Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Matthew Von Hendy Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype Credit Free via Skype]

Hello:If there is enough interest in learning how to spot a predatory journal (it can be really hard!), I would be willing to put together a free webinar on this topic.  If you are interested please contact me off-list at: i...@greenheroninfo.comPlease let me know if you have any questions and hope everyone has a great week!Best Regards,Matthew Von HendyGreen Heron Information Servicesi...@greenheroninfo.com(240) 401-7433@GreenHeronInfowww.greenheroninfo.com   CallSend SMSAdd to SkypeYou'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype


 Original Message 
Subject: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals
From: David Duffy 
Date: Wed, September 06, 2017 5:57 pm
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU

"To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to do a better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to assess a journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will prevent scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify flaws or truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global funders have mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is likely to increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped the waste by cutting off the supply."http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2-- David Duffy Ph.D.Professor and Director戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/MakamakaʻāinanaDepartment of BotanyUniversity of Hawaii/Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi3190 Maile WayHonolulu Hawaii 96822 USA1-808-956-8218  

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Neahga Leonard]

If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access
Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.

Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot
afford to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need
timely access to high quality publications, both for our own research and
for publication of our findings.

This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more
organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to
ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are
merely interested in it.

Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals,
please share your favorites with us.

Neahga Leonard
*Project Director*
Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project
Cat Ba National Park
Cat Hai District
Hai Phong Province, Vietnam
neahga.leon...@catbalangur.de



*There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to
explore, perhaps more than one.*
Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy  wrote:

> "To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to
> do a better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to
> assess a journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will
> prevent scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify
> flaws or truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global
> funders have mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in
> selecting journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is
> likely to increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped
> the waste by cutting off the supply."
>
> http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-
> even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-
> 20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&
> spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2
> --
> David Duffy Ph.D.
> Professor and Director
> 戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)
> Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana
> Department of Botany
> University of Hawaii/*Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi*
> 3190 Maile Way
> 
> Honolulu Hawaii 96822
> 
> USA
> 1-808-956-8218
>

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Bob OHara]

Hopefully the Directory of Open Access Journals is what you need: 
https://doaj.org/.


Bob


On 09/07/2017 11:10 AM, Neahga Leonard wrote:
If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open 
Access Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in 
this listserv.


Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot 
afford to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still 
need timely access to high quality publications, both for our own 
research and for publication of our findings.


This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more 
organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in 
order to ensure that our information is accessible to others who need 
it or are merely interested in it.


Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access 
Journals, please share your favorites with us.


Neahga Leonard
/Project Director/
Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project
Cat Ba National Park
Cat Hai District
Hai Phong Province, Vietnam
neahga.leon...@catbalangur.de 



/There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe 
to explore, perhaps more than one./

Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy > wrote:


"To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we
need to do a better job of educating trainees and faculty members
about how to assess a journal's integrity. We need incentives and
resources that will prevent scientists from sending real work to
places that will not identify flaws or truly contribute to the
scholarly literature. Several global funders have mandated
open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting
journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is
likely to increase. Science and society would be better off if we
stopped the waste by cutting off the supply."


http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2


-- 
David Duffy Ph.D.

Professor and Director
戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana
Department of Botany
University of Hawaii//Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi/
3190 Maile Way


Honolulu Hawaii 96822


USA
1-808-956-8218




--
Bob O'Hara
Institutt for matematiske fag
NTNU
7491 Trondheim
Norway

Mobile: +49 1515 888 5440
Journal of Negative Results - EEB: www.jnr-eeb.org

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Matthew Von Hendy Call Send SMS Add to Skype You'll need Skype Credit Free via Skype]

