Also, I recently attended a conference outside my country. To my disappointment, it did not meet my expectations. Do you also have a list of predatory academic conferences that collects huge registration fees but are not venues of scholarly done papers? Many thanks……… http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 11, 2014 at 4:34 AM I recommend against submitting papers to Academic Star Publishing Company. I do not publish a list of questionable conferences.

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Reply M. M. Khan says: November 11, 2014 at 12:51 AM Hi Dr. Beall! Can you please comment on following journals: 1. Journal of Computational Analysis (http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~ganastss/jocaaa/) 2. Journal of Concrete and Applicable Mathematics (http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~ganastss/jcaam/ 3. Journal of Applied Functional Analysis (http://www.msci.memphis.edu/~ganastss/jafa/)

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 11, 2014 at 4:51 AM The links lead to a publisher called Eudoxus Press LLC. The journals appear to not be open access; they require a subscription or a payment to view the content. The journals all appear to be the effort of a single person, George Anastassiou. Because they are not open access, I will not be adding them to my list. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply M. M. Khan says: November 11, 2014 at 9:20 AM We can find links to TOCs to different issues of the journals as well as complete open access e‑volumes here http://www.eudoxuspress.com/ Please analyze this link.

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Reply N.M says: November 11, 2014 at 11:01 PM May I ask a question on editorial members/ board members of a journal? is it possible for an undergraduate degree student to be an editorial member of a journal? One of my students is the editorial board member of “Journal of Embedded System”. He is an economics major and I wonder how he was appointed to be the member of a science‑based journal? i Rate This

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Reply Kedir Teji Roba says: November 11, 2014 at 11:35 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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can I send to this journal please 1)”Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2) Panafrican journal of medical research 3) African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 15, 2014 at 2:56 PM Hindawi is not on my list. I cannot find the Panafrican Journal of Medical Research — please send the link. The African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development (AJFAND) is not a predatory journal, and it is not on my list.

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Reply Peter Buzzacott says: November 12, 2014 at 4:00 AM I published in a Hindawi journal recently. My paper went through careful review, the comments were insightful and the questions relevant, we made most of the suggested changes and the paper was accepted. Then we received galley proofs and suggested fixing a couple of very small points, (e.g. insert a space between mean and SD values), then we got a second set of galley proofs. The process was smooth and professional, all authors were included in every communication and the journal is indexed on PubMed. Best of luck. Peter i Rate This

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Reply G. Kaniusonyte says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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November 12, 2014 at 6:27 AM Hello Dr. Beall! Can you please comment on following journal: International Interdisciplinary Journal of Scientific Research (http://www.iijsr.org/)? Many thanks in advance.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 15, 2014 at 2:50 PM This journal is included on my list here, and I recommend against submitting papers to it.

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Reply Paysage éditorial en sciences du langage (3): Quel Open Access pour demain? | ELIS says: November 12, 2014 at 9:37 AM […] et d’un harcèlement par mail. Ces éditeurs « prédateurs » sont listés ici, même si on doit garder en tête que Beall (l’éditeur du blog) est un adversaire de […] i Rate This

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Reply M. M. Khan says: November 13, 2014 at 5:19 AM Dr. Beall, please analyze the open access journal “International Journal of Research” (http://www.granthaalayah.com/). They offer rapid review (3‑4 days) and publication. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Kedir Teji Roba says: November 13, 2014 at 5:37 AM waht about the rest two journals 2) Panafrican journal of medical research 3) African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development i Rate This

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Reply Peter Buzzacott says: November 15, 2014 at 1:25 AM Today I plan to submit a case report and I have a journal in mind but the first e‑mail I received this morning was this: Journal of Clinical Medicine Research (Pubmed Indexed) PLEASE CLICK http://www.jocmr.org/ TO VIEW THE CURRENT ISSUE A peer‑reviewed, open access, international journal. Indexed and covered by: PubMed; PubMed Central; Chemical Abstracts (CA); Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ; Google Scholar; EBSCO A list of other journals published by EP appeared below, including the Journal of Medical Cases. ‘Okay’ I thought, ‘let’s check it out’. The top of their web‑page states: Indexed and covered by: Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); JournalTOCs; Worldcat; JournalSeek; Google Scholar; PubMed and PubMed Central in processing; EBSCO Now, since this publisher’s other journal is already indexed on PubMed I wondered if this might be a new but legitimate journal, simply awaiting indexing. I took a gamble with a yet‑ to‑be‑indexed journal a few years ago and when it was indexed their previous 3 years of http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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articles were indexed, including mine. I’m not interested in Impact Factor (it is a case report), mainly I want my report to be found if anyone ever searches PubMed for this unusual type of case. Then I identified the publisher as Elmer Press, checked your list and… they are on it. This was unexpected (for me), that a predatory publisher would have a journal indexed on PubMed. Thanks for providing such a valuable service. I’ll stick with my orginal destination journal.

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Reply Fernando Cardona says: November 15, 2014 at 11:44 PM Dear Jeffrey Ball, why do you think that ccse is predatory? thank you in advance

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 16, 2014 at 5:48 AM I’ve documented some of the reasons in these two blog posts, one, two. i Rate This

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Reply sayanti kundu says: November 16, 2014 at 9:05 AM Respected sir,pls i want to know exact impact factor of the journal ‘International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (IJCMAS)’ . http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 16, 2014 at 4:14 PM Zero. This journal does not have a legitimate impact factor. The one it has on its website is bogus.

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Reply sayanti kundu says: November 17, 2014 at 7:30 AM Thank u sir.what’s about the journal “international journal of pharma and biosciences”? recent impact factor showing 2.9,where as in 2012 it was 0.47.which is right?and what’s the perfect way to know the given impact factor of any journal is right or wrong? most of the journal showing fake impact factor on their homepage.how’s this possible?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 17, 2014 at 8:34 AM I have this journal included on my list here:http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ Many of the open‑access publishers are providing false information about impact factors. The database called Journal Citation Reports provides the official impact factor information, but this database costs money. I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal.


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Reply Fernando Cardona says: November 17, 2014 at 10:47 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, I have two questions: 1) Bentham Science is related with Bentham Open? I saw Bentham Open in your list, but Bentham Science has Impact factors and do not apply page charges, so seems difficult that would be predatory 2) Waht do you think of “European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience”? thank you in advance PS: great work your list ¡¡ very useful for us

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 18, 2014 at 4:53 AM Fernando, you are correct. Both Bentham Open (their open‑access division) and Bentham Science (their subscription division) are probably owned by the same company. I do have Bentham Open on my list and recommend against submitting papers to it. Now, regarding the European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience, I have it included on my list here, http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/, and I recommend against submitting papers to this journal. i Rate This

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Reply Edita says: November 18, 2014 at 1:42 PM Dear Jeffrey Ball,

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 18, 2014 at 5:41 PM Please see the blog post I wrote when I added http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/05/29/european‑journals‑added‑to‑list/

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Reply Scott W. says: November 18, 2014 at 5:28 PM I just received three consecutive emails from Jacobs inviting me to consider serving on the executive boards of three of their journals: one on gerontology (not even close), one on agriculture (OK, maybe), and one on environmental science (3rd time’s a charm). The gerontology request was such a wide miss that it definitely caught my attention. Very suspicious to say the least. i Rate This

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Reply Peter Buzzacott says: November 19, 2014 at 1:56 AM Yup, I got one this morning from Jacobs, to serve as editor for the Jacobs Journal of Environmental Sciences (that’s pretty close to my field). http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply yash says: November 20, 2014 at 9:06 PM hello mr Beall, i have a question for you. journal of the pancreas since march 2014 has become open access one. its a prestigious journal. now what do you think about publishing in the the journal now?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 21, 2014 at 5:09 AM It looks like the journal is doing well, and I wish them continued success. I also wish you would get a new keyboard, so you can type upper‑case letters.

