Questions tagged [disreputable-publishers]
For questions about publishers that are reputed to engage in unethical and/or dishonest practices.
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How do you judge the quality of a journal?
A colleague and I recently submitted a paper to a journal with an impressive-sounding name, the "International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Computational Research". According to ...
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How do I identify predatory and low quality journals? With Beall's List gone, how can I tell if a journal is spam?
Jeffrey Beall removed his list of predatory journals from the internet this past Sunday. While the reasons for his doing this are not yet public, this is a real loss of a valuable service. Does anyone ...
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How to identify predatory publishers/journals
What are the best strategies for assessing if a journal is a "vanity" or "predatory" journal that should be avoided (both for publishing in and reviewing for)? For example, how ...
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What are "fake", "shady", and/or "predatory" journals?
This question is in response to this very interesting question. The original post mentioned that they wish to retract their paper from a "fake" journal. I don't know what a fake journal is but better ...
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What should I do if I submitted an article to a predatory journal?
Call it stupidity or bad luck but I am guilty of submitting my research article to a journal which is listed in Beall's List of Predatory Publishers.
It is my first article and I don't have much ...
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How can I withdraw a publication from a predatory (fake) journal and resubmit to a legitimate journal?
I have published a paper in a fake journal. I want to withdraw the paper from that journal.
After successful withdrawal from the fake journal, can I can submit the same paper to a legitimate journal?...
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Should I accept review requests from dubious journals?
I'm a graduate student with, so far, one published article in a peer-reviewed journal. Since the article came out, I've been receiving increasing amounts of "academic e-mail spam" from people wanting ...
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Why do open access consortia affiliate themselves with questionable publishers
The open access publishing world has a number of predatory publishers. Many know about Beall's list which identifies publishers and journals that engage in questionable practices. The existence of ...
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Is it a good idea to cite paper from publisher listed in Beall’s list
While writing the literature review for my paper, I found another paper which is closely related to my research. Unfortunately, the paper’s publisher is on Beall’s List. Hence, I wonder if citing the ...
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How can I tell whether a mathematics journal seems reputable?
There are some general questions on this site about judging the reputability of journals in general:
How do you judge the quality of a journal? and
How to identify predatory publishers/journals
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Is Lambert Academic Publishing a reputable company?
I was contacted by the Acquisition editor of Lambert Academic Publishing (LAP) to publish my bachelor's thesis as a printed book. Is LAP any good? I have no idea about it; I have just heard that it's ...
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What can/should be done about journals that spam potential contributors?
I'm a very early stage researcher and my first two conference papers could have been better, but that doesn't stop new journals spamming me with offers to publish my work. This morning I received two ...
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How to make sure that a conference is not a scam when you are invited as a speaker?
I received an invitation from Neuroscience & Brain Disorders (NBD 2021) conference to present my work as an honorable speaker. My research interests are related to the topics of this conference ...
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Does publishing in journals known as "predatory" hurt one's reputation?
Does publishing in what is known as a "predatory" (such as OMICS) journal diminish ones reputation? Do these publications help at all when applying for grants (or do they impede ones chance)?
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Has a journal ever switched between being a predatory journal and a reputable one?
There are a lot of questions here on what predatory journals are, and how to tell if a journal is one or not.
Are there known cases where a journal has "switched" camps, or where substantial evidence ...
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Do most customers choose predatory publishers knowingly?
In this comment, it was claimed:
Predatory publishers thrive because when you apply for a job or a grant, few read your papers. They check the papers you pinpoint and the number of publcations. ...
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What is the consenus of IntechOpen, open access books, are they predatory? [closed]
I have received an unsolicited request to write a chapter for a book relevant to my research. I have searched the current editors and they are actual people but not very well known in the field. On ...
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Is an automatic copyright transfer clause in publisher's instructions to authors typically enforced/enforceable?
Some publishers have a clause like the following in their author instructions:
Submission of a manuscript implies... that if and when the manuscript is accepted for publication, the authors agree ...
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Can I reliably determine the quality of a journal by checking citation numbers in Google Scholar?
I have recently come across this journal International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA)
The journal provides acceptance notification within 15 days. This raised red flags,...
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How can I withdraw my paper from a fake conference?
I submitted one of my research paper in a fake conference by mistake. Now I want to withdraw my paper from it, But I am facing problem in withdrawal as no email id is given on that website. The ...
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Distinguish starting journals from predatory ones
As you know, there are journals -predatory journals- which are just publishing scams, without actual peer review, etc. but look like genuine ones, and it is a problem for the honest researcher to ...
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What to do when you have accidentally submitted an article to a predatory journal
I'm an inexperienced researcher and I made the stupid mistake of submitting my article to a predatory journal. I realised the journal was fake when they failed to provide the reviewers comments.
