List of Predatory Publishers 2014

8/19/2014 List of Predatory Publishers 2014 | Scholarly Open Access
Scholarly Open Access
Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing
List of Predatory Publishers 2014
By Jeffrey Beall
Released January 2, 2014
The gold (author pays) open-access model has given rise to a great many new online publishers. Many
of these publishers are corrupt and exist only to make money off the author processing charges that are
billed to authors upon acceptance of their scientific manuscripts.
There are two lists below. The first includes questionable, scholarly open-access publishers. Each of
these publishers has a portfolio that ranges from just a few to hundreds of individual journal titles.
The second list includes individual journals that do not publish under the platform of any publisher
they are essentially standalone, questionable journals.
In both cases, we recommend that researchers, scientists, and academics avoid doing business with
these publishers and journals. Scholars should avoid sending article submissions to them, serving on
their editorial boards, reviewing papers for them, or advertising in them. Also, tenure and promotion
committees should give extra scrutiny to articles published in these journals, for many of them include
instances of research misconduct.
There are still many high-quality journals available for scholars to publish in, including many that do
not charge author processing fees. An additional option is author self-archiving of article postprints in
discipline-specific and institutional repositories.
The author is grateful to the many colleagues who have shared information about potential predatory
publishers. Last years list included 225 publishers, and this years has over 477, evidence of the
continued rapid growth in the number of predatory journals and publishers. The table below details the
growth of questionable publishers since 2011.
Year Number of predatory publishers
2011 18
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/#more-2846 1/208
2012 23
2013 225
2014 477
This list will be updated throughout the year at the blog Scholarly Open Access, http://scholarlyoa.com
(http://scholarlyoa.com/). Please refer to the blog rather than the lists below because the lists below will
not be updated.
The criteria for inclusion in the lists can be found here (http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/11/30/criteria-for-
determining-predatory-open-access-publishers-2nd-edition/). The authors email address
is: jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu (mailto:jeffrey.beall@ucdenver.edu).
List 1: Questionable Publishers
1. Abhinav (http://www.abhinavjournal.com/index.aspx)
2. A M Publishers (http://ampublisher.com/index.html)
3. Academe Research Journals (http://www.academeresearchjournals.org/)
4. Academia Publishing (http://academiapublishing.org/index.htm)
5. Academia Scholarly Journals (http://www.academiascholarlyjournals.org/index.htm) (ASJ)
6. Academic and Business Research Institute (http://www.aabri.com/)
7. Academic and Scientific Publishing (http://acascipub.com/)
8. Academic Journals (http://www.academicjournals.org/)
9. Academic Journals and Research ACJAR (http://www.acjar.org/index.html)
10. Academic Journals, Inc. (http://www.academicjournalsinc.com/)
11. Academic Journals Online (http://www.academicjournalsonline.co.in/) (AJO)
12. Academic Publications, Ltd. (http://www.acadpubl.eu/index.html)
13. Academic Research Journals (http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/index.htm)
14. Academic Research Publishing Agency (http://www.arpapress.com/)
15. Academic Scholars Publishing House (http://academic-publishing-house.com/)
16. Academic Sciences (http://www.ijaponline.org/)
17. Academic Star Publishing Company (http://www.academicstar.us/index.asp)
18. Academic World Education & Research Center (http://www.world-education-center.org/)
19. AcademicDirect (http://ph.academicdirect.org/)
20. Academy & Industry Research Collaboration Center (http://airccse.org/index.php) (AIRCC)
21. Academy Journals (http://www.academyjournals.net/)
22. Academy of IRMBR International Research in Management and Business Realities
(http://www.academyirmbr.com/)
23. Academy of Knowledge Process (http://akpinsight.webs.com/)
24. Academy of Science and Engineering (http://www.asesite.org/Default.aspx) (ASE)
25. Academy of Science and Social Science (http://www.asss-web.com/) (ASSS)
26. Academy Publish (http://www.academypublish.org/)
27. Access International Journals (http://www.accessinterjournals.org/)
28. Ada Lovelace Publications (http://www.ada-lovelace.co.uk/)
29. Advance Research Publications (http://www.adrpublications.com/index.html)

30. Advanced Research Journals (http://www.advancedresearchjournals.org/)
31. Advanced Science and Engineering Technology Institute (http://www.asetrc.org/) (ASET)
32. Advancement and Development in Technology International (http://aditisci.com/index.php) (Aditi)
33. AENSI (http://www.aensiweb.com/index.html)
34. African Research Review (http://afrrevjo.net/) (AFRREV)
35. AgiAl Publishing House (http://www.agialpress.com/)
36. Aizeon Publishers (http://www.aizeonpublishers.net/aboutus.html)
37. Akademik Plus Publication (http://www.akademikplus.com/)
38. AkiNik Publications (http://www.akinik.com/)
39. American Academic & Scholarly Research Center (http://aasrc.org/) (AASRC)
40. American Association for Science and Technology (http://www.aascit.org/home/index) (AASCIT)
41. American Scientific Research Journals (http://www.americanscientificresearchjournals.org/)
42. American Society for Science and Engineering (http://www.as-se.org/)
43. American V-King Scientific Publishing (http://www.vkingpub.com/Index.aspx)
44. Annex Publishers (http://www.annexpublishers.com/)
45. ANSINetwork (http://www.ansinet.com/)
46. Antarctic Journals (http://www.domainsmoon.com/)
47. Aperito Publications (http://aperito.org/index.php)
48. Apex Journal (http://www.apexjournal.org/)
49. Apex Journals (http://www.apexjournals.org/index.html)
50. Applied Science Innovations (http://www.applied-science-innovations.com/)
51. Archers & Elevators Publishing House (http://www.aeph.in/)
52. ARPN Journals (http://arpnjournals.com/)
53. Ashdin Publishing (http://www.ashdin.com/)
54. Asian Academic Research Associates (http://www.asianacademicresearch.org/index.html)
55. Asian Economic and Social Society (http://www.aessweb.com/index.php) (AESS)
56. Asian Online Journals (http://www.ajouronline.com/)
57. Asian Research Consortium (http://www.aijsh.org/?task=index)
58. Association of Computer Electronics and Electrical Engineers (http://www.theaceee.org/)(ACEEE)
59. AstonJournals (http://astonjournals.com/)
60. Atlas Publishing, LP (http://www.atlas-publishing.org/index.php)
61. Austin Publishing Group (http://www.austinpublishinggroup.org/)
62. Australian International Academic Centre Pty. Ltd. (http://www.aiac.org.au/)
63. Avens Publishing Group (http://www.avensonline.org/)
64. Avestia Publishing (http://avestia.com/)
65. Avicena Publisher (http://www.avicenapublisher.org/)
66. Basic Research Journals (http://basicresearchjournals.org/index.html)
67. Bell Press (http://bellpress.org/)
68. Bentham Open (http://www.bentham.org/open/)
69. Better Advances Press (http://www.bapress.ca/index.html)
70. Biohelikon (http://biohelikon.org/site/index)
71. BioInfo Publications (http://www.bioinfopublication.org/)
72. BioIT international Journals (http://bipublication.com/index.html)
73. Biological and Chemical Publishing (http://www.bacpl.org/)
74. BioMedSciDirect Publications (http://www.biomedscidirect.com/aboutjournal.php)

75. Bioscience Research & Educational Institute (http://www.bret.ac.in/) [Link dead as of 2012-11-14]
76. Blue Ocean Research Journal (http://www.borjournals.com/)s
77. BluePen Journals (http://www.bluepenjournals.org/)
78. Bonfring (http://www.bonfring.org/)
79. Bowen Publishing (http://www.bowenpublishing.com/)
80. British Association of Academic Research (http://www.bjmhs.baar.org.uk/) (BAAR)
81. British Journal (http://www.bjournal.co.uk/)
82. Business Journalz (http://www.businessjournalz.org/) (BJ)
83. Business Perspectives (http://businessperspectives.org/)
84. Canadian Center of Science and Education (http://ccsenet.org/web/)
85. Canadian Research & Development Center of Sciences and Cultures see CSCanada
(http://cscanada.net/)
86. Canadian Science and Technology Press Inc. (http://canadianstpress.com/ojs/index.php)
87. Cardiology Academic Press (http://cardiologyacademicpress.com/)
88. Center for the Development and Dissemination of Knowledge (http://www.cddk.org/index.html)
89. Center for Enhancing Knowledge (http://www.cekinfo.org.uk/) (CEK), UK
90. The Center for Innovations in Business & Management Practice (http://www.cibmp.org/)
91. Central Research Insight (http://cri.ideainfinity.pk/?p=1)
92. Centre For Info Bio Technology (http://www.cibtech.org/index.htm) (CIBTech)
93. Centre for Promoting Ideas (http://www.cpinet.info/)
94. Centre of Excellence for Scientific & Research Journalism (http://www.centreofexcellence.net/)
(COES&RJ)
95. Centre of Promoting Research Excellence (http://cprenet.com/home/) (CPRE)
96. Cloud Journals (http://cloud-journals.com/)
97. The Clute Institute (http://www.cluteinstitute.com/index.html)
98. Columbia International Publishing (http://www.uscip.org/)
99. Comprehensive Research Journals (http://www.crjournals.org/)
100. Computer Science Journals (http://www.cscjournals.org/csc/home.php)
101. CONFAB Journals (http://www.confabjournals.com/)
102. Congress Press (http://www.congresspress.com/Journals/index.php/index/index)
103. Contemporary Research Center (CRC), Australia (http://www.crcenter.info/)
104. Cosmic Journals (http://cosmicjournals.com/)
105. CREST Journals (http://www.crestjournals.com/)
106. Crown Journals (http://www.crownjournals.org/)
107. CSCanada (http://cscanada.net/)
108. Cyber Journals (http://www.cyberjournals.com/)
109. Design for Scientific Renaissance (http://www.sign-ific-ance.co.uk/index.html)
110. DISA Publication Group (http://www.disa.org.in/DPGroup/index.html) (DP Group)
111. Discovery Publishing Group (http://www.discovery.org.in/)
112. David Publishing (http://www.davidpublishing.org/)
113. Deccan Pharma Journals (http://www.deccanpharmajournals.com/)
114. DeNovo Scientific Publishing (http://www.denovojournal.com/)
115. Discourse Journals (http://www.resjournals.org/)
116. DRUNPP Sarajevo (http://www.drunpp.ba/) (Society for Development of Teaching and Business
Processes in New Net Environment in B&H)

117. E-International Journals of Academic & Scientific Research (http://eijasr.com/index.php) (EIJASR)
118. E-International Scientific Research Journal Consortium (http://www.eisrjc.com/) (E-ISRJC)
119. e-journals (http://www.shankargargh.net/index.php)
120. e3Journals (http://www.e3journals.org/index.php)
121. Ebioscholar (http://ebioscholar.com/ojs/index.php/index/index)
122. eCanadian Journals (http://www.ecanadianjournals.com/ecanadian/)
123. Econjournals (http://www.econjournals.com/index.php/index)
124. Edorium Journals (http://www.edoriumjournals.com/)
125. EDUGAIT Press (http://www.edugait.com/)
126. EISRJC Journals (http://www.eisrjc.com/) (E-International Scientific Research Journal Consortium
127. eLearning Institute (http://www.theelearninginstitute.org/)
128. ELVEDIT.COM (http://elvedit.com/)
129. Elewa Bio Sciences (http://www.m.elewa.org/index.php)
130. Elite Research Journals (http://www.eliteresearchjournals.org/)
131. eJournals of Academic Research & Reviews (http://www.ejarr.com/)
132. Electronic Center for International Scientific Information (http://ecisi.com/)
133. Elmer Press (http://www.elmerpress.com/)
134. Elyns Publishing Group (http://www.elynsgroup.com/Default.aspx)
135. Engineering and Technology Publishing (http://www.etpub.com/index.htm)
136. Engineering Journals (http://www.enggjournals.com/) (Engg Journals Publications)
137. Enliven Archive (http://www.enlivenarchive.org/)
138. Erudite Journals Limited (http://eruditejournals.org/ejb/index.htm)
139. ESRSA Publication (http://www.esrsa.org/) Engineering and Science Research Support Academy
140. ETA Maths Journals (http://etamaths.com/)
141. Euro Asia Research and Development Association (http://www.euroasiapub.org/)
142. EuroJournals (http://eurojournals.com/)
143. European-American Journals (http://ea-journals.org/index.php)
144. ExcelingTech Publishing Company, Ltd. (http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/)
145. Far East Research Centre (http://www.fareastjournals.com/)
146. Ficus Publishers (http://ficuspublishers.com/Home.php)
147. Genexcellence Publication (http://gpublication.com/) (G Publications)
148. Global Advanced Research Journals (http://garj.org/)
149. The Global Journals (http://www.paripex.in/)
150. Global Journals, Inc. (US) (http://globaljournals.us/)
151. Global Openaccess (http://globalopenaccess.com/)
152. Global Research Journals (http://www.globalresearchjournals.org/)
153. Global Researchers Journals (http://www.grjournals.com/)
154. Global Research Online (http://www.globalresearchonline.net/)
155. Global Research Publishing (http://www.grpjournal.org/) (GRP)
156. Global Scientific, Inc. (http://globalpublication.org/index.html)
157. Global Technocrats & Intellectuals Association (http://www.gtia.co.in/) (GTIA)
158. GlobalOpenJournals.org (http://globalopenjournals.org/index.html)
159. GlobalSkope Publishing Society (http://globalskope.com/ijesr/index.html)
160. Green Earth Research Network (http://www.gejournal.net/index.html)
161. Green Global Foundation (http://www.ggfagro.com/) (GGF)

162. Greener Journals (http://www.gjournals.org/Index.html)
163. Growing Science Publishing Company (http://growingscience.com/index.html)
164. Herald International Research Journals (http://heraldjournals.org/index.htm)
165. Herbert Open Access Journals (http://www.hoajonline.com/)
166. Hikari Ltd. (http://www.m-hikari.com/)
167. Horizon Research Publishing (http://www.hrpub.org/)
168. Human and Sciences Publications (http://www.humanpub.org/) (HumanPub)
169. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society (http://hrmars.com/index.php?
page=our%20journals%20f) (HRMARS)
170. IBIMA Publishing (http://www.ibimapublishing.com/)
171. IJRCM (http://ijrcm.org.in/)
172. iMedPub (http://imedpub.com/) = Internet Medical Publishing
173. Impact Journals (http://www.impactjournals.us/index.php) (Tamil Nadu, India)
174. Indian Society for Education and Environment (http://www.iseeadyar.org/index.html) (ISEE)
175. IndianResearchJournals.Com (http://indianresearchjournals.com/Default.aspx)
176. Indus Foundation for Education, Research & Social Welfare
(http://www.indusedu.org/aboutus.html)
177. Infinity Press (http://infinitypress.info/publisher/)
178. Infonomics Society (http://infonomics-society.org/)
179. Inforesights Publishing (http://inforesights.com/)
180. Ingenious Enterprises International (http://ingenin.org/) (INGENIN)
181. Innovare Academic Sciences (http://innovareacademics.in/)
182. Innovative Space of Scientific Research (http://www.issr-journals.org/) (ISSR Journals)
183. INREWI (http://www.inrewi.com/home)
184. Insight Knowledge (http://insightknowledge.co.uk/index.php)
185. Institute for Research and Development India (http://www.irdindia.in/) (IRD)
186. Institute of Advanced Scientific Research (http://www.i-asr.com/journals.aspx)
187. Institute of Doctors Engineers and Scientists (http://www.theides.org/) (IDES)
188. Institute of Electronic & Information Technology (http://www.ieit-
web.org/apscj/editorialboard.html)
189. Institute of Language and Communication Studies (http://www.inlcs.org/)
190. Institute of Research and Journals (http://iraj.in/index.php) (IRAJ)
191. Institute of Research Engineers and Doctors (http://www.theired.org/)(IRED)
192. Institute of Strategic and International Studies (http://www.isisworld.org/)
193. InTech Open Access Publisher (http://www.intechweb.org/) Mirror site
(http://www.intechopen.com/)
194. Integrated Publishing Association (http://www.ipublishing.co.in/)
195. Integrated Science Publications (http://indianscience.in/pubs/journals/)
196. Intellect Journals (http://www.intellectjournals.org/index.html)
197. Intellectual Archive (http://www.intellectualarchive.com/)
198. Intercontinental Electronic Journals (http://www.intercontinentalresearchjournals.org/)
199. Interdisciplinary Publications (http://www.idpublications.org/)
200. Intermedcentral (http://www.intermedcentral.hk/)
201. InternationalJournals.co.in (http://internationaljournals.co.in/)
202. International Academic Journals (http://www.inacj.com/)

203. International Academy of Business & Economics (http://www.iabe.org/)
204. International Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology (http://international-
aset.com/index.html)(International ASET)
205. International Academy of Science , Engineering and Technology (http://www.iaset.us/index.php)
(IASET)
206. The International Academy, Research and Industry Association (http://www.iaria.org/) (IARIA)
207. International Advances for Research (http://www.intlafr.com/index.html)
208. International Association for Engineering & Technology (http://www.iaetjournals.com/)
209. International Association for Engineering and Management Education
(http://www.iaeme.com/about.asp) (IAEME)
210. International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology
(http://www.iacsit.org/) (IACSIT Press)
211. International Association of Journals & Conferences (http://www.iajc.org/overview.html) (IAJC)
212. International Association of Scientific Innovation and Research (http://iasir.net/index.html)(IASIR)
213. International Association of Technology Education & Industry (http://iatei.org/)
214. International Center for Business Research (http://icbr.net/)
215. International Centre of Culture Inventory (http://www.icoci.org/)
216. International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (http://www.icgst.com/)
217. International Digital Organization for Scientific Information (http://idosi.org/index.htm) (IDOSI)
218. International Educative Research Foundation And Publisher (http://www.ierfinfo.com/)
219. International Foundation for Modern Education and Scientific Research
(http://infomesr.org/en/home) (INFOMESR)
220. International Foundation for Research and Development (http://www.ifrnd.org/)
221. International House for Academic Scientific Research (http://www.ihasr.org/) [Link dead as of 2013-
01-02]
222. International Indexed Refereed Research Journal (http://www.ssmrae.com/)
223. International Institute for Science, Technology and Education (http://www.iiste.org/Journals/)
(IISTE)
224. International Institute of Informatics and Systemics (http://www.iiis.org/)
225. International Institute of Scientific & Industrial Research (http://www.iisir.org/)
226. International Invention Journals (http://internationalinventjournals.org/index.html)
227. International Journal Publishers Group (http://www.ijpg.org/)
228. The International Journal Research Publications
(http://www.theinternationaljournal.org/ojs/index1.htm)
229. International Journals of Engineering & Sciences (http://www.ijens.org/)
230. International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy (http://www.ijmra.us/)
231. International Journals of Scientific Knowledge (http://www.ijsk.org/index.html) (IJSK)
232. International Journals of Scientific Research (http://ijscience.com/default.htm) (IJSR)
233. International Network for Applied Sciences and Technology (http://www.inast.org/)
234. International Network for Scientific & Industrial Information (http://insii.com/index.php)
235. International Network for Natural Sciences (http://www.innspub.net/) (INNSPUB)
236. International Online Knowledge Services Provider (http://www.ioksp.com/index.html) (IOKSP)
237. International Organization of Scientific Research (http://iosrjournals.org/index.html) (IOSR)
238. International Recognition Multidisciplinary Research Journals, Monthly Publish (http://lsrj.in/)
239. International Recognition Research Journals (http://www.lsrj.in/)

240. International Research E-Journals (http://www.oiirj.org/)
241. International Research Journals (http://www.interesjournals.org/)(Lagos, Nigeria)
242. International Research Journals (http://resjournals.com/) (Accra, Ghana)
243. International Research Organization of Computer Science
(http://www.irocsjournals.org/irocs/home.php) (IROCS)
244. International Scholars Journals (http://internationalscholarsjournals.org/)
245. International Science Congress Association (http://www.isca.in/)
246. International Scientific Academic Corporation (http://isacorporation.org.in/)
247. International Scientific Engineering and Research Publications (http://iserp.org/)
248. International Scientific Publications (http://www.scientific-publications.net/)
249. International Society for Zoological Research (http://iszr.org/Jrs/index.php/index/index) (ISZR)
250. International Society of Universal Research in Sciences (http://www.isurs.org/) (EyeSource)
251. Internet Medical Publishing (http://imedpub.com/)
252. Internet Scientific Publications (http://www.ispub.com/)
253. Interscience Journals (http://interscience.org.uk/)
254. Interscience Open Access Journals (http://www.interscience.in/)
255. iProbe (https://www.iprobegrp.com/) Group
256. (IROSSS (http://www.irosss.org/)) International Research Organization of Sciences and Social
Sciences
257. ISISnet (http://www.isisn.org/)
258. ISPACS (http://ispacs.com/) (International Scientific Publications and Consulting Services)
259. IRED International Journals (http://theired.org/organizer.html)
260. Ivy Union Publishing (http://www.ivyunion.org/)
261. JET Publishing (http://www.jetpublishing.org/index.html)
262. Journal Issues (http://www.journalissues.org/index.php)
263. Journal of Comprehensive Research (http://jupapadoc.startlogic.com/compresearch/)
264. JournalsBank (http://www.journalsbank.com/)
265. JScholar Journals (http://www.jscholaronline.org/list-of-journals.php)
266. JSciMed Central (http://www.jscimedcentral.com/)
267. Jyoti Academic Press (http://jyotiacademicpress.com/)
268. Kaleidoscope Journals (http://www.kjournals.org/)
269. KEJA Publications (http://www.kejapub.com/)
270. Key Research Journals (http://www.keyresearchjournals.org/) (KRJ)
271. Kindi Publication (http://www.kindipublication.com/home.html)
272. Knowledgebase Publishers (http://www.knowledgebasepublishers.org/)
273. KnowledgesPublisher (http://www.knowledgespublisher.com/)
274. Knowledgia Scientific (http://www.knowledgia.net/) (formerly Knowledgia Review)
275. KY Publications (http://www.kypublications.com/)
276. Leena & Luna International (http://www.ajssh.leena-luna.co.jp/)
277. Lifescience Global (http://www.lifescienceglobal.com/)
278. Literati Scientific and Publishers (http://www.literatipublishers.com/index.php) (Literati
Publishers)
279. Longbridge Publishing Company (http://www.lbrpublishing.com/)
280. Lorem Journals (http://loremjournals.com/index.php)
281. Macrothink Institute (http://www.macrothink.org/)

282. Meghana Pubilcations (http://meghanapublications.com/index.html)
283. Management Education & Research Consortium Global (http://www.mercglobal.org/) (MERC
Global)
284. Management Journals (http://www.managementjournals.org/index.php)
285. Marsland Press (http://www.sciencepub.net/)
286. Mary and Sam Research Academia (http://www.marynsam.co.uk/)
287. Maryland Institute of Research (http://miredu.org/)
288. Maxwell Scientific Organization (http://maxwellsci.com/jlist.php)
289. MASAUM Network (http://www.masaumnet.com/)
290. Medical Science Journals (http://medical.sciencejournals.cc/) [Link dead as of 2012-11-14]
291. Mediterranean Center of Social and Educational Research (http://www.mcser.org/) (MCSER)
292. Medwell Journals (http://www.medwelljournals.com/home.php)
293. Mehta Press (http://www.mehtapress.com/)
294. Merit Research Journals (http://meritresearchjournals.org/index.htm)
295. MNK Publication (http://www.mnkjournals.com/index.htm)
296. Modern Scientific Press (http://modernscientificpress.com/)
297. Moksha Publishing House (http://www.mokshaph.com/)
298. Muhammadon Centre for Research and Development
(http://www.muhammadon.org/index.php) (MCRD)
299. Mustang Journals (http://mustangjournals.com/index.html)
300. Narain Publishers Pvt. Ltd (http://www.npplweb.com/) (NPPL)
301. National Social Science Association (http://www.nssa.us/) (NSSA)
302. Natural Sciences Publishing Corporation (http://www.naturalspublishing.com/index.asp)
303. Nauk Publication (http://www.naukpublication.org/)
304. Net Journals (http://www.netjournals.org/)
305. New Ground Research Journals (http://www.newgroundresjournals.org/)
306. New World Sciences Academy (http://www.newwsa.com/)
307. Nexus Academic Publishers (http://nexusacademicpublishers.com/) (NAP)
308. NobleResearch Publisher (http://www.nobleresearch.org/home.aspx)
309. Noto-are (https://www.notoare.com/)
310. Novus Scientia Journals (http://novusscientia.org/index.php)
311. North Atlantic University Union (http://www.naun.org/wseas/cms.action)
312. Nuclei Online (http://nucleionline.org/)
313. OA Publishing London (http://oapublishinglondon.com/index.php)
314. Oceanic Journals (http://oceanicjournals.org/)
315. OMICS Publishing Group (http://www.omicsonline.org/)
316. OneCentral Press (http://www.onecentralpress.com/)
317. Online Journals Management System
(http://onlinejournals.oscij.com/index.php/index/index) (OJMS)
318. Online Research Journals (http://onlineresearchjournals.org/index.htm)
319. Open Access Science Research Publisher (http://openaccessscience.com/)(OASRP)
320. OpenAccessPub (http://openaccesspub.org/index.php)
321. Open Research and Science Library (http://www.orslib.org/index.html) (ORSlib)
322. Open Research Network (http://www.openresearchnetwork.org/)
323. Open Research Society (http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/)