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Reply yash says: November 21, 2014 at 9:45 AM No but my question is that Journal of the Pancreas is now being published by OMICS group. So what is your say in this regard? i Rate This

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Reply Bill Williams says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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November 21, 2014 at 10:04 AM Strange – seems like a legitimate journal of 14 years standing and an reasonable Scimago rating that has now been taken on by OMICS and promises ” Review in 3 weeks, Publishing in 72 hours”

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Reply Deepak says: November 23, 2014 at 8:52 AM Dear Mr Beall, Whilst Bentham Open is on your list, Bentham Science is not. Are they two different publishing houses and is the latter non‑questionable? (They do have at least one journal in Medline)

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 23, 2014 at 9:00 AM They are separate imprints of a single company. One publishes using the gold open‑ access model, and the other, Bentham Science, is a subscription publisher. I limit my work to OA publishers. i Rate This

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Reply journal information | tejpal1985 says: November 23, 2014 at 11:22 PM […] you be fine. As you know your journal is listed among predatory journal list (Please refer to: http://scholarlyoa.com/…/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers…/). Since this site is highly referred by international scientists and experts hence this will highly […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply midnightrambler956 says: November 24, 2014 at 12:29 AM I’m curious if there are *any* legitimate journals titled “International Journal of [X]”. It seems like this kind of title makes up half the “journals”, from different publishers and among standalone journals. It’s such a marker of a junk journal for me by this point that I would think any legit publisher would want to ditch the name.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 24, 2014 at 6:46 AM I believe there are many. One example is the International Journal of Communication, published by the University of Southern California USC Annenberg Press.

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Reply Deepak says: November 24, 2014 at 2:09 PM The international Journal of Urology and International Surgery are legitimate journals. The latter does charge for submission i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This IndependentEditor says: November 25, 2014 at 9:04 AM Since 2003 I have run an independent, open access journal funded in part by my research grants and have been able to recruit a group of well known scientists to the editorial board. We use Inera XML to submit full text XML to PubMed Central so that we can be indexed on PubMed, ScholarOne for our manuscript submission and review workflow, Google Sites for the website and Word to generate printable PDFs. Submission is free for now since we are covered off grants but we will likely introduce charges in future to cover costs. It’s a lean and mean operation but I feel it’s an important and rewarding service to the community. In recent years however it has become harder and harder to solicit manuscripts and I draw a direct line between that and the ascendancy of predatory journals and publishers. It’s abundantly clear that the e‑mail noise generated by these journals is turning a lot of investigators off the concept of independent journals and, one fears, the entire open access movement. I don’t think it’s going too far to say that these organizations are interfering with the research process and should be subject to some sort of civil, or even criminal sanction. Thank you Dr. Beall for drawing attention to this most depressing of scientific trends. One hopes that something can be done about it.

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Reply Bel_Air says: November 26, 2014 at 1:54 PM Another publisher for the consideration: http://www.ikpress.org/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 26, 2014 at 2:24 PM This is new. I am not sure that it will be an open‑access publisher. I will monitor it and don’t have any opinion on it at this time. Thank you. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Nadia says: November 27, 2014 at 3:30 AM Thank you Jeffrey for your remarkable cooperation. As first time publisher I am http://www.primejournalconsultants.com/ Can you help configuring their credibility !! Thank you

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Tjeerd says: November 26, 2014 at 8:57 PM I know the journals by Hindawi are not on the list. I’m organising a special issue in BioMed Research International ( http://www.hindawi.com/journals/bmri/si/897985/cfp/). I try to get into contact with the Editorial Office by email, but so far no luck. I can’t find a phone number anywhere. Do you have a phone number of Hindawi Publisher? Thanks i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Andrew says: November 30, 2014 at 10:24 AM Could you please add “International Journal of Physics and Astronomy”. They contacted me recently for a contribution. I did a cursory check only to see that they are publishing antirelativistic garbage like this: http://aripd.org/journals/ijpa/Vol_2_No_2_June_2014/6.pdf Anyone ready to shell 200$ can publish in this rag.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 30, 2014 at 4:21 PM I have this journal’s publisher, the American Research Institute for Policy Development (ARIPD), included on my list here: http://wp.me/P280Ch‑u. This is a very dangerous publisher and I advise authors and potential editorial board members to completely avoid any association with the firm. Thanks for supplying yet another example of junk science published by a predatory publisher.

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Reply Qusay Khalifa says: November 30, 2014 at 12:52 PM Can you please shed some light on the credibility of Engineering, Technology, and applied Science Research, ETASR. Please advise me i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 2, 2014 at 10:28 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ I have analyzed this journal but will not be adding it to my list at this time.

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I was contacted over the Thanksgiving holiday by Cultural and Religious Studies, a product of the David Publishing Company, expressing interest in a paper that I presented at recent conference. The language in the email, such as “Cultural and Religious Studies (ISSN 2328‑ 2177) is to be indexed in following databases,” implies that this is a relatively new publication. At first, I was intrigued. Then, as I scrolled down, I noticed a glaring red flag. This journal requires authors to pay $50 per page, a substantial fee for a 4,000‑ to 15,000‑word article (the recommended length under “Information for Authors”). Needless to say, I will not be doing business with this journal.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: November 30, 2014 at 4:05 PM I think you are making a wise decision to avoid all the David Publishing journals. This firm regularly tries to lure presenters at conferences into submitting their papers to the company’s many low‑quality journals. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Peter Buzzacott says: December 1, 2014 at 3:54 AM Hello Jeffrey Beall Today I was invited to join an editorial board. Curious, I followed the link and found the publisher is ClinMed International. I checked a street‑view and their Delaware premises does appear to exist, it’s not on your list, but their website grammar seems rather shoddy for a medical publisher. Anyway, here is the link in case it is another candidate for your list. Many thanks again for the invaluable service you provide. Peter http://clinmedlibrary.com/author_guidelines.php

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 1, 2014 at 7:30 AM Peter, I do have this publisher included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ (Perhaps you were looking at the other list?). In any event, I agree with your assessment and strongly recommend that researchers avoid this highly questionable publisher. Thank you.

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http://www.online‑journals.org/index.php/i‑jet/index thank you http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 1, 2014 at 3:02 PM This is technically not an open‑access journal because one has to establish an account and sign in to access the article content. I will not be including this journal on my list. The journal makes a glaring error by claiming to be indexed in Ulrich’s, which is not an index; it’s a directory.

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Another journal which came to my attention via someone on LinkedIn mentioning having published his research there: the International Journal of Fundamental Physical Sciences, published by Fundamental Journals. It has all the hallmarks of a dodgy journal: rampant English errors (“Does One‑Way Speed of Light is Constant?”), a bewildering array of disciplines, and sketchy‑sounding research (e.g. this is a paper by the person who brought it up: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/87003821/earth‑cosmic‑harmonic‑factor ). http://fundamentaljournals.org/ijfps/current%20issue.html i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 2, 2014 at 4:48 PM Keith: Thanks very much indeed for letting me know about this publisher. I have added it to my list here. As you indicate, there is lots of sketchy‑sounding research among this publisher’s three journals. It appears to be a place for Iranian researchers to get a quick and easy publication. Thank you again. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply What do skeptics talk about amongst themselves? A wrap‑up of the 2014 Australian Skeptics Convention, Sydney Australia. | Weird Territory says: December 2, 2014 at 7:59 PM […] though, so luckily she also gave us some tips on how to spot these fake journals and pointed us to links which name and shame […] i Rate This

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Reply Deepak says: December 3, 2014 at 11:09 AM Dear Mr Beall, Thought you might find this interesting. I have received two invitations to review the same manuscript from two different journals. The first is from Modern Research Publishers for their journal ‘Journal of Scientific Research and Studies’. The second is from International Invention Journals for their journal ‘International Journal of Environmental science and toxicology (IJEST)’ Both these invitations were received the same day and both publishers figure on your list. Are the two publishers linked or is it a case of duplicate submission by the author, I wonder? i Rate This

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December 3, 2014 at 11:19 AM Amazing. My university is now (perhaps wisely) blocking access to Modern Research Publishers, so I can’t tell if the two are related or owned by the same guy. I think that ownership of multiple open‑access imprints is increasingly common. It costs almost nothing to set up a new one. Thank you for sharing this.

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http://www.academypublisher.com/jait/editorialboard.html thanks!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 4, 2014 at 6:08 PM I have analyzed this publisher and found it borderline. In this case, I like to err on the side of caution and not include the borderline publishers on the list. i Rate This

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December 5, 2014 at 10:35 AM Respected Sir, Kindly analyze this journal. http://www.ijictt.ictt.info/home

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 6, 2014 at 11:39 AM This is a brand‑new journal that uses untruthful language to promote itself: “The International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJICTT) is a well‑established and notable venue for publishing high quality research papers as recognised by various universities and international professional bodies” If they are not being honest about this, I assume they are not being honest about other things. I also could not find information about how much the journal charges to publish. This should be clearly stated. There are already many journals in this field that cover the same topics. I have added this one to my list.

