Overstated.
The Thomson Reuters Master Journal List is not a journal whitelist and should not be used as one. Numerous low-quality and predatory journals are announcing their inclusion in this list as a mark or guarantee of quality, fooling many.
The TR Master Journal List is not a Journal Whitelist
April 28, 2016
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Misleading metrics, Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, Unethical Practices | Tagged: Indexing, Thomson Reuters | 
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Three New Open-Access Publishers — All with Dumb Names
April 21, 2016New scholarly open-access publishers continue to appear at a fast pace. Here are three that launched recently — one with a generic name, one with a stolen name, and one with a suspicious name.
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Two Predatory Publishers: One Old, One New
April 14, 2016
A cheap knockoff of the real thing.
Here I’d like to sound a warning about two low-quality scholarly open-access publishers. I wrote previously about Pyrex Journals and have an update on them. I’ll also write about a new publisher with a dumb name: Scientia Ricerca.
17 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, spam email, Unethical Practices | Tagged: Nigeria | Permalink
Posted by Jeffrey Beall
Two New Absurd OA Journals, Two New OA Mandates
April 12, 2016
KnowledgeCuddle …. Really?
This past week I added a publisher called KnowledgeCuddle Publication to my list. The publisher’s name is silly and unprofessional, more evidence of scholarly open-access publishing’s decline into absurdity.
At the same time, two U.S. universities implemented strong open-access policies, policies their faculties will be pressured to follow and submit to.
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Two Turkish Journals with a Fake, “German” Editor
April 7, 2016
A mess indeed.
Be on the lookout for spam from a man using the fake persona of “Dr. Karl Heinz” and soliciting manuscripts for two open-access journals of abysmal quality. The journals use the initialisms JMESS and JMEST and claim they’re based in Germany, buy I suspect they are really based in eastern Turkey.
19 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, spam email, Unethical Practices | Tagged: Germany, Turkey | Permalink
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A New Publisher to Watch Out for: Ology Science
April 5, 2016
Predatory-ology
There’s a new open-access publisher in town, and its name is Ology Science. I fear that the publisher may have a connection with the notorious publisher called OMICS International.
8 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, spam email, Unethical Practices | Tagged: OMICS International, Texas | Permalink
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Researchers in Southeast Asia Are Bombarded with Conference Spam
March 17, 2016
Conferences, journals, spam.
A continuing explosion in the number of low-quality and predatory scholarly conferences in Southeast Asia is confusing and annoying researchers in the region. One example is the so-called International Academy of Computer Technology (IACT) — which is not really an academy at all — whose headquarters address shows up as a dwelling in a U.S. state.
25 Comments | Scholarly Open-Access Publishers, Unethical Practices | Tagged: California, Conferences, Indonesia | Permalink
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