324. Open Science (http://www.openscienceonline.com/)
325. ORIC Publications (http://www.oricpub.com/)
326. Ozean Publications (http://ozelacademy.com/)
327. Pacesetter Online Publishers (http://pacesetteronlinepublishers.org/)
328. Pak Publishing Group (http://www.pakinsight.com/)
329. PBS Journals (http://pbsjournals.com/index.php)
330. Peak Journals (http://www.peakjournals.org/index.html)
331. Pelagia Research Library (http://pelagiaresearchlibrary.com/index.html)
332. Pharma Intelligence (http://www.pharmaintelligence.org/index.html)
333. Pharma Professional Services (http://www.phaps.com/pubs/)
334. Pharmaceutical Research Foundation (http://pharmresfoundation.com/)
335. Pharmacognosy Network Worldwide (http://phcog.net/)
336. PharmaInfo (http://www.pharmainfo.in/)
337. PharmaInterScience Publishers (http://www.pharmainterscience.com/)
338. Photon Foundation (https://sites.google.com/site/photonfoundationorganization/)
339. Pinnacle Journal Publication (http://pjpub.org/)
340. Praise Worthy Prize (http://www.praiseworthyprize.com/)
341. Prime Journals (http://www.primejournal.org/index.html)
342. Priyanka Research Journal Publication (http://www.prjpublication.com/index.html)
343. Progressive Science Publications (http://www.pscipub.com/MWP/)
344. Prudence Journals (http://www.prudencejournals.org/index.htm)
345. Purple Journals (http://www.purplejournals.org/) [Link dead as of 2013-10-19]
346. Quazzy Journals (http://quazzyjournals.org/index.htm)
347. R & S Publications (https://sites.google.com/a/randspublications.org/randspublications/home) [Link
dead as of 2013-07-04]
348. Recent Science (http://recentscience.org/)
349. RedFame Publishing (http://www.redfame.com/home/)
350. Research and Reviews (http://www.rroij.com/) (An International Journals)
351. Research Online Publishing (http://www.ronpub.com/) (RonPub)
352. Research Publish Journals (http://www.researchpublish.com/)
353. Research Publisher (http://researchpub.org/index.html)
354. Research WebPub (http://www.researchwebpub.org/)
355. RG Education Society (http://www.rgsociety.org/) (RG Journals of Scientific Research)
356. Rising Vision (http://www.risingvision.org/index.html) (RV)
357. Ross Science Publishers (http://rossscience.org/index.php)
358. RS Publication (http://rspublication.com/)
359. Sacha International Academic Journals (http://www.sachajournals.com/index.php)
360. Sai Om Publications (http://www.saiompublications.com/)
361. SAMANM Group of Research Publications (http://www.samanmjournals.org/) (SGRP)
362. SAVAP International (http://www.journals.savap.org.pk/)
363. Savvy Science Publisher (http://savvysciencepublisher.com/)
364. Scholar Journals (http://www.scholarjournals.org/) [Link dead as of 2013-04-20]
365. Scholar People (http://scholarpeople.org/)
366. Scholar Science Journals (http://www.ssjournals.com/)
367. Scholarlink Resource Centre Limited (http://scholarlinkresearch.org/)

368. Scholarly and Academic Research Journals (http://www.sarjournals.org/index.html) (SARJ)
369. Scholarly Journals (http://scholarly-journals.com/index.htm)
370. Scholars Research Library (http://scholarsresearchlibrary.com/)
371. Scholars Academic and Scientific Publishers (http://saspublisher.com/) (SAS Publishers)
372. ScholarsHub.net (http://www.scholarshub.net/)
373. Scholink (http://www.scholink.org/Home.html)
374. Sci Edit Publications (http://sci-edit.net/edit/)
375. SciDoc Publishers (http://scidoc.org/index.php)
376. Sciedu Press (http://sciedu.ca/web/)
377. Science & Knowledge Publishing Corporation Limited (http://scik.org/)
378. Science Academy Publisher (http://www.sciacademypublisher.com/)
379. Science Alert (http://scialert.net/index.php)
380. Science and Education Centre of North America (http://www.todayscience.org/)
381. Science and Education Publishing (http://www.sciepub.com/portal/Home)
382. Science and Engineering Publishing Company (http://www.seipub.org/)
383. The Science and Information Organization (http://thesai.org/) (SAI)
384. Science and Technology Publishing (http://www.scitecpub.com/)
385. Science Education Foundation (http://www.ejournalnet.com/)
386. Science Instinct Publications (http://www.sciipub.com/)
387. Science Journal Publication (http://www.sjpub.org/) (SJP)
388. Science Park Journals (http://scienceparkjournals.com/)
389. Science Publications (http://www.thescipub.com/)
390. Science Publishing Group (http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/home/index.aspx)
391. Science Publishing Corporation (http://www.sciencepubco.com/)
392. Science Record Journals (http://www.sciencerecord.com/)
393. Science Target (http://www.sciencetarget.com/)
394. Science Web Publishing (http://www.sciencewebpublishing.net/)
395. ScienceDomain International (http://www.sciencedomain.org/)
396. ScienceHu (http://www.scihub.org/index.html)
397. Scienpress Ltd. (http://www.scienpress.com/Default.asp)
398. Scientific & Academic Publishing (http://www.sapub.org/journal/index.aspx)
399. Scientific and Academic Publication (http://www.sapublications.com/)
400. Scientific Advances Publishers (http://scientificadvancespublishers.com/)
401. Scientific Journals (http://www.scientific-journals.co.uk/)
402. Scientific Journals International (http://www.scientificjournals.org/)
403. Scientific Online Publishing (http://www.scipublish.com/)
404. Scientific Perspectives Publishing (http://waprogramming.com/index.php) (Scipers)
405. Scientific Research Publishing (http://www.scirp.org/) (SCIRP)
406. Scientific Viewers (http://www.scientificviewers.com/)
407. Scigmoid (http://www.scigmoid.com/index.php)
408. Sciknow (http://www.sciknow.org/)
409. SciTechnol (http://scitechnol.com/)
410. ScottishGroup Education and Testing Services (http://scottishjournal.co.uk/)
411. Scribes Guild (http://www.scribesguildjournals.org/journals.html)
412. Segment Journals (http://www.segmentjournals.com/)

413. SETScholars (http://www.setscholars.org/)
414. Seventh Sense Research Group Journals (http://www.internationaljournalssrg.org/index.html)
415. Signpost e Journals (http://www.journals.academicpursuits.us/)
416. Silicon Valley Publishers (http://www.svpublishers.co.uk/)
417. SPIRI The Global Research (http://www.spiri.org/)
418. SJournals (http://www.sjournals.com/)
419. Sky Journals (http://skyjournals.org/index.html)
420. SmartPub (http://smatpub.com/Journals.php) (International Academy of Energy, Minerals and
Materials)
421. Society for Science and Nature (http://scienceandnature.org/index.php)
422. Society of Business Research (https://www.sbrconferences.com/Home.html)
423. Society of Engineering Science and Technology (http://www.sestindia.org/) (SEST India)
424. Sphinx Knowledge House (http://sphinxsai.com/)
425. Spring Journals (http://www.springjournals.net/)
426. South Asian Academic Research Journals (http://www.saarj.com/index.html)
427. Southern Cross Publishing Group (http://www.sciencej.com/submit.html)
428. The Standard International Journals (http://www.thesij.com/)
429. Standard Research Journals (http://standresjournals.org/index.html)
430. STM Journals (http://stmjournals.com/index.html)
431. Stringer Open (http://www.stringeropen.com/)
432. Suryansh Publications (http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/www.suryanshpublications.inf)
433. Swiss Journals (http://www.swissjournals.org/)
434. Symbiosis (http://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/index.php)(Symbiosis Online Publishing)
435. Synergy Publishers (http://www.synergypublishers.com/)
436. T&S Journal PUblications (http://tands-journal-publications.com/)
437. Technical Journals Online (http://www.technicaljournalsonline.com/index.html)
438. Technopark Publications (http://technoparkpublications.com/)
439. Textroad Journals (http://www.textroad.com/)
440. Thavan E ACT International Journals (http://www.thavan.org/)
441. TI Journals (http://waprogramming.com/)
442. Time Journals (http://www.timejournals.org/)
443. Tomas Publishing (http://tomaspubs.com/)
444. Topclass Global Journals (http://www.topclassglobaljournals.org/)
445. Trade Science, Inc (http://www.tsijournals.com/)
446. Trans Stellar (http://www.tjprc.org/index.php) (Transstellar)
447. Transaction Series on Engineering Sciences and Technologies (http://www.tsest.org/)
448. Transnational Research Journals (http://universalresearchjournals.org/) (formerly Universal
Research Journals)
449. TSPublications (https://sites.google.com/a/tspublications.org/tspublications/home) [Link dead as of
2013-08-23]
450. U.S. Science Press (http://usspress.com/)
451. Unique Research Journals (http://www.uniqueresearchjournals.org/index.htm)
452. Universal Association of Computer and Electronics Engineers (http://uacee.org/)(UACEE)
453. Universal Association of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineers (http://uamae.org/)(UAMAE)
454. Universal Research Publications (http://urpjournals.com/contactus.php)

455. Valleys International (http://valleys.co.in/)
456. VBRI Press (http://www.vbripress.com/aboutus.aspx)
457. Whites Science Journals (http://whitesscience.com/Default.aspx)
458. Victorquest Publications (http://victorquestpub.com/)
459. Watch Plus (http://www.watchpub.org/index.htm)
460. We-Together to Save Yourself Society (http://www.sospublication.co.in/index.php)
461. Wilolud Journals (http://www.wiloludjournal.com/page.php?3)
462. Wireilla Scientific Publications (http://wireilla.com/)
463. World Academic Journal of Business & Applied Science (http://wajbas.webs.com/)s (WAJBAS
Publishing) [Publisher]
464. World Academic Publishing (http://www.academicpub.org/)
465. World Academic Union (http://www.worldacademicunion.com/default.html)
466. World Academy of Research and Publication (http://www.warponline.org/)
467. World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
(http://www.waset.org/publications.php) (WASET)
468. World Business Institute (http://www.wbiworld.org/) Also here: http://www.wassco.org/
(http://www.wassco.org/)
469. World Journal of Publisher (http://www.wjp.co.in/) (WJP)
470. World Open Access Journals (http://www.woaj.org/)
471. World Scholars (http://wscholars.com/)
472. World Science Publisher (http://www.worldsciencepublisher.org/index.php)
473. World Science Research Journals (http://www.wsrjournals.org/) (WSR Journals)
474. World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society (http://www.wseas.org/) (WSEAS)
475. World Standard Organization (http://standard.org/)
476. Wudpecker Research Journals (http://www.wudpeckerresearchjournals.org/)
477. Wyno Academic Journals (http://www.wynoacademicjournals.org/index.html)
List 2: Questionable Standalone Journals
This years list contains 303 titles; last years had 126.
1. Academic Exchange Quarterly (http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/)

2. Academicus International Scientific Journal (http://www.academicus.edu.al/)
3. Academy of Contemporary Research Journal (http://aocrj.org/)(AOCRJ)
4. Acta de Gerencia Ciencia (http://www.cagena.com/) (CAGENA)
5. Advances in Forestry Letter (http://www.afl-journal.org/index.aspx)
6. Al Ameen Journal of Medical Sciences (http://ajms.alameenmedical.org/) (AJMS)
7. American Journal of Advanced Drug Delivery (http://www.ajadd.co.uk/)
8. American Journal of Advances in Medical Science (http://www.arnaca.com/) (ARNACA)
9. American Journal of Engineering Research (http://www.ajer.us/index.html)
10. American Journal of Pharmacy and Health Research (http://www.ajphr.com/) (AJPHR)
11. American Journal of PharmTech Research (http://www.ajptr.com/) (AJPTR)
12. American Journal of Phytomedicine and Clinical Therapeutics (http://www.ajpct.org/)
13. American Journal of Social issues and Humanities (http://www.ajsih.in/index.php/ajsih/index)
14. American Research Journal (http://www.abrj.org/)
15. Anglisticum (http://www.anglisticum.mk/index.php): International Journal of Literature,

Linguistics & Interdisciplinary Studies
16. Archives Des Sciences Journal (http://www.sciencesarchive.com/)
17. Archives of Pharmacy Practice (http://www.archivepp.com/)
18. ARNACA American Journal of Advances in Medical Science (http://arnaca.com/)
19. Asian Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences
(http://www.jbiopharm.com/index.php/ajbp)
20. Asian Journal of Health and Medical Sciences (http://www.ajhms.org/)
21. Asian Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (http://ajhss.org/)
22. Asian Journal of Business and Management Sciences (http://www.ajbms.org/index.php) (AJBMS)
23. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Health Sciences (http://ajphs.com/)
24. Asian Journal of Pharmacy and Life Science (http://www.ajpls.com/index.html)
25. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Health Care (http://jprhc.in/index.php) (AJPRHC)
26. Australasian Journal of Herpetology (http://www.smuggled.com/AJHFP1.htm)
27. Australian Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences (http://www.ajbasweb.com/)
28. Australian Journal of Business and Management Research
(http://www.ajbmr.com/index.php) (AJBMR)
29. Ayupharm: International Journal of Ayurveda and Allied Sciences (http://www.ayurpharm.com/)
30. The Bioscan (http://www.thebioscan.in/index.htm)
31. Bioresearch Bulletin (http://bioresonline.org/)
32. Bioscience Discovery (http://biosciencediscovery.com/index.html#gsc.tab=0)
33. Biosciences, Biotechnology Research Asia (http://www.biotech-asia.org/) (BBRA)
34. British Biomedical Bulletin (http://bbbulletin.org/)
35. British Journal of Economics, Finance and Management Sciences
(http://www.ajournal.co.uk/BJEFM.htm)
36. British Journal of Science (http://www.ajournal.co.uk/index.htm)
37. Bulletin of Mathematical Sciences & Applications (http://www.bmsa.us/index.php)
38. Bulletin of Pharmaceutical Research (http://journal.appconnect.in/)
39. Bulletin of Society for Mathematical Services and Standards (http://www.jsomass.com/index.php)
40. Calodema (http://www.calodema.com/)
41. Canadian Chemical Transactions (http://canchemtrans.ca/)
42. Case Studies Journals (http://www.casestudiesjournal.com/)
43. Chemical Science Transactions (http://www.e-journals.in/)
44. Computer Science Chronicle (http://www.cschronicle.org/)
45. Computer Science Journal (http://comsj.org/)
46. The Criterion: An International Journal in English (http://www.the-criterion.com/)
47. Current Biotica (http://www.currentbiotica.com/)
48. Current Discovery (http://www.ijcdi.com/)
49. Current Trends in Technology and Sciences (http://www.ctts.in/) (CTTS)
50. Direct Research Journals (http://directresearchjournals.org/index.html)
51. E-Library Science Research Journal (http://lsrj.in/Default1.aspx)
52. ExcelingTech Publishing Company, Ltd. (http://ojs.excelingtech.co.uk/)
53. Elixir International Journal (http://www.elixirpublishers.com/) (formerly Elixir Online Journal
(http://www.elixirjournal.org/))
54. FOREX Technical Journal Library (http://www.forexjournal.co.in/Index.aspx)
55. Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering (http://www.fae-journal.org/index.aspx)

56. Galaxy: International Multidisciplinary Research Journal (http://www.galaxyimrj.com/)
57. Global Journal of Management Science and Technology (http://gjmst.com/index.htm)
58. Global Journal of Medicine and Public Health (http://www.gjmedph.org/)
59. Golden Research Thoughts (http://www.aygrt.isrj.net/)
60. Indian Journal of Applied-Basic Medical Sciences (http://www.themedicalacademy.in/)
61. Indian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biological Research (http://ijpbr.in/) (IJPBR)
62. Indian Journal of Research Anvikshiki (http://www.anvikshikijournal.com/)
63. Indian Journal of Research in Pharmacy and Biotechnology (http://www.ijrpb.com/) (IJRPB)
64. Indian Journal of Scientific Research (http://www.ijsr.in/index.php)(IJSR)
65. Indian Streams Research Journal (http://www.isrj.net/Default.aspx)
66. Indo American Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (http://www.iajpr.com/)
67. Indo-Global Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://iglobaljournal.com/)
68. Innovations in Pharmaceuticals and Pharmacotherapy
(http://www.innpharmacotherapy.com/Default.aspx) (IPP)
69. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business (http://ijcrb.webs.com/)
70. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research in Business (http://www.idjrb.com/index.php) (IDJRB)
71. International Ayurvedic Medical Journal (http://www.iamj.in/) (IAMJ)
72. The International Asian Research Journal (http://www.tiarj.com/)(TIARJ)
73. International Design Journal (http://www.journal.faa-design.com/index.htm)
74. The International Interdisciplinary Journal of Education (http://iijoe.org/) (IIJE)
75. International Journal of Advanced Engineering Applications (http://fragrancejournals.com/)
76. International Journal of Advanced Research (http://www.journalijar.com/index.php)
77. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer and Communication Engineering
(http://www.ijarcce.com/) (IJARCCE)
78. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering
(http://ijarcsee.org/index.php/IJARCSEE) (IJARCSEE)
79. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Software Engineering
(http://www.ijarcsse.com/) (IJARCSSE)
80. International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science & Technology
(http://www.ijarcst.com/index.html) (IJARCST)
81. International Journal of Advanced Research in Electrical, Electronics and Instrumentation
Engineering (http://www.ijareeie.com/) (IJAREEIE)
82. International Journal of Advanced Technology and Engineering Research
(http://www.ijater.com/) (IJATER)
83. International Journal of Advancements in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
(http://www.ijamae.uamae.org/editorial_board.html)
84. International Journal of Advancements in Research & Technology (http://www.ijoart.org/)(IJOART)
85. International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (http://www.ijaet.org/)(IJAET)
86. International Journal of Advances in Power Systems (http://www.ijaps.org/Index/)(IJAPS)
87. International Journal of Agriculture and Crop Sciences (http://ijagcs.com/) (IJACS)
88. International Journal of Agricultural Management & Development (http://www.ijamad.com/)
89. International Journal of Agronomy & Plant Production (http://www.ijappjournal.com/)
90. International Journal of Applied Biology and Pharmaceutical Technology
(http://www.ijabpt.com/index.html) (IJABPT)
91. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature

(http://www.ijalel.org/Default.aspx)
92. International Journal of Applied Research & Studies (http://www.ijars.in/) (iJARS)
93. International Journal of Applied Research & Studies (http://www.ijars.in/) (iJARS)
94. International Journal of Applied Sciences and Biotechnology (http://ijasbt.org/)(IJASBT)
95. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Mechatronic (http://www.ijaim.org/)s
96. International Journal of Ayurveda and Pharma Research (http://ijapr.in/)
97. International Journal of Bio (http://www.ijobio.com/) (IJOBIO)
98. International Journal of Biomedical Science (http://www.ijbs.org/HomePage.aspx)
99. International Journal of Business and Commerce (http://www.ijbcnet.com/)
100. International Journal of Bussiness and Management Invention (http://www.ijbmi.org/index.html)
101. International Journal of Business and Social Research (http://www.ijbsr.org/)
102. International Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.ijcps.com/)(IJCPS)
103. International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security
(http://www.ijcnis.org/) (IJCNIS)
104. International Journal of Computational Engineering Research (http://www.ijceronline.com/editorial-
board.html)
105. International Journal of Computer & Electronics Research (http://ijcer.org/) (IJCER)
106. International Journal of Computer and Information Technology (http://www.ijcit.com/)(IJCIT)
107. International Journal of Computer Applications (http://www.ijcaonline.org/)
108. International Journal of Computer Application and Engineering Technology
(http://www.ijcaet.net/) (IJCAET)
109. International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Sciences
(http://www.caesjournals.org/) (IJCAES)
110. International Journal of Computer Science and Business Informatics
(http://www.ijcsbi.org/index.php/ijcsbi)
111. International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security
(https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/)
112. International Journal of Computer Science and Network (http://ijcsn.org/) (IJCSN)
113. International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (http://ijcsns.org/)(IJCSNS)
114. International Journal of Computer Science Engineering (http://www.ijcse.net/index.php) (IJCSE)
115. International Journal of Computer Science Issues (http://ijcsi.org/index.php)
116. International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences (http://www.ijcmas.com/)
117. International Journal of Current Research (http://www.journalcra.com/)
118. International Journal of Current Research and Academic Review (http://www.ijcrar.com/)(IJCRAR)
119. International Journal of Current Research and Review (http://www.ijcrr.com/current_issue.html)
120. International Journal of Current Science (http://currentsciencejournal.info/index.html)
121. International Journal of Development and Sustainability (http://isdsnet.com/ijds/)(IJDS)
122. International Journal of Development Research (http://www.journalijdr.com/)
123. International Journal of Drug Development and Research (http://www.ijddr.in/) (IJDDR)
124. International Journal of E-Computer Science Evolution (http://www.ijecse.com/)
125. International Journal of Economics and Research (http://www.ijeronline.com/)
126. The International Journal of Educational and Psychological Assessment
(https://sites.google.com/site/tijepa2012/home)
127. International Journal of Electrochemical Science (http://www.electrochemsci.org/)
128. International Journal of Electronics and Computer Research (http://www.ijecr.com/) (IJECR)

129. International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
(http://www.ijecce.org/)
130. International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Technology
(http://www.ijecct.org/index.htm) (IJECCT)
131. International Journal of Emerging Sciences (http://ijes.info/index.html) (IJES)
132. International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering
(http://www.ijetae.com/index.html)
133. International Journal of Energy & Technology (http://www.journal-enertech.eu/)
134. International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (http://www.ijeat.org/)(IJEAT)
135. International Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (http://eaas-journal.org/)
136. International Journal of Engineering and Computer Science (http://www.ijecs.in/) (IJECS)
137. International Journal of Engineering and Innovative Technology (http://ijeit.com/index.php)(IJEIT)
138. International Journal of Engineering and Management Research (http://www.ijemr.net/)(IJEMR)
139. The IJES: The International Journal of Engineering and Science (http://www.theijes.com/)
140. International Journal of Engineering and Science Invention (http://www.ijesi.org/index.html) (IJESI)
141. International Journal of Engineering Inventions (http://www.ijeijournal.com/index.html)
142. International Journal of Engineering Research (http://www.ijer.in/ijer/)
143. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (http://www.ijera.com/index.html)
144. International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (http://www.ijerd.com/)(IJERD)
145. International Journal of Engineering Research and Science & Technology
(http://www.ijerst.com/index.php) (IJERST)
146. International Journal of Engineering Science & Advanced Technology (http://ijesat.org/)
147. International Journal of Engineering Science and Innovative Technology
(http://www.ijesit.com/) (IJESIT)
148. International Journal of Engineering, Science and Technology (http://www.ijest-ng.com/)
149. International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology
(http://www.ijesrt.com/index.html) (IJESRT)
150. International Journal of English and Education (http://ijee.org/)
151. International Journal of English Language & Translation Studies (http://eltsjournal.org/) (IJ-ELTS)
152. International Journal of Farming and Allied Sciences (http://ijfas.com/)
153. International Journal of Fundamental & Applied Sciences (http://www.bma.org.in/IJFAS.aspx)
154. International Journal of Governance (http://www.ijgovernance.com/)
155. International Journal of Health Research (http://www.ijhr.org/)
156. International Journal of Health Sciences and Research (http://www.ijhsr.org/)
157. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (http://www.ijhssi.org/) (IJHSSI)
158. International Journal of Humanities, Engineering and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://ijheps.org/)
159. International Journal of Information and Communication Research (http://www.ijicr.com/)
160. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Research
(http://esjournals.org/index.php)
161. International Journal of Information Technology & Business Management (http://www.jitbm.com/)
162. International Journal of Information Technology & Computer Science (http://ijitcs.com/) (IJITCS)
163. International Journal of Innovative Ideas (http://www.publishtopublic.com/)
164. International Journal of Innovative Research and Development (http://www.ijird.com/)
165. International Journal of Innovative Research and Studies (http://www.ijirs.com/)
166. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering

(http://www.ijitee.org/) (IJITEE)
167. International Journal of Inventions in Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://www.ijips.net/)(IJIPS)
168. International Journal of Language Learning and Applied Linguistics World
(http://www.ijllalw.org/)
169. International Journal of Latest Research in Engineering and Computing
(http://www.ijlrec.com/) (IJLREC)
170. International Journal of Life science and Pharma Research (http://www.ijlpr.com/)
171. International Journal of Life Sciences Biotechnology and Pharma Research
(http://www.ijlbpr.com/index.php) (IJLBPR)
172. The International Journal of Management (http://www.theijm.com/)
173. International Journal of Management and Business Studies (http://ijmbs.com/) (IJMBS)
174. International Journal of Management, Economics and Social Sciences
(http://www.ijmess.com/index.php) (IJMESS)
175. International Journal of Management Research and Business Strategy
(http://www.ijmrbs.com/) (IJMRBS)
176. International Journal of Management Sciences and Business Research
(http://www.ijmsbr.com/) (IJMSBR)
177. International Journal of Mathematical Research & Science (http://www.ijmrs.org/)
178. International Journal of Mathematics and Soft Computing
(http://www.ijmsc.com/index.php/ijmsc/index) (IJMSC)
179. International Journal of Medical Science and Public Health (http://www.ijmsph.com/) (IJMSPH)
180. International Journal of Medical Sciences and Health Care (http://www.ijmshc.com/) (IJMSHC)
181. International Journal of Medical Research & Health Sciences (http://ijmrhs.com/)(IJMRHS)
182. International Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Research (http://ijmbr.com/index.php)
183. International Journal of Medicine and Biosciences (http://www.ijmbonline.com/)
184. International Journal of Medicobiologial Research (http://www.ijmedres.com/)
185. International Journal of Modern Engineering Research (http://www.ijmer.com/) (IJMER)
186. International Journal of Novel Drug Delivery Technology (http://www.scopemed.org/?jid=15)
187. International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences (http://www.ijpbs.net/index.html) (IJPBS)
188. International Journal of Pharmaceutical & Research Science
(http://www.ijprsjournal.com/index.html) (IJPRS Journal)
189. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Research
(http://www.pharmscidirect.com/)
190. International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Phytopharmacological Research
(http://www.eijppr.com/) (eIJPPR)
191. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Development (http://www.ijprd.com/)
(IJPRD)
192. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Science Invention (http://www.ijpsi.org/) (IJPSI)
193. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Drug Research
(http://www.ijpsdr.com/index.htm)
194. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research (http://www.ijpsr.com/index.html)
(IJPSR)
195. International Journal of Pharmacy (http://www.pharmascholars.com/)
196. International Journal of Pharmacy and Technology (http://www.ijptonline.com/) (IJPT)
197. International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences (http://www.ijpaes.com/)