It is important to remember that technically most predatory journals are open access.   DOAJ is a good resource but not fool proof.   You need to judge each journal on a number of factors such as: is it known in your academic field, does it have any time of rating from the various citation ranking systems (impact factor, H index etc.), do any of the major indexing and abstracting services cover the journal, what is the rejection rate for article submissions, does the journal have an advisory board, if so, who is on the advisory board, does it have a peer-reviewed process, and if so, what is it?   The editors for the journal should be able to answer these question(s).   Best Regards,Matthew Von HendyGreen Heron Information Servicesi...@greenheroninfo.com(240) 401-7433@GreenHeronInfowww.greenheroninfo.com   CallSend SMSAdd to SkypeYou'll need Skype CreditFree via Skype


 Original Message 
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals
From: Bob OHara 
Date: Thu, September 07, 2017 9:47 am
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU

 Hopefully the Directory of Open Access Journals is what you need: https://doaj.org/. Bob   On 09/07/2017 11:10 AM, Neahga Leonard wrote:If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.  Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot afford to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need timely access to high quality publications, both for our own research and for publication of our findings.  This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are merely interested in it.  Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals, please share your favorites with us.  Neahga Leonard Project Director Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project Cat Ba National Park Cat Hai District Hai Phong Province, Vietnam neahga.leon...@catbalangur.deThere is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to explore, perhaps more than one. Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/ On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy <ddu...@hawaii.edu> wrote:  "To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to do a better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to assess a journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will prevent scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify flaws or truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global funders have mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is likely to increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped the waste by cutting off the supply."   http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2  -- David Duffy Ph.D. Professor and Director 戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)  Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana Department of Botany University of Hawaii/Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi 3190 Maile Way Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA 1-808-956-8218-- 
Bob O'Hara
Institutt for matematiske fag
NTNU
7491 Trondheim
Norway

Mobile: +49 1515 888 5440
Journal of Negative Results - EEB: www.jnr-eeb.org

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Dr Zhi-Yun JIA]

Dear Colleague,

I would to recommand my journal, CURRENT ZOOLOGY https://academic.oup.com/cz. 
Thank you.


Dr Zhi-Yun JIA
Executive Editor
Current Zoology
https://cz.oxfordjournals.org/ 
http://www.currentzoology.org


Journal ranking in JCR ZOOLOGY category: Top 17% (27/162, 2016  JCR year), 22% 
(35/160, 2015),  31% (47/153, 2014),  22% (34/153, 2013),34%(52/151, 2012). 
Published by Oxford University Press in form of Open Access journal. No page 
charges, fully open access. Focused on ecology, evolution and behavior.


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If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access 
Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.

Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot afford 
to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need timely 
access to high quality publications, both for our own research and for 
publication of our findings.

This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more 
organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to 
ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are merely 
interested in it.

Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals, 
please share your favorites with us.



Neahga Leonard
Project Director
Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project
Cat Ba National Park
Cat Hai District
Hai Phong Province, Vietnam
neahga.leon...@catbalangur.de



There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to 
explore, perhaps more than one.
Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/




On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy  wrote:

"To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to do a 
better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to assess a 
journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will prevent 
scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify flaws or 
truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global funders have 
mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting 
journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is likely to 
increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped the waste by 
cutting off the supply."


http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2

--

David Duffy Ph.D.
Professor and Director

戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)

Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana
Department of Botany
University of Hawaii/Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi
3190 Maile Way
Honolulu Hawaii 96822 USA
1-808-956-8218

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Culley, Theresa (culleyt)]

These are all very good points and I agree that it is becoming increasingly 
difficult to identify high quality and legitimate Open Access Journals.  
Although I am admittedly biased, my favorite journal is the one that I edit, 
Applications in Plant Sciences (APPS), which is for those of you looking for a 
publication outlet for method articles in the ANY area of the plant sciences.

APPS is a societal journal of the Botanical Society of America (currently 
appearing on BioOne  but moving to Wiley 
in January, 2018).  More information about the journal can be found in the 
Instructions for 
Authors.
  We accept submissions from both emerging and established authors from 
anywhere in the world, and article processing fees have purposely been kept as 
reasonable as possible:  $1400 per article for non-BSA members, $800 per 
article for BSA members, and $450 per article for BSA memberships with active 
membership for longer than two years.