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Reply Tony says: December 6, 2014 at 12:01 PM They copied and pasted the information from the International Journal of Computer Science Issues website. http://www.ijcsi.org/about.php They even forgot to change the name of the journal in the first line other than the acronym (IJCSI to IJICTT). http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Asif says: December 6, 2014 at 11:22 PM Dear Tony, I didn’t find IJCSI written on this journal site. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: December 10, 2014 at 6:23 AM Correct, publishing plagiarized articles does indeed hurt the credibility of a publisher. It is now pretty routine for scholarly publishers to perform plagiarism checking checking before accepting articles for publication. i Rate This

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bill says: December 10, 2014 at 5:53 AM >found almost same on site http://www.ukessays.co.uk Parts of the paper can also be found in this 2009 publication: http://www.sersc.org/journals/IJSEIA/vol3_no4_2009/6.pdf http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Toma Buba says: December 6, 2014 at 4:32 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, Thank you for your effort to make the list of questionable and fake journals and publishers. Can you please give us the list of the genuine ones?.

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Reply Toma Buba says: December 6, 2014 at 4:37 AM I found a comprehensive list of journals at: http://naasindia.org/documents/journal2013.pdf Please make a comment about it. i Rate This

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i Rate This Reply Mark P. Kamau says: December 9, 2014 at 2:04 AM Dear Jeffrey

What do you think about ACTA Press? http://www.actapress.com/ I want to send a paper to their Communications journal.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 9, 2014 at 6:21 AM I haven’t analyzed it, so I cannot say. It’s not an open‑access publisher, and I limit my analyses to OA journals and publishers. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 11, 2014 at 6:29 AM I haven’t analyzed it. It’s not an open‑access publisher. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Carlos Duque says: December 9, 2014 at 4:59 AM Dear Jeffrey, I’m amazed with your work and your dedication, I think is something very useful that should be more commented in academic environments. In your list I found this American Association for Science and Technology (AASCIT), they have multiple journals that seem suspicious. But when I checked the editorial members, they are ok researchers that means that at least they work in the area of the journal tittle and they have a good publication record (for example in the International Journal of Water Science and Engineering). Do you think that there is a perspective of improvement or are they just collecting editors that are not well informed about the true objectives of the journal?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 9, 2014 at 6:19 AM I disagree. In fact, a close look at the editorial board you mention lists one of their “editorial members” (as the journal unconventionally refers to them) as: G Wang , China … just like that. There should be an affiliation listed, and the formatting is all wrong, an indication of sloppiness. How were you able to check this person’s work and publication record? There is nothing “American” about the American Association for Science and Technology. The gratuitously use this geographical term. This is a completely counterfeit publisher.

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Reply Carlos Duque says: December 9, 2014 at 6:57 AM I’m agree after a more detailed analysis. But still I found a few cases of true scientists, in your experience in this topic, do you think that they are there voluntarily or the publisher is just using their names? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Jeffrey Beall says: December 9, 2014 at 7:13 AM Given that this publisher misrepresents the truth in just about every way imaginable, I would not be surprised if the names were added to the editorial boards without the knowledge/permission of the persons listed.

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Rio Atmajaya says: December 9, 2014 at 6:13 AM Dear Jeffrey. Thanks a lot on this information. Do you about Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers (GSSRR)?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 9, 2014 at 7:50 AM Yes. This publisher is included on my list, and I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to its journals. i Rate This

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Dear Jeffrey, Thank you very much for your kindly information. I’m wondering that the International journal of physiotherapy and research (IJPR) is in your list?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 10, 2014 at 6:20 AM This journal is published by a company called International Journals of Health and Medical Research (IJMHR). I have this publisher included on my list. I recommend that you find a better publisher than this one for your work.

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Reply Information literacy – check your sources! Watch out for scams! says: December 10, 2014 at 5:20 PM […] More than ever, we have to be very aware of the source of the commentary, views, data and research that we quote in our work. It’s worth dropping by Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2014 http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list‑of‑predatory‑publishers‑2014/ […] i Rate This

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Reply Mars says: December 11, 2014 at 2:33 PM Dear Beall! Would you please like to comment about this journal? http://www.webology.org/about.html http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 12, 2014 at 5:57 AM I think it looks pretty good. I congratulate the editors and publisher on their fine work.

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Reply AA says: December 12, 2014 at 6:57 AM Received some spam from these guys the other day… and for your consideration: http://www.pearlresearchjournals.org/index.html

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Rate This Reply HuongNguyen says: December 12, 2014 at 7:27 PM Thank you very much Jeffey Beall. Could you tell me how is Journal of Scientific Research and Studies (JSRS).

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 13, 2014 at 6:13 AM Not good. This journal is published by a company called “Modern Research Publishers.” I have this publisher included on my list and recommend that you not submit any papers to its journals, including the Journal of Scientific Research and Studies. Good luck.

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Reply Jessy says: December 13, 2014 at 7:48 AM Received an e‑mail from those guys the other day I believe. For your consideration: http://www.arjonline.org/ i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 13, 2014 at 12:08 PM Thank you — I have added this new publisher to my list. It is called American Research Journals. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Sunday B. says: December 13, 2014 at 11:05 AM Hello Jeffrey I wish to submit a manuscript to one of the journals in American Research Institute for policy development. Please comment about the publisher.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 13, 2014 at 11:15 AM I would recommend that you find a better publisher for your work.

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Reply Chai Chou says: December 13, 2014 at 8:26 PM Dear Mr. Jeffrey Beall, can i submit my paper to International Journal of Education and Research (IJER)? this isn the link:http://www.ijern.com/ i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: December 14, 2014 at 5:50 AM I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this journal (and all the other journals published by Contemporary Research Center Australia).

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Reply Daniel says: December 14, 2014 at 7:54 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, You share us good information. I Publish on one of this predatory publishers. Is there any means to withdraw from this journal and re publish from other publishers? Greetings i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: December 14, 2014 at 9:02 AM Yes, sometimes this is possible, but it’s not always the best idea. Most publishers will not want to publish an article that is previously published in another journal and then withdrawn. In many cases, the best thing to do is to write a new and better article and submit it to a high quality journal. i Rate This

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Rio Atmajaya says: December 14, 2014 at 9:46 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Dear Mr. Jeffrey Beall

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Dear Mr. Jeffrey Beall Thanks you very on your comments about the Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers (GSSRR), even though it seem to be excluded in your list. Could you please give comments about the International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR: http://gssrr.org/index.php?journal=journalofbasicandapplied)? Another thing, based on your list about Questionable Publisher Number 174, the Indian Society for Education and Environment (ISEE) was included (http://www.iseeadyar.org). I was searched on it and this publisher has 11 journals to published. Among 11 journals, one is “Indian Journal of Science and Technology” (http://www.indjst.org/) and this journal is indexed/listed by: Thomson Routers, DOAJ, SCOPUS, Elsevier B.V, but it is not for other 10 journals. The Indian Journal of Science and Technology has also SJR indicator (http://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100201522&tip=sid&clean=0), but does not have impact factor. Could you please give some comments when I submit a manuscript to published in this journal? Best regards, Atmajaya, Indonesia

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 14, 2014 at 1:04 PM First, regarding the Indian Journal of Science and Technology, I agree that it is indexed by Scopus, but I think they have made a mistake. On its main page, this journal boasts, “Indian Journal of Science and Technology is the leading open‑access journal … ” which is completely false. I see that the majority of the authors of this journal’s rather large individual issues are either Indian or Iranian; there is little geographic diversity among the authors beyond these two groups. This journal has a broad scope (all of science and technology), designed to attract many manuscripts, and that is exactly what is happening. Second, regarding the Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers (GSSRR), what comments by me are you referring to? Can you point me to them? Thanks. i Rate This

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December 14, 2014 at 7:48 PM Dear Dr. Jeffrey Beall, Thank you very much for your comment and sharing. Last time I received list of Journal and link below for inviting me to publish my paper. Actually I do not which journal I should send my paper. Could you please recommend journal for free publishing related to environment and forestry. Once again thank you very much Peak Journal of Physical and Environmental Science Research (PJPESR) (ISSN 2331‑575X) I Global Science Research Journals (GSRJ), International Invention Journal of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics (IIJBB) International Research Journal of Geology and Mining (IRJGM) International Journal of Research and Reviews in Education (IJRRE) International Journal of Environmental Science and Toxicology (IJEST) http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/specialissue/specialissuelist.aspx

