Cabell’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
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At 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 MoreIISER Thiruvananthapuram Director: There’s more to it than meets the eye
In response to the Faulty IISER-Tvm Facebook post that I shared about the lack of action against Prof. V. Ramakrishnan,
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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
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India should show sustained commitment to science: Venki Ramakrishnan
In an hour-long interview, Nobel Laureate Prof. Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, President of the Royal Society, who called the Indian Science Congress
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Researchers from Indian national institutes publish in predatory journals
India not only publishes the most number of predatory journals in the world but researchers based in India are one
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
Read MoreOMICS in the dock for duping researchers
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has charged OMICS Group Inc, a Nevada corporation with Hyderabad, India, as its principal place
Read MoreOn the Net, a scam of a most scholarly kind
First came the spam emails professing faith in the recipient and requesting the safekeeping of millions of dollars that the
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C.N.R. Rao’s paper: Fatal attraction of plagiarism
The scale of the infraction did not warrant rejection or retraction, as the plagiarised portions form only a part of
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