What is the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE)?
The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) was established over 20 years ago. COPE educates and supports editors and publishers, aiming […]
How many conferences does WASET organise?
WASET (World Academy of Science Engineering and Technology) advertises over 300,000 conferences a year, approximately 900 every day. On one particular day it advertised 8,894 conferences. In the past six years, we estimate WASET’s revenue to be between EURO 8.95m and EURO 11.94m from these conferences.
Check if a journal is recognized by ISSN, COPE or DOAJ
We have developed a web page that enables you to check whether a journal is recognized by these organizations, rather than having to go to the individual web sites of each organization. The URL to access our web page is https://predatory-publishing.com/ISSNCheck/?issn=1234-5678.
EMAIL Correspondence with (predatory) publishers | #001
We show an email exchange between JSM Dentistry (ISSN: 2333-7133), which is published by SciMedCentral, and a potential author. We show the full email exchange and also comment on what we think it means. We also look at some other aspects of the journal and the publisher.
EMAIL Correspondence with (predatory) publishers
As part of our Twitter account, we tweet snippets from emails that have been passed to us.
But this is only part of the story. Sometimes, the complete email is more informative and, sometimes, it is worth seeing a more complete version of the email correspondence, if the person that received the email decides to respond.
This series of articles addresses this, providing full email trails, which we hope are both interesting, informative and useful.
Why do predatory publishers send emails and what can you do?
Predatory publishers and journals use a variety of techniques to get you to submit your research articles to them, with one of the most common being unsolicited emails, often praising your previous work, then requesting that you to submit to their journal.
This article looks at their techniques and what you can do about it.
Fact Check: Is JScholar indexed by DOAJ?
The publisher JScholar claims that papers that it publishes will be indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). JScholar, or the journals it publishes, are not indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals. Therefore, using the DOAJ logo on their web sites is not right.
What is the Scope Database? Is it associated with Scopus?
The Scope Database web site, in some places, looks the same as the Scopus web site. As far as we can see there is no relationship between the Scope Database and Scopus and we can only conclude that Scope Database is trying to fool the unwary researcher.
Is this a legitimate journal? How we respond
We are often asked if a journal is legitimate. We can’t answer every request but we can provide some advice, which is to carry out an initial check to see if the journal is a member of COPE, DOAJ, Scopus and/or Web of Science.
Should you negotiate with a predatory journal?
We look at an email exchange, where a predatory journal reduced their Article Processing Charge (APC) from 500 USD to 150 USD, and the author never really had to ask.
But should you negotiate?