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 15, 2014 at 4:56 AM Dear Huong, To check these journals, you first need to determine the publisher, and then look and see if the publisher is on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ Sometimes there is no publisher, and the journal is a “standalone” journal, and I have these listed here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ The publishers of all the journals you list in your comment (except one) are on my list. Therefore I recommend that you not submit any papers to all the journals you list here. The one that is not on my list is International Journal of Research and Reviews in Education. This is published by a firm called Blue Pen Journals, and I will analyze it, but I think it is likely I will add this publisher to my list as well, so please do not submit your work here. Good luck. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Andrew says: December 15, 2014 at 2:56 PM You need to add “Journal of Modern Physics” : http://www.scirp.org/journal/jmp/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 15, 2014 at 3:24 PM I do have this journal’s publisher, Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP), on my list. Thanks. i Rate This

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Reply Saif‑ul‑Malook says: December 15, 2014 at 3:07 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Dear sir,

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Dear sir, Please tell me about IJALS and IAAST. International journal journal of Advanced life Sciences claimed that they are in master list of thomas reuter?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 15, 2014 at 3:42 PM Regarding the = International Journal of Advanced Life Sciences (IJALS), I do not see this on the Thomson Reuters master list. This list is free to search, and you can access it here: http://ip‑science.thomsonreuters.com/mjl/. Regarding IAAST, I am not sure which journal you mean. Can you please send a link? Thanks.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 15, 2014 at 7:22 PM Correction: I now see it on the TR master list: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED LIFE SCIENCES Quarterly ISSN: 2277‑758X INT JOURNAL ADVANCED LIFE SCIENCES, C/O DR P PALANISAMY, NO 20, RAMALINGA GOUNDER STR, VADAVALLI, TAMIL NADU, INDIA, COIMBATORE, 641 041 —‑ I think TR is making a big mistake as this journal claims, “Publish your research work with us. We provide fast review process and galley proof with in a week.” i Rate This

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December 15, 2014 at 4:12 PM Thaks, Yes please http://www.soeagra.com/iaast.html http://soeagra.com/iaast.html

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 15, 2014 at 6:26 PM This journal is published by a publisher called Society of Education, and I recommend that you not submit your papers to any of its journals.

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Reply Saif‑ul‑Malook says: December 15, 2014 at 6:57 PM ok thank you very much sir for giving precious information. i Rate This

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Reply Saif‑ul‑Malook says: December 15, 2014 at 7:03 PM Dear sir Please tell me about this Vegetos‑ An International Journal of Plant Research. My paper is accepted in this journal. They are demanding 640 US Dollar for processing fee. Should I pay? i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 15, 2014 at 7:35 PM This journal is not on my list. It does have an authentic impact factor of 0.042 (but this is from 8 citations over two years). The reason they are probably charging such a high APC is because of the impact factor.

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Reply Neil McKenna says: December 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM My understanding is that Thomson requires 24 articles over 2 years in order to index a journal – I wonder how they can have an impact factor with such a low output?

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Reply Simone says: December 16, 2014 at 6:42 AM Dear sir, Brain Disorders & Therapy (OMICS group) should be inserted in your list: They deceived me by asking some scientific material and eventually asking money for it. When I denied my permission to publish they ignored it (http://omicsgroup.org/journals/the‑ braingut‑axis‑from‑pathophysiology‑to‑possible‑future‑strategies‑of‑treatment‑2168‑ 975X.1000137.php?aid=31021). Anything to do now? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 16, 2014 at 7:36 AM I do have the publisher included on my list. I don’t list the individual journals because there are so many. This practice by OMICS Group — quickly accepting papers and publishing them without any review and then billing the author and refusing to withdraw the paper — is its standard practice. This publisher victimizes hundreds of researchers each month. I don’t know of a good way to resolve your situation.

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Reply Nguyen Lam Hai says: December 16, 2014 at 6:48 AM Dear sir I have red your comments concerning about the International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR: http://gssrr.org/index.php?journal=journalofbasicandapplied), which is published by the Global Society of Scientific Research and Researchers (GSSRR) (http://www.gssrr.org/index.php?journal=gssrr). However, I was not so clear to me, is that journal and/or publisher categorized as a predatory? Could you please give some more comments to make sure for us before submitting our manuscript to this journal? Thanks Nguyen Lam Hai i Rate This

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Reply Nguyen Lam Hai says: December 16, 2014 at 9:08 AM Thanks a lot on your recommendation Mr. Jeffrey i Rate This

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Reply Mouffada says: December 16, 2014 at 11:05 AM Dear Jeffrey Beall, Thank you for your very intersting information. I publish in a journal of one of these publishers the journal is really peer reviewed (two anonymous reviewers) and it is open access I don’t pay and the paper is published and the issue is online. Now they ask for payment what to do? Also some of journals of these publishers are indexed in Scopus how to know if they are predatory journals or not? Thank you in advance. Best Regards. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 16, 2014 at 11:18 AM

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Reply Mouffada says: December 16, 2014 at 10:47 PM Thank you for your response. It is about Academic journals.But what if the journal has an SJR impact factor? Best Regards.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 17, 2014 at 5:44 AM Academic Journals is on my list, so I recommend that scholars not submit their work to its journals. Given that this publisher is on my list, I would ignore any metrics assigned to its journals, including the SJR. i Rate This

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Reply Charles Gustaff says: December 17, 2014 at 9:57 AM

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Dear Jeffrey Beall. Thank you for your very interesting information. I could not find in your list, but my colleagues suggested me to publish my manuscript there. I would like to have your comments about the International Journal of Fisheries and Aquaculture Sciences (IJFAS): http://www.ripublication.com/irph/ijfas.htm and the International Journal of Agriculture Food Science & Technology (IJAFST): http://www.ripublication.com/ijafst.htm. Both journals are published by RIP (http://www.ripublication.com/). This publisher is also publish numerous scientific journals. Are they predatory journals and publisher or qualified? Regards

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 17, 2014 at 10:16 AM Charles, Basically RIP is not on my list because it’s not an open‑access publisher. I limit my work to OA. Please see this blog post I wrote about this publisher in March, 2014. I would recommend that you find a better venue for your work. In this one, you will have to pay to have your work put up behind a paywall.

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Reply Anaelle Tilborg says: December 18, 2014 at 1:55 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Dear Mr Beall, This morning, I foud this in my mail box : Dear Dr. Anaelle Tilborg, VIPOA is a global open access publisher, which follows single blinded peer‑review process and publishes scientific papers in all areas of life sciences study. We publish all types of articles like research, review, case reports, methodology, etc., we welcome authors to submit their unpublished work for US $300 only. Chronicles of Pharmacy is a newly launched open access peer review journal (Gold OA), which contain strong Editorial Board. The journal includes the study of pharmaceutics, pharmacy practice, pharmacognosy and phytochemistry, medicinal chemistry, pharmaceutical Analysis, pharmaceutical Biotechnology, toxicology, pharmacy informatics, clinical and therapeutics, and evidence based pharmacy Can we classify them as predatory ? Thank you so much for your work, Best regards, Anaëlle Tilborg

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 18, 2014 at 4:36 AM Anaëlle, yes. This journal is published by Vernon Innovative Publishers (also called Vernon Open Access), and I have this publisher included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to the journals from this publisher. i Rate This

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Thank you so much for your fast reply and your work !

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David Sánchez Teruel says: December 18, 2014 at 5:15 AM Thank you, and Merry Christmas from Spain

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Enorabuena for his work, makes science progress I received an email to publish a book chapter with novapublishers does this editorial is a predator? Waiting for your news, Yours David Sánchez‑Teruel

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 18, 2014 at 5:12 AM Nova (or Nova Science Publishers) is not an open‑access publishers. It is a very low quality traditional publisher. I generally recommend that scholars avoid publishing in its books and other publications. The books contain dozens of chapters by various authors and often are about wildly different topics, and the book’s ‘editor’ is often one of the clerks from their office. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply How to Write a Compelling Science Paper: Selecting an Effective Target Journal (Part III) | Onboard Editing says: December 21, 2014 at 2:12 PM […] finally, but importantly, if you are considering a publisher you are not familiar with, visit BEALL’S LIST OF PREDATORY JOURNALS to be sure that publisher is not on his list! The publishers on his list have met Jeffrey Beall’s […]

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Reply Mars says: December 24, 2014 at 5:43 AM Are these journals reliable? http://www.eajournals.org/ thanks

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Rate This Reply christina says: December 24, 2014 at 5:58 PM Mr Beall how about this journal ? http://www.wjwres.com/index.php

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 25, 2014 at 4:27 AM It’s predatory, and I recommend that you avoid it completely.

