Hyderabad-based OMICS group to translate their journal papers to Indian languages
Predatory journal publishing in India is gaining more ground, legitimacy, and credibility. The CEO of OMICS Group, a “potential, possible, or
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How to spot predatory journals
Spotting predatory journals is quite easy in most cases. By default, most predatory journals have at least a few red
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Injunction against Hyderabad’s OMICS group to stop ‘deceptive practices’
In a preliminary injunction, a U.S. federal court has ordered Hyderabad-based OMICS to remove all misleading claims from its websites.
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Four papers from CSIR, ICAR labs retracted for fake peer reviews
The journal publisher Frontiers has retracted four papers from NIIST and CTCRI, which are Thiruvananthapuram-based CSIR and ICAR labs respectively, once
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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
Read MoreResearchers at Harvard, Mayo Clinic too publish in predatory journals
Twenty-seven per cent of over 1,900 papers published in predatory journals came from researchers based in India. But a large
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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 MoreWhy I disagree with Nobel Laureates when it comes to career advice for scientists
Merlin Crossley, UNSW The measures by which we judge scientists are always under intense scrutiny. For those who hit the
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
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