I ...
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I was published in a journal on Beall's list - how bad is my mistake?
Please pardon my somewhat peculiar case, I hope this is still a question useful to others.
After school I became an undergrad but paused studying after a few semesters of university to work full time....
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My paper was withdrawn from predatory journal after publication, what should I do?
I am currently in a very embarrassing situation.
I have a paper (forgot to say, this paper takes no more than two pages) submitted to a journal. The journal accepted my paper for publication and I ...
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Do reputable journals ever conduct peer review entirely by email?
In the comments to one of the answers to this question, the asker points out that he is asked to submit his review of a manuscript for publication via email and that there is no formal online system ...
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Experiences with Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP) journals [closed]
Recently I've been receiving an increasing number of invitations to submit papers to several new Open-Access journals published by Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP).
Has anybody here had any ...
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How do I complain to chair if my advisor regularly writes to scam journals to get tenure?
My advisor and his PHD Students are writing regularly to journals published by a publisher, which is on Beall’s list of Predatory Journals. I emailed Beall and he told me that the journals were ...
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Should I review for a new journal whose publisher is unjustifiably listed in Beall's list of predatory publishers?
I received a review request from an open access journal, which is brand new. It has published about 10 articles so far. The articles seem to be of mediocre quality but do not seem to plagiarize other ...
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Should I submit my paper to a journal that accepts papers quickly?
Should I submit my paper to a journal that accepts quickly?
One of my batch-mate got accepted in a journal within 1 month. The journal was also listed on predatory journal's list.
Please advise.
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Is it wise to try to remove myself from predator mailinglists?
A predator journal (Americal Journal of Applied Mathematics) regulary sends me mails about how I should submit to them or join the peer review. Recently I discovered there is a Unsubscribe link in the ...
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Would a legitimate journal send unsolicited email to an author offering to feature an article in their own publication, for a fee?
I have received an email from a journal in the field of engineering saying that they found an article of mine and want to feature it in their own publications for a fee. I cannot tell if this is ...
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Invitation to review for an unknown journal
I recently received the following invitation to act as a reviewer for an unknown journal. Is it ok to just ignore it?
Subject: Invitation to Review Manuscript for Asian Journal of
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What makes a journal scientific?
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What exactly is the definition of a scientific publication or journal?
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What fueled this question in particular is the current rise of predatory publishers. Jeffrey Beall had a ...
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When picking a journal for my research should I value the publisher's reputation over the journal's impact factor?
I'm in the process of selecting an appropriate journal for my article. I short-listed a few journals based on topic coverage, IF and speed of the review process.
I am confused: should I select a ...
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What to do if predatory journal won't withdraw paper after acceptance? [duplicate]
Last year, I’ve started an independent research in hopes to be published one day.
Fast forwarding a year (a couple of weeks ago in fact), I have finished my manuscript in which I was planning to ...
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Do any legitimate conferences charge per publication?
In computer science, or at least my subfield of it, most research is published in conference proceedings. The usual procedure is to write a full article, submit it to a conference, and then if it's ...
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Can being free of publication charge be an indication of being a non-predatory journal?
Though some serious journals charge publication fee as well, to a certain extent, can being free of publication charge be an indication,
albeit not a sure indication,
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Should I retract an article published in a disreputable journal?
I was published by the IJARCS in 2011 (International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science) and was wondering if I should retract my article due to the journal being disreputable.
I am ...
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Where are predatory publishers based?
Is there any research/study/survey that looked at the location of predatory publishers? (e.g., x% are based in country A, y% are based in country B, etc.)
I am mostly interested in English-speaking ...
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Why do predatory journals invite people to editorial boards?
I've been invited to the editorial board of a predatory journal. I know not to accept the invitation or reply in any way shape or form, but I don't understand why they are doing this, which is a bit ...
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I reported plagiarism to a questionable journal. How long should I give them to amend?
I recently sent the following letter to a journal of questionable reputation:
To whom it may concern:
In the [Journal Redacted], in the paper titled [Paper Redacted] by [Authors Redacted], the ...
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Is Science Publishing group (http://www.sciencepg.net) a genuine publisher related to the Science journal? [closed]
I received an email requesting me to apply for a reviewer/editor position at Science Publishing group. But I found that Science Publications have a different website, hence I feel that the email is a ...
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Can anybody vouch for PubSure? [duplicate]
A few days ago I uploaded a pre-print to arXiv. Today I got an email from a service called PubSure offering to evaluate the manuscript with AI (?) and give me a score on how "publishable" (?) it is. ...
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Why would the editor of a reputable journal act simultaneously as the editor of a potentially predatory journal? [closed]
Can anybody explain why someone who is editor of a reputable journal also act simultaneously as an editor for a potentially predatory journal?