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Do you think it is time to make some “fiability factor” for publishers similar to “impact factor” for journals” from an academic organization and then predatory publishers are automatically excluded? i Rate This

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Reply yash says: December 24, 2014 at 10:04 PM I have started getting invitation from the Journal of the Pancreas when I do not have too many publications. Also the journal is now under Open access since March 2014. Its a journal of 14 years repute and high standing. What do you say Mr. Beall should i submit my manuscripts to them? Please help, I am in great dilemma whether to be happy on receiving such an invitation because I kind of know where I stand. Thanks in anticipation.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 25, 2014 at 4:24 AM It appears that the society that owns this journal has entered into some sort of publishing agreement with OMICS Publishing Group, a publisher that is notorious for its poor and exploitative treatment of honest researchers. Therefore, I would advise that you proceed with extreme caution. In the end, it may be best to seek out a completely different venue for your work. i Rate This

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Reply Saif‑ul‑Malook says: December 25, 2014 at 7:03 PM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ Dear sir,

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Dear sir, Please tell me about this journal. they claim, Journal is reviewed by Thomas router, I had seen in Thomas router list but could not find it. Thanks Kind regards saif http://www.innspub.net/international‑journal‑of‑biosciences‑ijb/#

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 26, 2014 at 4:59 AM This journal is published by a company called International Network for Natural Sciences (INNSPUB). I have this publisher included on my list here, and I recommend that you not submit papers to any of its six journals. Regarding the journal you mention, the International Journal of Biosciences, I do find this title included in the Thomson Reuters Master List, but I still recommend that you avoid this journal.

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Reply HuongNguyen says: December 25, 2014 at 7:42 PM The Journal of Remote Sensing Technology (JRST) does not appear in your list. Could you please tell me I should submit my paper in this journal. Thank you in advance! I wish you a Happy New Year 2015 i Rate This

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December 26, 2014 at 7:28 AM The Journal of Remote Sensing Technology is published by Bowen Publishing. I have this publisher included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I recommend that you not send your work to this publisher’s journals. I recommend that you find a better publisher.

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Reply christina says: December 27, 2014 at 5:20 PM Thank you very much. Please what criteria I should consider when I look for journal to submit my research works.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: December 27, 2014 at 6:45 PM Please see the criteria I use here. Note: I plan to update this criteria on January 1st.

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i Rate This Reply mahshid says: January 1, 2015 at 1:47 AM hello i have submitted my article to a journal entitled TPLS‑ Theory and Practice in Language Studies published by Academy publisher, i reviewed your list , i have found some similar name like science Academy publisher. i don’t know know they are related or not? , the journal publisher is http://www.academypublication.com/ this journal was indexed in 2014. but it is not now. the scopus has imposed some embargo on this publisher, i don’t know why !!!!!!!! please help me know whether this publication is fake or not? Regards Mahshid

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM Academy Publisher is not on my list.

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Sunday Brownson Akpan, Nigeria says: January 4, 2015 at 7:20 AM Hello, Please evaluate the reliability of this publisher: International Organization of Scientific Invention (IOSI) based in India.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 4, 2015 at 7:47 AM This publisher is included on my list here: http://wp.me/P280Ch‑u

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January 7, 2015 at 8:59 AM Thank you for alerting me to this. I am familiar with these perpetrators. This is about the sixth such operation they have set up like this that launches with hundreds of journals. I actually think they are from Bangladesh, rather than India. Thanks again — I have added it to my list.

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Reply Accés obert: Què has de tenir en compte abans de publicar? | Campus de Gandia Ciencia says: January 7, 2015 at 4:55 AM […] Mai publicar en les anomenades editorials depredadores, editorials que basen el seu model de negoci en la publicació d’articles però sense oferir garanties mínimes. Es pot consultar llistat actualitzat. […] i Rate This

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Reply Fernando says: January 8, 2015 at 1:07 AM Helo Mr Beall what do you hink about “Microorganisms”? http://www.mdpi.com/journal/microorganisms MDPI – Open Access Publishing they say that are in Basel and have no publication fees for most of the journal Thank you in advance i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 8, 2015 at 5:33 AM MDPI is on my list of questionable publishers, and I recommend against submitting papers to all of its journals, including Microorganisms. This publisher often waives fees in the many new journals it starts up to attract a base of articles that it then uses to attract later articles for which fees are charged. Broadly, I find this publisher to be a scholarly vanity press. Much of the operation is run out of China.

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Reply FF says: January 19, 2015 at 2:59 AM I am a Japanese researcher. In this week, I was asked by MDPI　to review a paper. This paper was not scientific and full of defects. I wondered why did the editor receive as article and send to me? The report “Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers” gives the reason. Thank you.

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Phe says: January 8, 2015 at 5:43 AM Do you have any comments and opinions about the International Journal of current research? They are asking for money so that your article can be sent of to be reviewed by reviewers. Is this a standard practice? What is your thoughts on publishing in this journal? i Rate This

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Reply Austin says: January 8, 2015 at 6:00 AM Any thoughts on “Markets and Markets” conferences? http://www.mnmconferences.com/ Ive been contacted by them but it seems to fit with the profile of other “predatory” folks ive been contacted by before.

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Reply Souvislosti Open Access (2) | Homepage of Radek Ocelák says: January 8, 2015 at 6:33 AM […] opačném konci spektra ovšem nacházíme tzv. vydavatelské predátory. Ti se v posledních letech značně množí a bez skrupulí se obohacují na ochotě vědců […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply HANI says: January 8, 2015 at 4:05 PM Hi Mr Jeffrey,, I would like to ask about The Journal of Water Resources and Protection. The publisher is Scientific research Publishing My regards

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 8, 2015 at 4:13 PM I recommend that all researchers NOT submit their work to the journals published by Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP). I recommend that you find a better publisher. Good luck!

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Reply redbean says: January 8, 2015 at 7:09 PM Please check this journal : The journal of engineering http://sci.scientific‑direct.net/view_online.asp?1244924&6f6425d74258aa51&18 I consider it is from a predatory publisher but before I delete the email I checked the homepage. It is linked to thomsonreuters so I am not quite sure if it is really a predatory publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 9, 2015 at 4:33 AM This publisher is not on my list. It appears that they are launching a broad mega‑journal (The Journal of Engineering).

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i Rate This Reply Saif‑ul‑Malook says: January 9, 2015 at 10:43 PM http://www.bothalia.com/index.html

What about it?? they claim its impact factor is 1.2. but an other journal with same ISSN number is also exist. its link is http://www.abcjournal.org/index.php/abc/pages/view/editorial‑team

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 10, 2015 at 5:49 AM This is a hijacked journal (the first link). Someone stole the identity of the legitimate journal (the second journal). i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Saif‑ul‑Malook says: January 15, 2015 at 7:07 PM Thank you very much. If one paper was published in 1st one then what would be issue? I mean I have applied for scholarship in PhD. will they consider in fake journal?

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Is the International Journal of Arts & Sciences (ISSN 1944‑6934) a dubious journal? Thank you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 10, 2015 at 6:08 AM Yes. It’s really more like a travel agency offering travel packages and calling them conferences. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Linda McPhee says: January 10, 2015 at 1:42 PM What about thus journal: Educational Research, http://www.interesjournals.org/ER/about

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 10, 2015 at 1:46 PM The journal’s publisher is on my list. I recommend against submitting papers to the journal or serving on its editorial boards.

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dear Beall, what about springer and Elsevier Open access journals?

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Reply hamzah hasyim says: January 12, 2015 at 2:12 PM Please give the explanation why International Journal of Health Sciences and Research in the number 156 in http://www.ijhr.org/index.php, also included in List 2: Questionable Standalone Journals? Moreover, I have just published my article in the journal, because I do not know about the list previously. Submission Date: 25‑09‑2014, Acceptance Date: 17‑10‑ 2014, Publication Date: 31‑10‑2014

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 13, 2015 at 5:13 AM I’m sorry; I don’t understand your question.

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Reply A says: January 13, 2015 at 12:21 AM Dear Sir, Please check the journals on https://GlobalJournals.org and http://EngineeringResearch.org i saw some papers and their are many mistakes in papers. Also the journal address is from USA, UK and India. If it is fake please blacklist this journal in your list. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 13, 2015 at 5:30 AM Yes, Global Journals, Inc. (US), the publisher of the engineering journal, which is included on my list here. http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I recommend that researchers not submit any papers to all of this publisher’s journals.