198. International Journal of Power Electronics Engineering (http://www.ijpee.com/index.php/ijpee)
199. International Journal of Recent Scientific Research (http://www.recentscientific.com/)
200. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering (http://www.ijrte.org/) (IJRTE)
201. International Journal of Recent Trends in Electrical & Electronics Engineering
(http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-
journals/International%20Journal%20of%20Recent%20trends%20in%20Electrical%20&%20Electronics%2
202. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Computer Engineering
(http://www.ijrice.com/) (IJRICE)
203. International Journal of Research Development (http://forefrontcorpo.wix.com/ijord)(IJORD)
204. International Journal of Research in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering
(http://www.ijrame.com/) (IJRAME)
205. International Journal of Research in Ayurveda and Pharmacy (http://www.ijrap.net/)
206. International Journal of Research in Computer Science (http://www.ijorcs.org/)
207. International Journal of Research in Computer Technology
(http://www.opusinfo.in/ijrct/index.php/ijrct/information/readers)
208. International Journal of Research in Engineering and Advanced Technology
(http://www.ijreat.org/) (IJREAT)
209. International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology (http://ijret.org/)(IJRET)
210. International Journal of Research in Medical and Dental Sciences
(https://edas.info/web/ijrmds/index.html)
211. International Journal of Reviews in Computing (http://www.ijric.org/index.php)
212. International Journal of Science and Advanced Technology (http://www.ijsat.com/) (IJSAT)
213. International Journal of Science and Technology (http://ejournalofsciences.org/)
214. International Journal of Science Commerce and Humanities
(http://www.ijsch.com/journaluk/Publisher-69) (IJSCH)
215. International Journal of Science Innovations and Discoveries (http://www.ijsidonline.info/)
216. International Journal of Sciences (http://www.ijsciences.com/) (IJSciences)
217. International Journal of Scientific & Technology Research (http://www.ijstr.org/)
218. International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research (http://www.ijser.org/) (IJSER)
219. International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (http://www.ijsrp.org/) (IJSRP)
220. International Journal of Scientific Engineering and Technology (http://ijset.com/ijset/)
221. International Journal of Scientific Research and Application (http://ijsra.com/) (IJSRA Publishing)
222. International Journal of Scientific Research in Education (http://www.ijsre.com/)
223. The International Journal of Social Sciences (http://www.tijoss.com/index.html) (TIJOSS)
224. International Journal of Soft Computing and Engineering (http://www.ijsce.org/)
225. International Journal of Sport Studies (http://ijssjournal.com/) (IJSS)
226. International Journal of Technical Research and Applications
(http://www.ijtra.com/index.php) (IJTRA)
227. International Journal of Trends in Economics Management and Technology
(http://www.ijtemt.org/)(IJTEMT)
228. International Journal of Universal Pharmacy and Bio Sciences (http://www.ijupbs.com/Home.aspx)
(IJUPBS)
229. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication
(http://ijritcc.org/) (IJRITCC)
230. International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (http://www.irjes.com/) (IRJES)

231. International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences (http://www.irjabs.com/en/)(IRJABS)
232. International Research Journal of Applied Finance (https://irjaf.com/)
233. International Research Journal of Pharmaceutical and Applied Sciences
(http://www.irjpas.com/) (IRJPAS)
234. International Researchers (http://iresearcher.org/index.html)
235. Journal der Pharmazie Forschung (http://www.rapsr.com/) (RAPSR)
236. Journal of Advances in Internal Medicine (http://www.aimjournal.org/index.php)
237. Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (http://www.jpands.org/) (JPANDS)
238. Journal of Animal and Plant Sciences (http://www.m.elewa.org/JAPS/) (Nairobi, Kenya)
239. Journal of Applied Pharmacy (http://japharmacy.com/master/Default.aspx)
240. Journal of Applied Pharmaceutical Science (http://www.japsonline.com/index.php)
241. Journal of Basic and Clinical Pharmacy (http://jbclinpharm.com/default.aspx) [Link dead as of 2013-
05-06]
242. Journal of Behavioral Sciences in Asia (http://www.joursa.com/)
243. Journal of Bio Innovation (http://www.jbino.com/index.htm)
244. Journal of Business Management and Applied Economics (http://jbmae.scientificpapers.org/)
245. Journal of Business Research (http://isarder.org/eng/) (letme Aratrmalar Dergisi)0
246. Journal of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences (http://jchps.com/)
247. Journal of Computing (http://www.journalofcomputing.org/)
248. Journal of Coastal Life Medicine (http://jclmm.com/)
249. Journal of Cosmology (http://journalofcosmology.com/)
250. Journal of Current Pharma Research (http://www.cpronline.in/)
251. Journal of Emerging Trends in Computing and Information Sciences (http://cisjournal.org/)
252. Journal of ELT and Applied Linguistics (http://www.jeltal.com/) (JELTAL)
253. Journal of Environmental Hydrology (http://www.hydroweb.com/journal-hydrology.html)
254. Journal of Global Research in Computer Science (http://www.jgrcs.info/index.php/jgrcs) (JGRCS)
255. Journal of International Academic Research for Multidisciplinary
(http://www.jiarm.com/home.html)(JIARM)
256. Journal of International Management Studies (http://www.jimsjournal.org/index.html)
257. Journal of Knowledge Management, Economics and Information Technology
(http://www.scientificpapers.org/)
258. Journal of Medical Research and Practice (http://jmrp.info/index.php/jmrp) (JMRP)
259. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (http://www.jpbms.info/) (JPBMS)
260. Journal of Science Editing (http://journalofscienceediting.org/)
261. Journal of Scientific Theory and Methods (http://journalofscientifictheoryandmethods.com/)
262. Kashmir Economic Review (http://ker.ajku.edu.pk/)
263. The Macrotheme Review (http://macrotheme.com/home)
264. Mathematical and Computational Applications (http://mcajournal.cbu.edu.tr/) (MCA)
265. Modern Behavioral Science (http://pwriters.com/index.php/mbs/index)
266. The Modern Journal of Applied Linguistics (http://www.mjal.org/index.htm) (MJAL)
267. National Journal of Basic Medical Sciences (http://njbms.com/)
268. National Journal of Medical and Dental Research (http://njmdr.org/)
269.
270. Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology (http://www.computerscijournal.org/)
271. Peoples Journal of Scientific Research (http://www.pjsr.org/Home.html)

272. The Pharma Research (Journal) (http://www.thepharmaresearch.info/)
273. Pharmacologia (http://pharmacologia.co.uk/)
274. PharmacologyOnline (http://pharmacologyonline.silae.it/front) (PhOL)
275. PHARMANEST: An International Journal of Advances in Pharmaceutical Sciences
(http://www.pharmanest.net/)
276. Plant Digest (http://plantdigest.co.uk/index.php)
277. Reef Resources Assessment and Management Technical Paper (http://behaviorsciences.com/)
278. Research Directions (http://researchdirection.org/Default.aspx): International Multidisciplinary
Research Journal (Research Directions Journal
279. Research in Biotechnology (http://www.researchinbiotechnology.com/home)
280. Research Inventy: International Journal of Engineering and Science
(http://www.researchinventy.com/index.html)
281. Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences
(http://www.rjpbcs.com/index.html) (RJPBCS)
282. Researchers World Journal of Arts Science & Commerce
(http://www.researchersworld.com/index.html)
283. Review of Research (http://www.ror.isrj.net/)
284. Reviews of Progress (http://reviewsofprogress.org/)
285. Romanian Biotechnological Letters (http://ebooks.unibuc.ro/biologie/RBL/index.html)
286. Science International (http://www.scienceinternational.com/)
287. Science Park (http://www.scienceparks.in/Default.aspx)
288. Science Research Reporter (http://www.jsrr.in/)
289. Science Reuters (http://www.sciencereuters.com/)
290. Scientific World (http://scientificworld.co.uk/)
291. Seventh Sense Research Group Journal (http://ssrgj.blogspot.com/)
292. South Asian Journal of Mathematics (http://www.sajm.com.nu/index.htm)
293. Tactful Management Research Journal (http://tmgt.lsrj.in/) (TMRJ)
294. Technics Technologies Education Management (http://www.ttem.ba/index.html)
295. Universal Journal of Applied Computer Science and Technology (http://uniascit.in/index.php)
296. Universal Journal of Computer Science and Engineering Technology
(http://www.unicse.org/) (UniCSE)
297. Universal Journal of Pharmacy (http://www.ujponline.com/) (UJP Online)
298. Weekly Science International Research Journal (http://www.weeklyscience.org/Default.aspx)
299. World Applied Sciences Journal (http://www.wasj.org/)
300. World Journal of Pharmaceutical Research (http://www.wjpr.net/) (WJPR)
301. World Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
(http://www.wjpps.com/fromeditordesl.php) (WJPPS)
302. World Journal of Science and Technology (http://worldjournalofscience.com/) (WJST)
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506 Responses to List of Predatory Publishers 2014
Samir Hachani says:

January 2, 2014 at 9:33 AM
Quite an impressive list indeed !!! Jeffrey is too modest: he has almost single handedly uncover these
so called publishers. His work is simply great !!!! I find in his list an incommensurable source.Keep
up the good work , Jeff and happy new year debunking the falsies !!!!
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rbb says:
January 2, 2014 at 5:55 PM
Still, most the big name or established scientific journals charge a lot. This is due to production by
publishers that make a profit (not a bad thing yet fees seem high). These lists are helpful but many
review committees etc may not have them handy. To me (a senior scientist), I would assign a value
of zero to some of these titles. Thus, if I was reviewing a colleague for promotion, tenure and the
like, I would give higher value to established journals and those that appear legit (have anonymous
peer review).
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John says:
Thanks for your work.
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Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin says:
Thank you Jeffrey Beall for your continued efforts to establish order in publishing articles.
Wish you a very Happy New Year 2014!
I like to publish this post in my website,www.connecttask.com for further dissemination.I hope you
will accord permission to publish.
I will publish the full article with your name and cite the link in my website.
Best regards,
Dr.Syed Md.Zainul Abedin
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Sure, feel free to copy the post. Happy New Year.
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You are welcome,dear friend.
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The post has been published in my website,www.connecttask.com
at the following link:
http://connecttask.com/blog/2014/01/04/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014-by-jeffrey-
beallpublished-for-further-dissemination/
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Dr Abou Togola says:

Dear JB let me wish you a happy new year 2014. Thank you so much for your useful job.
Could you tell me if the Journal of Insects is a good journal or a predator
(http://www.hindawi.com/journals/insects/ )
Have a nice day.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

That journal is not listed as a predatory journal. Happy New Year
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Uche E says:
February 20, 2014 at 7:22 AM
Good day, Jeffrey.

If I have already published an article in any of the predatory open-access journals, what do I
do?
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Botto dinizio anno Ocasapiens - Blog - Repubblica.it says:

[] Beall ha pubblicato il nuovo elenco dei predoni dellOpen []
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Ogwo says:
Thanks for this update. Indeed, from the questionable publisher list, it is clear that this has become a
growth industry. What a shame! Is it possible to be further guided with a list of fairly acceptable
publishers, in the general area of Business and Management Studies?
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Bhaskar says:
Thanks Jeff. This is the my first visit to your list Mixed feelings! I have two papers with publishers
that feature on this list, viz. Academic Journals and Medwell Journals. Could it be possible (being
optimistic) that some of the journals (lets say those that published my papers) by these publishers
are not as malafide?
I published one paper with Medwell Journals in Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances that
claims to have an IF=0.39. The manuscript underwent rigorous review; I was asked to include more
statistical treatment of my data and add more papers to the discussion and even re-format some of
the references cited. However, when they published it, they misspelt one of the table legends as
Tabel No. 1.
The other paper in African Journal of Mirobiology Research did not bother me much; they simply
asked me to explain few points and justify my conclusions in greater detail. This journal also claims
to have an IF = 0.7; in fact, they do not claim but I found this IF for the journal on ResearchGate.
Moreover, both these journals have a very fair metric (6.8 and 7 out of 10, respectively) in the NAAS
journal index maintained by National Academy of Agricultural Research, India the source from
where I learnt about these journals and also the major reason why I submitted to them.
I shall be happy to know your views on these two journals. Thanks again.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I have heard that Thomson Reuters, the publisher of Journal Citation Reports, has removed the
impact factor for the Journal of Animal and Veterinary Advances. Also, I do not see the African
Journal of Microbiology Research as having an impact factor at all. I looked this up in JCR and
present here a selection from their list. The journal would fall here if it were on the list:
AFRICAN INVERTEBRATES
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AQUATIC SCIENCE
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF HERPETOLOGY
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE
African Journal of Psychiatry
AFRICAN JOURNAL OF RANGE & FORAGE SCIENCE
African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines
African Natural History
I still recommend that researchers not submit any papers to the journals published by Medwell
Journals and by Academic Journals. Thanks.
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Corey Allen says:
Hey Jefferey,
Thanks for the update. However there are several predators you have missed. SciHub (scihub.org),
they first used an address of Lasani Town, Faisalabad Pakistan but when I questioned them to
confirm, they changed their contact details to a PO Box in connecticut. They also have major
grammar errors and their website doesnt work properly.
Another is AENSI web (aensiweb.com) they were first called INSIpub, then they changed to
AENSI. They have a series of conferences which if you see are definately not authentic (they dont
even have a url).
We have plenty like eSci Journals Publishing (escijournals.net). From the address you can see this is
a scam. It is in a house in a town in Islamabad Pakistan. You can also judge from the quality of the
website.
I also did a bit of a research on Bentham. They are actually based in Pakistan and the person
behind it is Atta-ur-Rehman.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Hello, thanks for your comment. I do have ScienceHu on my list I listed them under their
full name that appears at the top of their website.
I also have AENSI on my list as well, check here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
I would love to hear more about your research on Bentham! If you could share your sources
with me that would be great. Thanks.
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Corey Allen says:
Thanks for your comment. Well I attended one of Benthams conferences in Dubai and one
of their employee showed me a Pakistani man sitting on the stage and told me thats the
person who runs Bentham.
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Jeanne A. Pawitan says:

Hello Mr Beall,
I have once publish with Bentham, not the open access option. They did real peer review and
ask for a lot of changes. Then my article got accepted, and typed set, and I received the
galley proof.
After I sent back the galley, they asked me whether or not I would like my article to become
highlighted article, etc. Here I attach their offer:
1. RECENT HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES: Authors may opt to publicize their abstracts under
the relevant research subject at a cost of US$ 600 for 3 months and US$ 800 for 6 months.
2. IMAGE ON THE FRONT COVER OF THE JOURNAL: Charges for having an image
from your article on the front cover of the journal are US$ 800.
3. BANNER AD ADVERTISING For your article or a job vacancy: Institutions/universities

can publish online banner advertisements at US$ 800 at the journal home page for 2
months. (please contact marketing@benthamscience.org for details).
4. COMPANY/SPONSORSHIP LOGO: Company logos can be published on the journal

cover page in sponsored issues at a cost of US$ 800.
5. E-MAIL ADVERTISING: If you want to promote your article through a certain number of
emails sent to a targeted audience (for rates please contact marketing@benthamscience.org).
From their offer I know that highlighted articles are highlighted because the author pays,
From their offer I know that highlighted articles are highlighted because the author pays,
not due to merit.
I refused their offer, and you know what? 3 days after my refuse, they sent me a letter, that
my article contained many grammatical errors, and should be handled by an editing house,
and they suggested one, and for that, I have to pay the editing house.
I refused their offer, and told them that the 1st reviewer said that the language was OK, and
I said them, that if language revision is needed, I prefer to use our own editing house; so I
scrutinized the article and found some minor errors and corrected the errors, and sent them
back the article, and finally it was published.
My conclusion: Bentham tries to make authors pay, though we did not opt for open access.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

Thank you this is helpful information.
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caddisfly2002 says:
Can anyone provide information as to what it is about Austin Publishing Group that got them on
the list. PLEASE.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This publisher is deceptive it claims that its from Australia when its really based in India.
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Justin Keogh says:
July 13, 2014 at 8:12 PM
So do you still include Austin Publishing as predatory? I just got an invitation to join the
editorial board of one of its journals which is now listed as being in the USA.
Austin Publishing Group

3126 Riverside Station BLVD
Secaucus, New Jersey 07094
USA
Tel: 201-655-7075
Email: pmr@austinpublishinggroup.com
Thanks
Justin
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 14, 2014 at 5:07 AM
Yes, this publisher is still on my list. I think it is based in India, despite its claiming to be
based in Australia previously. I find that its website is currently down, a good thing.
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william says:
July 18, 2014 at 11:10 PM
now Austin publishing group says that they registered in usa . We got and invoice stating to
pay and before i got Australian account number and now usa account number . I couldnt
estimate this scientific damage done by these publishers.
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Andreas says:
Thanks Jeffery for this update. You are surely doing a formidable job that needs to be encouraged.
My questions:
With about 477 predatory publishers and 303 predatory journals, are we not heading for a
situation where all open access journals will be predatory?
It will thus become very daunting for researchers to find an appropriate journal with acceptable
ethical standards to publish their findings, if clear guidelines are not set up and published to guide
for the choice of a good journal or publisher.
Some publishers are cited as predatory, and not all of the journals they publish are predatory.
How then can a choice be made from a journal not cited as predatory but published by a publisher
cited as predatory?
In an earlier post here the African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative
Medicines was cited as predatory whereas it is indexed in PUMED which is the most reliable
international platform of medical publications. How can this paradox be explained?
Happy New Year, and continue in the same direction with the same strength in 2014.
Andreas
Yaounde- Cameroon
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Jeffrey Beall says:

I think there will always be some good quality OA journals.
The African Journal of Traditional Complementary and Alternative Medicines is not included on
my list.
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Nana Yaw says:
It is quite interesting to note this list again. Well, I have mixed feelings about such list. First, this list
does what western social science does so well: creation of binary opposites in which the category
that is associated with established western institutions is deemed correct/better/standard.
Second, OA journals (I mean those that do not charge authors processing fee and still make their
articles publicly available) particularly from non-western societies seem to challenge the old opinion
that English, French, and German and their institutions are the epistemic centres for knowledge
production and production (this is probably unknown to many young western scholars and the
older ones who have taken everything they find in academia for granted as what ought to be or
ordained by providence) . Indeed, they have challenged the old view that scientific knowledge
production is lower in non-western societies relative to western societies.
Unknown to many western scholars, these journals are springing up in reaction to the view that to
be recognized one must publish in western journals. What you dont realize is that many of them
have national reputation and are a reflection of their national self-determination.
Again, the use of language as one of the criteria of assessment worries me. If you are a native
speaker of English , pray that what happened to Latin does not happen to English and Chinese
takes over as the next so-called international language. My English may not be as good as that of a
native speaker and I wont apologize for it.
Now I see why Russia and other BRICS countries have their own national citation index; I believe
many more separate national citation indices will appear just for simple reason of national self-
determination. And one thing that is also certain is that Jeffs list will get longer and longer each
year because people are just tired of this academic imperialism and want academic independence.
Note that many of these journals are part of the calls to indigenize the social sciences and as much
as the indigenization fire burns, Jeff you will have a great deal to do.
Indeed, things fall apart (Chinua Achibe); the centre can no longer hold and must give way for
multi-epistemic centres of knowledge production and dissemination.
So do you think any western journal will publish such style of writing? We know to be published
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/#more-2846 in
32/208
So do you think any western journal will publish such style of writing? We know to be published in
Jeffs acceptable journals, one must be a good boy and not challenge anything but bad boys
must also publish so the OA journals proliferation. Posterity in their own nations will judge the
worth of their work.They represent part of a long struggle for mental emancipation from the
shackles of the colonial mentality of reduced self-esteem and dependency.
Well, these are my thoughts. You will want to read Claude Akes Social Science Imperialism and
Kwesi Yankahs Globalization and the African Scholar.
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caddisfly2002 says:
It is very easy to see that you missed the entire point of the blog page and its purpose. This has
nothing whatsoever to do with academic or social imperialism. Its about ethics. If you have to
lie and be deceptive in order to gain approval and acceptance in the international community
when it comes to scholarly activity your sense of self-determination seriously needs help.
Thats a rather twisted view perspective on becoming self-actualized and/or self-determined.
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caddisfly2002 says:
It greatly appears that you missed the entire point of why this list was created to begin with. This
has nothing whatsoever to do with academic imperialism or implying that one society is better than
another. Its about integrity and ethics. If you have to lie and be deceptive in order to gain
acceptance and approval for what you deem national self-determination, you have some serious
issues and you need to get help.
With regard to the use of language as being part of the criteria, whatever happen to being
responsible and accountable for ones own work? If a journal or publisher is wanting to be
recognized and taken seriously, dont you think that producing work that is grammatically correct
and void of spelling errors is a necessity regardless of the language that it is publishing in? Thats
what editors are for!!!!! If you dont have an adequate command of the language in which you are
publishing the document then hire an editor who is fluent in the language. Its NOT that difficult.
If those on the list want to be recognized, approved, and legitimized, then they need to stop doing
those things that are considered unethical. They should meet the same requirements as any other
organization that seeks to thrive in the field of publishing i.e., conduct themselves in an ethical
and professional manner. As far as authors go, if your work is so substandard that you cannot
publish in a legitimate journal with a a legitimate publisher and you are not willing to polish your
work and do what it takes to make it better, then perhaps you should not be publishing at all. There
is plenty of garbage out there for the world to read. We dont need anyone adding more garbage to
the already existing pile.
Lastly, keep in mind that when we use the word academic we are implying quality and a high
standard. Unfortunately, there are way too many people that simply dont have the ability and are
not willing to do what is necessary to foot the bill.
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Nana Yaw says:
Interestingly surprising! Well, I do agree with you about ethics and quality. I do agree that it is
annoying to read a paper full of mistakes and false claims. But who defines the standard of
ethical behaviour and quality? I was questioning who determines the criteria and based on
whose standards. You may not appreciate whatever I said because probably you take most
things you came to meet on this earth as given.
By my submission, I wanted to draw attention to the fact that there are varied reasons for the
proliferation of OA journals: some want to cheat academics who want promotion and others do
set up these journals because they want a forum where their academics can engage in discussion
about issues of national interest. And these issues are less likely to be of adequate universal
interest (where universal is what is of interest to home-country academics of many of the
established journals). So Jeffs list must distinguish between pay-and-publish-subscribe journals
from publish-and-subscribe journals. Again, a team should work on such lists as peer review
that those journals are accused of not carrying out equally exists; that said, there is the risk that
the list may be scientific and useless. This is because it doesnt follow the research protocols
that can give users assurance of accuracy and lack of bias. If we claim that We love what Jeff is
doing, lets encourage him to share the methodology used (not a list of criteria) and data by way
of publication.
Postmodernist philosophy and critical realism question views that empirical world is the real
world. Underneath the empirical world is the real world and that needs deconstruction. No
wonder critical realists describe the positivist reality as naive realism. In short, there is always a
motive underneath the surface that we must search for. Questions like: Who funds this research
and why? Is the principal researcher on the board any of the established journals? Are there any
conflicts of interest that we must know? Has there been any incident at his university that drove
him to do this and full disclosure thereof? Accurate answers will increase confidence in the list.
Though I believe that such a list properly produced by all stakeholders is needed (and he has
shown the way), I will not be a good boy and accept it just because it has been produced.
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Nana Yaw says:
January 12, 2014 at 12:12 AM
Other examples of hidden institutional ethnocentrism can be found in the channels of
academic communication, such as journals. Howitt and Owusu- Bempah (1994) report that
they have been told by white journal editors that the language we use in academic papers is
unacceptable and has to be toned- down or removed as a condition of acceptance for
publication (p. 136). Asking for a change in tone, streamlining arguments and other
revisions can be used as an instrument to censor papers that use a different voice. This is not
censorship in a crude way but it expresses the repressive tolerance of Western academia,
according to which papers are accepted as long as they are palatable to the mainstream.
Teo and Febbraro (2003)
http://www.yorku.ca/tteo/Teo2003Feb.pdf
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Eko Suyono says:

Very important information that We should know..Please always up date the list tks bell
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Jaap Timmer says:
Reblogged this on Culture Matters and commented:
Heres an interesting list of allegedly predatory journals, but even more interesting is the troll of
comments below the list. While I tend to agree with those who talk in favour of open-access forums,
I would, when searching for a journal to publish my article, check this list and of course do some
careful research on the journals that attract my attention.
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Akademik Ketenpere: Bilim diil Yayn yapalm m? Benan Eres says:
[] Liste: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/#more-2846 []
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Erick says:
Have you heard anything about a publisher called Research Trends. I got an invitation to submit
an article for what I think is an annual Current Trends in Neurology. I had an unpublished
review article (from my diss. that my advisor let languish) and I figured Id see if I could dust it off
and get it published. After several rounds of emails, I found their manuscript submission to be
strange (send an email to email id: editor@researchtrends.net), and I could not locate academic
credentials of anyone listed on their editorial board. I DID see a few publications from the journal in
PubMed, though. Very strange experience and I ended up not submitting the article to them, but
probably wasted a lot of time.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Yes, but I dont think this is an open-access publisher, so I havent fully analyzed it. I do
regularly receive emails asking about this publisher, an indication that some at least find it
questionable.
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Jeffery Beall Releases List of Predatory Publishers 2014 | LJ INFOdocket says:
[] The 2014 list (actually two lists) were posted by Jeffery Beall (U. of Colorado-Denver) on his
Scholarly Open Access blog late last week. There are more than 477 publishers listed. The 2013 list
contained 225. []
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Atef Alsarayreh says:
Thanks a lot for all you efforts Jeffery Beall.
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Z says:
Hi Jeffery,
Can you please tell me about the status of International Journal of Multidisciplinary Sciences and
Engineering (IJMSE).
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Well, I think this is a very low quality journal. I easily found plagiarism in it. I recommend
against submitting papers to this journals.
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Shahzad Khan says:
Jeffrey i have two queries about your work. first all open access journals are nor predators, that why
i will suggest to do include some paid access journal for example Actual problem of Economics
Ukraine based journal has recently removed from JCR. actually one of my paper accepted there but
fortunate i came to know on time that it has been removed from JCR.
Secondly there are good journals in open access for example economic insight trends and
challenges, Management and Marketing for knowledge society in which i have published my
articles they do give a fair double review to articles.
well i will suggest that not only criticize open access problems are also exit in paid journals.
Please note that i am university lecturer and does not belong to any journal or publisher.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
There are many people who are already describing the problems associated with subscription
journals such as Actual Problem of Economics. My voice is not needed there. I choose to limit my
research and work and commentary in the area of predatory open-access scholarly publishers
and standalone journals. My goal is to help researchers avoid being scammed by these corrupt
publishers.
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January 13, 2014 at 10:00 AM
Dear Mr Beall,
If you only limit on predatory open access, why did you include Trade Science as predatory
publisher? Journals from trade science (Biotechnology: an Indian Journal [already vol 7 last
year, and already included in scopus], and Biochemistry: an Indian Journal) are not open
access. Moreover, they do not charge authors.
I have no association with Trade Science or India, You can check it in the editorial board
members.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

January 13, 2014 at 10:39 AM
This is a fair question. Thanks for asking it. Trade Science used to be at least partly OA. You
are correct that the publisher appears to have switched its model to subscription / toll-access.
It also appears that they have launched a bunch of journals, many of which are mere
templates, devoid of any scholarly content. I think an exception is warranted here because I
would still like to warn researchers about this publisher. I dont think its a good place to
submit good research, and including them in the list will help convey that warning.
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Rubin Cohen says:

Hello
I follow our website with interest. I would like to share with you the email I had just received. It all
looks very legitimate with the publishers address being in San Diego. They are ardent to promote
erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous research
Dear Dr XXXXX
Greetings for the day!
In view of your scientific reputation and trustworthiness in your field, we would like to invite you to
submit a short communication/perspective/Research/Review on your research area for publication
in our upcoming issue.
Clinical Research in Pulmonology is ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous

research in the fields of Pulmonology & respiration through open Access platform. This open access
journal facilitates rapid publication with unlimited dissemination of knowledge to readers.
If you are interested, kindly let us know your possible date of submission.
Anticipating your kind positive response
Sincerely,
Mark Victor
Editorial Office-
Clinical Research in Pulmonology
JSciMed Central
2952 Market Street, Suite 140
San Diego, California 92102, USA
Tel: 1-302-360-8046
Fax: 1-302-360-8174
Toll free number: 1-800-762-9856
Email: pulmonology@jscimedcentral.com
For more info, please visit our website:
http://www.jscimedcentral.com/Pulmonology/curentissue.php
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Pretty much everything about their email is bogus. The names are fake, and the location is fake.
They use a mail forwarding service as their headquarters. Their so-called headquarters used to
be in Delaware. I strongly recommend against submitting papers to this bogus publisher.
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January 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM
Dear Mr. Beall,
How did you know that an e-mail is bogus, and a name or a location is fake? Also, how did
you know that their so-called headquarter is in Delaware, while it is written: 2952 Market
Street, Suite 140 San Diego, California 92102, USA?
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Jeffrey Beall says:

January 13, 2014 at 10:36 AM
I dont always know with 100% certainty that a name is fake, but when the spam email
contains many grammatical and other errors and is then signed with a name like Tom
Brown, then I think its fair to say that something is suspicious. Regarding addresses, in this
case, this publisher changed its address from that of the incorporation agent it used in
Delaware to that of a mail-forwarding service in San Diego. I think the publisher is really
based in South Asia and uses American addresses to fool people into thinking it is U.S.-
based.
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Christopher Hekimian says:

I have experience as a contributor with two of the organizations that you list as questionable
publishers. First, OMICs Group. I attended and presented at one of their conferences and was very
pleased at how professional they were despite their small size. My article was not accepted by their
peer review committee. Next, Photon Journal for Public Health. Very professional and did
everything they said they would do within the timeframe they promised. They put a lot of good
peer-reviewed comments into my paper and required that I make the changes. They were very
professional. Their website needs work. It is difficult to browse articles. In neither case did I find
anything questionable about these organizations at all.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

Okay, are you aware that Photons The Journal of Public Health has no editorial board, and the
editor-in-chief, Andy Stephens, is a made-up name?
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Lynn Pospiech says:
Do you have any insight on the publisher European Society for Translational Medicine
http://www.eutranslationalmedicine.org/ and/or their journal New Horizons in Translational
Medicine?
The website states that authors can expect a decision or revision request within 2 weeks of
manuscript receipt, and also that After acceptence of manuscript, author will get an invoice for
relevant publication/designing charges which should be paid before further processing of the
manuscript but I see no mention of the fees.
Their so-called Executive and Advisory Board lists look suspicious.
Thank you for providing this valuable service to the research community!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
No, I havent heard of this journal before, but your excellent observations certainly have raised
my eyebrows. I am going to give this journal a full analysis. They require copyright transfer, yet
they charge an undisclosed fee. If you want a PDF of an article you have to pay, but they are
available for free on the annoying flash viewer. This is highly questionable. Thanks for letting
me know about it.
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fakhariyan says:
Thank you Mr. Beall for your helpful list. Have you heard of the journal Frontiers of Language and
Teaching? Is this a predatory journal?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
There seem to be several publications with this title. Do you mean the one that is the conference
proceedings for the conference with the same name? It appears to be a subscription journal, so I
cant see it, but based on what I can see it looks legitimate.
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Nick H. says:
Thank you for this list. It will be quite the resource for the near future. I have a quick question for
you, what about the Journal of Environmental Hydrology makes it questionable (beyond the
obvious problems with the website)? Additionally, the have Roger Peebles listed as in charge of the
JEH. I am assuming that is the same as the Roger Peebles that is listed on the
http://www.gethydrologyjobs.com/ email newsletters and this Roger Peebles
https://services.tamu.edu/directory-search/people/5aa0637f873e8175e9212996acf55feb/ and this
Roger Peebles http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/wue/mentor_roger.html? Just interested in your
thoughts on this journal and this individual. Thanks.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
The journal was added because, at the time of the analysis, the journal required that authors
themselves arranged the peer review before submitting the paper to the journal. Additionally,
problems were found with duplicate publication and plagiarism. No comment on Dr. Peebles.
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Nick H. says:
Thank you for your reply Jeffrey. Good to know that there were problems found of
duplication and plagiarism.
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Cuidado com as armadilhas dos peridicos predatrios says:

[] Segundo alguns pesquisadores, existem hoje mais de quatro mil peridicos predatrios sendo
publicados, o que representa, no mnimo, um quarto do nmero de peridicos de acesso livre. Para
publicar seus artigos cientficos sem muito esforo, so cobradas taxas que variam entre duzentos a
trs mil dlares. Em muitos casos, os autores s descobrem o valor da fatura aps a publicao do
artigo cientfico. Uma lista atualizada de ttulos de peridicos predatrios mantida por Jeffrey
Beall, bibliotecrio da Universidade do Colorado, no blog Scholarly Open Access. []
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Harry Tsapkota says:
Hi Jeff.
Could you tell me about International Journal of Forestry Research of Hindawi publication? is it
legit???? or predatory???
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Jeffrey Beall says:
January 14, 2014 at 11:01 AM
I generally analyze at the publisher level rather than the individual journal level. Hindawi is not
on my list of questionable publishers. I do receive complaints about Hindawi, however. They use
spam a lot, most of their over 500 journals lack editors in chief, and it seems to be a publisher
that focuses just on the authors needs and not so much the readers.
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RMS says:
I had a publication with Hindawi recently published. I felt the peer-review and copy-editing
were very professional, so I am satisfied. I am not sure if all journals they publish are the
same or not, in my case it was The Scientific World Journal, their largest publication I
believe.
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RMS says:
I just want to add a few more comments on my experience publishing with Hindawis The
Scientific World Journal (TSWJ). As I said I am satisfied with the way the paper was
handled, especially the speed from submission to publication and the quality of the copy-
editing. I do realize, however, that the peer-review was a bit light. Ill explain why I feel
that way.
My co-authored paper was reporting what can be considered negative results, meaning
we carried out a series of experiments to test a hypothesis, which turned out not to work. We
did this as it had been reported in literature (in a reputable journal), and disseminated in the
media, that a new additive would, to put it plainly, make wonders for the reaction I was
studying. When we realized that it didnt work, immediately I started to wonder what
journal may be interested in publishing such result.
I assessed that the more established journal, where Ive published more interesting results,
may not be thrilled with this paper. I also imagined that some peer-reviewers very
knowledgeable in the area might give us some trouble with our findings; for example,
perhaps disagreeing with our methodology, or giving some other reason why they thought
we did something wrong (which we are quite confident we didnt).
Then I received an email from Hindawi, which many people find annoying, but in this case
seemed quite inviting. They were offering free publication in TSWJ for all submissions
received during one month related to chemical engineering. I looked up the journal and was
pleased to see it is indexed in Scopus and has an ISI IF. I also saw that it has a style
comparable with PLOS ONE, in that it will publish a wide range of subjects, but even more
general. I also liked that subject areas were categorized in the journal, so that all chemical
engineering papers, for example, are in their own subdivision. And finally, I was intrigued
by the peer-review model, which is somewhat open (the reviewers names appear on the final
paper) and is mainly dependent on reviews by editorial board members. This meant it was
unlikely anyone with a vested interest in mineral carbonation (possibly to up the point of a
conflict of interest), that could give unnecessary grief over the paper, would review it.
So within the month we finalized the paper and submitted two days before the end of the
promotion. Just over one month later, I got the email with the reviewers comments and
the editorial decision. It was accepted. So what about the reviewers comments? Well, they
had a few minor comments (very few in fact, but relevant comments). But the interesting
thing was that the decision email said that, and I quote, changes that you may want to
make in order to improve your manuscript before final publication. The key word is
may. This apparently means we could have ignored the comments and made no changes.
We made the changes, because we saw value, and because we wanted to make sure my
published paper was a peer-reviewed version and not just the submitted manuscript. Not
that a submitted manuscript cannot be accepted directly without changes, I actually had
two such papers previously published in more established reputable journals. But for this
specific paper and journal, I felt we had to do some kind of revision, basically to give
reassurance over the negative findings we were reporting.
So there you go, my plan to get the negative results published worked, just as I imagined.
The conclusion? It appears, from this experience, that TSWJ does not perform as thorough
reviewing as some other journals, and does not have a mechanism in place (e.g. a
knowledgeable editor-in-chief) to ensure that papers get revised according to all the
reviewers comments. Of course, this is only one papers experience. If I submit to them
again in the future, I might get another experience. So thats my two cents on this subject.
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EGPF says:
March 25, 2014 at 2:05 AM
I have published two papers at Psyche, from Hindawi. I will tell of my experience here.
Psyche was a very reputable journal in past decades, especially among researchers working
with social insects. Hindawi decided to revive this journal, and spread a good marketing
about it, while managing to amass a good list of reputed editors from the field. Also they
were good enough to include in their website .pdfs to all papers by Psyche from the old
days, all available for free. I thus decided to publish two relevant papers in it as it looked like
a very promising growing, open-acces journal. I was quite satisfied with the quality of peer-
review, and I guess I got reviews from experienced peers in my field. I must mention,
however, that they asked me for a list of prospective reviewers, and I do not like this practice
by principle.
Upon publication problems started to show: there is no editor in chief or handling editor,
thus formatting and proofs are made by a series of secretaries with weird names, each at a
time, and they kept asking unusual demands on file formats and file names, while including
many typos and mistakes in the proofs. This problem hit me when publishing both papers.
There was no responsible editor to complain about this, or asking for guidance, only several
non-scientist secretaries.
Eventually I managed to publish each paper free of errors, and final quality was good, easy
to find, and open-access.
However I must say that my papers did not make the expected impact, suggesting that
readers do not really read them or take them seriously enough. I am not sure about the
reasons, but maybe because it is an open-access publisher.

After many years since its re-inauguration, Psyche still does not have an impact factor. In
the endpoint, I feel publishing at Psyche from Hindawi was not a good choice.
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Psychology researcher says:

June 11, 2014 at 11:19 AM
I came to this website to see about this journal as I am currently reading a paper from the
Scientific World Journal (Hindawi). The study seems good, the results legitimate but I was
concerned how well it has been edited/reviewed as the standard of English is awful. The
authors obviously do not have English as a first language, but it is unusual to see things
published that are this poorly written and hard to follow.
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Bealls 2014 List of Predatory Publishers - Nursing University at Buffalo Libraries says:
[] http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ []
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Muhammad says:
http://www.tesdo.org/Publication.aspx. This is new online publisher, within few months it is
completed one year journal publication. It is also showing wrong indexation.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Thank you very much for letting me know about this. I will fully analyze it.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I am adding this publisher to my list, thank you again.
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Mohammad Shameem Al Mamun says:
January 16, 2014 at 10:05 AM
Dear Mr. Beall,
Thanks for your outstanding works. I am a tea scientist and want to publish a research article in
Journal of Tea Science Research http://bio.sophiapublisher.com/index.php/jtsr/index. Could you
please inform me about the journal?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
January 16, 2014 at 11:01 AM
That journal is published by Sophia Publishing Group Inc., and this publisher is NOT on my
list. I think this journal is okay, and its nice to see a specialized journal like this. I think its
better to have a journal like this one than to have a journal title such as the Journal of Plant
Science Research.
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fatima says:
Dear Mr. Beall,
i want to know is this journal authentic?
http://www.idpublications.org/european-journal-of-research-and-reflection-in-management-
sciences/
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Jeffrey Beall says:
No this is a highly questionable publisher. Its name is Progressive Academic Publishing, UK,
and it launched recently with ten journals. I recommend that you NOT submit papers to any of
its journals. Thanks for letting me know about this new publisher.
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Les Biesecker says:
Hi all
As others have stated, kudos to Mr. Beall, his work is exemplary!
I have a suggestion for you all that I have taken up in support of Mr. Beall. Every time I receive one
of the endless spam solicitations for one of the companies listed by Mr. Beall, if they claim to have
editors with academic affiliations, I look up the editors emails and send them the following message
and copy the company:
Dear Doctors/Professors,
I am writing to you regarding your affiliation with XXXX publications. As you may know, this
publisher has been designated as a predatory publisher by Mr. Beall, of the University of Colorado.
http://scholarlyoa.com/2012/12/06/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2013/
There was also a recent expos of these publishers in Science magazine, demonstrating that many
of them will publish worthless manuscripts.
I urge you to consider whether your association with this publisher reflects well on your excellent
scientific reputations.
Les Biesecker
P.S. to XXXXX publications each time you send me this spam, I will write to the editors.
I get responses from maybe 1 of 5 of the named scientists most often to decry that they have no
affiliation with the publisher and that they will work to get their name removed. I also copy the
company and have received one reply from a publisher claiming that their listing by Mr. Beall is
undeserved and that they are appealing. If we make our colleagues aware that we look poorly on
such affiliations, this may discourage bogus claims of legitimacy.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This is great!
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John Hilton (@JHeditor) says:
You refer initially to the gold (author pays) open-access model, but gold open access simply
means publishing in open access journals, which may or may not involve author payment. I am
just interested to know whether all the journals and publishers listed here require payment (the
obvious incentive for a predator) or whether there are predators that seek something other than
money. (I can imagine that newer efforts may not charge for early articles just to gain some
content, to attempt to demonstrate credibility.)
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Jeffrey Beall says:
John, my definition of gold open-access is different. I recognize the gold OA model (free to
readers, authors pay an article processing charge) and the platinum OA model (free to readers
and free to authors). I generally try to limit my list to gold OA publishers and journals,
following the definition I give here. I agree with your last statement, that new gold OA
publishers frequently waive fees just to get some content, and unfortunately, its usually pretty
bad.
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Binder Jose says:
Is International Journal of Electrochemical Science really a predatory publication? The ISI impact
Is International Journal of Electrochemical Science really a predatory publication? The ISI impact
factor was 3.7 in 2011
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Jeffrey Beall says:
The current impact factors are the 2012 ones. While that journal may have had an impact factor
in 2011, ISI journal citation reports does not list an impact factor for it now. Here are the closest
entries, where it would fall:
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING EDUCATION
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRICAL POWER & ENERGY SYSTEMS
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONIC COMMERCE
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ELECTRONICS
It is not uncommon for predatory publishers/journals to lie about having an impact factor. They
do this to attract more article submissions.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
In fact, this page, http://0-admin-
apps.webofknowledge.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/JCR/static_html/notices/notices.htm,
shows that this journal has lost its impact factor.
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Binder Jose says:

Thank you for your response. This journal has lost its impact factor or it was suspended only in
2012?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
It may be for just this year, or it may be forever. That will be up to Thomson Reuters, the
company that publishes the impact factors. The 2013 impact factor data wont be published
until June, so we wont know until then.
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BASUDEB DALAL says:
Dear Dr, Beall,
I have published some papers in Photon Foundation Journals. During sendind, I was not judicious
about organization. However, out of Curiosity, I sent a letter to Photon Foundation this morning
which is as Follows:
To the Editor in Chief (s),

(1) The Journal of Toxicology and Health
(2) The Journal of Public Health
(3 ) International Journal of Biochemistry
(4) The Journal of Applied Biochemistry
Photon Foundation
Dear Sir,
It is to draw your kind attention that myself has published papers in the above named journals.
However, it is not clear to me that what is Impact Index ? Even it is not included in standard
directory like Scopus, Pubmed etc. Please clarify the following no.
What is the relation of Impact Index and Impact factor?
Why the jounals have no ISSN number ?
When the letters from various responsible persons used to come to me , it looks like foreigner Name,
but the bank account no (0355104000045119) of IDBI of photon where I used to send the processing
fees is at Rajasthan, India. It is not clear to me What is the address from where the journals are
published? Please clarify it to remove my anxiety.
During processing, it has been repeatedly observed that same format in same colouration has been
used, even without need, during editing for all the aforesaid journals. Moreover, every respected
journals clearly mentions the name and address of the Editor in chief whereas none of the above
mentioned journals have this thing.
All this aforesaid matters created hazy impression about Photon foundation Journals. Hope you will
kindly clarify the points which I mentioned in my letter.
An earliest response will help me to send articles faster.
With regards
B. Dalal
Consequently, in reply I receieved a letter from them which is as follows:

Dear Dr. Basudeb Dalal
Welcome at Photon.
Scopus / Pubmed and Photon both are different organizations. We do not govern over Scopus /
Pubmed. Published articles are internationally indexed at Photon with a facility to download freely
across the world. The Journal of Toxicology and Health: Impact Index: 4.72. The Journal of Public
Health: Impact Index: 3.93. International Journal of Biochemistry: Impact Index: 4.52. The Journal
of Applied Biochemistry: Impact Index: 2.12. Photon is adapted to next generation Impact Index
system, which maintains far superior quality than Impact Factor at global scale. Impact Factor is
biased with journals self citation tendencies. Various prestigious journals with impact factor are
illegally involved in favoring even poor research articles, if they cite their journal. Members of
societies / academy find blind / favored acceptance for their research article publications on their
own Journals. Impact Factor has commercial business interests in favor of its financial investors,
instead of academicians. There is no place for such activities in high standards of academics.
Quantitatively Impact Index is equal to Impact Factor. ISJN: International Standard Journal
Number. ISJN is next generation Universal ID. The Journal of Toxicology and Health, The Journal
of Public Health, International Journal of Biochemistry, and The Journal of Applied Biochemistry
are published by Photon Foundation. Photon ensures completely blinded review and keeps the
process unbiased at every level.
With Best Wishes
Editorial Office
Photon
https://sites.google.com/site/photonfoundationorganization/
Now tell me
(1)Quantitatively Impact Index is equal to Impact Factor.
(2) ISJN: International Standard Journal Number. ISJN is next generation Universal ID. The Journal
of Toxicology and Health, The Journal of Public Health, International Journal of Biochemistry, and
The Journal of Applied Biochemistry are published by Photon Foundation.
Statement (1) & (2) are true or false.
With regards
B. Dalal
Scientist
Kolkata
India
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Jeffrey Beall says:
False. This publisher invents its own metrics to trick authors. I recommend against submitting
papers to David Publishing.
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Imran Omer says:
January 24, 2014 at 12:59 PM
What about international journal of multidisciplinary and current research ijmcr
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This journal has many serious problems and I am adding it to my list.
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Iftikhar Ahmed Khan says:
What to do, if you have already published some research in the listed journals. Can we publish this
some where else?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Generally, no. Usually the best thing to do is accept it as a learning experience and do some new
Generally, no. Usually the best thing to do is accept it as a learning experience and do some new
research and write a new article.
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pongthep says:
Please check Advanced Materials Research too.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Can you provide the link?
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Tahir says:
April 24, 2014 at 8:41 AM
here is the link
http://www.ttp.net/1022-6680.html
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Tahir says:
April 24, 2014 at 8:46 AM
Forgot to mention that I am bit confused. On one hand it is published by TransTech
publication (http://www.ttp.net/1022-6680.html) and on the other hand ICMST
(http://www.icmst.org/) is publishing their proceedings in the same journal.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

April 24, 2014 at 9:00 AM
Tahir, Trans Tech is not open-access. I have not analyzed this publisher. If you find it
questionable, then I would trust my instincts and not publish in its journals.
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Arben says:
Dear Mr. Jeffrey Beall,
Can you tell me about the journal http://www.issr-journals.org/ijias/, it looks like it has an impact
factor and GIF and ICV, and it is free of charge. Please let me know what you think about his
journal. Thank very much for your support to the research community.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

Arben: That journal is published by Innovative Space of Scientific Research (ISSR Journals). This
publisher is on my list. I consider the GIF and the ICV to be meaningless metrics. Questionable
publishers often waive article processing charges when they first get started, in order to get
articles into their empty journals. I recommend that you not submit any papers to this
publishers journals. Good luck. Jeffrey
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arben says:
Thank you very much for a prompt response on this matter !
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damodar paudel says:

Dear Mr.Jeffrey Beal,
could you please tell me about the Global journal of health science?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I recommend that you find a better journal than that one. That journals publisher is on my list.
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Arben says:
Dear Mr. Beall,
What about this journal International Journal of Business and Management Science, ISSN: 1985-
692X. Is it ok to publish? What is your first impression. Thank you ?
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aiman says:
January 31, 2014 at 10:36 PM
Dear Mr. Beall,
I suggest you to investigate Indian journal of clinical practice ISSN 0971-0876 and include it in
your list.
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Science pathologique : Sralini en remet une couche. | Les caves du Dr Moreau says:
[] Corporation. Ne connaissant pas ce journal, ni cet diteur, je me suis rendu sur la liste de Jeffrey
Beall recensant les diteurs prdateurs afin de vrifier quHindawi ne faisait pas partie de cette
liste. Apparemment non, mais voici ce []
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Siti Azizah says:
February 2, 2014 at 3:52 PM
Dear Mr. Beall, can you tell me about the status of premier Publishers? I want to submit my article
to http://premierpublishers.org/ijaee/submit-manuscript, however I need the status of the journal
before I do that. Thanks a lot. You have aver good job!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This publisher is included on my list, and I recommend against submitting papers to its journals.
Good luck.
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Mehmet Orgun says:
Dear Dr. Beall, Do you know much about this OA publisher New World Publishing LLC
(http://www.newworldpub.com/) ? Its journals have no editorial board nor content. BTW, thank
you for the terrific job you have done here!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
That link is not working I will keep trying. Please help me remember to check this! Thanks!
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Binder Jose says:
Dear Mr. Beall,
Can you tell me about SPIE publications?
http://spie.org/x94788.xml
Thank you very much.
Binder
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Jeffrey Beall says:
It is a respected society publisher.
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Khalid says:
Please, dear Beall, What is the status of IISTE?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This publisher is on my list of questionable publishers. I recommend that you not submit papers
to any of its journals. Instead, I recommend that you find a higher-quality publisher.
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Tyler says:
Reblogged this on Sonic Geography and commented:
Happy Monday, everyone. I will have the Knoxville Country megapost up here sometime within
the next few days, but I just wanted to share this item that I received in a note from a colleague this
morning. Everybody has heard of predatory lending, but did you know about predatory
publishing? Take a look.
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Jan Szczepanski says:

What about Progressive Academic Publishing, UK in Birmingham?
http://www.journalsgate.com/journalsgate/index.php?route=product/category&path=59
Jan
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Jeff says:
This is an outstanding, helpful list, but I noticed very few Psychology-related journals (even in sub-
discplines like Development or Biopsychology or connected fields like Neuroscience). Is this to
suggest most open-access journals in the field are acceptable? If no, is there another area where I
can find info on open-access Psych-related journals? Thanks for your time and efforts with this ever
growing problem
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Most of the predatory publishers go where the money is, and that is in fields where research is
typically funded by grants, like the biomedical sciences. Still, if you look closely at the predatory
publishers journal portfolios, you will see a good number of psychology journals. I dont think
its safe to conclude that most OA psychology journals are acceptable. You have to analyze each
one such a generalization can be dangerous.
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Jeff says:
Thanks for the reply. Ill look deeper into the actual publishers to get a more comprehensive
list (to be honest, I only looked at the publisher names and the names of the journal list, I did
not look further into the publishers). I agree the assumption that OA journals are acceptable
is dangerous. Thank you for spear-heading the process of ensuring the integrity of research
in all disciplines!
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M. M. Khan says:
Dear Jeffery Beall! What about this Journal: http://www.ejbss.com/
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M. M. Khan says:
Dear Beall! Waiting for your opinion about the mention Journal. It will help us a lot in possible
avoid of this journal.
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John says:
Dear Bill, thank you for your good work. Is the journal of chemical biological and physical sciences
predatory?Its website is here:http://www.jcbsc.org/index.php
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Steve Kezzler says:
This kind of reminds me of the Human Fund money for people.
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Cleve Smith says:
How about MDPI journals?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Excellent question; I can tell you that I am re-evaluating this publisher at this time for possible
inclusion in my list. Please stand by.
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Cleve Smith says:
MDPI journal ask for 500CHF publication fee. They also help people to correct English
language and then ask for additional 250 CHF. They have scores of journals. It seems to be very
profitable.
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Lachezar Filchev says:
I submit to MDPI two years ago and since then I told myself I will not repeat it again.
Everything was OK the journal was brand new, without an IF and of course with the
appealing waiver of publicaton fees for the first year of the existence of the journal. My editor
was a Chinese (I will not reveal his name unless someone want this), who was very kind and
welcoming at the point of acceptance of our paper. We had our paper formally accepted but
after we refused to pay 200 Euros for proofread to a company of their choice we were rejected
straight away. Of course our work got published where it deserved but ever since I ask myself
what is the OpenAccess all about? If it is only about making profits from authors, then it has to
be made clear so anyone who want to get into the trap to get with the conscious that this
his/her choice.
P.S. The issue with MDPI is the poisonous mix of quality papers published by them, good
looking and sophisticated publication system, and of course luring offers such as publication fee
waivers etc., which at the end are just not true.
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Dr. Abdul Md Mazid says:
I would also like to know about your opinion on MDPI. recently i have reviewed an article for
MDPI as they requested me and i found its a standard paper. This paper has been published by
MDPI on open access mode.That journal, its mentioned, has Impact Factor nearly 2.
i am thinking to send some paper/s as well to MDPI.
I would appreciate any comments on MDPI before i upload the paper.
I have briefly explored website of ORIC publisher, They are proposing, i guess, a few journals
including one in Science and Engineering. Scope of this journal includes many fields of engineering.
their journals do not show yet ISSN. But my initial impression is that they are well organised and
methodical.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I am increasingly receiving complaints and inquiries about MDPI. Many complain about the
low quality of some of the published papers, while others point out the increasing attention
being paid to the firms owner, who has become involved in international politics. I recommend
that you find a better publisher than MDPI, and this shouldnt be too hard.
Regarding ORIC Publications, I recommend that you not submit any papers to this publisher; it
is included on my list of questionable publishers.
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Benn says:
Most Western Journals are not accessible to African and Asians who need this information for their
Most Western Journals are not accessible to African and Asians who need this information for their
development. I have published articles in good journals but that information is not freely available
to Africans and Asians who generally cannot afford subscription fees. I have also published in one
OA journal in the list provided but I was surprised that a local investor had actually accessed the
OA information and used it. He did trace me to ask follow up questions about the technology we
proposed. Publishing an open access paper in a good journal is also very expensive. The question I
will like to ask is how can the knowledge generated be freely accessible by all for human
development? If Beall can answer that question, then the list of OA predatory journals will start to
shrink. If not, then let him be prepared to hit the 1000 mark his list by Jan. 2015. However, if these
OA journals come together to improve on the quality of their publishing, then it will be time to start
tolling the knell for those so called good journals that lock up information for a price. I will rather
pay a moderate cost for my paper to be freely available than lock up information in a system that
cannot be accessible to the community that I come from.
Thank you.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
You dont know what youre talking about. The Research4Life program has distributed many
subscription journals to academics in developing countries for a long time. OA journals are not
the only means for the wide dissemination of science and technology. Science will never be cost-
free.
On the contrary, unaffordable APCs are denying many developing country scholars the
opportunity to publish their research findings.
More information is not better information. The predatory publishers dont care about quality;
thats the whole point.
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koi smith says:
May 6, 2014 at 11:13 AM

Benn, OA journals are a way for the publishers to scam the authors, and the authors to scam
their respective institutions and funding sources. They are also a sinkhole for naive and
inexperienced researchers, and the best way to insure the invisibility of your work.
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John says:
Dear Beall what about this journal?http://www.jcbsc.org/index.php
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Jeffrey Beall says:
What is your opinion of the journal? Have you had any experience with it? Are you associated
with it? Have you published any papers in it? If so, please let me know what you experience was
like.
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John says:
No, I am not associated with it but I have published a paper in it. In afct I am a young junior
researcher , it was my first paper and dont know if it is a good or not. I would like to know if I shall
not be ashamed of listing that paper on my publication list in next years.I payed publication fees
but it seems that it is a good journal.What is your opinion.Thank you.
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Kelechi says:
I would like to know if International Journal of Structural and Civil Engineering Research,
International Journal of Civil and Structural Engineering and IJET Publications should be
added to your list.
Thank you.
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Matteo says:
Dear Prof. Beall, I noticed that this list is not updated, some publishers are added or removed from
your updated list..I think you must update this list or remove it from this page because this may
cause confusion with the updated list (sorry for my english)
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Cleve says:
Hello Jeffrey,
You are doing an excellent expertised job for all.

