2017
Each year at this time I formally announce my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the publisher list is now very large, and because I now publish four, continuously-updated lists, the annual releases do not include the actual lists but instead include statistical and explanatory data about the lists and links to them.
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A ResearcherID profile for a predatory journal.
ResearcherID is a unique, persistent identifier for individual researchers set up by Thomson Reuters. ORCID, which came later, has made it mostly obsolete. Moreover, ResearcherID is also being colonized by predatory journals, who are registering as if they were individual researchers and polluting the database with spam.
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Bogus conferences.
The bogus conference organizer, WASET, based in Turkey and Azerbaijan, continues to rip-off the names of legitimate conferences, using them to name its own conferences, hoping — I think — to trick researchers into registering and attending them.
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A screenshot of part of the hijacked journal’s website.
A scholarly journal sponsored by a United Nations organization and published in Chile has been hijacked, with the hijackers creating a counterfeit website and widely soliciting manuscript submissions. However, unlike most journal hijacking cases, in this case, the apparent perpetrator’s name and location are easily found.
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A very dangerous medical publisher.
I am writing this blog post to warn researchers about the open-access publisher SMGroup. It also uses the name SM Open Access Journals. This is a deceptive and exploitative open-access publisher, and all honest researchers should decline to submit papers to its journals or associate with it in any way.
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Meta junk.
I learned recently of the launch of Meta Research Press, a New Delhi-based publisher of 64 extremely low-quality, open-access journals. I’m told this new imprint is the effort of Research India Publications (RIP), a greedy and unprofessional publisher that has been on my list for some time.
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Quick and easy publishing.
I would like to talk about my experience as a co-author in a paper that was submitted to Aging, a journal listed in Beall’s list as “potential, possible, or probable predatory.” Unlike many other journals in this list, Aging has a high, legitimate impact factor (6.432) and is listed both in Pubmed and MEDLINE.
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This publisher stinks.
This is a renewed warning to all researchers to refrain from submitting any work to — or associating with — Juniper Publishers. Juniper is a deceptive publisher, a scam designed only to get money from honest researchers.
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Danger: OMICS
It appears that Hyderabad, India-based OMICS International has bought another Canadian scholarly publisher, but in this case, they have bought up a very low-quality, Saskatoon-based, open-access publisher and expanded it from three open-access journals to nine.
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