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Reply Open Access: What You Need to Consider Before Publishing | Campus de Gandia Ciencia says: January 14, 2015 at 12:30 AM […] Never publish in calls from Predatory Publishers, publishers who base their business model on publishing articles without offering minimum guarantees. You can consult an updated list. […] i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply Filip says: January 15, 2015 at 12:12 AM Dear Jeffrey, thank you very much for setting up this very informative and helpful site. I was contacted by email from “Therapeutic Targets for Neurological Diseases[ISSN: 2376‑0478]” and invited to write a review related to one of my recent publications. This online journal seems to be published by “Smart Science & Technology”. I did not find any mentioning of publishing fees. It claims to be an open access peer‑reviewed journal. Is this journal or publisher known to you? Any reasons to avoid? Thanks a lot in advance for any advice! Best regards, Filip

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 15, 2015 at 5:50 AM Yes, I have the publisher Smart Science + Technology included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I find this to be an amateurish operation and would recommend that you find a better publisher for your work. If they are not charging any fees at this time, I think it will be an excellent example of ‘you get what you pay for.’ i Rate This

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Reply Sapna Prabhu says: January 16, 2015 at 7:46 AM I wanted to know if Journal of Bioinformatics and Intelligent Control, American Scientific Publishers is a good journal to publish? Regards Sapna http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 16, 2015 at 8:41 AM I recommend that you not submit any papers to the journals published by American Scientific Publishers. It’s not on my list because it’s not open‑access, but it may be in the process of flipping its publication model from subscription to OA. This publisher made the news recently because it accepted a junk science paper in a sting operation.

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Reply Sebastian Weissenberger says: January 17, 2015 at 4:11 PM A new trend seems to be for SCIRP to spam LinkedIn groups with postings with links to their articles with a host of – probably fake – accounts with inventive like Winni Wu, Carrie Lu, Spring Zhou, Scirp Yavone (!), Jenny Shao, Carie. Quite annoying, especially since some of the linked articles, if you happen to click on it out of curiosity, are complete rubbish. i Rate This

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Reply Fernando Cardona says: January 18, 2015 at 12:12 AM Dear Jeffrey What do you think abour WebmedCentral,r American Journal of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (AJBCPS) and Hindawi? thank you in advance http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 18, 2015 at 5:35 AM Webmed Central and Hindawi are not on my list. The American Journal of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (AJBCPS), while not on my list, should be avoided. It’s one of hundreds of skeletal journals recently set up by some people in the New York City area. I haven’t had time to track down all the hundreds of low‑quality journals they’ve started up.

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Reply fajar nurjaman says: January 19, 2015 at 7:34 PM Dear Dr. Bell, I want to know if the International Journal of Engineering & Technical Research (https://www.erpublication.org/IJETR/) is a predatory journal or not?. Thank you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 20, 2015 at 4:49 AM This journal is published by a company called Engineering Research Publication. I have this publisher included on my list here. This is a deceptive and low‑quality publisher, and I recommend that researchers not submit papers to its two journals. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply fajar nurjaman says: January 20, 2015 at 6:19 PM Dear Dr Beall Thank you for your information

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I have recently received communication from a journal named Applied Medical Research, published by Scopemed. What are your thoughts about it? http://www.scopemed.org/? jid=126

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 20, 2015 at 12:37 PM I don’t understand ScopeMed. It has one of the worst websites I’ve ever seen. It’s barely functional. ScopeMed is more of a metapublisher than a true publisher. Any researcher who publishes in any ScopeMed journal is basically hiding his research from the world. It’s a stupid platform. i Rate This

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Deepak says: January 20, 2015 at 2:28 PM Thank you for the prompt review.

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Fabiani says: January 20, 2015 at 4:06 PM Dear Mr Beall, I received an invitation to send a chapter to an eBook from: SM Group Open Access eBooks 300 E Royal LN, Suite 127, Irving, TX 75039, USA. “Greetings! SM Group is pleased to announce the launch of its new open access eBook “Recent Trends in Immunology” edited by Dr. Shabir Ahmad Mir. We would like to cordially invite you to contribute book chapters for publication in the inaugural Edition of the eBook. (…)” What do you think about it? Thank you for your kindly contributions!

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 20, 2015 at 6:23 PM I chiefly focus on scholarly journal publishers. This publisher has a division called SM GROUP OPEN ACCESS JOURNALS. I have this publisher included on my list of questionable journals here. I recommend against submitting article manuscripts to this publisher. If their e‑book division is anything like their journal division, I would also recommend against submitting book manuscripts to them. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Fat Man says: January 21, 2015 at 1:11 AM Dear Jeff, I would like to suggest that Parlar scientific publications at http://www.psp‑parlar.de/ could fall into your list. The publisher charges about 200 euros for each paper, and the authors are mostly from Turkey and Balkans.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 21, 2015 at 4:45 AM Thank you. I will monitor this publisher.

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Reply yash says: January 21, 2015 at 7:55 PM Hello Mr Beall, hope you are doing fine. Please let me know about The Dovepress journals. thank you i Rate This

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Reply Deepak says: January 22, 2015 at 5:41 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Dear Mr Beall, Any thoughts about the plethora of journals published byBaiShiDeng Publishers and about the World Journal of Clincal Infectious Diseases in particular? @ http://www.wjgnet.com/2220‑3176/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 22, 2015 at 6:35 AM I have analyzed this publisher and found it to be borderline. I generally don’t add the borderline publishers to my list, so it’s not included there. If a friend were to ask me about publishing in one of their journals, I would advise him to find a better publisher.

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Reply Abat hulum says: January 22, 2015 at 1:29 PM It is really a magnificent work. I need you to continue and expose those unethical journals. I need also the status of Zenith multidisciplinary international journal (based in India) and European Journal of business and management i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 22, 2015 at 5:05 PM Thank you. First regarding the journals published by the Zenith International Research and Academic Foundation, these journals are not open‑access. You have to buy a subscription. If you examine the individual articles closely, you only see the abstract and the references. The full‑text is only for subscribers. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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The European Journal of Business and Management is published by the International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (IISTE), which is included on my list here. Summary: Avoid both journals. Do not submit any papers to them.

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Reply Dr. A. E. Uko says: January 22, 2015 at 1:41 PM why is Science Alert included in your list when it is listed by Scopus

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Reply Rose says: January 23, 2015 at 8:19 AM I didn’t read all of the comments, so this may have been mentioned. But Sage has recently put out a new journal Social Media + Society, edited by a hugely respected scholar in the field, Zizi Papacharissi– I would have assumed this would be a great, reputable place to publish. But closer inspection shows this is a pay‑to‑play journal– the submission instructions say “The costs of peer‑review and production are covered by Article Processing Charges (APC) paid by the author/institution/funder upon acceptance of the manuscript. For an extended introductory period all APCs will be waived, a policy that will be reviewed as the journal establishes itself. In future an APC will be set at a level appropriate to the discipline, with a waiver policy available for those authors who do not have the means to http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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cover the APC.” Now I’m confused… I thought Sage was well regarded, definitely don’t understand the direction this is going! Any thoughts? http://www.sagepub.com/journalsProdDesc.nav?prodId=Journal202332

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Reply Raymond says: January 24, 2015 at 9:16 PM Hi, could you include the Journal of Stem Cell Research and Therapy to your list please. It is an OMICS group journal that claimed to offer ease of upload of articles to the PubMed database. My PhD supervisor made this submission without my knowledge. It has now been 4 months of trying to seek some answers, and while I know through PubMed that their journal is not included for upload, they still fail to realise and accept their wrong doing. Their website is remarkably dubious in appearance and so far, I have failed to spot any of their papers on PubMed.This matter should be raised with law enforcement.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 25, 2015 at 10:05 AM I have OMICS Publishing Group included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ I do not list all their individual journals because there are so many, and they create new ones all the time. i Rate This

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Reply Flo says: January 26, 2015 at 6:38 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ 350/378 Hi Jeffrey. Thanks for the good work of keeping us informed of predatory journals. Kindly

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Hi Jeffrey. Thanks for the good work of keeping us informed of predatory journals. Kindly asking for genuine journals to publish in marketing and tourism. Thanks

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 26, 2015 at 6:54 AM I am sorry; I limit my work to identifying questionable journals. I recommend that you consult with senior colleagues in your field or with your academic librarian to find good journals in your discipline. Good luck.