I would like to know your evaluation on the following journal(s):
American International Journal of Social Science

ISSN 2325-4149(Print), ISSN 2325-4165(Online)
Is social science in the journal name itself a proper term? Their website also lists 5 other journals,
two of which have the same term.
Thank you!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This journal is published by a bogus publisher called the
Center for Promoting Ideas

. This publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you not publish in any of its journals. The
title sounds okay, but I think most legitimate journals would say social sciences.
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Hi,
Unsure about ISR Journals and publications
http://www.isrjournals.org/archives.php?d_id=73
Jan
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Jan, I had not heard of this new publisher. It launched with about 20 broad journals. For a good
laugh, read its management team page. Ive added it to my list. Thanks for letting me know
about it.
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The predatory journal factory appears to be very productive.
They tend to outshine honest publishers for unethical profit and deception.
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lisaamartin says:
April 29, 2014 at 10:02 AM
LOL! Mr Dr James Watsoneducationally unqualifiiedhes a she! Gracious me.
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Is this one a good laugh also?
http://www.multidisciplinaryjournals.com/
Jan
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This one is more sad than funny.
I have added this one to my list also. Thank you for letting me know about it.
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Owho Joni says:
LIST THE CRITERIA FOR ACADEMIC JOURNALS TO BE CONSIDERED FOR GOOD FOR
PUBLICATION. WHICH QUALITIES MAKE JOURNALS PREDAtORY? I SUSPECT MISCHIEF
AND PERSONAL MISCONDUCT ON D PART OF THE AUTHOR. hOW CAN YOU TELL
REVIEWERE AND EDITORS NOT TO REVIEW FOR JOURNALS YET YOU CALL THEM
PREDATORY. ARE YOU A RESEARCHER AT ALL? REPLY TO
JONIJUSTCOME@YAHOO.COM
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Suhas says:
Sir,
I wish to know about the predatory status publisher EM international Pune India?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Can you send me the link, please?
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Suhas says:
Sir,
Please find this link for perusal and information. http://www.envirobiotechjournals.com/index.php
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Jeffrey Beall says:
That looks like it is not an open-access publisher.
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Suhas says:
Sir,
Are you only adding open access journals in your list? This journal is not open access but charge for
paper publication.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Which journal?
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RF says:
Hi Jeff,
This is a comprehensive list. Impressive!

How about The Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation? Is this a predatory journal or
one of the good ones?
It says in their website (www.ejise.com/about.html) that it is one of 5 academic journals published
by Academic Conferences Limited. It is also listed as one of the e-journals published by ACPI
(http://academic-conferences.org/ejournals.htm).
I just wanted to know a little more information since they contacted me to be a peer reviewer.
Many thanks,
RF
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I dont think this publisher meets the criteria for inclusion on my list.
If you disagree, please let me know why. Thanks.
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Farzana Nipu says:
please give us the list for trusted one..
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dumcho wangdi says:
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I am Dumcho Wangdi, a teacher from Bhutan, South Asia. I hope you must have heard of my
country. I wish you happy new year on behalf of my country mates.
I have heard of those predator publishers but failed to find the exact list of it. You have done an
extraordinary job.
So, can I have your permission to duplicate it into my blog at http://dumchowangdi.blogspot.com/
so that I and my friends who visit my blog can use it for the reference.
Remember the source and your phenomenal work will be always acknowledged.
Please kindly allow me to let thousands of my innocent immature friends realize of your
phenomenal work.
Thank you
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Yes, you are welcome to copy the list.
Please send my best regards to all the researchers in Bhutan, and I hope the list helps them
avoid publishing in the predatory journals.
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kharang says:
Thank you so much for your permission to save it on my blog. I will ensure my mates to
know about your splendid job.
Thank you.
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Arben says:
March 1, 2014 at 5:20 PM
Dear Dr. Beall
Are all the journals listed under DOAJ (http://www.doaj.org/) LEGIT ?!
Can I find a journal on this directory and publish my work.
Thank you for your opinion.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 1, 2014 at 5:41 PM
There is some overlap between my list and DOAJ, so, no, not all of the journals listed in DOAJ
are legitimate in my opinion. DOAJ has tightened its criteria over the past year, so its not as bad
as it once was.
Yes, you can find a journal on this directory and publish your work, but do so at your own risk.
Check to make sure the journal is not also on my list, and talk to senior colleagues in your field
about the quality of the journal you want to publish in. Also, read the journal and become
familiar with the quality of the articles in it before submitting.
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Peter Anthony Smith says:
March 5, 2014 at 5:35 AM
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
Thankyou for your wonderful work in naming and shaming these destructive publishers and
journals.
Just wondering, since you mentioned them separately in another post but Im not seeing them on
this list are you going to include the Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF) based in
Singapore? I was recently deluded into submitting a paper to one of their journals and asked for
$300 to publish (previously not mentioned in any of their conditions), and their submission process
was a complete mess. Im happy to provide email proof if it would help others to steer clear and not
be burned like I was.
Cheers!
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Bustomi Rosadi says:
March 6, 2014 at 12:42 AM
I mean, Journal of Agriculture Engineering and Biotechnology (JAEB)? Is this a predatory journal?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 6, 2014 at 6:38 AM
There is a journal with this title published by Bowen Publishing. This publisher is on my list, so I
recommend that you find a better journal.
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paul says:
March 6, 2014 at 7:22 AM
Thank you for information but what is your criteria for terming some of the publishers as
questionable? I have read some of their works and they seem ok. Is it on a case by case or is it a
blanket condemnation that they are questionable?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 6, 2014 at 7:30 AM
Paul, please see the established criteria here: http://wp.me/p280Ch-g5 Let me know if you have
any questions.
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Arun says:
March 6, 2014 at 9:37 AM
Dear Beall
Thank you for the list.
Is the Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems published by American

Scientific Publishers legit? By going through the website,I did not think so. However, it is not
included in your list, but is part of DOAJ website, so I am not sure if this is predatory journal. I
would like to know your opinion.
Journal of Computational Intelligence and Electronic Systems

ISSN: 2326-3008 (Print); EISSN: 2326-3024 (Online)
Thanks.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 6, 2014 at 6:13 PM
Arun: I limit my analyses to open-access journals and publishers. This publisher is not an open-
access publisher, so I have not analyzed it and cannot comment on its quality.
Still, I did look at the journal you mentioned. When I clicked on it I saw this: Buy & download
fulltext article: Price: $113.00 plus tax. That is very expensive for a single article! If you publish
your article in this journal, you risk having very few people read it.
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Onah says:
March 6, 2014 at 12:51 PM
Please, why is ScienceDomain International included in your list of predator publishers? We sent
our work to one of their journals (British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research) and it took
about 5 months of rigorous reviews and corrections before the paper was accepted. I am confused
here.
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sylvanus says:
June 18, 2014 at 6:31 AM
I do not understand how sciencedomain could be included in this list. this is because it me many
months of correction and sending and resending before my paper was accepted. there must be
something else being pursued. it difficult for me to accept.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 18, 2014 at 7:30 AM
I see that you have many, many articles published in this publishers journals. Perhaps its
time for you to aim higher.
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gorka says:
March 9, 2014 at 9:44 PM
Dear Bell,
Would you please confirm if the international journal of marine sciences (sophia group) is a
predatory journal or not?
http://bio.sophiapublisher.com/index.php/ijms/
They invite me as a reviewer and I see they charge 1200 per publication although they say to me
that since I am reviewing an article I can publish free of charge within 6 months.
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 10, 2014 at 9:10 PM
That journals publisher, BioPublisher, is not on my list.
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naelil says:
April 29, 2014 at 8:05 AM
Dear Mr. Bell and Mr. Gorka
I think here Mr. Gorka and my professor face of same case. My professor has submitted the
article to International Journal of Marine Science, published by Sophia Publishing Group.
Now the article has published in International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). But
suddenly we got an information from our university that IJMS is kind of predatory journal.
But they do not have any enough reasons to explain of that matter. Now, i search on many
information according predatory journal, and found this website. Would you mind to
reconfirm of IJMS whether is it predatory journal or not? In your opinon, is it recommended
journal to submit or not?
According on your database, do International Journal of Marine Science has impact factor?
And if the journal is not on your list so that it can be accepted unpredatory journal?
I am very sorry for the questions and thank you very much for your response Mr. Bell and
nice sharing MR. Gorka.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

April 29, 2014 at 12:11 PM
Can you send me a link to the journal, please? It appears there may be more than one
journal with this title.
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naelil says:
April 29, 2014 at 11:03 AM
Dear Mr. Beall

Dear Mr. Beall

Thanks for this information. Actually Mr. Gorka and my professor have almost same
question about International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). My profs manuscript has
been published since the begining of April. Since it has been published then my university
told us that IJMS is kind of predatory journal, even do not have enough reasons of this
matter.
So that i m join to this website. Would you mind to answer my questions, Mr. beall. Is this
journal has good reputation? And does it has an impact factor? According your opinion, is
that true IJMS as unpredatory journal and why? how IJMS doing until now espicially for
publication? And am I right to submitted manuscript,in IJMS.?
Thank you very much, Mr. Beall for your informarion. It will be very helpful to us.
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naelil says:
April 29, 2014 at 6:19 PM
The link http://bio.sophiapublisher.com/index.php/ijms/
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Jeffrey Beall says:

April 29, 2014 at 6:55 PM
This journal is published by BioPublisher. This publisher is not on my list of questionable
publishers. I cannot answer all your questions. You need to make your own decisions about
where you submit your work. If your university is not happy with the journal or publisher,
please talk to your university about that.
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naelil says:
April 29, 2014 at 7:10 PM
Thank you very much Mr. Beal for the answer and advice.
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oceandaniel says:
May 19, 2014 at 1:43 PM
This is Daniel Smith, the editor of International Journal of Marine Science (IJMS). I was
somewhat excited to see our journal was mentioned here. I knew many publishers are
corrupt and exist only to make money, their ridiculousness makes me proud, but they also
make a hard time for the newly OA journals, especially when the journal doesnt have any
background. Nevertheless, we march unswervingly, no matter how long the way will be.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

May 19, 2014 at 1:49 PM
Mr. Smith, on the journals website, you are listed as the Publishing Manager, not the
editor. Can you explain this discrepancy?
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oceandaniel says:
May 19, 2014 at 2:48 PM
I was the editor, for three years, and now I am planning and shaping of the journals
publishing programme, its aims and scope, etc.. So I always think I am the editor.
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tauseef ahmad says:

March 10, 2014 at 9:13 AM
http://www.ijarcsse.com/
can you please let me , know about this journal , and about he impact factor of this journal , is this
impact factor fake.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 10, 2014 at 9:20 PM
This journal is on my list. It does not have a legitimate impact factor.
I recommend that you not submit any papers to this bogus journal.
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tauseef ahmad says:
March 12, 2014 at 12:49 PM
sir , i had already submitted the paper , but i was not knowing the fact, Dont we have any
laws so that these can be banned, for cheating scholars, academicians and researchers. what
you suggest me further to do?
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Jeffrey Beall says:

March 12, 2014 at 1:10 PM
The laws vary by country, but in most cases there are no laws against predatory publishing.
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March 10, 2014 at 11:35 AM
I would appreciate your opinion about the publisher
Society for Science and Education
http://scholarpublishing.org/wp/
Jan
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 10, 2014 at 8:06 PM
I consider this a questionable publisher. It is on my list, and I recommend against submitting
papers to this publishers journals and against agreeing to serve on its editorial boards.
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Dr. Olokooba Saka says:

March 11, 2014 at 5:53 AM
Dear Beall, I really commend your work. When i saw the 2014 list i was very sad but at the same
time i was happy. The reason for my sadness was that, i have published some of my very good
papers in some of those journals which amounted to wastage. However, my happiness now is that i
am better informed of the publishing outlets i should use. This is a learning experience, though, a
bitter one. Please keep the good work going.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 11, 2014 at 8:41 AM
Thanks I appreciate this. Good luck with your future research.
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ify says:
March 11, 2014 at 11:58 AM
I want to commend you. You are really doing a great work, keep it up. My questions are (1) is it
possible for journals or publishers on your list to mend their ways by improving on quality and
correct their mistakes and thus be removed from predatory list. (2) can you please give us list of
good journals in biomedical science
Thanks
From. Ify
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 11, 2014 at 12:02 PM
Yes, I do remove publishers and journals from my lists. This is not uncommon.
No, I do not supply lists of good journals, sorry.
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bsulis says:
March 14, 2014 at 1:13 AM
Reblogged this on Benguet State University Library & Information Services and commented:
A Warning to our researchers who want to upload!
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Siti Azizah says:
March 14, 2014 at 4:38 PM
Please be careful of JAERD! I did a mistake by sending my article there!!! I sent my article there in
2011 and I paid $300. Then they ask me to pay again $600 today.. This is a kind of [...] act!
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Just Ishaq says:
March 15, 2014 at 2:19 AM
Dear Prof. Beall,
What a great job you did! I would like also to ask your opinion regarding this publisher: Global
Science Research Journal (http://globalscienceresearchjournals.org/).
I have no connection at all with the publisher. I received several emails from it, invite me to submit
manuscript. But, their emails came to spam folder.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 15, 2014 at 8:42 AM
Ive added Global Science Research Journals to my list.
This is a new brand created by International Scholars Journals. Theyve copied a lot of content
from their journals into the journals in the new brand.
The new brand has launched with around 130 journals, and I recommend against submitting to
all of them.
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Imran Omer says:
March 15, 2014 at 7:57 AM
http://southasiajournal.net/
Can you please confirm is it predatory journal or not
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 15, 2014 at 8:55 AM
Oh no, another journal using a blog platform as its publishing platform.
This seems mostly to be a popular journal rather than a scholarly journal. It also appears that
they sell print subscriptions, and that these contain more content than the online version. I dont
want to add this journal to my list at this time. Its really more of a magazine.
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Kevin J. Black, M.D. says:
March 17, 2014 at 12:12 PM
Any comments about BaiShiDeng Publishing Group? E.g.
http://www.wjgnet.com/bpg/NavDetail.aspx?id=52
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 17, 2014 at 12:20 PM
Sure, this publisher used to be on my list. They made many improvements and asked me to
have another look. I did and removed them from the list.
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March 17, 2014 at 12:22 PM

Thank you.
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Nilo Bugtai says:

March 17, 2014 at 8:05 PM
hi Jeff,
Please tell me about this journal/publisher Thomson Scientific ISI Web of Knowledge. They told me
that if my paper will be accepted I will pay USD 1200 for the publication.
Nilo
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 17, 2014 at 8:49 PM
Nilo,
What publisher do you mean?
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Mellissa Bortz says:
March 22, 2014 at 4:05 AM

Hello Jeffrey In your 2014 list I dont see any listing for Scholars-press.com a trademark of AV
Akademikerverlag GmbH& Co. KG. Does this mean then that they are not predatory?
With grateful thanks
Melissa Bortz
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 22, 2014 at 7:46 AM
It means theyre not open-access. I limit my lists to open-access publishers; this one charges for
the books it sells.
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shingirai sikomwe says:
March 24, 2014 at 6:40 AM
thank you Jeffrey , kindly assist me why IISTE is regarded as dubious. I had three papers accepted,
they claim to have good impact factor and referenced in a number of publishers
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popof says:
March 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM
hi, what do you know about future medicine publishing (http://www.futuremedicine.com/)? do you
think theyre predatory too?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 25, 2014 at 6:59 PM
I havent analyzed it because it does not market itself as an open-access publisher. Still, I
recommend extreme caution with this publisher.
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Annabelle Fairest says:
March 26, 2014 at 8:14 AM
Hi Jeff,
I work in the subscriptions team here at Future Medicine Ltd. I am interested to know why you
would recommend caution?
As you correctly pointed out, we are not an open-access publisher and all our publications are peer-
reviewed.
If you are interested to know more about our peer-review process, you can find information on our
website http://www.futuremedicine.com/page/authors.jsp#open
Alternatively I would be happy to put you (or anyone with concerns) in touch with one of our
commissioning editors who would be able to explain our editorial policy in more detail.
Thanks
Annabelle Fairest
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Aamer Hanif says:
March 31, 2014 at 3:14 AM
Kindly comment if the 4 journals given in following link are recommended for publishing papers.
Thank you.
The publisher is: The International Journal Research Publications Pte. Ltd., Singapore
http://www.theinternationaljournal.org/ojs/index1.htm
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 31, 2014 at 5:35 AM
I strongly recommend against publishing in those journals.
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muafi says:
March 31, 2014 at 4:04 AM
Hi Prof. Jeff,
My paper was receive in ICIMER 2014 (International Conference on Information Management and
Education Research) in Shanghai Cina, april 17-18 2014.
All accepted paper will be published by Atlantis Press and be online available in full text via the
publication platform, then be submited for indexed to Thomson ISI, WOS, Scopus.
But I was doubt to follow in this conference because I am not sure if the conference indexed by
Thomson ISI, WOS and Scopus. Are you recommended me to follow? I will be waiting for your
information. Thank you very much.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
March 31, 2014 at 5:30 AM
Sorry I limit my analyses to scholarly journals. I dont know whether this conference is
legitimate or not. I recommend caution, especially if you are unfamiliar with the conference.
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Zohrain says:
April 3, 2014 at 4:31 PM
Hi! I found the information here very useful. I was browsing and found this predatory journal:
http://valleyinternational.net/index.php
Im guessing they changed the website address as one of the similar name valleys international is
already included in your questionable publishers list..
Thanks for all the good work!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 3, 2014 at 5:00 PM
Thanks Ive made this correction on my main page here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
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Corrado Giuliani says:
April 4, 2014 at 7:01 AM
I was wondering why DOAJ keeps in the lis the Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering
which is a SCIRP Journal that i guess to understand that is a predatory company.
Any explanation would be appreciated.
Thanks for your work, you make my group avoid publishing on the Open Biomedical Engineering
Journal by Bentham Science
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jane says:
April 8, 2014 at 4:47 AM
This is a wonderful page practically the donts of where to publish (and I look forward to the
dos which open access journals are trustworthy!).
I would like to ask if you know anything about Open Journal of Ophthalmology
(http://www.scirp.org/journal/ojoph/). My university has encouraged us to publish in this journal,
as they have arranged for a discount on publishing in the next two months. However, I cant seem
to find out anything about it. Is it worthwhile to send articles here, or would you advise caution? I
worry about being biased because it seems to be a new journal, but everyone has to start
somewhere, after all. thank you very much/
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jane says:
April 8, 2014 at 4:50 AM
Whoops! sorry about that, am new to this. Just found out The journal is produced by one of your
questionable publishers uh oh! A comprehensive list indeed! thank you!
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Deepak says:
April 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM
Dear Mr Beall,
Is this predatory too. No personal experience but found a mail from them in my inbox:
Welcome to El Mednifico Journal!

El Mednifico Journal (http://www.mednifico.com/index.php/elmedj) is an open access, quarterly,
peer-reviewed journal that aims to publish scientifically sound research across all fields of medicine
and public health. It publishes researches as soon as they are ready, without waiting to be assigned
to an issue. These articles are then proofread, copyedited and arranged into four issues per volume
and one volume per year.
The scope of the journal encompasses: Clinical Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, Surgery, Public
Health, Dental Surgery, Radiology, Pathology, Pharmacy, Nursing, Biophysics, Biochemistry,
Health Policy, Global Health, Medical Education and other allied fields.
All submissions receive the following benefits:
Quick and efficient peer-review; rapid publication after acceptance

Submissions are judged according to the content and methods employed
All articles are published as open access; no submission or processing fees
Articles are deposited at various indexing and archiving agencies upon publication
Wide dissemination to readers and researchers throughout the world
We have a strict policy against plagiarism. All submissions are screened for plagiarism upon receipt.
Any submission found to have plagiarized material will be immediately rejected and the authors
will be permanently banned on failure to provide adequate clarification.
We invite notable scientists and medical professionals for post-publication peer-review and debate
on articles published in the current issue. Review reports are published as letters to editor in
subsequent issues. We also encourage post-publication peer-review over social networks such as
Facebook and Twitter. Both these features distinguish EMJ from other journals, and enhance the
citability of published material.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 11, 2014 at 3:01 PM
I have had a close look at this journal but I didnt find anything about it that met the criteria for
classing it as a predatory journal. I do find the name strange are they trying to use a play on
words with the Spanish word magnfico? Lets observe how this journal progresses.
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Deepak says:
April 10, 2014 at 12:38 PM
Dear Mr Beall,
The journal of Biomedical Graphics and Computing (http://www.sciedu.ca/journal/index.php/jbgc)

is published by Sciedu, which you have included in your list of predatory publishers. Yet, it is listed
in the NLM catalogue database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nlmcatalog/?
term=Journal+of+biomedical+graphics+and+computing)
Do predatory journals make it to the NLM catalogue too?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 11, 2014 at 2:58 PM
Yes, there is some overlap.
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shiv says:
April 11, 2014 at 4:21 AM
sir,
is this is predatory journal or not.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES
http://www.earthjournals.org/ijmas.html
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 11, 2014 at 2:25 PM
This journal is published by a company called Earth Journals. I have added this publisher to my
list. I recommend that you avoid this journal and find another, better one from a legitimate
publisher.
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pr singh says:
May 15, 2014 at 10:20 AM
our journals was indexed by chemical abstract,index corpenicus, why you say like that
kindly clarify
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Daniel Graziotin says:

April 12, 2014 at 4:01 AM
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I found the Scientific Online Publishing publisher in your list. I could not find a specific post with
an analysis of their journals. I am here to report my experience with them as a reviewer.
Let me first state that the publisher presented a spammy behavior in the past, inviting authors and
potential editors via automatically generated emails. That stopped after their launch, as far as I
know. Their website has often contained inaccuracies, e.g., the Archive page link was called
Achieves. On the other hand, they have always promptly responded to my suggestions and
feedback.
Encouraged by this, I applied as a reviewer for their Open Journal of Communications and
Software. They receive many submissions from authors of developing countries. So far, I agreed to
review 3 manuscripts submitted there. I suggested rejection for all 3 of them because I found that
the articles were mostly plagiarisms. Now, receiving plagiarized articles is an issue, but it does not
make a journal/publisher predatory. These articles were never published by the journal.
While I think that the publisher is inexperienced and lacks professionalism-hopefully because of the
lack of experience-I can report that from the point of view of a reviewer there have never been issues
with them.
I hope this helps other people there. However, it would be interesting to read the experience of
authors who submitted there.
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Publicaciones cientficas | Annotary says:
April 12, 2014 at 7:21 AM
[] scholarlyoa.com []
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ajay kumar says:
April 14, 2014 at 4:01 AM
thank you Jeffrey Beall Sir. Please also suggest me some respectable journal in field of pesticide
toxicity.
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ALLI L. A says:
April 14, 2014 at 5:55 AM
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
I will like to know why ScienceDomain publisher is included as a predatory publisher. The
publisher has many journals under their publication. Do you mean all their journals are predatory
or some. Please kindly explain further.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 14, 2014 at 7:01 AM
I analyze at the publisher level whenever possible, so I recommend that you find a better
publisher than Science Domain.
Heres a review I wrote that included this publisher: http://eprints.rclis.org/17051/
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Roland says:
April 14, 2014 at 9:58 PM
Dear Jeffrey,
Could you explain me what is according to your point of view wrong with Avens Publishers.
I saw they moved the editorial office from LA to Northborough, NY.
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 15, 2014 at 6:16 AM
I plan to publish a blog post about Avens on Thursday. I think both their Los Angeles and
Massachusetts addresses were/are dishonest. The Massachusetts one is a house. This publisher
operates out of Hyderabad, India.
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Javed Iqbal says:
April 14, 2014 at 11:34 PM
I receive a lot of requests from the editors to review a sent to their journal. This list will help the
reviewer a lot to avoid providing volunteering review services for such questionable journals.
Thanks Jeffrey
Dr. Javed Iqbal
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Sajib says:
April 15, 2014 at 10:26 AM
About Scientific Online Journal (SOP), not much experiences were shared by people including
authors & reviewers. I wonder if the list shown here on the Predatory Journals is well justified! I
Meanwhile, was bit happier when I got an offer yesterday through an email of SOP containg
information such as, among others,
As a new Open Access publisher, Scientific Online Journal (SOP), dedicates to providing high
quality publishing services for authors. From 01/04/2014 to 30/04/2014, all your submission will be
reviewed, formatted, proofread and published without any fees. Its totally FREE.
Truely, there were very few reasons that could make me feel wrong about SOP, yet I did feel and
came across this blog ultimately; worthy to be here, aint it?
Adios!
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muafipaciran says:
April 16, 2014 at 8:14 PM
Hi Profwhats your opinion about Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and
Management (IJIKM). http://www.informingscience.us/icarus/journals/ijikm/indexed
In web was written that this journal indexed by

