Hindawi’s ISRN Brand Offers to Pay for Articles
Cairo-based Hindawi Publishing Corporation is apparently launching a new strategy to invigorate its ISRN (International Scholarly Research Network) brand. The strategy...
Serbian Journal Accepts Paper in 24 Hours with No Peer Review, Demands EUR 1785
The Archives of Biological Sciences is the official journal of the Serbian Biological Society. Here I describe one case in which the...
I’m Following a Fringe Science Paper on F1000Research
I am following the progress of the article “Culture and identification of Borrelia spirochetes in human vaginal and seminal secretions”...
Icelandic Journal Latest Victim of Journal Hijacking
The old print journal Jökull, published in Iceland since 1951, has been hijacked. The hijackers set up two bogus web sites...
Strategies To Write An University Assignment
University life can be exciting, fun, and sometimes challenging when you have to complete assignments given by different professors. Are...
10 Most Common Self-Improvement Goals And How To Achieve Them
People naturally strive for a better version of themselves, working on self-confidence, mental and physical health, self-control, and many other...
New publisher: Scientific & Academic Publishing
One of the most recent additions to my list of questionable publishers is Scientific & Academic Publishing. This publisher claims to be...
OMICS International Totally Sucks
Greetings for the day! I am writing this blog post as yet another reminder that the open-access publisher OMICS International completely sucks....
Can You Play the Violin Like a Fiddle?
Musical instruments are as old as civilization is. If you take a look at some history books, you will see...
The Increasing Use of Predatory Journals for “Advocacy Research”
A recent article in the National Review used the term “advocacy research” to describe unscientific articles published in predatory journals to promote a social...
