Hyderabad-based OMICS fined $50 million for ‘unfair, deceptive business practices’
A court in the U.S. has slapped a $50 million fine on Hyderabad-based OMICS International, which publishes over 700 questionable
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OMICS to translate all Open Access journal papers to Indian languages
The Hyderabad-based “predatory journal” publisher OMICS International’s venture to translate papers to a few Indian languages will not be restricted
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UGC’s revised white list has 111 more predatory journals
The increasing number of predatory journals spotted in the UGC list of approved journals is a clear indication that UGC
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UGC’s revised white list has 71 active predatory journals
The inclusion of predatory journals in the approved list makes a mockery of the entire exercise and gives the predatory
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Now, more predatory journals get indexed in PubMed
The PubMed database managers have irresponsibly allowed it to become a repository of citations to predatory journal articles. Among other
Read MorePredatory journal clones of India’s Current Science spring up
An online predatory journal “Current Science“, which is a clone of the Current Science journal published by the Current Science
Read MoreCabell’s: “Our predatory journal Blacklist differs from Jeffrey Beall’s”
Five months after Jeffrey Beall, librarian at the University of Colorado, Denver, shut down his widely consulted blog (Scholarly Open
Read MoreAt last, Jeffrey Beall reveals the reasons for shutting down his blog on predatory journals
Unlike what most people had guessed, it was not a lawsuit from any of the predatory journal publishers that
Read MorePredatory journals in India make desperate bid to gain authenticity
One more evidence that India has a huge and growing number of predatory journal publishers comes from the India
Read MoreI am still trying to figure out what my new research agenda will be: Jeffrey Beall
Contrary to what Cabell’s International, a publishing services company, had said in a tweet on January 17 that Jeffrey Beall
Read MoreWill we see Jeffrey Beall’s predatory journal list in a new avatar?
Though the actual reason why Prof. Jeffrey Beall, who maintained a list of “potential, possible, or probable” publishers that produced
Read MoreIndia’s white list to curb researchers from publishing in predatory journals
In a bid to tackle the growing menace of researchers publishing in predatory journals, the University Grants Commission notified on January
Read MoreCSIR scientist publishes nine papers in bogus journals
A scientist at the Delhi-based Central Road Research Institute (CRRI), a CSIR laboratory, has published nine “papers” in nine different
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