Hundreds of Articles Disappear as Publisher Changes Model from Open Access to Toll Access
The publisher EUROJOURNALS has apparently decided to change its publishing model from open access to toll access. This Seychelles-based publisher — which...
Plagiarism in the “Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies”
The editor of the Journal of Sports Medicine & Doping Studies, Senthil P. Kumar, wrote an editorial in the journal that contains passages that appeared in...
Don’t Use PubMed as a Journal Whitelist
PubMed is not MEDLINE. I recommend against using PubMed as a list of quality journals for the purposes of finding...
Two More Unneeded, Open-Access Publishers Recently Appeared
In my previous blog post, I described three brand-new open-access publishers. Here are two additional new OA publishers that I’ve...
Japanese Open-Access Journal is a Joke
I don’t see too many questionable open-access journals that originate in Japan, but here’s one, the Journal of Physical Therapy Science....
Canadian Publisher Has Open-Access “Evil Twin”
Ontario-based Andrew John Publishing Inc. has two websites, one for its subscription journals and print monographs, and a secretive new one that also includes...
Wacky Open-Access Publisher Launches with 61 New Journals
Another pay-to-publish, open-access publisher has appeared: Lawarence Press. Based in Delhi, India, the press is named after the street its...
David Publishing Company, a Massive Spammer from China
David Publishing Company is among the most annoying scholarly open-access publishers. It incessantly spams pretty much everyone in higher education, medicine,...
Obituary for an Open Access Journal
In the wake of the open-access movement, many new open-access journals have been launched. Often these journals have been started...
Fake ISI Aims to Trick the Scholarly Community
I recently learned of an impostor website for Journal Citation Reports, the product marketed by Thomson Reuters, and the successor of the Institute...