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Reply Andrew says: January 26, 2015 at 11:56 AM Based on my experience, these two journals should be added: 1. Progress in Physics 2. PIER (http://www.jpier.org/PIER/)

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 26, 2015 at 6:26 PM Can you tell me what problems you see with PIER? http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Andrew says: January 26, 2015 at 11:58 AM Progress in Physics website : http://www.ptep‑online.com/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 26, 2015 at 12:03 PM Andrew: This journal is included on my “standalone” journals list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ Thanks for checking.

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Reply Fake Article’s Acceptance Highlights Predatory Publishing Practices | Fresh Eyes Editing says: January 28, 2015 at 8:56 AM […] Dr. Shrime’s simple test has done is to highlight the predatory publishing practices that are becoming all too common. These pay‑to‑publish set‑ups, which bypass the rigorous standards many journals have become known […] i Rate This

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Dear Jeffrey, I have submitted an article to Journal of Psychiatry about 3 months ago. Unfortunately, i have missed that open access journal. When acceptance letter arrived, i noticed it. Then, i have precisely notified the request of withdrawal of my article to editorial board of journal repeatedly. Although i didn’t sign the copyright form, they puplished my article. I don’t know what can i do now. Could you help to me in this regard, please?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 28, 2015 at 12:45 PM I am pretty sure you are referring to the Journal of Psychiatry that is published by OMICS Group. This is a horrible publisher that victimizes researchers. If this case is like many others, they will likely refuse to withdraw your article and will continue to bill you for it, and they will ignore withdrawal requests. A lawyer may be able to help. I don’t know an easy solution. Good luck. i Rate This

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Reply Mussa says: January 29, 2015 at 12:21 AM Dear Jefferey, I would like to submit a paper for a conference but I don not know if it is real conference or a fake one, Could you please guide in this matter? The name of the conference is : Australian Academy of Business Leadership (AABL) Sydney International Business Research Conference 2015 Thanks in advance, Regards, http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 29, 2015 at 3:49 AM I’m sorry, I don’t know. I have not analyzed these conferences.

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Reply tabsum says: January 29, 2015 at 7:09 AM Dear Mr Beall. Kindly investigate the journal :” Pakistan journal of Agricultural Sciences”. It seems predatory because they are acepting paper demand publication charges. When publication charges sent, they do not publish paper even not answer email or phone call. Kindly investigate and include it in predatory journal list

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Kwara says: January 29, 2015 at 3:03 PM Dear Jeff, You may want to add this fake journal. Association for Development in Engineering Research (ADER) (http://www.ader.org.in/about.html) Thank you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 14, 2015 at 6:24 AM Thank you — I have added this association’s journal, International Journal of Advanced Engineering Science and Technological Research, to my list.

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i Rate This Reply naseerdeen says: January 31, 2015 at 3:38 AM Dear Mr. Beall

I am attempting to pay a publication fee of hundred of dollars, but I need to confirm its authenticity, although it is not in your list. the journal is World journal of Medicine and Medical Science Research, the website is http;//www.wsrjournals.com/journal/wjmmsr. kindly investigate this journal for me thank you in advance for your work i Rate This

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Jeffrey Beall says: February 8, 2015 at 7:59 AM I have this journal’s publisher, World Science Research Journals (WSR Journals), included on my list here. I recommend that you NOT pay the money to this publisher. Find a better publisher.

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i Rate This Reply John says: January 31, 2015 at 4:58 AM Dear Mr. Beall,

I have pinpointed that the number 8 of List 1: Questionable Publishers, i.e. Academic Journals, contains a journal which appears in Web of Science. Scientific Research and Essays. ISSN, 1993 8233. This implies that at least this journal is not a questionable one. Perhaps, this publisher should not be included in this list. Thank you very much.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: January 31, 2015 at 7:53 AM Perhaps you’ve got it backwards and should contact Web of Science and ask them why they have this journal included in their database. i Rate This

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Dear Jhon, Scientific Research and Essays is not in Web of Science and it also not claim of it. Kindly check it properly.

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I have observed that Scientific Research and Essays occurs in the following link http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOK46/help/WOS/S_abrvjt.html Best regards, John

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Recently one of my colleague mail me about the journal namly The International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Trends (IJICTT). It’s a newly publish journal, how we judge the cridibility of it. Thanks in advance. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM I have this journal included on my list here. I recommend that you find a stronger journal for your work.

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Reply Sajjad Ahmed says: February 4, 2015 at 1:17 AM Dear Beall, Why you add this journal is in your list? It has only one issue, how you gage it as a predatory journal. Thanks

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Reply John Humphreys says: February 3, 2015 at 5:29 PM I know you already do a huge amount of work, and of course are under no obligation to even keep the site active let alone make changes… but a (cough, cough) humble suggestion.

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Perhaps it is worthwhile drawing a distinction between “predatory publishers” who set up fake shop fronts with no (or little) credible academic backing, “gotcha” funding models, and no (or little) service… vis‑a‑vis “shitty journals” that are well intentioned and honestly trying to get in the game, but are (currently) low quality. Food for thought. Or not. Up to you.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 3, 2015 at 6:05 PM I agree and do not want to hurt an honest new journal that may be stumbling early on. Can you name two or three on the list that fit your criteria of well‑intentioned and honest?

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i Rate This Reply Erljohn Gomez says: February 5, 2015 at 4:51 AM Dear Sir:

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You must have missed it. It is included on the list here.

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Reply Erljohn Gomez says: February 5, 2015 at 5:28 AM Thanks a lot Sir. This means I should not deal with this publisher right? As they are considered to be predatory?

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February 6, 2015 at 1:45 PM I just learned about this journal’s publisher (Open Science Publications) this week, and I am still in the process of analyzing it. From what I have seen so far, it appears to be just another quickly‑set‑up, low‑quality OA publisher. If you received a spam email from them, could you please forward it to me? Thanks.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 8, 2015 at 7:25 AM You did not miss it. I had not heard of this publisher. I have now analyzed it and added it to my list. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.

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Reply rama says: February 5, 2015 at 9:46 PM Dear Sir, I want to know about the following journals. whether they are predatory? International Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering i Rate This

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The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Chemistry is published by Scholar Science Journals, which is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/ The International Journal of Innovative Research in Science, Engineering and Technology is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual‑journals/ The International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering appears to be published by the so‑called World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering (WARSE). I have not analyzed this publisher but will have a look as soon as I can

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Reply Sunday Brownson Akpan, Nigeria says: February 11, 2015 at 6:14 AM Hello Prof Jeffrey, Am interested in participating in one of this meetings as academician. Please assess the authenticity of the following conferences. Thank for your wonderful work so far! (1) AgriAqua 2015 – Second International Conference on Agriculture, Animal Sciences and Aquaculture 2015 (http://www.agriconference.info/). (2)2nd International Conference on Global Food Security 11‑14 October 2015 | Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA Hosted by Cornell University and Columbia (http://www.globalfoodsecurityconference.com/)

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 11, 2015 at 8:39 AM I do not have any established criteria for evaluating conferences. If the second one is really organized by who it says it is, then it is probably is okay. The first one and the last one are anyone’s guess. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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dAsakyi says: February 7, 2015 at 10:34 PM What is the current status of Libertas Academica? It was once in your list.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 8, 2015 at 4:36 AM That’s correct. It was on my list early on, but I removed it.

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Reply yash says: February 9, 2015 at 6:50 AM Dear Beall, please tell me about journal of gastroenterology reports by Oxford Publications. Is it worth submitting my work to? Thanks in anticipation i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 9, 2015 at 7:37 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ 363/378 None of the Oxford University Press journals are included on my list. So, yes, if you are

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None of the Oxford University Press journals are included on my list. So, yes, if you are referring to a journal published by OUP, I do believe it is worth submitting to. Good luck.

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Reply Rex Bringula says: February 9, 2015 at 8:38 PM Is the list verified by other scholars? Just asking…

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Reply myronchristodoulides says: February 11, 2015 at 2:59 AM Dear Jeffrey Do you have any opinion on Spandidos publications? I have been asked to attend a conference, and have looked at their journals (some have IFs) , but am still unsure. Thanks Myron C

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 11, 2015 at 4:40 AM Not really. I have looked at this publisher before but did not find that it met the criteria for being added to my list. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Mars says: February 11, 2015 at 9:59 AM What would you say about journals belong to MECS Publishers?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 11, 2015 at 10:33 AM I have analyzed this publisher but did not add it to my list. It’s not a predatory publisher. Individuals will have to decide for themselves whether they find this publisher’s journal appropriate for their work.