Indices and Directories Listing this Journal
Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Computer Science and Business Info Systems
Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Educational Technology & Library Science
Cabells Directory of Publishing Opportunities in Management
Compendex
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Elsevier
EBSCO
Index of Information System Journals
Ulrichs,
Thanks Prof Jeffey.
Regards..muafipaciran-Lamongan
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Dr. Md. Shazedur Rahman says:
April 17, 2014 at 12:58 AM
OMG..they are in plentythere should be an online screening authority for us to check before
submission.will anyone volunterr this please!
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Kesatebrhan Haile says:
April 21, 2014 at 9:52 AM
Dear
The International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research is free journal i.e. has no any
publication charge. Moreover, it has 4.57 impact factor. So why is it consider as predator publisher
in the list 2? Could you plz explain?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 21, 2014 at 10:33 AM
That journal does not have an authentic impact factor. It is lying to you, and to others. This,
along with many other reasons, is why the journal is on my list.
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Max says:
April 23, 2014 at 2:53 AM
Jeff, I have come across OMMEGA Publishers
http://ommegaonline.com/
and was surprised not finding them in your list. Do you think they are kosher?
Thanks!
Max
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 23, 2014 at 4:14 PM
Max, Thanks very much for letting me know about this new publisher I had not heard of it. I
have analyzed it and added it to my list. Thanks again, Jeffrey.
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Ambika says:
June 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM
Hi Friends, They are a fraud company who have been using my Texas address as their
business location and doing a fraud business in India. Kindly Id like to report the same to
whoever is interested in them.
I can personally prove it that it is not legitimate business.
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abdou says:
April 23, 2014 at 7:08 AM
Dear Pr Jeffrey,
Thanks a lot for this work,
I would like to know about the publsher Intechopen, they asked me i wish contribute by a chapter
in book. Please advise me.
Best wihes,
Abdou
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 23, 2014 at 7:57 AM
Yes, InTech Open is on my list, and I recommend that you NOT submit a chapter to their book.
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sneha says:
April 23, 2014 at 11:19 AM
Dear Mr. Beall,
I want to know wether the journal ACADEMIC SCIENCE
http://www.academicscience.co.in/index.php is authentic or not!!
Could you please inform me about the status of this journal?
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 23, 2014 at 12:16 PM
Academic Science appears to be a new publisher I have not heard of it before. I dont have
time to analyze it now, so Ive added it to my backlog. The publisher appears to be claiming
that its journals have authentic impact factors, which they do not, so I recommend that you find
a better publisher than this one. This one looks very suspect.
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Mitch Balish says:
April 25, 2014 at 8:24 AM
Jeff,
What can you tell me about Jacobs Publishers (http://www.jacobsitsolutions.info/)? It looks about as
shady as you can get, but I dont see it on your page here. I received this:
Dear (x),
Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers!
We introduce ourselves as Jacobs Publishers have initiated a Journal Called Clinical Journal of
Microbiology and Pathology; Jacobs Publishers is an Open access journal publishes peer-reviewed
novel research related to Cancer Science. Our journal focuses on the current research in Pathology,
Clinical microbiology, Hematopathology, Transfusion medicine, Molecular Genetics Pathology,
Immunopathology, Veterinary Pathology, Virology etc.
Clinical Journal of Microbiology and Pathology welcomes qualified researchers and experts as
Editorial Board Members from Microbiology and Pathology research scientific world. Based on
your proficiency and immense contributions to Microbiology and Pathology research, we would
like to invite you as Editorial Board Member. We are also planning to initiate Inaugural Edition
and seeking quality submissions from qualified Scientists, Researchers and Experts of Microbiology
and Pathology research for Inaugural Edition.
You may please forward your updated CV, Biography, recent photograph and manuscripts to
cjmp@jacobspublishers.net Manuscript formatting details are available on
http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/books-2/author
Anticipating your support and response in this regard to enable us to enhance the sharing of
knowledge in the scientific community.
Regards
Mathew Stevens
Clinical Journal of Microbiology and Pathology
Jacobs Publishers
9600 Great Hills
Trail # 150 w
Austin, Texas
78759(Travis County)
E-mail: cjmp@jacobspublishers.net
Best regards,
Mitch
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM
Mitch:
I added this publisher to my list last week. I think it is extremely questionable, and I advise
scholars to avoid it.
I am wondering if it is connected to the publisher JSciMedCentral in any way the J in the

logo matches on both publishers websites.
But perhaps this new questionable publisher just stole the logo from the older predatory
publisher.
Thanks,
Jeffrey Beall
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Deepak says:
April 26, 2014 at 1:11 PM
Poetic justice, when one predator poaches the logo of another!
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Paige lacy says:

July 9, 2014 at 12:24 PM
Jeff,
I also received an email from Jacobs Publishers as follows:
Jacobs Publishers Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology Editorial Board Invitation
Dear Dr. (x),
Warm greetings from Jacobs Publishers!
We introduce ourselves as Jacobs Publishers have initiated a Journal called Clinical Journal of
Allergy and Immunology; Jacobs Publishers is an Open access journal that publishes peer-
reviewed novel research related to Allergy & Immunology. Our journal focuses on the
current areas of allergy, experimental immunology, including innate and adaptive
immunity, inflammation, host defense, clinical immunology, autoimmunity and more.
Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology welcomes qualified researchers and experts as
Editorial Board Members from Allergy and Immunology research scientific world. Based on
your proficiency and immense contributions to Allergy and Immunology, we would like to
invite you as our Editorial Board Member. Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology, also
planning to initiate Inaugural Edition and seeking quality submissions from qualified
Scientists, Researchers and Experts of Immunology research for Inaugural Edition.
You may please forward your updated CV, Biography, recent photograph and manuscripts
to allergyandimmuno@jacobspublishers.net Manuscript format details are available on
http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php/books-2/author
Anticipating your support and response in this regard to enable us to enhance the sharing of
knowledge in the scientific community.

Regards
Moses Isabel
Clinical Journal of Allergy and Immunology
Jacobs Publishers
900 Great Hills
Trail # 150 w
Austin, Texas
78759(Travis County)
E-mail: allergyandimmuno@jacobspublishers.net
Thank you for posting this comment as I would never have guessed that this was a dubious
publisher.
Regards,
Paige
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 9, 2014 at 12:29 PM
Sure, and thanks for sharing this email you got from them.
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Benno von Bormann, MD says:

April 28, 2014 at 4:10 AM
I was invited by OMICS group to contribute for the Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion,
either via website or sending the manuscript attached to an Email. I did the latter after a lot of work
with the title, Does Preoperative Anemia Deteriorate Patients postoperative Outcome or about the
Difficulty of Comprehension. After peer review with some minor remarks the manuscript was
eventually accepted, and up to that point the whole process was professional. Sending the final file
for proof reading they surprisingly added an invoice of an amount of 1,500,- $ for publishing,
something I of course denied. In response to my wondering letter they indicated that the conditions
for publishing are described in their website. However, submitting the manuscript directly via mail,
as offered, I didnt have this information. Because I will never pay for being published the paper
was retracted by me and my co-author. These organizations are money-collectors. Their prey are
people who are in desperate need for publication(s) due to rules of their affiliation (uiniversity,
company). Its an industry.
A positive example as yet is the Baishideng Publishing Group. They asked for a case report
emphasizing from the beginning that there will be no costs at all.
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Benno von Bormann, MD says:
April 28, 2014 at 10:48 PM
Journal of Blood Disorders & Transfusion: In fairness I have to add, that the paper was published
today with a quite professional layout including all essential informations, without payment of
course. Not bad, and therefore no problem for us. Unfortunately the Journal is nowhere listed
(PubMed etc.) but can be found easily using Google.
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lihachtel says:
April 28, 2014 at 3:58 PM
Dear Beall, I really commend your work. It is quite helpful.
Recently I got an email from Scholars Press (Germany) would like to publish my PHD thesis. One
of the conditions is shown as below, how do you think of this publisher !? will it be added on your
2015 list !?
The Author transfers to the Publisher without limitation of place the exclusive right of reproduction
and dissemination (Publishers right) of the work for the duration of statutory copyright including
all additional bibliographical texts and/or images supplied by the Author (e.g. cover text,
biographical details) for all print and electronic editions (e-book) and for all print runs without limit
of units and in all language versions. In the case of works which have already been published by
other publishing houses, a non-exclusive right of use shall be transferred. The Author shall continue
to be the copyright holder of his work.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
April 29, 2014 at 9:10 AM
This is not an open-access publisher. They want you to sign over copyright to them, and then
they will try to sell copies of your thesis. Theres nothing wrong with this, but you may be better
off publishing your work in an open-access venue, and keeping your copyright. It is your
decision.
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FUKUSHIMA UPDATE | Fukushima Health Effects in North America? says:
May 1, 2014 at 4:49 AM
[] The journal publisher is on Bealls List of Predatory Publishers 2014 :
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ []
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sunith says:
May 2, 2014 at 7:03 AM
could you please tell me about the International Journal of Computer Science and Engineering
Research and Development (IJCSERD) http://www.prjpublication.com/IJCSERD.ASP
Thank you
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 2, 2014 at 7:15 AM
This journals publisher is Priyanka Research Journal (PRJ) Publication. This company is on my
list, so I recommend that you not submit papers to any or its journals.
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Robot paper retracted for stealing from doctoral thesis | Retraction Watch says:
May 2, 2014 at 7:30 AM
[] InTech, the publisher of the journal, is on Jeffrey Bealls list of questionable and potentially
predatory publishers. []
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WHY IS'NT MSM REPORTING ON THE escalating DANGERS of Radiation, UPDATED -
Page 34 - ALIPAC says:
May 3, 2014 at 7:29 PM
[] The journal publisher is on Bealls List of Predatory Publishers 2014 :
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/liblishers-2014/ The two studies critiqued Mangano J,
Sherman J, Busby C. (2013). Changes in confirmed plus []
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Alerte Fukushima:les radiations auraient faites plus de 14,000 victimes en Amrique du
Nord | Michelduchaine says:
May 3, 2014 at 10:06 PM
[] Lditeur de journal qui a refus la publication, est sur
la "Liste des prdateurs Publishers 2014"
Beall:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ []
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Mathew Peet says:
May 4, 2014 at 12:08 PM
Possble typo, 420. Smartpub links to smatpub.com (which exists) smartpub.com seems to be
domain name sitters.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 6, 2014 at 12:10 PM
Im sorry I am not seeing the problem. Which page has the bad link?
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Nord | Michelduchaine | Enjeux nergies says:
May 4, 2014 at 1:46 PM


Beall:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ []
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Nord | Philippehua's Cellule 44 says:
May 5, 2014 at 3:26 PM
[] a refus la publication, est sur la "Liste des prdateurs Publishers 2014"
Beall:http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/ Les deux tudes
scientifiques les plus critiques sont: Mangano J, J Sherman, Busby C. []
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Fukushima Health Effects in North America? | VicIoUs wOrlD says:
May 6, 2014 at 9:51 PM
[] The journal publisher is on Bealls List of Predatory Publishers 2014
: http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/lis []
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Lukman says:
May 8, 2014 at 12:06 PM
Dear Mr. Beall
Thank you for the list that you created and always updated.
Thank you for the list that you created and always updated.
Last month, my manuscript was published in http://thescipub.com/ajas.toc. The publisher have two
full address in Australia and the United States. Is my manuscript published will be useless? Best
regards.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 8, 2014 at 3:39 PM
This publisher does list an Australia and a New York City address as you indicate; this tells us
for sure that the publisher is not based in either Australia or New York. Your research will not
be useless, but in the future, I think you should find a better publisher. Good luck.
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Dart says:
May 26, 2014 at 4:52 AM
Dear Mr. Beall,
Just for good purpose, i think this company is really based at least in Australia, because their
bank account are in Australia with the same name of companybut this is just my
opinion,tell me if im wrong
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Mustafa says:
May 8, 2014 at 12:20 PM
Dear Beall,
Thanks for your effort here. Actually, I think it is better to check out the publisher SOCIETY FOR
SCIENCE AND NATURE. I think it is somewhere in Africa. Have you checked it before? If so, did
you find any doubt about it?
Please let us know about it.
Mustafa
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 8, 2014 at 3:37 PM
Hi, Mustafa:
Thanks I do have this publisher on my list. Please see my list here. I recommend that you
find a better publisher than this one for your research.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
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Mustafa says:
May 9, 2014 at 6:53 PM
Thank you so much. I am sorry, I wasnt aware of the name, and I found it now in your list.
Sure, Ill not throw my paper in such journal, but I wondered how could they have DOI for
their publications or even ISSNs for all of those journals if they dont have real publishers?
Could anybody do that easily?
Thank you
Mustafa
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Jeffrey Beall says:

May 9, 2014 at 7:55 PM
Oh, yes. Standard numbers such as the ISSN and DOIs are often given out without regard
for quality.
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Mustafa says:
May 10, 2014 at 11:51 AM
Sorry for bothering again, but have you looked at this website?
http://arepub.com/Journals.php
They describe themselves as:
American Research Publications is USA based publications and American Research
Publications are covering all kind of subjects such as General Science, Engineering Science,
Science & Technology, Environment & Earth Science, Computer & Information Science,
Commerce & Banking, Business & Management, Agricultural Science & engineering,
Medical Science & Public Health, Energy & Power, Arts & Social Science, and etc.
American Research Publications is an open access publications. American Research
Publications is inviting to you submit your valuable research work to your desire journal.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

May 10, 2014 at 11:56 AM
Yes, this publisher is on my list. Most definitely, do not submit any papers to its many
journals.
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ayodele says:
May 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM
Sir, I just published with textroad journal, and this is freed of charges after a 3 months thorough
review and scrutiny. Do you still believe this is questionable?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 9, 2014 at 7:07 AM
Yes, I think you made a mistake.
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AlexH says:
May 9, 2014 at 8:14 AM
I think that a convincing rebuttal of Mr. Bealls evaluation must start with making available the
(anonymized & full-text) peer reviews for, lets say, all articles published in the last 3 issues.
Ive seen something similar at http://www.sciencedomain.org , where the first published reviews
under the peer review history seems genuine and (most of the times) written by experts who
were able to make substantial comments and critiques. However, it is still dubious whether final
acceptance decisions was made based on the experts comment or not, or if the company tried to
balance negative expert peer evaluations with positive non-expert or even fake reviews or
not. Maybe its worth to reevaluate this publisher sometimes in the future.
(disc. Im not affiliated with sciencedomain or any of its journals)
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Sue says:
May 9, 2014 at 1:20 AM
Dear Jeffery,
Thanks for your efforts. In fact, a friend of mine has just assigned a contract as an assistant
manager in one of the listed journals. He knew that the journal that he accepted to work for has
been Q4 ranked without an impact factor or index in the PubMed for eight years. I recommended
him to skip it, but he believed that he can do the change and make it really a reputably journal. Do
you think he can withdrew it from the list in one year or two?. Is that feasible?. Thanks.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 9, 2014 at 7:06 AM
Yes.
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May 9, 2014 at 7:29 AM
Hi Jeffrey,
Found this in the German EZB
Titel: International Journal of Scientific and Innovative Mathematical Research (IJSIMR)

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Verlag: Academicians Research Center (ARC)
Open Access Policy des Verlages in SHERPA/RoMEO suchen
Fachgruppe(n): Mathematik
Schlagwort(e): Allgemeine Mathematik
E-ISSN(s): 2347-3142
P-ISSN(s): 2347-307X
ZDB-Nummer: 2737668-0
erste Volltextausgabe: Jg. 1, H. 1 (2013)
Homepage(s): http://www.arcjournals.org/ijsimr/ijsimr_home.php
I got bad vibrations but Academicians Research Center is not on your list. What do you think?
Jan
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 9, 2014 at 8:08 AM
Thank you I will give this one a full analysis. At first glance, I see some significant problems.
It launched with nine, broad journals. They even launched without ISSNs. Everything was
quickly created with a template, and this shows that you can create a new scholarly publisher is
about a day, and immediately start collecting money from researchers.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 9, 2014 at 12:23 PM
Hi, Jan, Thanks for sharing this information. I have analyzed this publisher and added it to my
list. Thanks again, Jeffrey.
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Mari says:
May 11, 2014 at 1:17 AM
Hello Doctor
Could you please let me know if these following journals are in the BLACK list or not? are they ISI?
1) The scientific world journal
2) Indian Journal of Scientific Research (IJSR)
Thanks a lot
Mari
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 11, 2014 at 7:44 AM
The Scientific World Journal is not on my list. It is not a predatory journal.
The Indian Journal of Scientific Research is indeed on my list. It is a questionable journal, and I
recommend that you NOT submit any papers to it. Good luck.
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Cuidado com as revistas e editoras predadoras - Enago Brasil Blog says:
May 12, 2014 at 4:34 AM
[] proteger os pesquisadores de tais editores, foi criada uma lista de peridicos questionveis que
atualizada todos os anos. recomendado que pesquisadores, cientistas e acadmicos evitem []
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Benno von Bormann says:
May 13, 2014 at 6:36 AM
Dear Jeffrey,
Im a retired Anesthesiological Prof. working as a scientific adviser in Asia. This part of the world
has great potential, and is consequently in great need for publication, the more as acceptance by the
established Journals is increasingly difficult to achieve. Your list is extremely helpful to avoid traps
and pitfalls.
I didnt find the following dubious(?) company on your list: SciMed Central. They catched me for
the Editorial Board because I found some reputable names already in it. Strangely they changed
from Herald Scholarly Open Access to SciMed Central. Sounds not convincing. The final hint is the
submisson process: One file (word or PDF) to an Emailaddress. Can you confirm? I consider to
cancel my cooperation. Thanks in advance, Peter
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 13, 2014 at 7:13 AM
Sir, sorry for the confusion. I do have this publisher included on my list. It is listed as JScimed
Central, so it is listed under J. I agree it is dubious, and I do recommend that you not work
with them.
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Heru says:
May 13, 2014 at 10:52 PM
Mr. Jeff.
I am Heru from Indonesia..
please give me several names of CLEAN JOURNALS, that publish the researches about
INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Thanks Sir.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 14, 2014 at 6:21 AM
Sorry I limit my work to warning people about questionable publishers. I cannot recommend
the best journals in each field.
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wakhid jauhari says:
May 14, 2014 at 12:51 AM
Could you tell me if the Advances in decision sciences and advances in operations research
(Hindawi publisher) are good journals or a predatory journals
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 14, 2014 at 6:17 AM
I can tell you that the publisher Hindawi is not on my list.
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Dr khan says:
May 14, 2014 at 10:40 AM
Hello Beall,
Could you please check the following. its a pakistani journal..
International Journal of Basic Medical Sciences and Pharmacy (IJBMSP)
Link: http://www.ijbmsp.org/index.php/IJBMSP/index
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 17, 2014 at 7:10 AM
I have added this journal to my backlog. Thanks.
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Niloofar says:
May 16, 2014 at 4:00 AM
Dear Mr. Beal,

Dear Mr. Beal,

Thank gou very much for providing us with useful information. The problem is that I needed a
journal which gives quick response and I could not wait for a long time. I sent my paper to
international journal of English language and translation studies. It is accepted. I dont know what
to do now. I couldnt find a good journal which gives an early response. How about Asian EFL
journal? Is it good or better than IJ-ELTS? Thank you in advance for your consideration.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 16, 2014 at 2:40 PM
I dont know which are the most and least respected journals in fields outside my own. Quick
acceptance and high quality usually dont go together in scholarly publishing.
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May 28, 2014 at 9:17 AM
Quick acceptance and high quality usually dont go together in scholarly publishing.
This is probably true in general, but I think it is less true now than it used to be. Here are a
few rather different examples: (1) Elsevier journals post their median review times online for
each journal, and they get the unedited submitted manuscript online very quickly after
acceptance, with edited proofs following quickly. (2) There have always been journals
aiming at fast publication times, like Neuroscience Letters, and the new, highly selective
journal eLife aims to do something similar. I have also been quite impressed with PeerJ,
which is much like PLoS One; its too new for an impact factor but publishes accepted
papers quite rapidly. (4) I think there is a place for the mildly radical publishing model of
F1000Research (publish first, review second, revise as needed; indexed in PubMed only after
positive reviews), both for work that is not at all groundbreaking but deserves to see the light
of day and for work for which you need a citable publication before submitting an NIH
grant application.
Since it may matter to the discussion, I do have a good bit of experience with scientific
writing.
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May 28, 2014 at 10:25 AM
P.S. I should probably add for transparency that I am (one of hundreds of) unpaid academic
editors for PeerJ, and have published in PLoS ONE and F1000Research, in addition to
journals from Elsevier (and NPG and etc.)
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Kathleen Wynd says:

May 16, 2014 at 6:34 AM
Reblogged this on Ressources lectroniques des bibliothques de l'UQAM and commented:
Bonjour,
Voici une liste bien intressantela liste des diteurs Open Access au comportement prdateur.
Beall inclut mme les critres permettant de dterminer si un diteur ou un priodique est
prdateur. Bonne lecture !
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Sven says:
May 17, 2014 at 7:09 AM
Dear Mr. Beall,
Recently I got two invitations to be part of the editorial board (http://www.indianalytics.de/p). The
second one was from Austin Publishing Group, which is on your list. So I ignored it.
However, the first one was from VRJ Publishers (http://www.vrjpublishers.com) for the Journal of
Bioinformatics Research Studies (http://jbrsonline.com). It is not on your list but it seemed suspect to
me.
Can you provide an opinion/assessment on this publisher/journal?
Thanks!
Regards,
Sven
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 17, 2014 at 9:26 AM
I have added this publisher to my backlog here: http://wp.me/P280Ch-Ov There are too many
journals/publishers emerging out of India for me to analyze. In the meantime, I recommend
finding a better publisher.
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Said Bin M S says:
May 18, 2014 at 6:45 AM
Sir,
What do you say about the authenticity of AIMS International Journal of Management?
AIMS Association of Indian Management Scholars
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Jeffrey Beall says:

May 18, 2014 at 7:39 AM
I havent analyzed it. Its a subscription journal. I limit my analyses to open-access journals.
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Becoming an editor. Not. Indianalytics says:

May 17, 2014 at 7:11 AM
[] some of the members such as Prof. Andrzej Kloczkowski are associated with other journals by
questionable publishers (OMICS Publishing Group in this []
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Said Bin M S says:
May 18, 2014 at 4:11 AM
Dear Mr Jeffrey,
Thank you very much for this kind work you are doing!
Well! After that, I have one special request (advice) to you for us.
I found that most of journals I came across on internet are in your list, really I feel headache on that.
I dont know which one is not included there, so it take long to observe every journal for
authenticity.
MY REQUEST: Apart from popular publishers like ELSEVIER, I request you to add another page
here on you web reading like HONEST/RELIABLE JOURNALS/PUBLISHERS this will help us
focusing on them so as can save our time searching for a good.
When you are reviewing journals and publishers, and found that one is honest just put it on for us.
Thus is all for now from me, hope is clear, understandable and taken for consideration.
Thanks
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saleem says:
May 18, 2014 at 11:05 PM
Dear Mr Jeffrey,
What about this journal. International journal of photoenergy. IS it ok???
Link:- http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 19, 2014 at 6:14 AM
Yes, it is OK. Its publisher, Hindawi, is not on my list.
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Kousar says:
May 18, 2014 at 11:53 PM
Dear Jeffrey,
why these two journals in your list? both are ISI indexed.
why these two journals in your list? both are ISI indexed.
1. Research Journal of Recent Sciences
2. International Research Journal of Biological Sciences
Kindly, tell me the reson so ill satisfy to others.
Thanks.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 19, 2014 at 6:45 AM
Both of these journals are published by a highly questionable and even dangerous publisher
called International Science Congress Association. This publisher is on my list and I recommend
that scholars avoid all of its many journals.
Please document that these journals are ISI Indexed. I do not see this. Send a URL that
confirms this; I think it is false.
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Kousar says:
May 19, 2014 at 10:44 PM
Dear Jeffrey,
Both were in ISI indexed but just min before i checked one isnt appeared in indexing but
check this URL:
http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?PC=MASTER&ISSN=2278-
3202
Thanks,
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Jeffrey Beall says:

May 20, 2014 at 5:46 AM
Youre right thanks it is indeed there. I think ISI is making a mistake by including this
vapid journal.
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May 19, 2014 at 3:23 AM
Dear Mr. Beall,
my I ask your opinion about the World Journal of Clinical Cases, (http://www.wjgnet.com) which
is one of many open access Journals of a group called ESPS, Baishideng Publishing Group, 8226
Regency Drive, Pleasanton, CA 94588, USA. They ask for submitting a manuscript as a single word
file, something that strikes me odd. Thank you for your effort.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 19, 2014 at 7:16 AM
Baishideng Publishing Group is not included among the publishers on my list, but I do find it
borderline in some aspects.
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Hamid says:
May 19, 2014 at 11:32 AM
Dear Dr. Beall,
Warm greetings of the day,
International journal of English language and translation studies is on your list. This journal
accepted my manuscript. I thought it is an ISC journal. Now I dont know what to do. Isnt it ISC?
In general, what is your opinion of ISC journals.
Thank you in advance for your consideration.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 19, 2014 at 12:41 PM
I dont recommend that the ISC list be used as a criterion in judging journals.
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Kurniawan Dwi Irianto says:
May 19, 2014 at 10:00 PM
Dear Dr. Beall,
Could you please tell me about Journal of Advances in Computer Networks (JACN). Is it fine? the
link is http://www.jacn.net/.
Many thanks.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 20, 2014 at 5:50 AM
Ive added this to my backlog. Im sorry I dont have time to analyze all the new standalone
journals appearing in South Asia.
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Iftekhar Saeed says:
May 20, 2014 at 7:41 AM
Dear Sir, What about European Academic Research?
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Simone Galina says:
May 20, 2014 at 1:08 PM
Dear Dr Beall,
May I know your opinion about Academic Publishing Platforms and especifically
PERSPECTIVES OF INNOVATIONS, ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS?
Thank you in advance.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 23, 2014 at 6:32 PM
I am not sure what that is. An aggregator? A journal management system?
I will do an analysis, thanks.
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Sigit says:
May 21, 2014 at 5:05 PM
Dear Dr Beall,
May I know your opinion of Journal of Knowledge Management Practice and Electronic Journal of
Knowledge Management ? Are they legitimate journal or not? Thank you very much
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 23, 2014 at 6:23 PM
I havent analyzed the first one. I am not sure that it qualifies as a true scholarly journal, so I
dont want to spend any time evaluating it. Based on my quick look, I would advise looking for
a more mainstream journal publishing in this journal is not going to help your career, in my
opinion.
I have not analyzed the The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management either.
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Steve says:
May 22, 2014 at 1:18 AM
Hi Jeffrey,
I would like to have more information about Symbiosis. For example Journal of Nutritional Health
& Food Science is a new journal and already several international groups have contributed to this
journal. There is an Editorial Board. So it seems OK to me,
Thank you,
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 23, 2014 at 6:16 PM
Can you send the link, please?
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H. K. Das says:
May 23, 2014 at 10:04 PM
Whats about American Journal of Operations Research? Is it good to publish a paper in Scientific
Research Publishing? In which quality it maintain?
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Jeffrey Beall says:

May 24, 2014 at 5:54 AM
This journal is published by a publisher called Scientific Research Publishing (SCIRP). This
publisher is included on my list, so I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this
journal.
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muafipaciran says:
May 23, 2014 at 10:11 PM
Dear Mr Jeffrey,
What about this journal. International journal of research studies in Management indexed by
Microsoft Academic Search (MAS)?.
Are this journal indexed by MAS?
I will be waiting for your information. Thanks Prof.
muafipaciran@gmail.com
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 24, 2014 at 7:21 AM
This journal is published by a firm called Consortia Academia. It is not on my list.
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adhi says:
May 24, 2014 at 12:48 AM
could you please tell me about the International Journal of Information Technology and Computer
Science(IJITCS)
http://www.mecs-press.org/ijitcs/index.html
Thank you
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM
I am conducting an analysis of this publisher. It will take some time.
The publisher is: MECS Publisher (Modern Education and Computer Science Publisher) =
http://www.mecs-press.org/
Thanks for your patience.
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May 24, 2014 at 9:39 AM
Hi again,
eSci Journals Publishing is a publisher in Pakistan that I would appreciate your opinion about.
Jan
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 24, 2014 at 10:53 AM
Good question. This publisher used to be on my list. They appealed, and my appeals board
recommended that I remove them. This occurred about a year ago. I am increasingly receiving
inquiries like this one asking about this publisher, an indication to me that some find it fishy.
Perhaps its time for another analysis.
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Debarchana says:
May 25, 2014 at 6:31 AM
Respected Sir,
May I know your opinion of the following three journals? Are they legitimate journal or not? I
would really appreciate your opinion about them.Thank you very much in advance.
1.Journal of Microbiology & Experimentation (JMEN) by Medcrave Publishers

http://medcraveonline.com/JMEN/
2. International Trends in Immunity (ITI) by Research Publisher

http://researchpub.org/journal/iti/iti.html
3. SOJ Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (SOJMID) by Symbiosis.

http://symbiosisonlinepublishing.com/microbiology-infectiousdiseases/
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May 27, 2014 at 7:26 AM

Dear Dr. Beall,
between others who contacted me during the last days (warmest greetings from) I didnt find
these two groups in your list. I think they are suspicious, as they both have tons of OAJ in their
portfolio and proper information about the members of the various Editorial boards and their
affiliations are often lacking. At least they do not hide that they expect payment.
1. Jacobs Publishers, http://www.jacobspublishers.com/index.php

2. Frontiers in medicine, http://www.frontiersin.org/
May I have your opinion.

Thank you very much. Benno
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Beware of predatory publishers | Rufaida Honor Nursing Society says:
May 27, 2014 at 8:07 AM
[] people are taken in to make the venture worthwhile. If you have any doubts then there is a
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May says:
May 27, 2014 at 3:40 PM
Hi Jeff,
Any thoughts on these 2 open access journals?