The journal is indexed in Web of Science, Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, and 
many other respected services.  APPS has been quickly growing since its 
inception in 2013, as indicated by its rising impact factor, now at 1.492 (2016 
Journal Citation Report).  Best of all, we have a great editorial team who 
offer fast, personalized service to our authors!


Theresa M. Culley, Ph.D.
Editor-in-Chief, Applications in Plant Sciences
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences
University of Cincinnati
614 Rievesch Hall
Cincinnati, OH  45221-0006
Tel: 513-556-9705
Web: 
www.homepages.uc.edu/~culleyt/CulleyLab.html
Email: theresa.cul...@uc.edu




On Sep 7, 2017, at 5:10 AM, Neahga Leonard 
mailto:naturalistkni...@gmail.com>> wrote:

If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access 
Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.

Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot afford 
to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need timely 
access to high quality publications, both for our own research and for 
publication of our findings.

This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more 
organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to 
ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are merely 
interested in it.

Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals, 
please share your favorites with us.

Neahga Leonard
Project Director
Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project
Cat Ba National Park
Cat Hai District
Hai Phong Province, Vietnam
neahga.leon...@catbalangur.de
[http://www.catbalangur.org/LogoCBLCP.jpg]


There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to 
explore, perhaps more than one.
Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy 
mailto:ddu...@hawaii.edu>> wrote:
"To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to do a 
better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to assess a 
journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will prevent 
scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify flaws or 
truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global funders have 
mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting 
journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is likely to 
increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped the waste by 
cutting off the supply."

http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2
--
David Duffy Ph.D.
Professor and Director
戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana
Department of Botany
University of Hawaii/Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi
3190 Maile 
Way
Honolulu Hawaii 
96822
 USA
1-808-956-8218

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Jesse Minor]

Hi all,
My institution urges open access publishing, and is wary of predatory
journals. The links below may help when searching for publication venues,
as well as clarifying what at least one university thinks is a reasonable
set of ethics. The third link is the same as what Bob O'Hara shared.

The journal must:

   - Be published by a member organization of the Open Access Scholarly
   Publishers Association  or adhere
   to its code of conduct .
   - Have a standard article fee schedule publicly posted.
   - Be listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals
   . We may make an exception if the journal meets
   other criteria and the faculty advisory board verifies its credibility.

-Jesse

On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 6:47 AM, Bob OHara  wrote:

> Hopefully the Directory of Open Access Journals is what you need:
> https://doaj.org/.
>
> Bob
>
> On 09/07/2017 11:10 AM, Neahga Leonard wrote:
>
> If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access
> Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.
>
> Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot
> afford to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need
> timely access to high quality publications, both for our own research and
> for publication of our findings.
>
> This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more
> organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to
> ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are
> merely interested in it.
>
> Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals,
> please share your favorites with us.
>
> Neahga Leonard
> *Project Director*
> Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project
> Cat Ba National Park
> Cat Hai District
> Hai Phong Province, Vietnam
> neahga.leon...@catbalangur.de
>
>
>
> *There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to
> explore, perhaps more than one.*
> Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy  wrote:
>
>> "To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need
>> to do a better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to
>> assess a journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will
>> prevent scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify
>> flaws or truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global
>> funders have mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in
>> selecting journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is
>> likely to increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped
>> the waste by cutting off the supply."
>>
>> http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-
>> senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&
>> spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=
>> 1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2
>> --
>> David Duffy Ph.D.
>> Professor and Director
>> 戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)
>> Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana
>> Department of Botany
>> University of Hawaii/*Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi*
>> 3190 Maile Way
>> 
>> Honolulu Hawaii 96822
>> 
>> USA
>> 1-808-956-8218 <(808)%20956-8218>
>>
>
>
> --
> Bob O'Hara
> Institutt for matematiske fag
> NTNU
> 7491 Trondheim
> Norway
>
> Mobile: +49 1515 888 5440 <+49%201515%208885440>
> Journal of Negative Results - EEB: www.jnr-eeb.org
>
>


-- 
Jesse Minor
PhD Candidate, Geography
University of Arizona

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Emily Moran]

This issue of accessing papers without a university affiliation can be a tricky 
one, but it seems to be getting easier.