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Reply Mihiri Munasinghe says: February 11, 2015 at 8:55 PM What about the journals of Sciknow publishers? Are they predatory or not?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 12, 2015 at 6:28 AM Sciknow is included on my list here. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Mihiri Munasinghe says: February 20, 2015 at 1:04 AM thank you very much Mr. Jeffrey…….

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i Rate This mina says: February 12, 2015 at 8:33 AM Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal,

could you please tell me about the Journal of Aquaculture Research & Development Sincerely

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 12, 2015 at 9:34 AM There is a journal with this title published by OMICS Group. I strongly recommend that you avoid this journal completely. i Rate This

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Reply Mihiri Munasinghe says: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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February 18, 2015 at 10:34 PM thank you very much Mr. Jeffery. Then what about the International Journal of Agriculture and Food Science Technology (IJAFST)? also want to know about Tropical Agriculture published by The University of the West Indies

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Jeffrey Beall says: February 19, 2015 at 4:41 AM Regarding the International Journal of Agriculture Food Science & Technology (IJAFST), this journal’s publisher is Research India Publications (RIP), and this is a subscription publisher (not open‑access), and I recently added this publisher to my list, so I recommend that you avoid it. Tropical Agriculture, published by The University of the West Indies, is not on my list.

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Arezu says: February 12, 2015 at 9:17 PM Would you please let me know if International Journal of Security and Its Applications is a predatory journal or not? I did not see it in your list, but I saw another website mentioned it is predatory based on your list. Thanks, i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 13, 2015 at 4:17 AM The journal is published by the Science & Engineering Research Support Society (SERSC). I have the publisher included on my list here. When there is a publisher with a bunch of journals, I only list the publisher. I recommend that you avoid this journal and all the http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply mina says: February 13, 2015 at 12:01 AM it’s Very bad. i have a Submissions in this journal. What can I do for it . i’m very solicitous. Please help me. Thank you

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Reply Tolu Solomon says: February 13, 2015 at 8:37 AM Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal, could you please tell me about the Researchjournali because is not one of the list you mention, a friend of mine is confused and also having so debt because they charge me some fee for the publication of his work. Should he go ahead? Sincerely

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 13, 2015 at 8:46 AM No. I have written about this low‑quality publisher here, and I have it on my list. Please ignore this publisher and find a better one. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Tolu Solomon says: February 13, 2015 at 2:07 PM Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal,

Thanks a lot. am a master student (M.Sc Statistics)from my school in Nigeria. please can you give me a better on that deals with modelling of time series using heteroscedasticity models.

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Jeffrey Beall says: February 13, 2015 at 2:18 PM No, but here’s a resource that may help: http://cofactorscience.com/journal‑selector

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Destiny says: February 18, 2015 at 2:46 AM Dear Mr. Beall, Thanks for your work. Please what do you make of Journal of Business management and Applied Economics, they claim to be based in Romania. Do you advise I have my work published with the Journal? Your advise is highly needed. i Rate This http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 18, 2015 at 4:56 AM I have this jorunal’s publisher, ScientificPapers.org, included on my list. I recommend avoiding all the journals from this publisher.

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Reply Abel says: February 19, 2015 at 6:38 AM Hello Bell Do this journal included in predators list they are now in volume 5 Journal of Chemical, Biological and physical sciences regards

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 19, 2015 at 7:36 AM Yes, this journal is included on my list here. i Rate This

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Reply The Lost Art Of Reviewing: Hints for Reviewers and Authors » The Delocalized Physicist says: February 21, 2015 at 12:37 PM […] to be mistaken with predatory journals, presenting all kinds of schemes in which you pay heavily for your publication to get […] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Lakew says: February 22, 2015 at 8:03 AM Thank you for all your struggle to safe us. after I lost 4 of my articles I got this website and learnt that our of 13 published articles of mine 4 are already taken to predatory journals. still they are nagging now and then. How we stop their request? Again, is it legal to inquire repeatedly to a researcher after replied “NO”? Is there any legal ground to get compensation for our lost efforts? Thank you i Rate This

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Reply ashish says: February 22, 2015 at 8:53 AM Hi Jeff, Hi i i belong to India.Could you please tell me if “International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering” is good place to submit article I googled and couldn’t find much information on these journals. I would appreciate your input and advice. i Rate This

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 22, 2015 at 9:24 AM No, it is not a good place to submit your work. I have this journal included on my list here. This journal has a fake impact factor. Please find a better journal. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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sorry to say i have submitted day before i asked u about “International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering”…. What i can do now..

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 22, 2015 at 10:45 AM One option is to send them an email and tell them you would like to withdraw the article.

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Reply Alex says: February 22, 2015 at 12:08 PM Does anyone have experience with “Kafkas Univ Vet Fak Derg” ? http://vetdergi.kafkas.edu.tr/eng/about.html i http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Rate This Reply lakman says: February 23, 2015 at 9:49 PM is it safe to publish in Austin Journal of Anatomy?? thank you

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: February 24, 2015 at 4:25 AM No. I would recommend that you find a better journal from a better publisher.

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Reply Mihiri Munasinghe says: March 2, 2015 at 1:08 AM Dear Jeffrey, May I know that The Journal of Tropical Agriculture published by Kerala Agricultural University is predatory or not?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 3, 2015 at 8:33 PM It is not. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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i Rate This Reply Mihiri Munasinghe says: March 5, 2015 at 8:45 PM thank you dear Jeffrey

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Sunday Brownson Akpan, Nigeria says: March 3, 2015 at 3:06 PM Dear Jeffrey, Please check if Ecoforum ( http://www.ecoforumjournal.ro) is a predatory journal or no. thank

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 4, 2015 at 6:42 PM Sunday, I have checked this journal and have added it to my list. I recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal. Among other problems, this journal advertises an impact factor it does not have. i Rate This

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Reply Chandran says: March 6, 2015 at 7:43 AM http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Dear Jeffrey, Please check International Journal of Scientific Study (IJSS, http://www.ijss‑sn.com/) and Res Medica (http://journals.ed.ac.uk/resmedica) Thank you for your consideration.

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 7, 2015 at 9:15 AM Thank you for letting me know about the International Journal of Scientific Study. I have added it to my list here. The second journal, Res Medica, is not predatory, and I am not adding it to my list. Thank you again. i Rate This

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Reply ANA says: March 6, 2015 at 11:14 AM Last year I submitted a paper to IJMMM http://www.ijmmm.org/ published with IACSIT press, listed under the questionable publishers. At the time I was not aware of your list and I tried to use other methods to deduce whether or not it was a bogus journal. I was not overly concerned that I could not find an impact factor through ISI web of science as it was a relatively new open access journal, and as I understand, it takes a few years for this to be calculated. I read a few journals in IJMMM related to my area in order to gauge the standard and they did not seem to be of particularly poor quality. It seemed as though there was some attention to detail regarding proof‑reading and editing. Also, the rate at which papers were published was not alarmingly high (approx. 15 per issue). Finally, the review process seemed to be pretty typical. My manuscript was in review for several weeks and I had comments from two reviewers and the editor requesting changes. From this I made a rather subjective decision that the operation was not a scam, particularly considering that they waived their paltry publication fee of $150 in my instance.

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/ In your experience has there ever

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In your experience has there ever been an individual journal, backed by a dubious publishing house, that has gone on to be indexed by ISI and to further gain an impact factor? If my suspicions are correct and I have published with a bogus journal what should I do to preserve my professional integrity?

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 8, 2015 at 6:03 AM This journal looks good. It is not predatory, and I am not adding it to my list. It is a new journal, and I hope it is successful. i Rate This

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Reply Abdullah says: March 9, 2015 at 7:07 PM Dear Beall, I would like to know if this is an (www.primejournalconsultants.com) and its quality. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 9, 2015 at 7:49 PM It looks like a paper mill to me. I wrote about paper mills here: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/12/30/is‑this‑a‑paper‑mill/ I recommend that you not use this service.

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Reply Mihiri Munasinghe says: March 10, 2015 at 8:47 AM Dear Jeffrey, Please let me know that African Journal of Food Science is predatory or not? http://www.academicjournals.org/journal/AJFS

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Reply Jeffrey Beall says: March 10, 2015 at 9:19 AM I have this journal’s publisher, Academic Journals, included on my list here. If you are considering submitting a paper to this journal, I would recommend that you find a journal from a better publisher. http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/listofpredatorypublishers2014/

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