1) Progress in Biomaterials (http://www.progressbiomaterials.com/about/privacypolicy). Here is
their copyright policy: (http://www.springeropen.com/authors/license_spr)
2) Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/).

Here is their copyright policy: (http://www.elsevier.com/journals/acta-pharmaceutica-sinica-b/2211-
3835/open-access-journal)
#1 is from Springer Open and #2 from Elsevier (but I couldnt find it on Elsevier open access journal
list).
Your feedback is much appreciated.
Also, a big thanks for this list- it is has helped so many researchers.
Kind regards.
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May says:
May 30, 2014 at 10:51 AM
Hi Jeff,
Could you please tell me if these 2 journals are good places to submit academic research? I
googled and couldnt find much information on these journals.
I would appreciate your input and advice.
Thank you.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 1, 2014 at 5:24 PM
These two journals do not meet the criteria as predatory journals. I think they are fine.
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May says:
June 1, 2014 at 7:51 PM
Thank you Jeff. I really appreciate your help.
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Lomax says:
May 27, 2014 at 5:26 PM
Hi, I would like to know about the journal. European Scientific Journal, Portugal. I cannot imagine
they accepted an article within less than two (2) weeks. And publication fee is 97euros. They publish
between 3 or 4 volumes in a month. Impact Factor is quoted as 8.25. Still shaking my head.
http://www.eujournal.org/index.php/esj
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Jeffrey Beall says:
May 27, 2014 at 5:32 PM
I recently added this journal to my list and recommend against submitting papers to it or to any
other journals published by this publisher.
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AlexH says:
May 27, 2014 at 9:39 PM
They are doing editorial review, not external peer evaluation: Authors can publish their articles
and thesis, after a review by our editorial board. It is possible to make a decision within a few
weeks if they use editorial reviewing.
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Rick says:
June 3, 2014 at 2:27 PM
What do you think about the Frontiers in journals? Seems to me that they are predatory for a
variety of reasons. Just wondering if they are new enough that they havent made your list.
Its interesting how certain names seem to pop up on editorial boards of many of these predatory
journals. Not even sure that these are names of real people, but that should be a giveaway itself. If
you google the name of an editor and it comes up as an editor of numerous shady journals.
Thanks for your excellent work compiling a list like this.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 5, 2014 at 10:03 AM
I do not think that the Frontiers journals meet the criteria for being classified as predatory. Still, I
do receive many inquiries about the publisher, an indication to me that many find it
questionable.
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June 12, 2014 at 9:24 AM
That is awesome considering that they are now published by Nature Publishing Group
(more or less).
http://www.nature.com/press_releases/npgfrontiers.html
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SAOIM 14: Papers presented on day 1- a summary | SAOUG says:

June 5, 2014 at 1:50 AM
[] paper delivered by Dr Carina van Zyl from the CSIR on Predatory publishers. There are tools
such as Bealls list of predatory publishers that libraries can use to stay safe from these Predatory
publishers, Beall can be followed on []
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A says:
June 11, 2014 at 9:36 PM
please see this

please see this

https://sites.google.com/site/photonfoundationorganization/home/international-journal-of-
biotechnology
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 12, 2014 at 4:45 AM
I recommend: Do not submit any work to anything published by the Photon Foundation.
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A says:
June 11, 2014 at 9:44 PM
please verify this journal
1. Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research
2.International Journal of Innovative Research in Advanced Engineering(http://ijirae.com)
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 12, 2014 at 10:48 AM
Im very sorry I dont have time to properly analyze these journals at this time. I have added
to my backlog here: http://wp.me/P280Ch-Ov
There are just too many megajournals such as these appearing. I dont have time to review them
There are just too many megajournals such as these appearing. I dont have time to review them
all. I would suggest that, if you find these journals questionable, you seek a higher quality place
to publish your work. Thank you.
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Rafat says:
June 12, 2014 at 8:51 AM
Dear Jeffrey,
Kindly tell me about the Journal of Life Sciences (ISSN 1934-7391), USA, David Publishing
Company, http://www.davidpublishing.com. However, the name of David Publisher is on your list.
But they claimed that they have ISSN number and their impact of 2009 and 2011 as 3.3 and 5.2
respectively. Furthermore, I could not found Impac of 2012 and 2013 through Google. I am
confused now. Please tell me about this journal and the company..
Best Regards
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 12, 2014 at 9:18 AM
Rafat:
I dont see on their website where they say their journals have impact factors. Nevertheless, this
publisher is on my list, and I strongly recommend that you not submit a paper to any of its
journals. I recommend finding a better publisher.
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Aliah says:
June 13, 2014 at 7:55 AM
Very informative! I would like to follow this post.
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Stephanie says:
June 14, 2014 at 8:40 AM
Any thoughts on BioMed Research International? (formerly titled Journal of Biomedicine and
Biotechnology) claims impact factor of 2.88
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 14, 2014 at 12:55 PM
This is published by the Cairo-based publisher Hindawi, which is not on my list. I think the
impact factor they claim is legitimate.
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rplimaye says:
June 15, 2014 at 5:15 AM
Why have you included RJPBCS they claim to be in NLM list soon.Please give us information
Why have you included RJPBCS they claim to be in NLM list soon.Please give us information
about it.Thanks for thr great work
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 15, 2014 at 6:53 AM
Right, this journal, Research Journal of Pharmaceutical, Biological and Chemical Sciences
(RJPBCS), does indeed make a lot of claims. It (falsely) claims to have an impact factor of 0.35,
for example. As you indicate, it may claim that it will be cataloged (not indexed) in the NLM
online catalog soon, but this is not a measure of quality. I find this broad-scope journal to be
amateurish and recommend that scholars find a more professional venue for their work.
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rplimaye says:
June 22, 2014 at 7:46 AM
Thanks for this detailed response. Unfortunate that I read your article late.Thanks anyway. I
will refer the list before I make any future mistakes.
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Tilahun says:
June 17, 2014 at 4:28 AM
Any comment on International Journal of Insect Science, Journal of Entomology and Nematology,
Journal of Applied Biosciences, and Biopesticides International?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 17, 2014 at 6:58 AM
Regarding the International Journal of Insect Science, this is published by a company called
Libertas Academica. This publisher is not on my list, but many find this to be a questionable
publisher.
Regarding the Journal of Entomology and Nematology, this is published by the Nigerian
publisher Academic Journals, which is on my list, so I would generally advise people to seek a
better entomology journal than this one.
The Journal of Applied Biosciences is published by Elewa Biosciences, which is on my list.
The journal Biopesticides International is not open access, so I havent analyzed it.
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The antivaccination cults idea of what constitutes peer-reviewed | Skeptical Raptor's
Blog says:
June 17, 2014 at 3:07 PM
[] does occasionally land on the list of predatory publishers, that is, a publisher who demands
money to publish. Which Hindawi does for all of its []
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M. M. Khan says:
June 18, 2014 at 6:49 AM
Dear Jeffry! Really a commendable work and very informative for researchers and contributors.
Can you share your analysis about IGI Global publishers:
http://www.igi-global.com
Thanks in advance!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 18, 2014 at 7:20 AM
IGI Global is not an open-access publisher, so I have not fully analyzed it.
Because it is not an OA publisher, it is not eligible for my list.
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Another antivaccination cult "peer-reviewed" paperSIDS and vaccines says:
June 18, 2014 at 4:27 PM
[] the notorious (not exaggerating) publisher Bentham Science. Bentham is accused of being a
predatory publisher, meaning they charge the author to publish an article, probably because the
article can find no []
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Normah Mohd Ghazali says:
June 18, 2014 at 10:27 PM
Dear Jeffry,How about Praiseworthy Prize Publisher with a publication fee of ~USD200. My
student submitted his paper to the journal (I.R.M.E.) and I was happy for him until I read some of
the abstracts. Maybe I am wrong but e.g. a short abstract written in 2 paragraphs with related
issues presented. It seemed odd.
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Professor Martin Fiebert says:
June 19, 2014 at 10:56 PM
I have published a number of articles in the International Review of Social Sciences and Humanities.
I have been pleased with peer review process and editing. the cost is reasonable (no more than well
established journals like Psychological Reports or Perceptual Motor Skills) and the turn around time
is also reasonable. I know the journal is relatively new and is located in India. Publication is both
online and in hard copy. I am interested in your thoughts.
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Aliah says:
June 20, 2014 at 4:36 AM
I have submitted and paid quite a big amount of money for my articles publication in
December, 2013, to Pensee Journal (http://www.penseejournal.com/archive.html). At that
moment I didnt have an idea at all about the existence of such kind hilacked journals! Now of
course the Ministry of Science did not consider it as publicationi just wanna know why this
journal is still continuing its crime?? Just look at the latest archive
(http://www.penseejournal.com/archive.html)It is a profitable business of course. Basically
authors are from non english countries and they do not have information about that at all. Are
there any ways to punish those people??..
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 20, 2014 at 4:44 AM
Excellent questions I wish I had some good answers. I am just trying to warn people about
this and other scholarly publishing scams. Im not sure what else I can do.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

June 21, 2014 at 8:27 PM
This journal is on my list, and I recommend that scholars not publish there.
How long was the turn around time for each article?
Are you willing to share the peer reviews with me? How many times did you have to revise and
resubmit each article? Or, what was the extent of the changes the reviewers asked you to make?
How many articles in total have you published there?
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Aliah says:
June 20, 2014 at 5:01 AM
Dear Mr Jeffrey Beall, thank you very much for your help for the authors! I wish I had seen your
blog much earlier, but this is a good lesson for me of course, and i am going to warn my colleagues
as well to be very very careful. I think it is just a question of time andunfortunately money. I
strongly beleive your blog must be speaded to each Ministry of Education and Science around the
world especially to non english-speaking and developing countries!
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Professor Martin Fiebert says:
June 24, 2014 at 10:16 AM
Professor Beall in response to to questions of June 21: Over the past 3 years I have published 7
articles in the International Review of Social Science & Humanities (IRSSH). The articles ranged
from an historical/psychological examination of Black-Jewish relations, to a approach to Gestalt
therapy as well as a series of studies conducted by myself, colleagues and students exploring
Facebook Behaviors. The turn around time for articles ranged from 2 to 5 months. The articles
themselves have been viewed, cited and download from RESEARCHGATE. The cost of publication
has been quite reasonable averaging about $200.00. The Journal itself has been consistent in is
publication schedule (I think 3 times a year) and is available open access as well as in hard copy. As
you may infer I am quite pleased with the policies & operation of IRSSH and would encourage
researchers who have had terrible experiences with other journals to consider publishing in IRSSH. I
myself am a full professor of Psychology at California State University, Long Beach starting my
50th year of teaching. If you check out my webpage or RESEARCHGATE you will note that I have
published 59 articles in peer-reviewed journals..
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Ghias says:
June 25, 2014 at 12:09 AM
Jeffrey Beall
What you say about World Applied Sciences Journal. We have already published some papers in
this journal. last year This journal mentioned its impact factor but now removed from the
website.Kindly also inform that Thomson Reuters, if removed, the name of a journal from the
master list, does they can include again. or removed forever.
thanks and regards
Ghias
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 25, 2014 at 8:36 AM
This journal is published by a company called IDOSI. This publisher is on my list, so I
recommend against submitting papers to this journal or the others published by this company.
This journal used to be indexed by Scopus, but the index decided to prospectively drop the
journal. Please, find a better publisher. Good luck.
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M says:
June 25, 2014 at 5:19 AM
Hi
i had published 3 paper on Academic Journals on 2009-2010. my papers have not any worth now?!
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 25, 2014 at 8:48 AM
The value of articles is measured differently than the value of journals.
How many citations have your papers had, for example?
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M says:
June 26, 2014 at 2:08 PM
Dear Jeffrey
until now, my papers had had 4 citations. you think it were enough for that and they have
valuable for my resume?! thanks a lot for your reply.
regards
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hamed says:
June 25, 2014 at 5:43 AM
Dear Jeffrey,
I have recently sent one of my papers to a journal entitled http://journal-of-biotechnological-
sciences.darsgah-e-ahlebait.com
however I want to ask you about this journal, is that authentic??? I do apreciate your comments on
it. thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 25, 2014 at 8:47 AM
I had not heard of this journal before. It seems to be published by a company called Dargah-e-
ahlebait.
On their website, they say, Journal of biotechnological sciences is published by dargah-e-

ahlebait (Pakistan). A institute who prefer qualitative scientific work for publication. We have
expert international team for evolution.
I will try to make time to fully analyze this publisher (it appears they publish two journals). In
the meantime, I would recommend finding a better publisher. This one seems very amateurish.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 25, 2014 at 2:54 PM
Hi, Hamed,
Thank you for your comment. I have analyzed this publisher and added it to my list.
How long did your peer review take? The site does not mention anything about article
processing charges. Did they ask you to pay anything? I could not find a contact email on the
site only a web form. I would recommend that you find a better publisher. This one seems
very amateurish. Good luck.
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hamed says:
June 25, 2014 at 3:49 PM
actually they don not charge authors at all. moreover they accepted my paper immediately
and published it, so I understood that they dont peer-review articles. but it indexed by
google scholar, is that valuable??? I can see my paper in google scholar and it, somehow,
satisfied me. is this good?
thanks for your kind help.
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June 25, 2014 at 3:54 PM
Yes, in fact there is some value in being indexed in Google Scholar. It helps people find your
Yes, in fact there is some value in being indexed in Google Scholar. It helps people find your
articles easier. It increases visibility of articles.
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Kimberly says:
June 25, 2014 at 8:39 AM
Dear Jeffrey,
I was recently contacted by the Journal of Research on Contemporary Society (ISSN 1998-2607) a
new academic journal, which is published by Longbridge Publishing Company Limited, Hong
Kong. They are interested in one of my manuscripts based on an abstract they found in a
conference abstract package. Can you tell me if theyre credible?
Thank you so much for all you do.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
June 25, 2014 at 8:54 AM
Hi, Kimberly: This publisher is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
They are using a tactic that many predatory publishers use, namely harvesting author names
and emails from conference abstracts. Then they spam the author inviting a paper. I strongly
recommend that you ignore this offer.
Good luck,
Jeffrey
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Josh says:
June 27, 2014 at 12:38 PM
Dear Jeffrey,
I was recently invited to submit a manuscript to AIMS Neuroscience, a new OA journal listed here:
http://aimspress.com/aimsn/ch/reader/view_special_issue.aspx?
key_words=&id=20140530121202001
I looked into the editorial board and they appear to be credible scholars who have published their
own work in a number of different journals. The AIMS website states that the OA fee will be waived
for the first 3 years of the journal in an effort to encourage submissions since this is a new journal. I
am eager to hear your thoughts on this OA journal.
Best Regards,
Josh
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 6, 2014 at 9:37 AM
I have analyzed this publisher before, and during that analysis, I did not find that the publisher
met the criteria for inclusion on my list. Looking at it again, I reach the same conclusion. If you
think I am missing something, i.e., that the publisher should be added, please let me know why.
Thanks.
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Josh says:
July 7, 2014 at 2:02 PM
I agree with your conclusion and I appreciate that you took the time to look into it. I value
I agree with your conclusion and I appreciate that you took the time to look into it. I value
your expertise on issues of OA journals and I wanted to ask you for your professional
opinion. Im glad that our evaluations (that this particular publisher appears valid)
corroborated each other.
Excellent website, knowledgebase, and resource on OA journals.
Kind regards,
Josh
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Bijan Ehsanzadeh says:

June 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM
Dear Mr. Beall,
Recently I have submitted my paper on Open Journal of Geology (OJG) which is classified as the
subset for Scientific Research Publisher. It has been accepted, as I thought so. But my very
question is that do you find such journals genuine? I mean, I am a student and I have to defend my
thesis in two months. I really need to submit my studies. I have been working on them for almost a
year. Dose these publishers decrease the validity of my studies?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 1, 2014 at 4:19 PM
Are you referring to the Open Journal of Geology that is published by Scientific Research
Publishing? If so, then yes, this publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you find a better
quality publisher for your work. This publisher is known for accepting and publishing
questionable science, and this could hurt the reputation of your work if you publish in one of
their journals. Good luck with your defense.
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Bijan Ehsanzadeh says:
July 2, 2014 at 2:12 PM
I appreciate your warm and prompt reply.
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Arunava says:
July 1, 2014 at 4:48 AM
Dear Sir,
Can you please verify whether the Journal of Electrical Engineering (website:
http://www.jee.ro/index.php) is a predatory journal or is it ok? Thanks in advance.
With warm Regards,

Arunava.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 1, 2014 at 4:07 PM
I havent analyzed this journal. I didnt know about it. I will try to analyze it as soon as I can.
Thanks for letting me know about it.
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Arunava says:
July 2, 2014 at 12:41 AM
Thank you for your prompt reply. The Editor and some of the Editorial board members of
this journal are eminent researchers and academicians in Electrical Engg. However, theyve
not published in this journal. This looks a bit fishy to me. Also the impact factor is a bit
questionable. But Ive seen it is indexed in Google Scholar. Eagerly waiting for your view.
Warm Regards,
Arunava
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 6, 2014 at 7:34 AM
Ive added this journal to my list. I observed some serious problems with plagiarism. I would
recommend finding a better electrical engineering journal.
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Abd-Elrahman says:
July 2, 2014 at 6:59 AM
dear Prof. Beall
Can you please verify whether the Journal of
Network Biology ISSN 2220-8879 (http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/nb/nb.asp) is a
predatory journal or not?
Sincerely,
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 2, 2014 at 7:18 PM
I had not heard of this publisher (International Academy of Ecology and Environmental
Sciences (IAEES)) before, so thank you for letting me know about it. I have analyzed it and
added it to my list. I would suggest that you find a better publisher for your work. Thanks
again.
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Subramaniyaswamy says:
July 3, 2014 at 2:50 AM
Dear Dr. Beall,
Very useful for finding out predatory publishers. May i know, when the impact factor of the journal
will be released by Thomson Reuters.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 3, 2014 at 4:24 AM
The new impact factors (the 2013 impact factors) should be released later this month.
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Abd-Elrahman says:
July 3, 2014 at 4:07 AM

Please, tell me how you evaluate its credibility ?
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Abd-Elrahman says:
July 3, 2014 at 8:36 AM
It is in master journal list of Thomson Reuters
http://ip-science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.cgi?
PC=MASTER&Full=NETWORK%20BIOLOGY
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Ahmed says:
July 4, 2014 at 2:15 AM
Hello Professor
May you please let me know if this following journal is in the Fake list or not?
It is a SCI?
Journal of Plant Pathology & Microbiology
http://omicsonline.org/plant-pathology-microbiology.php
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 4, 2014 at 5:48 AM
Yes, the journals publisher, OMICS Publishing Group, is on my list. I recommend that you
NOT submit any articles to this journal. Please find a better journal.
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Andy says:
July 5, 2014 at 3:24 AM
OMICS is fake, so i will not expect any journal it produces to be authentic. Jeffrey will confirm!!!!
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Normah Mohd Ghazali, Ph.D says:
July 4, 2014 at 8:18 AM
Dear Jeffrey,
I havent seen Praizeworthy Publisher on your list. Can you please check? My colleagues have
published many papers here, I.R.E.M.E.)0 is one of them and since its scopus-indexed, publications
are used for career promotions. Authors have to pay for publications. The reason I asked is because I
wonder about the quality of some of the papers when I started reading some of them Im an
academician in a public university. Thank you.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 4, 2014 at 8:30 AM
Dr. Ghazali, I removed this publisher from my list recently. They changed their publishing
Dr. Ghazali, I removed this publisher from my list recently. They changed their publishing
model from open access to toll access (subscription model). I prefer to cover only open-access
publishers. Still, I think your observations about this publisher are correct, and I would
personally advise scholars to avoid this publisher and find a better one.
Thanks,
Jeffrey
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M. M. Khan says:
July 6, 2014 at 2:43 PM
Hi, Jeffery Beall! What are your comments on River Publishers: http://www.riverpublishers.com
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 7, 2014 at 7:15 AM
I havent heard of this publisher before. I will analyze it.
Id appreciate hearing your comments on it and any experiences youve had.
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M. M. Khan says:
July 7, 2014 at 2:04 PM
Thanks for your reply. I havent had any experiences with this publishers but came to know
Thanks for your reply. I havent had any experiences with this publishers but came to know
of this through some friends who were interested in a book (perhaps) just published by them
online. If it is reliable then I would like to recommend and also publish some works with
them. I will wait for your analysis.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 7, 2014 at 6:59 PM
This publisher does not meet the criteria for inclusion on my list.
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Aslam says:
July 8, 2014 at 4:23 AM
Dear Beall,
I want ask a simple question
On what criteria you have made this list? Also please mention that do you have proofs against these
publishers?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 8, 2014 at 4:51 AM
Please find the criteria I use here. There are both subjective and objective components to170/208
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/#more-2846 the
Please find the criteria I use here. There are both subjective and objective components to the
judgments and decisions to add or not add to the lists.
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Deepak Batura says:
July 9, 2014 at 1:00 PM
Dear Mr Beall,
Once again, I tap into your expertise for help with this new journal, called Bladder. Its a new
publication and I am afraid I dont know who the publishers are. The editorial board is very
impressive and there seem there be no incongruities in their call for papers. The website URL is
http://www.bladderj.org.
Kind regards,
Deepak
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM
This is a brand-new journal that looks promising. I dont see anything wrong with it at this time,
and I wish them success.
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N.K. Gunasekara says:
July 10, 2014 at 1:12 AM
I already know that you are very experienced in what you are doing.
Please dont take me wrong
Out of curiositywould it be possible that a budding publisher..or a standalone journal which is
publishing with good scientific conductbut lacks the capital to employ all up-to-date systems to
process and archive and all..be enlisted as bogus here?
Only someone whos published with them will know about their adherence to ethics.
Wouldnt enlisting someone like that here be unethical?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 10, 2014 at 4:53 AM
A very clever question if you lack sufficient capital you really shouldnt start a business in
any sector. The overall criteria for adding a publisher or journal to the list are lack of
transparency, intentional use of deception, and lack of adherence to industry standards. Your
statement Only someone whos published with them will know about their adherence to
ethics is false. It is possible to observe unethical behavior without publishing with a particular
publisher.
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N.K. Gunasekara says:
July 13, 2014 at 1:09 AM
Business isnt my thing eitherbut isnt lack of adherence to industry standards a
common flaw in almost all budding publishers? after the phase of survival as a business, its
a matter of time when they adhere to business standardswhich again guarantees long
term survival.
But of course in combination with the other two it might indicate fraud.
Thank you for your hard workconsidering to benefit from it. Like you sir, I am a cautious
person too, in fact very
But, I do see a changing worldDont you?
Would like to know how oneIcould know about unethical behavior-lack of

transparency and intentional use of deception- by checking on the publishers website.
Thats the publisher we would see. (I am an authornot a publisher) What are the main
things we should look for? Is COPE membership a must for a publisher? Or..is it a good to
have?
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Gerek Kanzinski says:

July 10, 2014 at 8:34 PM
Hi, is Pushpa Publishing House: Advances and Applications in Statistics a predatory journal? I
could not determine it from their website, and could not find this journal in your list. Here is the
website: http://www.pphmj.com/journals/adas.htm
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 11, 2014 at 4:19 AM
It is not on my list because its not an open-access publisher. One has to pay for the articles or
subscribe to the journals. I limit my lists to OA journals/publishers. Thanks.
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Gerek Kanzinski says:

July 11, 2014 at 7:51 AM
Thank you for your time and hard work!
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Kibet Langat says:
July 13, 2014 at 2:20 AM
Hi Jeff
Could you please let me know your comments on Recent Science publisher http://recentscience.org/
Im considering publishing in some of its Computer Science and Electrical and Electronics journals.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 13, 2014 at 6:19 AM
Well, each one of its journals claims to have a high impact factor, (e.g., 3.228, 3.121) but in fact
none of their journals has a legitimate impact factor. I recommend that you find an honest
publisher.
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Leo Odongo says:
July 15, 2014 at 5:49 AM
How about Far East Journal of Mathematical Sciences? Is it really credible?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 15, 2014 at 5:57 AM
Its not open access. I generally limit my work to OA journals.
Still, I would personally recommend not submitting any manuscripts to this journal.
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Leo Odongo says:
July 15, 2014 at 6:07 AM
Hi Jef
Would you kindly guide me where to find a list of credible open access journals in Statistics? I
would appreciate this very much.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 15, 2014 at 6:13 AM
I focus on the questionable journals. I refer you to your university librarian. I dont know what
the top journal are in fields other than my own (library science).
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Chris says:
July 15, 2014 at 5:19 PM
Hi Jeffrey,
Whats your take on Environmental Sciences Europe (ESEU), the journal that republished the
retracted Seralini paper without putting it through another review process.
Regards,
Chris
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 16, 2014 at 4:52 AM
Its publisher, SpringerOpen, does not meet the criteria for being classed as predatory.
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Homa says:
July 16, 2014 at 1:52 AM
Dear Beall, Quest Journals Inc. is the questionable journal? or questionable publisher? thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 16, 2014 at 4:54 AM
Yes, Quest Journals, Inc. is on my list.
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Mtata Arsla says:
July 18, 2014 at 3:12 AM
Hi Beall.. please could help me with the publishers and journals related to music .. the questionable
ones. Also could you tell me bout the list of journals that are included on
http://jifactor.org/contact_us.php are also of same kind? and what bout the publishers like : IJMCR,
Discourse Journals, Novikoff A.V., State Natural History Museum NAS Ukraine.
Itll be of great help.
Thanks
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baishali says:
July 19, 2014 at 2:57 AM
Intellect Journals are moving in academia rapidly. Its website addresses are quite perplexing. I
found these two web addresses http://www.intellectbooks.com and
http://www.intellectjournals.org/index.html ( from the aforementioned list) . Could anybody help
me in understanding their quality ?
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Raj says:
July 21, 2014 at 7:50 PM
check this out is this suspect? http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/gh/index its got hotmail
addresses too in addition to official ones. I dont plan to submit anything there. However, I
thought I should let you know.
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This is the email I received from them. BAD ENGLISH!
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Dear ..,
I read your article titled on the journal - And I know that you have explored deeply in this
area. Your new manuscripts are invited to be published in Gastroenterology and Hepatology (GH),
which is a peer-reviewed, open access journal published by Canadian Research & Development
Center of Sciences and Cultures (CRDCSC). And it is free of charge to publish your new papers for
the coming issue of July 2014.
Gastroenterology and Hepatology is to provide a forum to share knowledge related to broad range
of topics including medical, surgical, radiological, pathological, biochemical, physiological, ethical
and historical aspects of the subject areas. Clinical trials are afforded expedited publication if
deemed suitable. GH also deals with the basic sciences and experimental work, particularly that
with a clear relevance to disease mechanisms and new therapies. Case reports and letters to the
Editor are also accepted.
We are calling for submission of new papers for the coming issue of July 2014. Please send the non-
published manuscript to our email address listed below. Or you could do online submission at:
http://www.cscanada.net/index.php/gh/author/submit/1.
If you have any questions, please contact us at the below email address. Attached is Cover Letter,
please fill it and send back to us with your manuscripts.
It is appreciated if you could share this information with your colleagues and associates.
We are also recruiting reviewers for the journal. Please find further details at:
http://cscanada.net/index.php/gh, and email your CVs to us.
Best regards,
Mandy King | Editor (Intern)
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
ISSN 1925-9611 [Print]; ISSN 1925-962X [Online]
Publisher: Canadian Research & Development Centre of Sciences and Cultures
Address: 730, 77e AV, Laval, Quebec, H7V 4A8, Canada
http://www.cscanada.net
E-mail: gh@cscanada.net; gh@cscanada.org
2014/7/22
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Raj says:
July 23, 2014 at 6:38 AM
ANOTHER ONE FOR YOU COLLECTION JEFFREY THANKS, RAJ
http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/journals.php
EMAIL
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LANDMARK RESEARCH JOURNALS OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/index.php
Introducing!! Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME)
Dear Colleague,
The Landmark Research Journals of Business Management and Economics (LRJBME) is a

multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal that will be published monthly by
LRJBME is dedicated to increasing the depth of the subject across disciplines with the ultimate aim
of expanding knowledge of the subject.
Editors and reviewers
LRJBME is seeking energetic, qualified and high profile researchers to join its editorial team as
editors, subeditors or reviewers. Kindly send your resume to:
editors.lrjbme@landmarkresearchjournals.org
http://www.landmarkresearchjournals.org/lrjbme/submit-manuscript.php
Call for Research Articles.
LRJBME will cover all areas of the subject. The journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts
that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence, and will publish:
? Original articles in basic and applied research
? Case studies
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 23, 2014 at 6:41 AM
Thanks this publisher is included on my list.
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Raj says:
July 23, 2014 at 6:46 AM

ANOTHER ONE FOR YOUR COLLECTION-
International Journal of Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Biological Sciences
http://www.ijpcbs.com/
http://www.ijpcbs.com/currentissue.html
http://www.ijpcbs.com/archives.html
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 23, 2014 at 8:30 AM
I dont have time to analyze this right now, so Ive added it to my backlog.
There are literally dozens of pharmaceutical journals based in India.
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Raj says:
July 23, 2014 at 6:57 AM
THE LAST ONE TODAY (FROM ME) TO ADD ON YOUR LIST !
International Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research
http://www.ijpsr.com/
They have a letter from Elsevier http://www.ijpsr.com/ELSEVIER%20LETTER.jpg
They even have their own Impact Factor calculated from Google Scholar, demonstrated by
http://www.ijpsr.com/IJPSR%20Citations.pdf
They even have good English

http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/01/02/list-of-predatory-publishers-2014/#more-2846 instructions about using good English
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They even have good English instructions about using good English
http://www.ijpsr.com/aboutus.htm
They have their own gmail email addresses for contact http://www.ijpsr.com/contact.htm
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 23, 2014 at 8:24 AM
This journal is already included on my list here. Thanks.
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Dickson Mireku says:
July 24, 2014 at 11:39 AM
Dickson Mireku
we are very grateful to you
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Jean de Dieu says:
July 25, 2014 at 2:43 AM
Hello Sir, what about the African Journal of Ecology
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 25, 2014 at 6:53 AM
This is not a questionable journal; it is fine, I think.
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Ola says:
July 26, 2014 at 10:43 AM
My sister was asked by her lecturer to pay $100 to publish her project on international journal of
computer science and information security. ijcsis
the website address is https://sites.google.com/site/ijcsis/
can you please confirm that this site is genuine .
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 26, 2014 at 12:18 PM
This journal, the International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, is on my
list. I recommend that she find a better journal for her work.
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Areen Muhammed says:
July 27, 2014 at 6:55 AM
Dear what about the Journal with the Title of International Journal of English Literature and
Culture with ISSN of 2360-7831 please a quick answerwith the address of:
http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJELC/Index.htm
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 27, 2014 at 8:27 AM
The journals publisher, Academic Research Journals, is on my list, so I recommend finding a
better journal than this one.
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July 27, 2014 at 2:26 PM
thanks for the reply
Dear Mr. Beall what about Journal with the title of
International Journal of Scientific and Engineering Research and ISSN: 2229-5518
since I published two of my papers, is the one to be Predatory
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 27, 2014 at 2:57 PM
Mr. Muhammed, This journal is included on my list here: http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-
journals/
Therefore, I recommend that you NOT submit any papers to this journal. I recommend that
you find a better journal for your work. Good luck.
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July 27, 2014 at 3:51 PM
Dear Mr. Beall
the given journal can be found in Global Impact Factor, can you tell me a list for those
Journals who are not included in your list, or any website which we can check other than
your website?
How do you know that these Journals are in Black list?
Can you give me a website for those Journals who are not Predators? Since I want to publish
my works, where should I find?
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 27, 2014 at 4:20 PM
I think that the Global Impact Factor is a completely bogus metric. No, I do not have a list
of all the journals not on my list, sorry. I use these criteria for determining which publishers
and standalone journals belong on the list. I am sorry I do not have a list of journals that
are not predators.
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July 27, 2014 at 5:11 PM
please check these two journals : International journal for Scientific Research and Publication
and Journal of Biodiversity and Forestry Management. Are they good?
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 27, 2014 at 5:23 PM
For the first one, I think you mean the International Journal of Scientific and Research
Publications. This is a standalone journal, and it is included on my list here. I recommend
against submitting papers to this journal.
The second one is published by SciTechnol, and imprint of OMICS Publishing Group, and I
recommend that you not submit any papers to this journal or the others from this publisher.
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July 28, 2014 at 6:41 AM
can I know if this one too is a predatory one
international journal for multidisciplinary research academy
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 28, 2014 at 7:42 AM

Yes, this journals publisher, International Journals of Multidisciplinary Research Academy,
is on my list here http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/.
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July 27, 2014 at 4:51 PM
Thanks for your understanding, but sorry for bothering.. do you think the journal with the
title of: International Journal of English Literature and Culture. and ISSN: 2360-7831. is in
the Predator list, since I could not find it in your list
http://www.academicresearchjournals.org/IJELC/Index.htm
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 27, 2014 at 5:16 PM
There are too many journals (thousands) for me to examine and list individually. Therefore, I
complete my analyses at the publisher level and only list the publishers (There are some
journals that are standalone or individual journals that are not a part of a publishers fleet
of journals, so I have a separate list for these). In this case, I do have Academic Research
Journals on my list, and I think that researchers should avoid all the journals they publish.
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obinna says:
July 30, 2014 at 9:59 PM
Hi Jeff.
Hi Jeff.
What is your take on Medcrave Group publishers. Can you advice me on their journal of lung,
pulmonary & respiratory research. Thank you.
Regards.
Obinna
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 31, 2014 at 5:19 AM
This publisher is on my list, and I recommend that you avoid it and all of its journals
completely. I recommend finding a better publisher. Good luck.
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Khan says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:08 AM
atest impact factors are released for scientific journals on 30th july 2014. But i couldnt find the
impact factor for International journal of photo energy published by Hindawi. What that means
???. Is that journal has been removed from ISI master list???.I have published article in that
journal
Please help me I am very worried about that
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Khan says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:10 AM

Latest impact factors are released for scientific journals on 30th july 2014. But i couldnt find the
impact factor for International journal of photo energy published by Hindawi. What that means
???. Is that journal has been removed from ISI master list???.I have published article in that
journal
Please help me I am very worried about that
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:42 AM
I cannot find it listed either.
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Khan says:
July 31, 2014 at 11:45 AM
Dear Mr. Jaffery,
So, what does it mean.Is it removed from ISI list????
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Jeffrey Beall says:

July 31, 2014 at 11:47 AM
Apparently. Thomson Reuters does not make a formal announcement when it removes a
journal. This lack of transparency devalues the metric.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

August 1, 2014 at 9:00 AM
I received some more information about this from a reliable source:
This journal hasnt been included in the 2013 JCR data due to anomalous citation patterns
found in the 2013 citation data. These patterns result in a significant distortion of the Journal
Impact Factor and rank that does not accurately reflect the journals citation performance in
the literature. The Journal Impact Factor provides an important and objective measure of a
journals contribution to scholarly communication. In the interest of fairness and accuracy
for all journals, the distortion of the Journal Impact Factor by an excessive concentration of
citations gives rise to the need for suppression.
The journal International Journal of Photoenergy has be suppressed for Citation

Stacking, where there is an anomalous exchange of citations between two or more journals.
You can read more about Journal Suppression here : http://wokinfo.com/media/pdf/jcr-
suppression.pdf
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Bill Williams says:
August 1, 2014 at 11:06 AM
More info on the self-cite and stacking issues here
http://admin-
apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/static_html/notices/notices.htm#editorial_information
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Khan says:
July 31, 2014 at 12:00 PM
Its 2012 impact factor was 2.66 by Thomson Reuters. But this year i could not found its impact
factor. Will it still be listed in ISI master list??.
Sorry for bothering you again. Actually i am very much worried about it.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
July 31, 2014 at 12:03 PM
I dont know. Anyone ?
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Mohammad says:
August 18, 2014 at 7:56 AM
Hi,
The ISI impact factor of International Journal of Photoenergy in 2013 JCT is reported as
2.663.
However, it is an open access journal which means it requires an Article Processing
Charge (currently being $1200 per article), and also perhaps a much faster and easier
publication!
Good luck.
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Andrea says:
Thank you for this resource. I just found this website with a very long list of journals not sure
what to make of it?
http://www.rekpub.com
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Its a very sloppy predatory publisher.
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Setiyadi says:
Dear Mr. Beall,
I published an article in Journal of Language Teaching and Research

(http://jltr.academypublisher.com/) this year and the journal is indexed in Scopus. When I tried to
check in scimago list, I could not find it. Could you tell me why it is so? Thank you very much
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 2, 2014 at 2:44 PM

Sorry, I dont know. This sounds like a question for the folks at Scimago.
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Tedd Binder says:
Hi, Jeff! International Journal of Electrochemical Science has received a new impact factor in 2013
(1.956). Is it really a predatory publisher? Thanks,
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Jeffrey Beall says:
This journal had its impact factor suppressed for a year apparently, but now the impact factor
has appeared again. I am keeping it on my list.
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Mihaly Mezei says:
There seems to be an other damage done by the predatory publishers. I am an editor for the
recently started Computational Biology Journal published by Hindawi (not on the 2014 list). They
have a nice website, offering a large number of possible reviewers with links to their publications. It
turns out, however, that people refuse to review papers submitted to this journal. The last paper I
handled was assigned to 10 reviewers, the only one who accepted the task was a fellow faculty
member. I ended up being asked to make a decision based on a single review.
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please what about Journal of Biodiversity Management and Forestry. Is it a predatory journal?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I think so. Its published by SciTechnol, which is an imprint of OMICS Publishing Group. I
strongly recommend that you avoid this journal.
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Mutinta Muleya says:

Dear Mr Beall, A friend of mine submitted a manuscript to one of the journals listed Asian
Academic Research association, and in less than five days the paper was accepted for publication,
how does this happen. Do they review the papers. I submitted to another journal call international
Journal of African Nursing Sciences over a month ago and my paper is still under review.Why the
difference
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I dont know the exact reason for the difference in the timing. If a publisher claims that it has
completed a peer review of your paper in five days, I would be very suspicious.
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Shabbeer Hassan says:
Heyya Jeff ! I am being told to consider Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health for my next
publication. Is it a suspect? What is suspect however was that earlier it was managed by Savvy
Publishers which does feature in your list. Please have a check and write back.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Elsevier publishes a journal called Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health.
Savvy Science Publisher publishes a journal called Global Journal of Epidemiology and Public
Health.
The Elsevier journal is not on my list. Savvy Science Publisher, which is anything but savvy, is
on my list. I recommend against submitting papers to journals whose publishers are on my list.
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Shabbeer Hassan says:
Thanks Jeff !! But the Elsevier journal has a strange editorial board list. I didnt find any
designations being listed along them. Do you think thats suspicious?
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Jeffrey Beall says:

August 9, 2014 at 12:27 AM
Yup, the editorial board members are listed without any affiliations. This is non-standard
and as you say, suspicious. Will you be submitting a paper to this journal?
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Shabbeer says:
August 10, 2014 at 9:15 AM
Yeah its quite a non-standard practice not to mention the affiliations of editors. Right now, i
have a paper for which i am the first author which one of the senior member in my lab is
proposing to publish in Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health. But even the editors
address seems suspect. If one does a google search on the chief editor, no such address pops
out. I am in a quandary right now.
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Ashwin F C says:
August 7, 2014 at 12:39 AM
Kindly let us know if RED FLOWER PUBLICATION PRIVATE LIMITED, Delhi, India
http://www.rfppl.org/ is a predatory journal publisher
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Jeffrey Beall says:
Thanks for letting me know about this publisher, which Ive added to my list. It has a very
messy website, with most of the links dead, and an excessive number of grammatical errors,
among other serious problems. I recommend finding a better publisher than this one.
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injpn says:
August 7, 2014 at 12:56 AM
Dear Mr. Beall. I have already submitted one of my hard worked article to a publisher in your list.
Now I come to know of predation in academic publications. What should I do now? I worked 3
years on the article and my graduation depends on it.
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DM says:
August 7, 2014 at 10:17 PM
do let me know of IFRSA, who claims an impact factor of 2.545 and author notification after 10
days of submission.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
I am assuming you mean the International Forum of Researchers Students and Academician
(IFRSA). While I did not see any claims of such an impact factor or quick acceptance
notification, I did find that the publisher meets the criteria for inclusion on my list, so I have
added it. Its own name is ungrammatical.
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DM says:
August 10, 2014 at 10:05 PM
Thank you Jeffrey.
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Benn says:
Dear Beall, Is IGI Global a good publisher?
Thanks
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 9, 2014 at 10:22 AM
It is not an open-access publisher as far as I know, so in terms of my work analyzing OA
publishers, it is out of my scope.
However, to answer your question, I think it is a bottom-tier publisher.
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Limitha says:
August 11, 2014 at 1:44 AM
Will you please list out the best rating journals to publish my research article which would not be
costly internationally and in india so that it would help my career
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Kevin Black says:
August 11, 2014 at 6:37 AM
Will you please list out the best rating journals to publish my research article which would not
be costly internationally and in india so that it would help my career Seriously?? That is not
Dr. Bealls job. Its mostly your job, and secondarily that of your mentor or other supervisor.
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DM says:
August 11, 2014 at 5:00 AM
Please Jeff,
Please give us a list of A/B/C category journals with a special focus on Indian and management
journals.
DM
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Thao says:
August 11, 2014 at 9:41 PM
Thank you so much for the great work.
I want to ask for your advice of submitting my paper to the Common Ground Publishing? many
thanks.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 12, 2014 at 4:54 AM
Its not really an open-access publisher, and I generally limit my analyses to OA publishers and
journals.
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Thao says:
August 12, 2014 at 4:50 PM
How about European Journal of Social Sciences?
http://www.europeanjournalofsocialsciences.com
Thanks Pro. Jeffrey.
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Jeffrey Beall says:

August 13, 2014 at 5:32 AM
This is a very dangerous journal, and I strongly advise you to avoid having any connection
with it. Most definitely, do not submit any papers to it.
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Mohammad says:
August 12, 2014 at 9:41 AM
Dear Jeffrey Beall,
Generally speaking, your work and commitment is admirable. There exist some uncertainties about
the list and selection criteria, however, as mentioned by others. As an example, could you please
give your justification for inclusion of the Universal Research Publications in your list? I have not
submitted there, but as far as I found, most of their journals have editorial board and make no
charge on publication (as appeared from their author guidelines). Is it wrong or fake?
Thanks a lot for your consideration.
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 12, 2014 at 10:22 AM
I try not to use the terms fake or wrong to describe publishers. This one is typical of many
questionable publishers. It launched with a large (over 50) fleet of broad-scope journals. Most of
the journals represent disciplines already well-covered in the literature. Many questionable
publishers do not charge at first, and they use the free articles to accumulate a mass of articles
that then serve to attract submissions when the APCs are imposed. Researchers need to know
which publishers to avoid, and I think this one offers little benefit to researchers with new
research to share with other scholars. Why are you asking about this particular publisher?
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Mohammad says:
August 18, 2014 at 7:40 AM
Thank you so much for the information and detailed explanations. About your ending
question, I ran into this publisher during my paper readings. I can also agree that such a
publisher is not a highly scientific or credible one. However, I think any recommendation
against or in favor of a publication will be somehow case-dependent. In other words, not all
researchers get to (or should) always publish in high ranked journals (e.g., in Science,
Nature, ACS, etc.). There do are some works which are not so brilliant or massive, do not
possess a very attractive topic, are not prepared by highly renowned authors (from the
developing countries. e.g.), or cannot wait for a lengthy review process. In such cases, there
should be some publishers or journals that more easily publish, but adhere to minimum
standards. My question about this publisher was raised from such a point of view. In fact, I
wondered if broad scope or repetitive theme are as inappropriate as a publication charge as
an index for avoiding a specific publication or not. To sum up, I think it is inevitable that
publishers and journals differ in their reviewing standards and also the review pace (ranging
from 2 weeks to 2 years according to my observations).
Many thanks.
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Dr D B NIKUMBH says:
August 13, 2014 at 12:15 AM
HELLO DEAR JEFF,
WHAT ABOUT THE BELOW WEB AND JOURNAL 1.http://my.ejmanager.com/
2.JMSCR-JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES AND CLINICAL RESEARCH
http://jmscr.igmpublication.org.
KINDLY ACKNOWLEDGE,
REGARDS,
DR NIKUMBH
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 13, 2014 at 5:42 AM
For 1., this is not a publisher exactly; it is an aggregator. Therefore, it is not appropriate for
inclusion on my list. It is a list of journals.
For 2., the Journal of Medical Sciences and Clinical Research, this is published by a firm called
IGM Publication, which is on my list so I recommend against submitting papers to it.
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Dr D B NIKUMBH says:
August 15, 2014 at 10:53 PM
thank you Jeff.SIR
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Suzzane says:
August 15, 2014 at 2:17 AM
Hello Jeffery!
Can you please recommend a journal on electronics and computer science (which is in science
citation index list), that can take shorter time to review (say a month).
Please help
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 15, 2014 at 4:21 AM
Sorry, I cannot.
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omar mohamed says:
August 17, 2014 at 1:13 AM
is The International Journal of Electronics and Computer Science Engineering (IJECSE) fake
journal,
they wrote in their site
Call for paper Last date for paper submission: 25th Aug 2014, Acceptance Notification: With in 7
to 20 working days., Publication Date: With in week after acceptance
so 7-20 days only to review paper and accept it, so its fake or not??
Thanks in advanced
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 17, 2014 at 6:12 AM
I havent fully analyzed that journal, but this quick paper acceptance is very suspicious. Also, a
quick look at their site shows they use bogus metrics and they also display logos from many
organizations that they really have no connection with. I would advise, based on this, that you
find a better journal for your work and avoid this journal.
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omar mohamed says:
August 17, 2014 at 4:32 PM
Thanks for your fast response
second what about this one i want to know acceptance time?, its fake impact factor?
International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering ( IJEEE ); ISSN(Print): 2278-
9944 ; ISSN(Online): 2278-9952 ;
http://www.iaset.us/electronics-and-electrical-engineering-international-journals-with-
impact-factor.php
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Jeffrey Beall says:

August 17, 2014 at 4:53 PM
Sorry, I dont know its acceptance time. However, I think it will be very fast. This journals
publisher is on my list, so I recommend that you find a better journal than this one. Also,
you are correct the impact factor they state is bogus.
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Abdul says:
August 17, 2014 at 10:34 AM
Kindly advise about the following Journals:
Mycoses, Pharmacologia, Pharmacogosy Journal, Intent impact NDDS (www,inventi.in), Indian J.
Pharmacology, Asian J. Medical Sciences, Asian J. Pharmacological, Current Research J. Biological
Sciences, J. Global Infectious Diseases, Global J. Molecular Sciences, Global J. Environmental
Research, Global J. of Biotechology, and Biochemistry
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 17, 2014 at 12:05 PM
I refer you to my lists here:
http://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/
http://scholarlyoa.com/individual-journals/
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omar mohamed says:
August 17, 2014 at 5:11 PM
http://www.ciitresearch.org/pdcs.html
Thank a lot for your patient

finally if you please tell me about this journal its fake or not
and what is the acceptance time?
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Jeffrey Beall says:
August 17, 2014 at 5:30 PM
Fake and very fast acceptance time.
Good luck.
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Critical analysis of scholarly open-access publishing

Released January 2, 2014

Year Number of predatory publishers

List 1: Questionable Publishers

29. Advance Research Publications (http://www.adrpublications.com/index.html)

74. BioMedSciDirect Publications (http://www.biomedscidirect.com/aboutjournal.php)

Processes in New Net Environment in B&H)

161. Green Global Foundation (http://www.ggfagro.com/) (GGF)

202. International Academic Journals (http://www.inacj.com/)

239. International Recognition Research Journals (http://www.lsrj.in/)

281. Macrothink Institute (http://www.macrothink.org/)

323. Open Research Society (http://www.open-knowledge-society.org/)

367. Scholarlink Resource Centre Limited (http://scholarlinkresearch.org/)

412. Segment Journals (http://www.segmentjournals.com/)

454. Universal Research Publications (http://urpjournals.com/contactus.php)

List 2: Questionable Standalone Journals

1. Academic Exchange Quarterly (http://www.rapidintellect.com/AEQweb/)

15. Anglisticum (http://www.anglisticum.mk/index.php): International Journal of Literature,

55. Frontiers in Aerospace Engineering (http://www.fae-journal.org/index.aspx)

91. International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English Literature

128. International Journal of Electronics and Computer Research (http://www.ijecr.com/) (IJECR)

166. International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering

197. International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences (http://www.ijpaes.com/)

230. International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (http://www.irjes.com/) (IRJES)

271. Peoples Journal of Scientific Research (http://www.pjsr.org/Home.html)

506 Responses to List of Predatory Publishers 2014

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Jeffrey Beall says:

Good day, Jeffrey.

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Jeanne A. Pawitan says:

3. BANNER AD ADVERTISING For your article or a job vacancy: Institutions/universities

4. COMPANY/SPONSORSHIP LOGO: Company logos can be published on the journal

Jeffrey Beall says:

Austin Publishing Group

Jeffrey Beall says:

January 5, 2014 at 7:20 AM

Eko Suyono says:

Jeffrey Beall says:

Rubin Cohen says:

Clinical Research in Pulmonology is ardent to promote erudite, pragmatic, and contemporaneous

Anticipating your kind positive response

Jeffrey Beall says:

Christopher Hekimian says:

January 7, 2014 at 12:28 PM

Their so-called Executive and Advisory Board lists look suspicious.

Cuidado com as armadilhas dos peridicos predatrios says:

reasons, but maybe because it is an open-access publisher.

Psychology researcher says:

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EARTH SCIENCES

Binder Jose says:

To the Editor in Chief (s),

What is the relation of Impact Index and Impact factor?

Why the jounals have no ISSN number ?

An earliest response will help me to send articles faster.

Consequently, in reply I receieved a letter from them which is as follows:

With Best Wishes

(1)Quantitatively Impact Index is equal to Impact Factor.