There are plenty of established, reputable open access journals out there.  The 
PLoS family of journals conduct quite extensive peer reviews these days, and 
many scientific societies are now publishing their own open-access journals 
(for example, the Ecological Society of America recently started “Ecosphere”).  
You can check on how long they have been publishing and their rankings at sites 
like this: http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php
http://www.citefactor.org/journal-impact-factor-list-2014.html

However, I tend to find it more efficient to search for articles by topic 
rather than by journal, and there are a lot of options for getting access to 
articles for free even if they were not published in open-access journals.

I like using google scholar because the results often link directly to a 
full-text version.  Sometimes the full-text isn’t available without paying 
unless you are on a campus or connected via VPN to a university system, but 
sometimes they are - the algorithm often finds papers that are freely available 
on a researcher’s website, through the journal itself, or in a paper archive.  
If this isn’t the case for the main hits page, you can click on the “all X 
versions” link under the name to check for other options.  If nothing is 
available, you could check the authors’ webpages or email them to get the full 
text if the abstract - which usually is available - looks interesting enough 
(though that is obviously a lot more work).  Some universities, including the 
University of California system, require researchers to make at least the 
last-prepublication-draft version of their papers public (UC uses 
http://escholarship.org/).

I have also had good luck using ResearchGate 
(https://www.researchgate.net/home) to discover and access papers.  It is free 
to sign up, and if you “follow” the work of people in your field the system 
will email you with publications you may be interested in.  Then you can either 
just download it or request the full text from them by clicking a button.

Emily Moran
UC Merced


On Sep 7, 2017, at 2:10 AM, Neahga Leonard 
mailto:naturalistkni...@gmail.com>> wrote:

If anyone has a list of respectable, legitimate, good quality Open Access 
Journals that would probably be of great benefit to many in this listserv.

Many of us are not in the academic world, and our organizations cannot afford 
to criminally high cost of access to many journals, yet still need timely 
access to high quality publications, both for our own research and for 
publication of our findings.

This is especially true in the conservation world, where more and more 
organizations have a policy of using only Open Access Journals in order to 
ensure that our information is accessible to others who need it or are merely 
interested in it.

Those of you who use (publish in or read) legitimate Open Access Journals, 
please share your favorites with us.

Neahga Leonard
Project Director
Cat Ba Langur Conservation Project
Cat Ba National Park
Cat Hai District
Hai Phong Province, Vietnam
neahga.leon...@catbalangur.de
[http://www.catbalangur.org/LogoCBLCP.jpg]


There is not just a whole world to explore, there is a whole universe to 
explore, perhaps more than one.
Personal Blog: http://writingfornature.wordpress.com/


On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 4:57 AM, David Duffy 
mailto:ddu...@hawaii.edu>> wrote:
"To reduce the supply of papers flowing to predatory journals, we need to do a 
better job of educating trainees and faculty members about how to assess a 
journal's integrity. We need incentives and resources that will prevent 
scientists from sending real work to places that will not identify flaws or 
truly contribute to the scholarly literature. Several global funders have 
mandated open-access publishing. However, without guidance in selecting 
journals responsibly, this problem of irresponsible publishing is likely to 
increase. Science and society would be better off if we stopped the waste by 
cutting off the supply."

http://www.nature.com/news/illegitimate-journals-scam-even-senior-scientists-1.22556?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20170907&spMailingID=54864391&spUserID=MzUwNzYwMDk5OTgS1&spJobID=1244089361&spReportId=MTI0NDA4OTM2MQS2
--
David Duffy Ph.D.
Professor and Director
戴大偉 (Dài Dàwěi)
Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit/Makamakaʻāinana
Department of Botany
University of Hawaii/Ke Kulanui o Hawaiʻi
3190 Maile 
Way
Honolulu Hawaii 
96822
 USA
1-808-956-8218

Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Judith S. Weis]

I assure you I'm not sending any manuscripts to them! I avoid even
legitimate journals with page charges.


