Sci-Hub Will Increase Academic Plagiarism
The over 50 million scholarly articles stolen by the pirates at Sci-Hub will significantly increase the occurrence of academic plagiarism.
In...
Spam from Predatory Open Access Publishers is Dominating my Inbox
Guest blog post by: Ali Mobasheri, D.Phil., Associate Professor University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
I was a graduate student when e-mail...
Trying to understand “ACADEMIC JOURNALS & CONFERENCES”
We recently learned about a publisher and conference sponsor called Academic Journals & Conferences. Based in Florida, the company appears to...
Oxford on alert: predatory conference organisers are coming to town, or, Oxford beware: OMICS...
Guest blog post by Dr. Ali Mobasheri, University of Nottingham
Oxford, also known as the “City of Dreaming Spires” (the term...
New Questionable Publisher — New Conference List — New Plagiarism Book
New Questionable Publisher
I recently added the new publisher called Webcrawler Journals to my list of questionable publishers. Like many questionable publishers, this one...
Mysterious Institute Launches with Nine Journals
The Coltharp Institute is a conference organizer and scholarly publisher that recently launched with nine open-access journals, each with a broad scope...
More Junk Journals from a Bogus Research Center
I recently learned of a brand-new predatory publisher launching with twelve broad-scoped journals. Such a launch is routine these days...
New Predatory Publisher Copies Look and Feel of BioMed Central
BioMed Research is a brand-new open-access publisher based in India that recently launched with 21 open-access journals. The publisher copies the...
Predatory Journal Lists Murdered Doctor as Its Editor-in-Chief
The American Journal of Medical Sciences and Medicine currently lists a doctor murdered in 2013 as its Editor-in-Chief.
The journal is published by Science...
Sting Operation Nails Korean OA Publisher
An anonymous researcher in Eastern Europe submitted a contrived and completely bogus scholarly manuscript to an open-access publisher based in...
