Look out for Bogus Impact Factor Companies
The proliferation of predatory open-access publishers has created several new and expanding markets. One of these is the market for...
Proposed Criteria for Identifying Predatory Conferences
Here’s a draft of a criteria for identifying predatory conferences. The draft was written by James McCrostie, a full-time Associate...
Defining Platinum Open Access
Recently I used the term “platinum open access” in an email I sent to several scholarly communication listserves.
A platinum nugget.
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The OMICS Publishing Group’s Empire is Expanding
OMICS Group, the Hyderabad, India-based group of scholarly publishing-related companies, is expanding and now operates at least twelve publishing imprints...
The Scientific World Journal Will Lose Its Impact Factor – Again
The troubled publication Scientific World Journal will once again lose its impact factor (this time for 2014), according to one Thomson Reuters...
Bogus British Company “Accredits” OMICS Conferences
Notorious open-access publisher OMICS International operates a scholarly conference division called Conference Series LLC. I learned recently that a London-based corporation called The CPD...
More Fringe Science from Borderline Publisher Frontiers
The scandal-plagued, Switzerland-based publisher Frontiers has just published a chemtrails conspiracy theory paper by the same author whose earlier article was published and then...
Beall’s List of Predatory Publishers 2017
Each year at this time I formally announce my updated list of predatory publishers. Because the publisher list is now...
Scam Publisher OMICS International Buying Legitimate Journals
Hyderabad, India-based open-access publisher OMICS International is on a buying spree, snatching up legitimate scholarly journals and publishers, incorporating them into its...
Would You Take a Cancer Cure Proven Effective in a Predatory Journal?
I am writing this blog post in hopes of starting a conversation in the scientific community about the medicine called...