> Hi Judith,
>
> Jacobs publisher is what you would call a 'predatory journal'. Poorly
> edited email texts with errors are a red flag. Predatory publishers are
> also notorious for sending bulk poorly targeted spam messages. The
> publisher is in fact on Beal's list .
> A
> lot of predatory journals have registered addresses in the US and Europe,
> and many legitimate publishing operations will be found in countries where
> you would expect to find most predatory publishers, e.g. in India.
>
> It is very unfortunate that the open access model has been hijacked by
> predatory publishing operations. Legitimate open access publishers should
> be registered with OASPA , I would
> check this list before submitting any manuscripts.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexandre Chausson
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Judith S. Weis
> > wrote:
>
>> I frequently get messages like this from journals I've never heard of.
>> The
>> stilted English writing suggests it's not written by an American, yet
>> the
>> address is given as Austin TX. Don't know if its strictly "predatory"
>> but
>> it raises suspicions.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Original Message
>> 
>> Subject: Aquaculture and Research-Manuscript Request
>> From:"Editor - Aquaculture and Research"
>> 
>> Date:Fri, March 27, 2015 6:23 pm
>> To:  jw...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
>> --
>>
>> Description: Banner-Aquaculture
>>
>>   Jacobs Publishers -Jacobs
>> Journal of Aquaculture and Research
>> <
>> http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/journal-of-aquaculture-and-resear
>> ch-home
>> 
>> >
>> <
>> http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/order-i-to-r/radiation-oncology/a
>> quaculture-and-research
>> 
>> >
>>
>> Dear Dr. Judith S Weis,
>>
>>
>>
>> Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers
>>
>>
>>
>> Quality research and its access are important to Scientific Community!
>>
>>
>>
>> We, Jacobs Publishers are committed in association with the research
>> community and our motto is to serve the scientific and research
>> community.
>>
>>  Quality research and its access is an important aspect of
>> scientific
>> community and ours is an open access publishing group  publishes  peer
>> reviewed articles in various aspects like Medical, Life Sciences,
>> Pharma,
>> Chemistry and Engineering.
>>
>>
>>
>>  We have a pioneered journal called Jacobs Journal of Aquaculture
>> and
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Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

[Christopher Heckscher]

I'd like to see all legitimate journals reject any paper that cites these 
fraudulent journals and state that outright in their instructions to authors. 
Journals that allow authors to cite these papers are also guilty of 
perpetuating fraudulent science.

CH




From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news 
[ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU] on behalf of Judith S. Weis 
[jw...@andromeda.rutgers.edu]
Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2015 12:17 PM
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] predatory journals

I assure you I'm not sending any manuscripts to them! I avoid even
legitimate journals with page charges.


