RE: Web of Science,.article research publish
Glenn Hampson
Your moment of scholarly publishing Zen…a reminder (no doubt a daily reminder for many of you) that predatory publishers can be very deceptive in their practices. Here’s a nice invite this morning from “IJRDO Journal.” They aren’t indexed by Scopus or WOS, but you wouldn’t know this by reading their email. And when you click on their link for “list of journals indexed by Scopus” (http://ijrdo.org/index.php/index/scopus), you get this list of journals that are legitimately indexed by Scopus but that have nothing whatsoever to do with IJRDO.
Here’s how they twist their language to deceive their prospective customers without outright lying about their Scopus relationship: “IJRDO Journal provides a wide range of journals. As we are not indexed with SCOPUS and Web of Science and we receive a lot of requests for SCOPUS Journals. So to complete the requirements of our authors we have collaborated with a lot of journals indexed in SCOPUS / Web of Science (SCIE/SSCI) / SJR / PubMed and much more. You just let us know your requirement and we will provide you the best specific journal accordingly. Some of our SCOPUS Journals / Web of Science (SCIE/SSCI) / SJR / PubMed are given as follows:”
I have no idea what this language means---maybe that authors who have published in IJRDO have also published in legitimate journals? Or that they provide editorial services so authors can publish in legitimate journals? But just in case you have any doubts, the contact information for all of these journals is sco...@ijrdo.org --- an email alias that goes to IJRDO but certainly looks like an official SCOPUS connection.
All this said, it’s imposing for readers to investigate the claims about all the journals listed on the IJRDO website---they claim to publish a suite of journals that are indexed and have actual impact factors, but there is no single, public resource (as we discussed a few days ago) where researchers can check all these claims (hopefully if they are university-affiliated they’ll have access to such resources, though---or their library will have access). At some point the reader’s defenses just get worn down.
Anyway, more power to Amy and her team as they continue to dig into the deceptive/predatory publishing phenomenon.
Best,
Glenn
Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)
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Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 8:45 PM
Subject: Web of Science,.article research publish
IJRDO JOURNAL
Dear Author
Call For Paper
IJRDO JOURNAL Advanced Management Science is a peer reviewed, free-access academic journal aiming to publish high quality articles covering a wide range of management science and engineering. We devote to providing a forum for international scholars, researchers to publish authoritative and well referenced articles in management science and engineering. Advanced Management Science (IJRDO) is a collaborated publishing project under Press and Academic Research Publishers.
So you can submit your article IJRDO journal edi...@ijrdo.org
List of Journals indexed in SCOPUS / Web of Science (SCIE/SSCI) / SJR / PubMed
So you can submit your article SCOPUS journal sco...@ijrdo.org
Ask your queries to in...@ijrdo.org
Conference organizers can mail to edi...@ijrdo.org
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Simon Linacre
Sent: 15 September 2020 16:43
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Glenn Hampson
Oh that is interesting Simon---a predatory publishing that uses state-of-the-art open publishing tools. The moral pretzel gets even more twisted if it turns out that IJRDO pays PKP for upkeep and backup (since “All revenue generated by the hosting service goes into developing PKP software and supporting the Public Knowledge Project”).
More power to Cabell’s as well---sorry you’ve been in the crosshairs here.
Best,
Glenn
