A ResearcherID profile for a predatory journal.
ResearcherID is a unique, persistent identifier for individual researchers set up by Thomson Reuters. ORCID, which came later, has made it mostly obsolete. Moreover, ResearcherID is also being colonized by predatory journals, who are registering as if they were individual researchers and polluting the database with spam.
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Bogus conferences.
The bogus conference organizer, WASET, based in Turkey and Azerbaijan, continues to rip-off the names of legitimate conferences, using them to name its own conferences, hoping — I think — to trick researchers into registering and attending them.
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A screenshot of part of the hijacked journal’s website.
A scholarly journal sponsored by a United Nations organization and published in Chile has been hijacked, with the hijackers creating a counterfeit website and widely soliciting manuscript submissions. However, unlike most journal hijacking cases, in this case, the apparent perpetrator’s name and location are easily found.
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A very dangerous medical publisher.
I am writing this blog post to warn researchers about the open-access publisher SMGroup. It also uses the name SM Open Access Journals. This is a deceptive and exploitative open-access publisher, and all honest researchers should decline to submit papers to its journals or associate with it in any way.
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Crossed signals.
I was recently forwarded a very suspicious spam email from Nature’s Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, a journal co-published by the West China Hospital, Sichuan University. Here’s the highly questionable spam email:
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One of their four broad-scoped journals, each with a fake impact factor.
The Institute of Research Advances is a backward open-access publisher based in Chandigarh, India. Like the Clute “Institute,” It’s not really an institute in any honest sense of the term. Instead, it’s a sole proprietorship aimed at separating researchers from their money.
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Meta junk.
I learned recently of the launch of Meta Research Press, a New Delhi-based publisher of 64 extremely low-quality, open-access journals. I’m told this new imprint is the effort of Research India Publications (RIP), a greedy and unprofessional publisher that has been on my list for some time. Read the rest of this entry »
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