> Hi Judith,
>
> Jacobs publisher is what you would call a 'predatory journal'. Poorly
> edited email texts with errors are a red flag. Predatory publishers are
> also notorious for sending bulk poorly targeted spam messages. The
> publisher is in fact on Beal's list <http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/>.
> A
> lot of predatory journals have registered addresses in the US and Europe,
> and many legitimate publishing operations will be found in countries where
> you would expect to find most predatory publishers, e.g. in India.
>
> It is very unfortunate that the open access model has been hijacked by
> predatory publishing operations. Legitimate open access publishers should
> be registered with OASPA <http://oaspa.org/membership/members/>, I would
> check this list before submitting any manuscripts.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Alexandre Chausson
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 2:18 AM, Judith S. Weis
> > wrote:
>
>> I frequently get messages like this from journals I've never heard of.
>> The
>> stilted English writing suggests it's not written by an American, yet
>> the
>> address is given as Austin TX. Don't know if its strictly "predatory"
>> but
>> it raises suspicions.
>>
>>
>>
>>  Original Message
>> 
>> Subject: Aquaculture and Research-Manuscript Request
>> From:"Editor - Aquaculture and Research"
>> 
>> Date:Fri, March 27, 2015 6:23 pm
>> To:  jw...@andromeda.rutgers.edu
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>>
>> Description: Banner-Aquaculture
>>
>>  <http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php> Jacobs Publishers -Jacobs
>> Journal of Aquaculture and Research
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>> http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/journal-of-aquaculture-and-resear
>> ch-home
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>> http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/order-i-to-r/radiation-oncology/a
>> quaculture-and-research
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>> >
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>> Dear Dr. Judith S Weis,
>>
>>
>>
>> Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers
>>
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>>
>> Quality research and its access are important to Scientific Community!
>>
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>>
>> We, Jacobs Publishers are committed in association with the research
>> community and our motto is to serve the scientific and research
>> community.
>>
>>  Quality research and its access is an important aspect of
>> scientific
>> community and ours is an open access publishing group  publishes  peer
>> reviewed articles in various aspects like Medical, Life Sciences,
>> Pharma,
>> Chemistry and Engineering.
>>
>>
>>
>>  We have a pioneered journal called Jacobs Journal of Aquaculture
>> and
>> Research in which, Articles/Manuscripts are run through a detailed
>> review
>> by
>> our eminent panel of Editorial Board who spend their valuable time to
>> review
>> these articles.
>>
>>  The mission of our Journal is to equip with authentic information
>> on
>> the current development in the form of review articles, case reports,
>> brief
>> communications etc., to Aquaculture research.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kindly go through the link below for clear and detailed information
>> regarding author guidelines
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/author-guidelines-in-foremostlinks
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> You may submit your valuable research with the following link.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/journal-of-aquaculture-and-r

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Predatory journals, far and wide

[Malcolm McCallum]

This writer presents the problem in the title much better than did the
original aritlce in Science.  He is targeting predatory journals,
whereas the original paper was targeting open access journals.  Read
the original article in Science carefully. The author indicates he

There are several publishers that have hundreds of BS journals. I can
set up a study that shows high or low acceptance of any paper. Did he
control for publisher? Obviously he didn't do a controlled study at
all. He states right there that there were only 35 journals that
overlapped the predatory journal list and the directory of open access
journal lists. He made a study selecting 304 journals from among 2054
qualifying journals produced by 438 publishers, and somehow 49% (121
journals) were produced by the 32% of publishers (59/181) known to be
predatory. The probability of getting 59 publishers by random is
incredibly small, but it skews the data immensely. From this, we must
EXPECT 49% to accept the paper. He got 52%. That means that either 3%
of the journals he approached are predatory and have not yet been
identified as such, or that there was a grievous breakdown in the peer
review process. Even if we assume all 3% were incorrectly published,
that is hardly a large number. However, all 49% of KNOWN predatory
journals should be excluded because they invalidate the focus of the
study, do open access journals do adequate peer review. As predatory
journals, they are not journals and not eligible for inclusion. So, he
actually surveyed 183 supposedly legit open access journals, ~37 (20%)
must have accepted it wrongly. This is still bad, but knowing that at
least one journal was a highly specialized medical journal that only
published 1-2 articles/year for the past 5 years, I would question its
legitimacy. I have no doubt that most of these were predatory journals
that simply have not yet been identified. This again, is not open
access, it is a problem with predatory journals because at least 80%
of the jouranls surveyed did exactly as expected on a single article
written to intentionally sting people. Compare that to the number of
top two general science journals that have had to retract papers later
after learning the papers were bogus...100%.

On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 1:59 PM, John A.  wrote:
> An article on the growth and operation of predatory journals, and their 
> potentially corrosive effect on academic ethics:
>
>
> http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Blinded+scientific+gobbledygook/9757736/story.html
>



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